1. Master Information Sciences
Erik Poll and Jolein Kluten

2. 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
Business Administration (Bedrijfskunde)
at the Nijmegen School of Management

3. 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?

4. Information Science vs Computer Science
Domain Modeling
Information Science vs Computer Science
Customer
Architect /
Consultant
Engineer
Builder
images
question
numbers
material
Information Science
Computing Science
Block A Lecture 1

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. 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)

11. 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

12. Example Master theses – security & privacy
Information security in practice:
the practice of using ISO 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

13. 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)

14. Links to more info Overview of the master
More detailed information, incl. links to all courses is in the study guide aka prospectus
Warning: this is still the 2016 curriculum; the only change is the replacement of Text Mining by Information Retrieval

15.
Questions?