The department is responsible for the Bachelor´s degree studies in Applied Informatics and for selected areas from computing and quantitative methods in the Master´s degree and Bachelor´s degree studies in Information Management. Since the year 2000, the department has been involved in a doctoral study programme in Systems Engineering and Informatics. The department is also involved in the doctoral study programme Theory of Education in Technical Subjects (accredited at The Faculty of Education in cooperation with Czech Technical University in Prague).
The staff of the department specialise in information science disciplines such as object oriented programming languages TurboPascal, C++, Java, their visual programming tools such as Delphi and C++ Builder, and logical programming languages (Prolog). Other areas cover computing (knowledge and information management systems, database systems, and multimedia) and subjects that have their backgrounds in mathematics (computer geometry, mathematical and stochastic modelling, discrete mathematics, statistics, and operations research).
The department´s research programme is focused on specific tasks within knowledge management, development of the web and multimedia-based technologies in education and business, applied mathematics and statistics.
