Cross-faculty elective subjects WS 2024/2025

Practise listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills and competences to reach B2 level (cf. CEFR descriptors)

Practise listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills and competences to reach an advanced B2 level (cf. CEFR descriptors).

Information about the placement test is provided on the website of the cross-faculty elective subjects > language courses and by the study programmes.

The schedule is preliminary and can later be adapted upon participants' request.

Practise listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills and competences to reach an advanced C1 level (cf. CEFR descriptors) and be able to take an English certificate exam at C1 level

This module is the perfect introduction to the world of media and communications as a radio and multimedia journalist. Students learn the basics of hosting and researching for a radio show and a podcast as part of the new Campus Radio targeting Liechtenstein and the whole world. During the Campus Talks with high-profile guests, students actively work in the editorial team. The ongoing web radio program is professionally planned, developed, and implemented, with a special focus on the music program and program planning. The content is unique and always has a strong connection to Liechtenstein, the University of Liechtenstein, and the university's partners. The program is presented live online and will be made available on different podcast platforms (e.g., Spotify).

This course is provided through Coursera and is offered by the University of California, Irvine.

This series of courses will help you build, develop and hone the essential skills needed to improve your employability and advancement in today’s dynamic workforce. The courses in this Specialization may be taken in any order. Each course can also be taken independently. The Specialization concludes with a Capstone project that will give you the opportunity to integrate and apply the skills you have gained throughout the courses to your individual and organizational needs.

Career Success

Applied Learning Project

The purpose of the Capstone Project in the Career Success Specialization is for you to apply the methods and techniques you learned in the series of courses to a personal experience, giving you a way to communicate your value to potential employers. You’ll focus your communication, management, negotiation, problem solving, business writing, time management, finance, entrepreneurship, and project management skills into a single project that demonstrates your career readiness.

Instructor: David Standen, MBA (University of California, Irvine) and others.

This FU consists of 3 courses (select any 3 of the 4 contained in this specialization, if you do all 4 courses, the best 3 count):

Course 1: Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity
Course 2: Effective Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
Course 3: Communication in the 21st Century Workplace
Course 4: High-Impact Business Writing

The course starts on 16th September 2024.
The course must be completed by 20th December 2024.

All parts of this course are free of charge.

The course will give you a broad understanding of the Chinese civilization and its relations to the people of the western hemisphere during the last two thousand years.

Students:

• learn about Chinese history, civilization, religions, economy and politics, including the new policies of President Xi Jinping
• get to understand the differences in thinking, behavior and action of the Chinese in contrast to the people in the West.
• learn about the economic relations between China, South East Asia, South Asia, Middle East and Near East and the West along the continental and maritime silk roads. The global East-West-trade is more than 2000 years old.
• China 2049 - the violent reunification with Taiwan and its consequences for us

This course is provided through Coursera and is offered by the Imperial College London.

This Creative Thinking specialisation consists of three courses, designed to enhance learners' creativity skills by employing diverse brainstorming techniques, systematic creativity tools, and advanced creative thinking strategies. Throughout the specialisation, participants will gain expertise in using approaches such as the creativity diamond framework, biomimicry, analogy, metaphor, and AI-enabled platforms in order to generate innovative ideas and effectively address challenges or opportunities in their projects or activities.

Creative Thinking Tools for Success and Leadership

Applied Learning Project

Throughout the three courses within this specialisation, you will have the opportunity to undertake a series of assessments where you will apply what you have learned about different aspects of creative thinking, at an Introductory, Systematic, and Advanced level.

Instructor: Peter Childs (Head of the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London)

This FU consists of 3 courses:

Course 1: Introduction to Creative Thinking: Tools for Success
Course 2: Systematic Creative Thinking: Tools for Success
Course 3: Advanced Creative Thinking and AI: Tools for Success

The course starts on 16th September 2024.
The course must be completed by 20th December 2024.

All parts of this course are free of charge.

• Wherever people work together, there are always tensions, conflicts, and verbal disputes. You areeither involved in these yourself or have to resolve a disagreement between colleagues. In some projects, meetings, or other interactions, you might sometimes even ask yourself: »Am I surrounded by idiots?«
• Dealing with difficult colleagues, however, is a challenge that everyone has to overcome from time to time. Because even if technologies continue to develop, the most important success factor in business remains people. That's why we have to deal with people, even if they make life difficult for us, while finding a way to work together and achieving our goals.
• The good news is that whether we perceive a situation or a person as challenging usually also depends on our own inner attitude. Having some basic psychological understanding and knowledge of how
people function, you have the power to influence the reactions of others to your suggestions and change them for the better.
• This seminar will provide you with psychological insights and concrete tools for dealing with tensions and contradictions, getting demanding discussion partners on board, managing conflicts, and moving controversial situations from discussion to dialog.
• You will work on case studies using role play, bringing theory into personal practice in a safe space and experimenting with different solution approaches to challenging communication and conflict
situations.

Practise communicative and cultural skills and competences in German on level A1 - A2 (cf. CEFR descriptors).

Practise communicative and cultural skills and competences in German on level A2 (cf. CEFR descriptors).

This is a suggested schedule but, if practicable, changes can be made in accordance with the wishes of the participants.

Information about the placement test is provided on the website of the cross-faculty elective subjects > language courses and by the International Office

Practise communicative and cultural skills and competences in German on level B1 - B2 (cf. CEFR descriptors)

This module supports the development of communicative competence in Spanish on level A1 (cf. CEFR descriptors).

Students who have a language level B1 (cf. CEFR) or higher in Spanish are not allowed to participate in the course.

Being able to think critically and reason well is a crucial skill in private and professional lives.
Universities, public policy makers, scientific theorists, business decision makers, or medical staff claim their findings are based on critical reasoning.
Therefore, students need to be able to critically assess arguments they encounter on the internet and across other media, as well as arguments put forward by people around them. Thus, it is expected of students to also present their own views to be rational and able to stand up to critical scrutiny.

This lecture provides a practical introduction to principles of good reasoning:
o Examples of both reasoning about facts and the reasoning required in making practical decisions are being defined, discussed and exercised.
o Risky inferences with probable conclusions from risk-free inferences with certain conclusions are being distinguished.
o Ways and means of spotting and avoiding common mistakes in reasoning and various misuses of language are being exemplified.
o No previous knowledge of critical reasoning and logic is needed.
o This course will be enjoyed by those who relish the challenge of thinking rationally and learning new skills.
o The skills and concepts taught will also be useful when studying other areas of interest to students.

Considered by many people as the best and most successful political system, democracy, particularly in the last decade, has been the object of fierce criticisms. The question whether democracy is in crisis is in fact constantly being raised by philosophers, political scientists and normal citizens alike.
Thus, this seminar aims at raising fundamental questions about democracy and its claimed crisis:

- Foundation and justification of democracy: On which principles, values and assumptions does democracy rest?
- Demands of democracy: What does democracy require as a political system? Which formal rules and framework? Which skills and behaviour from citizens? What does democratic citizenship mean? How should an education to democracy look like and what would it require?
- Limits and criticisms of democracy: How to understand the contextual and principled criticisms against democracy? How does democracy respond to those criticisms? Is populism a symptom or a cause of a crisis of democracy?
- Alternatives to democracy: Is there a way beyond democracy? Or does democracy need to be reformed? How does democracy cope with phenomena such as fake news and populism?

The MILSA mentoring program provides students with the opportunity to develop their intercultural awareness and intercultural learning as students and future professionals. The program is offered twice yearly with a duration of approx. twelve months. It starts in April respectively in October.
The mentoring program provides an immersive intercultural learning experience in an international location. Students' learning is supported by pre-departure and post-sojourn workshops, and by Skype interviews and guided blog writing during the study abroad. The mentor is lecturer of the University of Liechtenstein.
The pre-departure workshop introduces students to explore aspects of intercultural learning and helps them prepare for their experience in a different society and culture.
During the stay abroad, students will talk to the mentor via Skype and write guided blog contributions about their intercultural learning. They stay in contact and complete group task together. Upon their return, students meet with the mentor in a post-sojourn workshop to discuss and reflect upon their experiences and the importance of their intercultural learning for their future professional lives.
The subject includes content on notions of culture, interculturality, intercultural learning,
stereotypes, identities, cultural practices, and reflection and reflective writing.
The First Steps in Intercultural Learning Workshop is held before students depart. This workshop provides essential content, discussion and activities to prepare students for their intercultural learning, international experience and to guide their completion of assessment tasks.
The Coming Home Workshop takes place after students return from their stay abroad and allows them to reflect on their experience, particularly their intercultural learning and its
application to their future professional lives. Students also present their group assignment.

The MILSA mentoring program provides guest students with the opportunity to develop their intercultural awareness and intercultural learning as students and future professionals. The program is offered twice yearly with a duration of one semester. It starts during the Introduction Week.
The mentoring program provides an immersive intercultural learning experience in an international location. Students' learning is supported by arrival and departure workshops, and by interviews and guided blog writing during their stay at the University of Liechtenstein. The mentor is a lecturer of the University of Liechtenstein.
The pre-departure workshop introduces students to explore aspects of intercultural learning and helps them prepare for their experience in a different society and culture.
During the semester, students will talk to the mentor during a personal interview and write guided blog contributions about their intercultural learning. They stay in contact and complete group task together. Shortly before their return home, students meet with the mentor in a departure workshop to discuss and reflect upon their experiences and the importance of their intercultural learning for their future professional lives.
The subject includes content on notions of culture, interculturality, intercultural learning,
stereotypes, identities, cultural practices, and reflection and reflective writing.
The First Steps in Intercultural Learning Workshop is held during the Introduction Week. This workshop provides essential content, discussion and activities to prepare students for their intercultural learning, international experience and to guide their completion of assessment tasks.
The Departure Workshop takes place at the end of the semester and allows the students to reflect on their experience, particularly their intercultural learning and its
application to their future professional lives. Students also present their group assignment.

- Wer sind Philanthropen, was motiviert sie und wie denken sie
- Was Philanthropie ist bzw. gerade nicht ist
- Warum und wie Philanthropen ihr Vermögen an andere geben
- Wissen über Reichtum und Mäzene
- Was ist Impact Investing, CSR und Social Entrepreneurship
- Was sind Stiftungen, wie ticken sie und welchen Stellenwert haben sie
- Gründung einer Stiftung von der Idee zum Projekt
- Entwicklung von Strategien zur gesellschaftlichen Wirkung - geben ist nicht leicht
- Das Konzept der Social Development Goals (SDGs) verstehen
- Wie entwickelt Liechtenstein eine Vision für die Zukunft und kann diese konkret umsetzen

Dem Streben nach Glück und der Frage, wie dieses erreicht und aufrechterhalten werden kann, wurde in der Philosophie schon früh Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt (Hedonismus, Eudaimonie). Der noch junge wissenschaftliche Ansatz der Positiven Psychologie untersucht Faktoren eines erfüllten und gelingenden Lebens. Er hat sich im englischsprachigen Raum schon weitestgehend professionalisiert. Es wird erforscht, wie Menschen ihre Ressourcen nutzen, ihre Stärken entwickeln und sich selbst, ihr Umfeld und die Gesellschaft als Ganzes voranbringen können. In diesem Seminar erfolgt eine Auseinandersetzung mit einschlägigen Konzepten und Interventionen, die im Studien- und Berufsalltag bedeutsam sind bzw. dort ihre hilfreiche Anwendung finden können.

This course is provided through Coursera and is offered by the University of California, Davis.

This Specialization is intended for working professionals early in their career and for organizations who look to improve interpersonal relationship skills among their employees, clients, and customers.

Through four courses, you will explore the use of emotional and social intelligence, practice a formula for problem solving, cultivate a growth mindset, and build skills related to adaptability and resilience in an ever-changing environment. These skills show up in business relationships and communication and ultimately impact professional effectiveness. You will be able to demonstrate sound judgment by engaging in critical thinking to reach decisions and solve problems independently. You will be able to develop a competitive advantage by learning, adapting, and harnessing insights from past endeavors. You will assess your own expectations in your current or anticipated work roles and settings, and how those may align with or differ from what is required by employers and other stakeholders now and in the future.

Professional Skills for the Workplace

Applied Learning Project

Learners will be required to take a look at themselves and decide who they want to be as a professional . They will practice new skills through activities, personal assessments, reflection and quizzes. These skills can be applied immediately to help them to grow and change within an organization.

Instructor: Lisa Montanaro (University of California, Davis) and others.

This FU consists of 4 courses:

Course 1: Emotional and Social Intelligence
Course 2: Critical Thinking Skills for the Professional
Course 3: The Growth Mindset
Course 4: Adaptability and Resiliency

The course starts on 16th September 2024.
The course must be completed by 20th December 2024.

All parts of this course are free of charge.

This specialization is provided through Coursera and is offered by the University of California, Irvine.

Project management has been proven to be the most effective method of delivering products within cost, schedule, and resource constraints. This intensive and hands-on series of courses gives you the skills to ensure your projects are completed on time and on budget while giving the user the product they expect. You will gain a strong working knowledge of the basics of project management and be able to immediately use that knowledge to effectively manage work projects. At the end of the series you will be able to identify and manage the product scope, build a work breakdown structure, create a project plan, create the project budget, define and allocate resources, manage the project development, identify and manage risks, and understand the project procurement process.

Instructor: Margaret Meloni, MBA, PMP (University of California, Irvine)

Project Management Principles and Practices

This specialization is a precursor to the Applied Project Management Certificate also offered by the University of California, Irvine and originally consists of four courses, three of which are relevant for this FU.

This FU consists of 3 courses:
Course 1: Initiating and Planning Projects
Course 2: Budgeting and Scheduling Projects
Course 3: Managing Project Risks and Changes

The course starts on 16th September 2024.
The course must be completed by 20th December 2024.

All parts of this course are free of charge.

Analyse und Entwicklung digitaler Feedbackmöglichkeiten; deeskalierende Empowerment-Moderation im Netz; Erstellung von Community Papers für klassische Feedposts; Grundzüge des Community Managements und des partizipativen Onlinejournalismus; Gegenöffentlichkeiten im Internet; Multichannelstrategien; Umgang mit Kritik und Bots; Entstehung von Shitstorms und Empörungswellen; Einsatz von KI im Social Media Management

This course is provided through Coursera and is offered by the University of Yale.

In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos (Dr. Laurie Santos is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University) reveal misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.

Instructor: Dr. Laurie Santos is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University, teacher of the most popular class in Yale's history and host of The Happiness Lab podcast.

This course consists of one course.
The Science of Well-Being

The course starts on 16th September 2024.
The course must be completed by 20th December 2024.

All parts of this course are free of charge.