290176 VU Editorial Work and Cost Accounting in Cartography (2018W)

2.50 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie

Continuous assessment of course work

Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Th 06.09.2018 07:00 to Th 20.09.2018 07:00
Registration is open from Fr 21.09.2018 08:00 to Tu 25.09.2018 20:00
Deregistration possible until Su 14.10.2018 23:59

Details

max. 30 participants

Language: German

Lecturers

Norbert Hackner

Classes

Currently no class schedule is known.

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Main goal of the block "editorial work"is besides confronting the students with the most recent theoretical and scientific aspects of this work finally to be able to set up a whole plan for the practical editorial work and map editing for a specific cartographic product.
Block cost accounting: Based on the knowledge of the basics of cost accounting (including examples) the students shall be able to use and to interpret the numbers resulting of a cartographic production process given by an accountant in order to use them for the cost accounting of new products and to plan and optimize the specific production process.
This course shall display to the students the basics of the practical work of map editing done by a cartographer. One of the main focuses beside bringing in the knowledge acquired in other courses is in addition the consideration of juristical (copyright, competition regulations) issues as well as economical aspects.
The second part of this course is focusing on the basics of cost accounting and project calculation.

Assessment and permitted materials

creation of two practical papers, written examination

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The score consists of the following components: two written practical work (count 25% each), one written final exam (counts 50%). A positive conclusion is given from an overall rating of 51% at least.
Max. 1 lecture may be missed for positive rating (due to blocking).

Examination topics

Interactive lessons, joint elaboration of examples during the course (team-work).

Reading list

Via Moodle

Association in the course directory

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