Admission to the Master’s Programme in Information Studies is reserved for students who have completed a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Digital Media with specialization in Information Studies (Informationsvidenskab) or another relevant bachelor’s degree or professional bachelor’s degree. A relevant bachelor degree is defined as a degree from a bachelor’s programme whose central subject areas ensure competences to an extent equivalent to not less than 60 ECTS points within the disciplinary area of information studies (communication theory, philosophy of science and epistemology, ICT, learning and organisational theory, programming methods, design and humancomputer interaction).

Qualifying educations with a legal right of admission(retskrav):

• The Bachelor’s Programme in Communication and Digital Media with specialization in Information Studies (Informationsvidenskab) from Aalborg University (Campus Copenhagen) will provide access for students to be admitted to the Master’s Programme in Information Studies.
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Qualifying educations without a legal right of admission:

• Bachelor i Kommunikation og digitale medier – Informationsvidenskab (campus Aalborg), Aalborg Universitet
• Bachelor i Kommunikation og digitale medier – Kommunikation, Aalborg Universitet
• Bachelor i Kommunikation og digitale medier – Interaktive digitale medier, Aalborg Universitet
• Bachelor i Informationsteknologi, Aalborg Universitet
• Bachelor i Interaktionsdesign, Aalborg Universitet
• Bachelor i Medialogi, Aalborg Universitet
• Bachelor i Teknoantropologi, Aalborg Universitet
• Bachelor i International virksomhedskommunikation - engelsk, it og web, Syddansk Universitet
• Bachelor i International virksomhedskommunikation - engelsk og medier, Syddansk Universitet
• Bachelor i Informationsvidenskab, it og interaktionsdesign, Syddansk Universitet
• Bachelor i Kommunikation og IT, Københavns Universitet
• Bachelor i Informationsstudier, Københavns Universitet
• Bachelor i Informationsvidenskab, Aarhus Universitet
• Bachelor i Digitalt design, Aarhus Universitet
• Bachelor i Global Business Informatics, ITU
• Bachelor i Digital design og interaktive teknologier, ITU
• Humanistisk-Teknologisk Bachelor, Roskilde Universitet
• Professionsbachelor i Digital konceptudvikling
• Professionsbachelor i Webudvikling
• Professionsbachelor i Produktudvikling og teknisk integration
• Bachelor of Engineering in Global Business Engineering, VIA
• Professionsbachelor i Økonomi og IT

The curriculum of the education will be in English, just as the courses of the education is provided in English, for which reason fluency in English is a precondition of completion of the education.

The Master’s Programme in Information Studies is a research based experimental full-time programme that provides students with a basis for the execution of professional work functions and qualifies for admission to PhD studies.

The overall objective of the master’s programme in Information Studies is to educate graduates who are capable of analysing information behaviour and practice in order to understand, design, develop, evaluate, implement and deploy ICT solutions. Graduates will be able to assess and implement ICT solutions using a wide range of approaches and variables with special emphasis on users and the use context. The focus is on ICT systems, their theoretical foundations and their integration into working and everyday life. There is an emphasis on user-technology interaction, including the understanding and organisation of social practises, policies and cultures around ICT systems.

Through the master’s program in Information Studies, graduates will acquire research-based:

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The Master’s Programme spans four semesters (1st to 4th semester). Students become co-creators of their own academic profiles by following their particular interests within the field of Information Studies in the following ways: by choosing elective courses from a range of options on the 2nd semester and by choosing specific problem formulations, theory and method within the thematic frame in the project modules on the 1st and 2nd semesters. On the 3rd semester the students may choose between “Information Studies in Practice”, and a focus on a “Theoretical course in information science”. On the 4th semester the students choose the focus of their Master’s thesis. The Programme may include a study placement abroad. As a rule a study placement abroad should take place in the 3rd semester.

The Master’s Programme in Information Studies is compiled of modules and structured as a problem based and project organised study programme consisting of obligatory project modules, obligatory study subject modules and the obligatory Master’s thesis. In addition, the programme comprises one elective module. 

*Students may choose electives offered by the Study Board of Communication and Digital Media. The elective modules listed are offered as determined by the Study Board. This means that not all elective modules will be offered every year. The Study Board may decide to cancel planned modules. Under all circumstances, elective modules must always represent a total of 10 ECTS credits. 

The 1st semester of the programme comprises a 10 ECTS credits module in “Research & Methods in Information Studies”, a project module of 10 ECTS credits in “User Studies and Information Behaviour”, a 10 ECTS credits study subject module “Theories & traditions in Information Studies”.

The 2nd semester of the programme comprises a project module of 20 ECTS credits in “Design and development of ICT” and a 10 ECTS credits elective module.

The 3rd semester of the programme offers a choice; the students either chose a project module of 30 ECTS credits in “Information Studies in Practice” or a project module of 30 ECTS credits in “Theoretical course in information science”.

In the 4th semester of the programme, the student will, under supervision, prepare a Master’s thesis within the disciplinary area of the programme. 

Projects, theme studies etc., may be prepared in collaboration by groups of up to six students. Master’s theses may be prepared in collaboration by groups of up to three students. In the examination of projects, theme studies etc., the following examination format will normally apply:

A project examination on the basis the written work, whether this was written individually or in collaboration with others. The project report/written work will be considered the shared responsibility of the group. Accordingly, students will be examined and assessed on the basis of the entire project report. One combined grade will be awarded for the project report and the oral performance. At oral group examinations, the examination must be conducted in such a way that individual assessment of each individual student’s performance is ensured, cf. the Examination Order, section 4, subsection 2.

The project examination takes the form of a conversation between the examiners and the student(s) on the basis of the project report of the semester.

Where rules have been stipulated regarding the volume of written work, one page will correspond to 2400 characters, including spaces. The stipulated number of pages only includes the actual body text of the report; title page, preface, table of contents, bibliography, abstract and appendices will not be calculated. However, notes will be included in the calculation of total pages, whereas illustrations will not be calculated. Total page number must be stated on the title page.

The stipulated time intervals for oral examinations will include voting and announcement of result.

The study elements on which the individual examinations are based are rated as proportions of an annual full-time equivalent, this being calculated as the annual work of full-time student, including holidays. An annual full-time equivalent is 60 ECTS.

In order for a student to graduate from the programme, each examination must be passed with a no less than grade of 02 or a ‘pass’ grade. A weighted average will be calculated for the examinations assessed according to the 7-point scale, on the basis of the ECTS weight of each individual examination. So the average is defined as the sum of individual grades, each multiplied by the ECTS of the examination in question, divided by the sum of the ECTS-points of the examinations included in the average. 

Examinations assessed as pass/fail will not be included in this calculation. The average grade with one decimal digit will be stated on the examination certificate. 

The Study Board displays and maintains more detailed information on the programme, including examination, on its website. 

The curriculum is approved by the dean and enters into force as of September 1, 2022.

The Study Board does not offer teaching after the previous curriculum from 2020 after the summer examination 2023.

The Study Board will offer examinations after the previous curriculum, if there are students who have used examination attempts in a module without passing. The number of examination attempts follows the rules in the Examination Order.