Academic Methodologies

Prof. Dr. Lena Gieseke | l.gieseke@filmuniversitaet.de | Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

Session 01 - Introduction

This exercise should take < 2h. If you need significantly longer, please let me know next class.

Topics and Syllabus

Recap the Syllabus of this class.

ACS FUB 2026

Recap Chapter 01 - ACS FUB 2026 about the final project for this class, which is a conference simulation. If you have further questions, let me know next time in class.

Literature

Task 01.01 - Reading Papers

• Read How to Read a CS Research Paper?
• Read How to Read a Paper

Submission: -

Your Paper

Task 01.02 - Topic Brainstorming

Collect a wide range of potential topics and keywords for your paper.

I recommend brainstorming for 15 minutes and writing down whatever comes to your mind.

Submission: Bullet points of all your topic ideas.

Task 01.03 - Topic Selection

From your brainstorming output, select three topics that you want to consider for your paper. Dive a bit deeper into each topic, e.g.

• What specifically interests you within that topic?
• What further characteristics does the topic have?
• What questions could you ask about that topic?

For this task, you must submit three topics (even if you have already chosen a topic for your paper). Briefly explain your choices.

Submission: Your selection of three topics and a brief motivation for each selection.

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Answer all questions directly in a copy of this file. Submit your copy as am_XX_lastname.md in your submissions folder (replace the XX with the number of the session).

Please add the following header at the beginning of your Markdown file:

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Happy Starting!