Block Week Summer Term 2026
- When: –
- Where: FH Dortmund
- Who: Ruhr Master School
A week of different learning: this summer semester from 17. – 21. Mai 2026.
When?
- 17. – 21. May 2025
- Some modules start with e-learning units beforehand!
Why?
- Because you can spend a week studying a topic in a compact, intensive and interdisciplinary way.
- Because you can more easily attend a programme from a different study program.
- Because you get to know other lecturers and new fellow students.
- Because you can simply think outside the box of your subject discipline.
How?
- Register by 24 April 2026 using the registration form.
- For some modules, the number of participants is limited and the motto ‘first come - first serve’ applies.
What?
- The first block week offers will be available from February and can be found here. Please check back here regularly, even after the registration deadline.
Elective modules in German
Content:
- Learn procedures to implement data confidentiality, integrity, availability and security controls on networks, servers and applications.
- Understand security principles and how to develop security policies that comply with cybersecurity laws.
- Apply skills through practice, using labs and Cisco Packet Tracer (https://www.netacad.com/about-networking-academy/packet-tracer/) activities.
- Get immediate feedback on your work through built-in quizzes and tests.
- Connect with the global Cisco Networking Academy community.
Elective modules in English – counts toward the RMS Certificate of International Competences
Content:
- The course Usability Engineering is focusing on the essential methods and tools to evaluate and measure the effectiveness, efficiency and the joy of use with which a user can perform a task with a given system.
- The reoccurring scheme throughout the course is the User Centered Design Process: students will learn how to observe and specify a context of use, derive requirements from it, create a prototype and evaluate it.
- For all those parts of the process specific tools and methods will be introduced, for different phases during the software development.
- Students will learn about the work in the area of usability engineering from a theoretical viewpoint, by studying state-of-the-art research publications, as well as from a practical point of view, by project examples and case studies.
- These methods and tools will be applied as well as critically evaluated and checked for potential of improvement.
Content:
• Introduction and differentiation
• Extended Reality (XR) applications
• Tracking
• Aspects of human perception
• XR input and output devices
• Aspects of human-computer Interaction
Recognition
The recognition table shows which block modules can be credited to your degree program. Of course, you can also participate in a module independently of recognition.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact the RMS-Koordinator:innen or send us an E-Mail.