Course content
By taking this course, you will develop the capability to identify the challenges and topics in information technology industry from both global connections and local community. You will also master the knowledge to systematically and scientifically assess the identified technological problem from sociotechnical perspective, for example technology, humanity, and ethics. In addition, you will learn data-driven solution to the technological problem. You will also have opportunity to cultivate your communication and cooperation capability.
The objective is to help you engage in learning activities that matter and where you are setting the scene for the learning journey fulfilling the academic, domain, and operational learning objectives of the study program's competence profile.
Besides aligning you and the study program's other learning activities, we also want to stimulate you in problem solving that matters and where the solutions are not trivial. The course introduces a business case and course participants are expected to progressively, over the course, design a research study based on the case.
The project is organized as a number of seminars where students meet with supervisors and discuss the status of their projects. At each seminar, the key texts will be introduced by the supervisor in a lecture.
The project is pointing forward to study relevant activities in the third semester and while writing the master thesis.
The project needs to be anchored in subjects and themes central to the study program, and where relevant, incorporate theory and/or models and methodologies and / or tools.
The project report needs, for each key part, to provide both an illustrative example and a plan for further research. The example may include mini-literature review, some data collected, example analysis of the data, two-three sketches, a single hypothesis testing prototype, and more. The plan will give a reasonably detailed view of how to scale the example up to master thesis level.
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