As usual, the Institute of Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) offers a versatile and interesting set of obligatory and optional modules to the students in summer term 2014. You can find the modules' overview at the dedicated teaching website for this term. Further, as a student you can visit our generic teaching overview to have a look at all modules (incl. their schedules) offered by DBIS across terms.

Regarding bachelor studies, DBIS will support the students' basic education through the modules Introduction to Computer Science and Programming and Information Systems. In addition, the modules Mobile Application Development and Mobile Application Project are offered for media informatics students in the scope of the focus project Mobile Business Applications. Lastly, DBIS also offers the introductory seminar Concepts for Data and Process Management as well as the bachelor seminar Advanced Concepts for Data and Process Management.

For students in master studies, DBIS again offers the established module DBIS lab, in which students can intensively study state-of-the-art process management technology based on a realistic use case. Furthermore, the well-known modules Database Internals and Service-oriented Computing are also provided in summer term 2014. Naturally, the popular DBIS master projects as well as the module Advanced Mobile Application Engineering (belonging to the same-named focus project) for students in media informatics are provided, too. The broad master teaching program is completed by the seminars Research Trends in Information Systems and Research Trends in Business Process Management.

In relation to the projects, seminars and focus projects (media informatics) offered by DBIS, the following events are of high importance:

• April 25, 2014, 2 pm, room O27/545: Kick-off meeting for all students interested in DBIS focus projects (only media informatics)
• April 25, 2014, 3 pm, room O27/545: Kick-off meeting for all students interested in DBIS projects presenting the available topics
• April 25, 2014, midnight: Deadline for choosing DBIS seminar topics in moodle
• April 28, 2014: Publication of the assignments of the seminar topics ("who gets which topic") in moodle