Department of Informatics

The Department of Informatics offers the following degree programmes: BA Informatics in Education degree programme, follow-up MA degree programmes Teaching Informatics for Upper Levels of Primary Schools and for Secondary Schools, and the Ph.D. Information and Communication Technologies in Education degree programme. The department is entitled to award the degree Doctor of Philosophy (PhDr.) on the basis of the student´s successful passing of the doctorate viva voce examination. Moreover, the department offers teaching qualification extension courses.

The BA degree programme is the first step to obtain the teacher´s qualification for primary and secondary schools. The programme covers all fundamental aspects of informatics and its main disciplines, particularly hardware, software, operational systems, computer graphics, programming, and consequent use of these aspects in the instruction of scientific and technical subjects.

The PhD degree programme is designed to raise experts in the area of informatics, to prepare them for independent work in science, research and development. Graduates will be able to present expert contributions to the theory of science education, and they will be able to deal with complex and challenging problems connected with informatics instruction, both theoretically and in practice. Graduates of the PhD programme pursue a great variety of careers: they have excellent job prospects as informatics teachers and methodology advisors in all types of schools, as authors of teaching materials, or they pursue research and related careers.

The academic staff and the students of the department are engaged mainly in the research of methods and the use of information and communication technologies in education. Another main interest of the department is the technical support of other natural scientific disciplines: the current research is focused on modelling of physical situations with the use of ICT.

The Department of Informatics has two sections: the section of applied informatics and the section of information and communication technologies. It cooperates with similarly related departments of other Czech universities, including academic staff exchange.