MSc Programme in Information Technology (Double Major)

MSc Programme in Information Technology (Double Major)

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SCIENCES

To qualify for admission, students are primarily required to have completed an undergraduate study programme in the field of Information and Communication Sciences with 180 ECTS credits acquired and a minimum 3.5 GPA. Students  who have completed  an undergraduate study programme in Humanities or Social Sciences may enrol in the study programme provided they have a minimum 3.5 GPA and they fulfil the following conditions: Students  who have not completed an undergraduate study programme in Information and Communication Sciences may enrol the double-major graduate study programme in  Information Technology on condition that they enrol in, take and pass the differential course exams (core courses as supplementary courses). The differential exams must be passed before taking exams in the regular courses. The differential courses are the following courses in the single-major undergraduate study programme in Information Science: Introduction to Information Technology, Markup Languages, Databases 1, Webpage Design, Databases 2, and Metadata and Identifiers. The exact number of the required differential course exams will depend on the previously completed undergraduate studies and will be determined at enrolment.

2 years (4 semesters)

60

Master in Information Technology

Upon completion of the double major graduate study programme in Information Technology, students will have acquired the following key competencies (in accordance with the understanding of key competencies in the EU and the Croatian Qualifications Framework):

• application of information and communication technologies - the students acquire a high level of skills for working with information and communication technologies, such as designing and developing applications for different interfaces (GUI, web, mobile).
• organization of data, information and knowledge – due to the interdisciplinary character of the field, students acquire the skills to connect the various theoretical approaches and different organizational models in their application in the realization of specific tasks, learn how to manage knowledge to facilitate the realization of projects, etc.
• civic competences - the students develop a sense of responsibility towards the society, the market, the importance of the right of access to knowledge and information, gain awareness of information richness as a precondition for progress, on the importance of the plurality of opinions and ideas for the development of democratic systems and the like.
• media competences - students develop awareness of the importance of social media and their impact on the daily lives of individuals in the modern information society
• entrepreneurship - through association with the labour market the study programme encourages entrepreneurial spirit, develops awareness of the potential and importance of success in a competitive and innovative work environment, develops independence, responsibility for the tasks and develops teamwork skills.

Upon completion of the programme, the students will be able to:

• solve given problems by using the techniques of procedural or object oriented programming languages
• design information systems, define solutions using appropriate technology
• select and apply the optimal design of a template technological solution as well as the appropriate development methodology
• design or adapt the user interface of network locations/applications
• create or edit network locations based on static HTML and CSS, adjusted to the different widths of the screen display and enrich the content of network locations by JavaScript dynamics
• create network applications
• create mobile applications
• test systems, create test documentation
• administer a relational database (backups, writing queries, procedures, triggers, functions)
• carry out marketing activities through social media
• create user documentation
• prepare documentation for software developers
• implement and manage data/archive systems (repositories, etc.)
• standardize and manage metadata and identifiers in information systems
• implement certain segments of the Semantic Web in information and data/archive systems (e.g., creating linked data)
• design and create knowledge-based systems (knowledge base, etc.).