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Official Master's Degree Programme in Free Software
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
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| Location: | Barcelona / Spain / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | February |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 60 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
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This degree came about by the need to train qualified staff in free software. The European Union has recommended the introduction of courses on this subject because it considers that the habitual lack of knowledge of source code prevents us from auditing the true operation of software, which could seriously compromise security in some countries, leaving it in the hands of companies that create proprietary programs.
This University Master's Degree Programme was designed in this global context to offer students a range of possibilities depending on their professional profile (administrator of networks and operating systems, administrator of websites and e-mail systems, expert in application development and the management of operating systems in free software environments) and their interests.
This University Master's Degree Programme attempts to tackle the need for qualified personnel in this field, since free software is of interest to governments and business around the world.
Countries like Brazil, Mexico, Germany and China encourage the use and development of free software, and many leading technology companies, including IBM, Apple, SUN Microsystems and Netscape, support the free software and open source movement, whether by releasing the code for some of their top products (including Mozilla and OpenOffice) or by participating in the development of programs such as Eclipse and MacOS X, among others.
Aims
The UOC's University Master's Degree Programme in Free Software is an academic degree that combines a vocational angle with a research-based approach. The skills profile taken into account in the design of this degree is very closely related to the professional skills of a technical profile (IT engineers, telecommunications engineers and other types of engineer, and generally all degrees with a strong scientific and technical basis). Nonetheless, there is a direct relationship between the contents of this degree and the lines of research in Networking technologies of the UOC doctorate programme, in which by students wishing to focus their studies on research can submit doctoral theses.
Some of the skills that students are expected to acquire are:
- Administration of GNU/Linux systems.
- Configuration and administration of network services in free environments with the application of security knowledge.
- Installation and configuration of a web server.
- Design and programming of applications with free software tools and resources.
- Knowledge and application of legal aspects and use of free software.
- Installation and configuration of a database management system.
Contents
The University Master's Degree Programme in Free Software consists of 60 ECTS credits of which:
- 20 ECTS credits are compulsory subjects
- 25 ECTS credits are specialist subjects
- 15 ECTS credits correspond to the final project or Master's thesis
Materials
The University Master's Degree Programme in Free Software has released all of its educational materials.
Teachers, students and general readers can consult the materials for the subjects of this course in the University's OpenCourseWare space.
These materials are published under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) which not only guarantees access without restrictions, but also the right to copy, modify, distribute and publish new versions of the materials. This degree therefore guarantees exactly the same rights over its contents as free software users have over applications.
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Requirements
To be able to study the University Master's Degree Programme, one of the following must apply to you:
You have an official university qualification: degree, engineering studies, architecture studies, technical engineering qualification, technical architecture qualification or diploma.
You have obtained official accreditation of a higher education qualification awarded outside Spain equivalent to the Spanish qualification enabling entry on the course. The University may accept qualifications from outside Spain that have not obtained official accreditation, after confirming that the level of these studies is equivalent to Spanish degrees and that they allow the degree holder to study postgraduate degrees in the country that awarded the degree.
The documentary requirements are:
Diploma holders: authenticated photocopy of diploma / technical engineering qualification certificate (or award letter).
Degree holders: authenticated photocopy of degree/engineering studies qualification certificate (or award letter).
University studies completed outside Spain: authenticated photocopy of official accreditation certificate from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture or authenticated photocopy of the official university qualification, original certificate of the university indicating that these studies enable access to official postgraduate studies in the country of origin.
This documentation must be translated by a sworn translator if written in a language other than Catalan or Spanish. If these courses were studied in countries that have signed the Hague Convention, the relevant apostille affixed by the competent authorities will suffice. If these courses were studied in countries that have not signed the Hague Convention, the documentation must be diplomatically legalised by the relevant institutions.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Accreditation
The UOC is endorsed by the Catalan Agency for Quality in the University System and is in compliance with the standards of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).
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