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Advanced Computational MethodsNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will learn how to analyze large datasets — in particular text and network data — with Python. By the end you can collect, clean, transform and analyze data with standard libraries; moreover you will apply basic statistics, visualization and machine learning methods to your own research questions.6 ECTSruns this semesterSOT86050Advanced Methods for Measurement and Modeling of Choice BehaviorNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will learn how to measure and analyze people’s behavior toward mobility policies using surveys, stated-choice experiments, and econometric models. In the end you will be able to design your own surveys with discrete choice experiments, collect data, and analyze them with discrete choice models to derive policy-relevant conclusions.6 ECTSruns this semesterSOT86608Children, Well-Being, and Digital TechnologiesNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsThe module investigates how children and adolescents grow up in an increasingly digital world and how technologies shape their well-being, participation, and everyday experiences. You will learn key terms, theories and research methods, analyze opportunities and risks (including AI effects) and practically implement your own project-based questions.6 ECTSruns this semesterMH160036Data Ethics & GovernanceNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will learn central ethical, legal and societal questions in handling data, automated systems and AI. By the end you can identify risks and responsibilities in data-driven projects, systematically analyze ethical issues and develop concrete recommendations for responsible data usage.6 ECTSruns this semesterSOT46401Global Health (MSc.)No ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou receive an introduction to the field of Global Health with a particular focus on developments in Global South countries. You learn core terms, important concepts and the interrelations between health and development, assess trends in disease burden and evaluate intervention strategies. In the end you can summarize, interpret and formulate evidence-based policies for a concrete country based on relevant empirical studies.6 ECTSruns this semesterPOL65101
33 more in Elective ModulesHealth Care ManagementNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsIn this seminar you will deal with current questions in Health Care Management, e.g. how innovations (new medications, technologies) are introduced to the health market or how facilities such as hospitals compete in the legal environment. In the end you will be able to apply theoretical foundations, work a research topic in depth, and present the results scientifically.5 ECTSruns this semesterMH160024Introduction to Psychology and Human BehaviorNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou receive an introduction to central areas of psychology with a focus on human action: why people act the way they do, what role the environment plays, and how behavior is studied. In the end you will be able to reproduce basic psychological terms, models, and methods and relate them to professional everyday situations.3 ECTSruns this semesterSOT10069Introduction to Psychology and Human Behavior (Data & Society)No ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will receive a fundamental introduction to psychology with a focus on human behavior and its causes. You will learn central psychological models, core questions and methods, and you will be able to relate them to professional practice in the end.6 ECTSruns this semesterSOT10078Methods of Social Network AnalysisNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will learn methods of social network analysis and apply them. In the end you can collect, preprocess, visualize and analyze network data using suitable methods and implement these analyses with Python.6 ECTSruns this semesterSOT86055Project Course Health EconomicsNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsIn this project course you work in a team on a practice-oriented issue from health economics in cooperation with an external partner. You plan and carry out a project, apply appropriate analysis methods and present the results in writing and orally.9 ECTSruns this semesterMHP00012Public Health and Socio-economic Aspects in the Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs)No ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will learn how non-communicable diseases (NCDs) burden health and the economy, what social and behavioral causes and consequences they have, and how prevention works at the individual and population level. At the end you can analyze prevention concepts, evaluate their effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and equity impacts, and explain links between socioeconomic status and health inequalities.4 ECTSruns this semesterMH160023Systematic Literature Reviews and Meta-AnalysisNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsIn this module you will learn to plan, conduct, and evaluate systematic literature reviews and to prepare meta-analyses. By the end you will be able to formulate a review question, systematically search and screen the literature, extract data, assess bias, plan a meta-analysis, preregister a review, and summarise results academically.6 ECTSruns this semesterMH160029Algorithms & Fundamental RightsNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou learn how algorithmic systems influence fundamental rights and societal norms. In the end you will be able to critically analyze the impacts of algorithms on autonomy, the rule of law, transparency, and accountability and discuss approaches to safeguard fundamental rights.6 ECTSno date this semesterSOT86075Analyzing Text Data: From Basics to Advanced TechniquesNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsThe module teaches techniques for analyzing text data from the basics to modern methods. You will learn to prepare and present texts, apply classical and modern methods such as classification, topic modeling, sentiment analysis as well as transformer and large language models in practice. In the end you will be able to implement text analyses in Python on real datasets and derive insights from them.6 ECTSno date this semesterSOT86069Global Brain HealthNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsIn this module you will learn the fundamentals of transferable and non-transferable brain diseases, their global distribution and burden, and factors such as environmental and societal changes. You will engage with prevention, health systems, governance and policy in the field of Global Brain Health and will be able to classify central concepts and measures to improve brain health globally.6 ECTSno date this semesterMH160033Global Health EpidemiologyNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou learn the basics and current topics of Global Health Epidemiology: concepts of global health, the epidemiology of important communicable and non-communicable diseases, and influences such as globalization, climate, urbanization and the environment. By the end you will be able to place causes, control and prevention measures, as well as governance and ethical questions in the global health context.6 ECTSno date this semesterMH160032Global Health Solutions: Policies, Programs, and InterventionsNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou learn the basics and methods of Global Health analysis: from theories to global patterns of disease to measures, data sources and comparisons of different interventions. In the end you can create evidence-based, concise policy reports (3–4 pages) and formulate justified solution proposals for health problems in defined populations.3 ECTSno date this semesterMH161030Health CommunicationNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will get a compact introduction to the theoretical and practical foundations of (public) health communication. You will learn central concepts such as health literacy, risk and crisis communication, as well as campaign planning, and you will apply this knowledge in practical exercises and a group project.6 ECTSno date this semesterMH160028Introduction to Programming for non-Computer ScientistsNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou learn the fundamental concepts of programming and their practical application with Python. By the end you will be able to write programs, prepare text files for further processing, and automatically collect and process data from the Internet (e.g., social media).6 ECTSno date this semesterPOL20100Lost in Translation? Transforming Research into Policy and PracticeNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou learn how research influences politics beyond the sciences and how research results can be meaningfully translated into policy and practice. In a five-day block seminar with subsequent feedback and presentation sessions you work on concrete cases and develop your own translation project, which can be used for non-academic target groups at the end.5 ECTSno date this semesterMH161037Machine Learning and Society (3 ECTS)No ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou learn how machine learning influences societal structures, values and decisions and which ethical, social and technical challenges arise from it. In the end you will be able to critically assess ML systems, identify possible biases and harms, and apply approaches to alignment, auditing and safeguarding (red teaming) of ML systems.3 ECTSno date this semesterSOT86066Machine Learning and Society (6 ECTS)No ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou engage with the societal, ethical, and technical impacts of Machine Learning. In the end you will be able to critically evaluate ML systems, recognise potential biases and harms, practically apply methods such as auditing and red teaming, and assess the importance of alignment for large language models.6 ECTSno date this semesterSOT86065Measuring and Characterising Light and Lighting for Human HealthNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou learn how light is measured and described with regard to its effects on health and behavior. By the end of the module you will be able to apply photometric, colorimetric, radiometric and melanopic metrics and critically assess measurement reports.4 ECTSno date this semesterMH160025Medicine in the Tropics and Global HealthNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will learn the basics of tropical medicine and global health, gain insights into important and neglected diseases of the tropics as well as their socio-economic impacts and climate factors. In the end you will be able to place diseases and vectors in resource-limited tropical settings more accurately and practically apply simple diagnostic methods.3 ECTSno date this semesterMH160035Mental Health EpidemiologyNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou learn the fundamentals of epidemiology of mental disorders: how to describe and assess the prevalence, risk, and burden of mental disorders at the population level. By the end you will be able to apply epidemiological concepts to mental health, assess the global disease burden, and critically evaluate scientific studies.5 ECTSno date this semesterMH160031Participation and InclusionNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou learn how disability, body and health are historically considered from a diversity perspective and how political frameworks (e.g., ICF, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) enable participatory offers. In the end you can transfer theoretical findings to inclusive sports offerings and plan and conduct inclusive sport events yourself.5 ECTSno date this semesterMH260027Project Week: New Technologies in Neurorehabilitation and Motor LearningNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou work interdisciplinary with students from engineering and health care fields on prototypes and concepts for neurorehabilitation and motor learning. You learn to align technological solutions (e.g. VR, robotics, machine learning) with the requirements of patients, therapists and other stakeholders and at the end present a documented project result.5 ECTSno date this semesterMHP00003Project Week: Sensors and Wearables for Automated Detection of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and SleepNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsIn the Project Week you will learn methods and sensors with which nutrition, physical activity and sleep can be automatically recorded. You will receive short theoretical introductions and work practically with wearables, raw data and analysis methods in order to integrate and evaluate multimodal data at the end.4 ECTSno date this semesterMHP00002Project Week: TUM Digital Health Technology Innovation LabNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou deal with innovations in the Digital Health and digital medical technology sector. You will learn to understand important stakeholders (e.g. service providers, insurers, medical technology and pharmaceutical companies, venture capital) and their relationships, as well as to analyze concrete case studies. In the end you will be able to systematically address problems in Health Tech, develop creative product strategies, and present results for different stakeholders.5 ECTSno date this semesterMHP00007Providing opportunities with efficient recruitment (Scientific Work)No ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will learn theoretical and applied research on participant recruitment and how to plan and evaluate inclusive, efficient recruitment strategies. In the end you can design, conduct, and present the results of an experimental recruitment project in a scientific publication.4 ECTSno date this semesterMH160038Qualitative MethodsNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou learn the basics of qualitative and comparative research methods and practice applying research designs in a hands-on way. In the end you will be able to formulate research questions, develop concepts, justify case selection, and use methods such as process tracing or case studies for independent empirical investigations.6 ECTSno date this semesterSOT86402Sleep and Circadian HealthNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will learn fundamental concepts and modern research methods in chronobiology and sleep medicine. The seminar combines knowledge about sleep, the inner clock, nutrition, exercise and metabolism and prepares you to critically evaluate research findings and summarize them yourself.3 ECTSno date this semesterMHP00006Societal ComputingNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou learn how to use human-centered data to discover patterns of societal behavior, test theories, and conduct responsible research. By the end of the course you will be able to perform data analyses, systematically plan research projects, and critically assess the societal implications of computing.6 ECTSno date this semesterSOT86068Society and TechnologyNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will learn how data infrastructures are embedded in social, political and cultural contexts and what consequences this has for security, risks, trust and justice. You will receive basic social science concepts and epistemological insights as well as initial qualitative methods to analyze societal effects of data infrastructures and to develop responsible solutions.6 ECTSno date this semesterSOT46402The Future of Data GovernanceNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary Subjects5 ECTSno date this semesterSOT55304VHB - Advanced Occupational Safety and HealthNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsIn this module you will learn the fundamentals and methods of biological monitoring in the workplace as well as the most common occupational skin diseases. By the end you will be able to explain the central concepts of biomonitoring procedures and recognize various occupational skin diseases.3 ECTSno date this semesterMHV00001VHB - E-Health - Informationsmanagement im GesundheitswesenNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou get an overview of the structure and applications in the eHealth sector. You will learn technological, economic, processual and legal aspects, including interoperability, data protection and financing structures, and you will be able to assess modern eHealth applications and implement them in concrete use cases.3 ECTSno date this semesterMHV00004Your Money or your life?: Introduction to Global PharmacoeconomicsNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary SubjectsYou will learn the economic foundations and decision processes of drug development – from early research to the period after patent expiration. In the end you will be able to apply fundamental methods of pharmaco-economics and you will understand how prices, availability and health policy influence the supply of medicines.6 ECTSno date this semesterMH160039
4 more modules match, but they are taught in German. Show themAnerkennungNo ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary Subjectsno date this semesterMHA20001Anerkennung im Ausland erbrachter Leistungen 3No ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary Subjectsno date this semesterMHA00003Anerkennung im Ausland erbrachter Leistungen 4No ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary Subjectsno date this semesterMHA00004Anerkennung im Ausland erbrachter Leistungen 5No ratings for this module yet.Electives: Curricular Complementary Subjectsno date this semesterMHA00005