Which study programme suits me?

On 5 July, around 90 pupils from the Rupert-Neß-Gymnasium Wangen visited RWU. Prorector Professor Dr. Sebastian Mauser presented the study programme at RWU and explained the special features of a university of applied sciences. Afterwards, the students from grade 11 could choose between five workshops.

ProfessorKlemens Ehret, head of the Media Design programme, and Maximilian Schellhaase, Media Design student, produced their own podcasts with their group. From storytelling to actual recording to post-production, they went through all the steps. The results were worth listening to.

Communication designer Robert Heissmann led the workshop "My application - writing, designing, photographing". He showed what is important in the cover letter and the CV. What is indispensable, what is unnecessary, what catches the eye? Another focus of the workshop was the design, i.e. the layout, the font, the application photo. Finally, all participants produced their own portrait photos and dealt with camera settings, light, background, expression and image editing.

What is science actually?

Professor Dr. Markus Pfeil, physicist, magician and head of the electromobility course, took over the workshop "Science and Magic - How we get a good picture of the world". The workshop first dealt with the question of what science actually is, how it works and how it helps to separate the right from the wrong. This was contrasted with the art of magic, which can also be used to learn something important about the world. In the course of the workshop, the participants conducted their own scientific experiment - and of course they also learned quite a few magic tricks.

"Discover how to help people" was the title of the workshop of the Faculty of Social Work, Health and Care. Among other things, Sebastian Rösch, academic assistant in the Social Work programme, used a role play to explore the question of how best to help and what pitfalls there are in doing so.

In the Faculty of Technology and Management, professors Jörg Eberhardt, Dirk Steffens and Götz Walter used Apple as an example to show how products are developed, marketed and produced for markets. On the one hand, customer expectations are the basis for technical problem solving, on the other hand, customer wishes are also specifically directed by psychological tricks of marketing. This interplay of customer expectations, technical implementation and business models was illustrated with examples from business administration, psychology and technology.