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Human Centered Informatics – (M.A.)
Aalborg University
Faculty of Humanities
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| Application Deadline: | EU/EEA: May 1; October 1; Applicants requiring visa; March 15; August 15 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | Free - ≈ € 9,008 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Aalborg / Denmark / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | February, September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 120 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
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Human Centered Informatics is about the ability to analyse, comprehend, and understand the complex human, organisational, and technological contexts that any use of an ICT-system will enter. But it is also about the ability to design, recreate, and change both the ICT-system and their context of use. It is about the ability to see the potential for innovation in new technologies, like social software and Web 2.0, and to use these to create positive, meaningful, and useful changes that account for ethical, social, political, and human concerns - because it is the human, not the technology that has to be central.
Changing and recreating ICT-use in organisations and complex work-relations is far from only a technological development process. On the contrary, it is primarily about social and organisational development, about communication between the many interested parties, about inclusion of new users, about user driven innovation organisation development, ethical concerns, and learning.
Human Centered Informatics is about creating the best opportunities for knowledge and learning to unfold. The challenge may be to develop and design IT-supported learning, where pedagogic and learning concerns are important or the challenge may be to represent, formalise, structuralise, and organise knowledge, and create useful information architectures.
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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.
7th Semester: ICT-design and Development
There are courses and project work within:
- ICT, Learning and Collaboration
- 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.
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Requirements
To apply for a Master in Human Centered Informatics, you must have completed a bachelor in Human Centered Informatics, or have an equivalent bachelor degree*. After this, the education takes two years, the 7th to 10th semesters, and will add on to the skills you have gained through the bachelor.
*Including educations containing core academic elements of at least 45 ECTS within the relevant academic area. The student must, however, always ensure the acceptance of the study board before starting the education.
English Language Requirements
The official language requirements for international students applying to Aalborg University are:
- IELTS (academic test): 6.5 or
- TOEFL (paper-based): 550 or
- TOEFL (computer-based): 230 or
- TOEFL (internet-based): 80 or
- Cambridge ESOL: C1
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 550 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 230 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 80 |
Funding details
New students who have registered for a full-time study programme at Aalborg University but who are not nationals of an EU/EEA country will be charged tuition fee. For full list of tuition fees please see http://studyguide.aau.dk/apply/tuition
Aalborg University does, however, grant tuition waivers to non-EU/EEA students. The faculties of Aalborg University were awarded 50 tuition waivers for September 2011.
Students cannot apply for the scholarships but will be nominated by the faculties of Aalborg University when they apply to Aalborg University.
Please note that the deadline for applying for September 2012 is 15 March 2012
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