Course: Science Communication

Science communication begins when friends, relatives, and acquaintances ask what topic you are currently studying. In order not to lose the listener’s attention after just a few sentences overloaded with technical terms, scientific facts and theories are broken down into “snackable content.” This target group-specific qualitative and quantitative reduction of knowledge was the challenge in the seminar “Science Communication – a Hands-on Workshop.” Working in groups, students created an explanatory video on a topic of their choice as an introduction to a lesson for high school students. The project was supervised by René Lesnik and the Medialab team. Thorsten Karbach provided diverse examples of science communication at the university as an institutional science communicator, David Spencer on the medium of science slam, and Sommer’s world literature on the playful thematization of literature. In addition to the students’ successful project work, Michael Sommer’s exclusive “How to Take Apart Playmobil Figures” remains a highlight of this event.