Senate thanks HSCG students for their participation in the Virtual University Information Day.
"It's great when you have people you can rely on and who are willing to stand up for their university and show the outside world what great things we're doing here." Victoria Hohlfeld moderated the Virtual University Information Day in January and worked with many committed students.
At the Senate meeting on 21 March, the commitment of the students on the Tourism Management course at the Faculty of Management and Cultural Sciences and the Business Administration course at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Engineering, who took part as part of their modules, was recognized. Many thanks also go to all the students who took part in the student sessions.
Students Jennifer Prohl and Anna Grohmann were there to receive their certificates of thanks in person. Victoria Hohlfeld met them afterwards for an interview.
Dear Jenny, dear Anna, a big thank you on behalf of all student contributors to the Virtual HIT in January! The event was also very successful with prospective students thanks to you. What do you think, would the HIT in the form in which it took place have been of interest to you?
Jenny: Yes, definitely. The way in which the degree courses were presented was very appealing, especially for those who don't yet know exactly where they want to go after their Abitur or Fachabitur. You could try things out, were introduced to things in person and got into conversation. I actually think that's very good.
Anna: I thought the program on the virtual platform was great. You could sit at home, let yourself be entertained and had the opportunity to look at everything from morning to night.
What was it like to try out new formats like TikTok to promote your studies?
Jenny: We developed the idea together in the group. It was a lot of fun, but it was also associated with challenges. We had to look at what we wanted to do and explore questions such as: "How do we want to present the university to the outside world? What trends do we want to follow? What suits us? What do we need to pay attention to and how do we take licenses and data protection, i.e. the legal pitfalls, into account?" Once we got stuck into the topic and were able to implement initial ideas with Prof. Zips, such as the 'knocking video', it was definitely a lot of fun.
Your TikTok videos with the professors were particularly popular. The 'tapping video' went straight through the roof. How do you explain that?
Jenny: The videos are probably so popular because it's not so often that professors and lecturers join in with the trends that young people are interested in. It's great that they are so approachable.
How did you come up with your ideas, which you developed as part of your module in business studies?
Jenny: The idea of making TikToks came relatively quickly. We thought about what is currently trending and which videos can we use? Because TikTok in particular is becoming increasingly popular and growing, it was a good opportunity to reach the younger target group, draw attention to us and say 'Hey, we're here! We wanted to show how cool we have it here and that our professors are also involved.
Anna, how did it come about that you took part in our student sessions and which one did you attend?
Anna : The request originally came from the student council, who drew our attention to this opportunity. In the last two years, I was still there as a student and experienced it from a different perspective. I thought it was a great idea and it requires committed people. So I thought, why don't you do it yourself? Then I looked at the topics you offered and thought about what I could talk about the most.
On the one hand, I took part in the session 'Province in no man's land'. I come from not too far away and love our region. We have mountains, we have lakes, we have everything! I'm not at all drawn to the big city. I thought to myself, you should be able to convey that to the outside world.
Then I attended the student session where we described how we spent our coronavirus semester. It was also my first semester. At the beginning, everything was still in person, so I got to experience both. Because our student sessions were so diverse, I also got to know a lot of new people. Older students, for example. I was able to ask them my own questions and listen to their experiences.
In the student sessions in particular, you had the feeling that the atmosphere was very informal, as if you had known each other for a long time. Jenny, what was it like for you, did you become even closer as a seminar group?
Jenny: Definitely. We were together with students from a younger year and asked them directly if they would like to form a group with us. We got to know each other better and are still in regular contact. We also exchanged material with the other group and were able to benefit from each other.
Jenny, your time studying at the HSZG is slowly coming to an end. But you, Anna, have only just started. Will you be back for the next HIT?
Anna: Of course! Definitely!
Students on the Tourism Management course at the Faculty of Management and Cultural Studies and the Business Administration course at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Engineering have supported the Virtual HIT as part of their modules in the following ways, among others:
Many students contributed to the HIT in January 2022. Special thanks go to:
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