The Master in Human Centered Informatics has a goal of giving competencies to create sustainable ICT from a technology philosophical, historical, ethical, and cultural perspective. This causes the education to reside in the crossroads between technology, design, and organisation, giving the student opportunity to specialise in relation to specific sectors, organisations, and corporations working with language, health, learning/education, management and so on.

The central areas of the Master are:

• ICT, Learning and Collaboration
• Design and System Development
• Knowledge and Formalising
• Human-Computer Interaction

Below you can read a summary of each semester, but you can read more about each semester in detail from the menu on the left. See more about admission requirements further down the page.

7th Semester: ICT-design and Development

There are courses and project work within:

• ICT, Learning and Collaboration (see course example here »)
• Design Theory and Method
• Project: Sustainable ICT-development

8th Semester: ICT-systems - Use and Meaning

There are courses and project work within:

• Knowledge and Formalisation
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Project: ICT-systems – Use and Meaning

9th Semester: ICT-systems in Practice (Traineeship or Research Traineeship)

This semester is a traineeship semester. It has courses within:

• Design based Research Method
• ICT-ethics
• Project: Traineeship Report or Research Traineeship

10th Semester: Final Thesis

In this semester you will write your final thesis. Typically there will be some minor courses and for thesis writers. Otherwise you can join a thesis-cluster. The thesis-clusters are most often attached to the main academic areas of Human Centered Informatics. The students and the people responsible for these areas have a shared responsibility to keep these clusters alive.