Master Information Sciences Erik Poll and Jolein Kluten

Master Information Science One year master Linking ICT with Management Science in new curriculum started 2016/2017 Taught by Institute of Computing and Information Science http://www.ru.nl/icis/ Business Administration (Bedrijfskunde) at the Nijmegen School of Management http://www.ru.nl/nsm/ http://www.ru.nl/businessadministration/

Information Science vs Computer Science Computer Science is about building IT systems in the right way, Information Science is about building the right system. Computer Science focuses on the technical side of IT How do we build and test IT systems? This involves software, hardware, and networking technologies. Information Science focuses on the use of IT within organisations What are the information needs? How do we best organise systems to meet these? This involves the (business) context in which systems are used How does IT impact organisations?

Information Science vs Computer Science Domain Modeling 17-6-2018 Information Science vs Computer Science Customer Architect / Consultant Engineer Builder images question numbers material Information Science Computing Science Block A Lecture 1

Overview of Curriculum Mandatory courses (15 EC) System Approaches to Organizations and Information Research Methods Philosophy and Ethics Software Development Enterpreneurship OR System Development Management Courses for the two variants (18 EC) Privacy & Security Law in Cyberspace, Security in Organizations, Strategic Scenarios and Business Models Enterprise Architecture Intervention in Organizations, Organisational Design / Change, Information Retrieval (formerly Text Mining) Master thesis (21 EC) – possibly as internship at a company Free choice (6EC)

Some of the courses @ ICIS Software Development Enterpreneurship or System Development Management Practical experience in managing the building of IT solutions in the context of GipHouse.nl, a software company run by students Taught by dr. Georgios Goussios, prof. Marko van Eekelen, and prof. Joost Visser

Some of the courses @ ICIS Law in Cyberspace What are the legal aspects of IT, esp. for security and privacy? Taught by prof. Mireille Hildebrandt Security in Organizations How to organize, control, and audit IT security in an organization? Taught by prof. Eric Verheul

Some of the courses @ ICIS Information Retrieval How can we effectively search data to retrieve "relevant" information? Taught by prof. Arjen de Vries

Some of the courses @ NSM Intervention in Organizations How do you plan, control, evaluate and learn from interventions in organizational structures? Taught by prof. Paul Hendriks Organisational Design or Organizational Change How do you analyse, diagnose, and design or change an organizational structure? Taught by prof. Kristina Lauche & dr. Hans Lekkerkerk Strategic Scenarios & Businesses How do you explore scenarios to guide the strategic renewal of organizations and the transformation of business models? Taught by prof. Hans van Kranenburg

Suggestions for free choice At the Information Science side Text Mining (6 EC) ICT in a Different Culture (6 EC) Cognition and Representation (6 EC) At the Management Science side Innovation Management (3 EC) Entrepreneurship: Making a Business Plan (3 EC)

Example Master theses – organisations & IT Linking Business/IT alignment interventions to organizational culture, structure, strategy and change readiness Eammon Cassidy A new approach to structured document building Robbin Jansen Empirical research into recommendation systems Rikko Filiano

Example Master theses – security & privacy Information security in practice: the practice of using ISO 27002 in the public sector Pim Sewuster Meldplicht datalekken in het onderwijs Carin van Hemert Payment Service Directive 2 Dutch supervision on the security and data protection of third party access Jos Reijers

Admittance You can enter the master with RU Bachelor Computer Science (Informatica) with minor Management Science (Bedrijfskunde voor Informatica) RU Bachelor Business Administration (Bedrijfskunde) with minor Computing Science (Informatica voor Bedrijfskunde) or sufficiently similar Bachelor degree. Students with a HBO degree will have to do a pre-master to enter a Master at the RU. Contact: Perry Groot (student advisor)

Links to more info Overview of the master http://www.ru.nl/english/education/masters/information-sciences/ More detailed information, incl. links to all courses is in the study guide aka prospectus http://www.studiegids.science.ru.nl/2016/en/science/prospectus/information_science_master/ Warning: this is still the 2016 curriculum; the only change is the replacement of Text Mining by Information Retrieval

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