Computer Science: Computer Science and Science Communication and Society, 2018-2019

The Computer Science and Science Communication and Society (SCS) specialisation concerns science communication in a broad sense. It prepares you for a career in popularisation of science, for example as a science communicator, science policymaker or public relations officer, or for a career as a scientist with a communication mind-set.

The two-year, full-time programme (120 EC) consists of:

  • at least 18 EC of Computer Science courses (level 500) chosen in correspondence with the chosen research topic;
  • a maximum of 20 EC of electives chosen from the Computer Science or the SCS programme.
  • the SCS programme;
  • a Master's Thesis Research Project (42 EC) in one of the LIACS research groups.

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For specific questions about programme content, curriculum choices and/or study planning, please contact the study advisor: dr. Matthijs van Leeuwen.
For any other inquiries, please send an email to the programme coordinator: José Visser.

Year 1/2: CS&SCS

Course Semester Block EC Level

Computer Science Courses and Electives (18-38 EC)

Fall semester
Advances in Data Mining 1 6.0 500
Audio Processing and Indexing 1 6.0 500
Complex network (BM) 1 6.0 400
Databases and Data Mining 1 6.0 500
Evolutionary Algorithms 1 6.0 500
Information Theoretic Data Mining 1 6.0 500
Multicriteria Optimization and Decision Analysis 1 6.0 500
Multimedia Systems 1 6.0 500
Parallel Programming I 1 6.0 500
Seminar Swarm-based Computation with Applications in Bioinformatics 1 6.0 500
Social Network Analysis for Computer Scientists 1 6.0 500
System Development & Project Management 1 6.0 500
Testing Object-Oriented Software 1 6.0 500
Text Mining 1 6.0 500

Spring semester
Advances in Model Checking 2 6.0 500
Bio-Modeling and Petri Nets 2 6.0 500
Computational Molecular Biology 2 6.0 500
Coordination and Component Composition 2 6.0 500
Embedded Systems and Software 2 6.0 500
Image Analysis with Applications in Microscopy 2 6.0 500
Information Retrieval and Text Analytics 2 6.0 500
Metabolic Network Analysis (BM) 2 6.0 400
Multimedia Information Retrieval 2 6.0 500
Neural Networks 2 6.0 500
Parallel Programming II 2 6.0 500
Quantum Computing 2 6.0 500
Reinforcement Learning 2 6.0 500
Robotics 2 6.0 500
Seminar Combinatorial Algorithms 2 6.0 500
Seminar Distributed Data Mining 2 6.0 500
Urban Computing 2 6.0 500

Science Communication and Society (SCS) programme (40-60 EC)

For more information on courses and programme, please see the SCS e-Prospectus and the SCS website.

Year 2: CS Research

Course Semester Block EC Level
Master's Thesis Research Project 1 & 2 42 600
Master Class 1 & 2 0.0 600

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