Business Informatics (B.Sc.)

Programme schedule

The B.Sc. programme is organized as a credit point system in which students gain credits from assessments carried out throughout the six-semester programme. To support attempts to reduce overall times to graduation and to simplify the recognition of academic credits gained at universities in other countries, the number of credits assigned to a particular course module is based on the recommendations of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).

Students take a combination of compulsory and elective modules. A module is typically a self-contained taught course of fixed duration covering a specific subject or subjects. Other modules offered promote a student-centred, team-oriented approach to learning involving, for example, case study analyses, an introductory and an advanced seminar, the final-year thesis, and project work – the latter being an IT project that is carried out under the guidance of a student team

The curriculum of the three-year B.Sc. degree programme comprises a total of 180 credits (CP) and is divided into the following sections:

Quantitative methods (30 CP)
Business informatics (30 CP)
Economic science (36 CP)
Computer science / Informatics (39 CP)
General and non-subject-specific qualifications (12 CP)
Specialist area (33 CP)

The modules and associated number of credits that make up each of the above sections is set out in the tables below:

Section 1: Quantitative methods (30 CP)

1. Mathematics for Students of Computer Science I	WS	Compulsory	9 CP
2. Mathematics for Students of Computer Science II	SS	Compulsory	9 CP
3. Descriptive Statistics and Probability	SS	Compulsory	6 CP
4. Inductive Statistics	WS	Compulsory	6 CP

Section 2: Business informatics (30 CP)

1. Business Informatics	SS	Compulsory	6 CP
2. Business Informatics 2	WS/SS	Compulsory elective	6 CP
3. Business Informatics 3	WS/SS	Compulsory elective	6 CP
4. Business Informatics 4	WS/SS	Compulsory elective	6 CP
5. Business Informatics 5	WS/SS	Compulsory elective	6 CP

Section 3: Economic science (36 CP)

1. Bookkeeping and Corporate Accounting	WS	Compulsory	6 CP
2. Economic Private Law I	WS	Compulsory	6 CP
3. Investment	WS		6 CP
4. Financial Accounting	SS	1 of 4 modules	6 CP
5. Taxation	WS		6 CP
6. Business Financing	SS		6 CP
7. Human Resource Management	WS		6 CP
8. Organization Management	SS	1 of 4 modules	6 CP
9. Marketing Management	WS		6 CP
10. Strategic Management	SS		6 CP
11. Decision-Making and Information Management	WS	1 of 3 modules	6 CP
12. Financial Planning and Control: Management Accounting	WS		6 CP
13. Operations Research and Logistik	SS		6 CP
14. Additional module in business administration (3-13)	WS/SS		6 CP
15. Microeconomics	WS	1 of 4 modules	6 CP
16. Macroeconomics	SS		6 CP
17. Economic Policy	WS		6 CP

Section 4: Computer science / Informatics (39 CP)

1. Programming I	WS	Compulsory	9 CP
2. Programming II	SS	Compulsory	9 CP
3. Fundamentals of Algorithms and Data Structures	WS	Compulsory	6 CP
4. Information Systems	SS	Compulsory	6 CP
5. Core lecture course in computer science/informatics	WS/SS	Compulsory elective	9 CP

Section 5: General and non-subject-specific qualifications (12 CP)

1. Foreign language*	WS/SS	Compulsory elective	6 CP
2. Core skills	WS/SS	Compulsory elective	6 CP

Section 6: Specialist area (33 CP)

1. Introductory Seminar (COMPSCI/INF)	WS/SS	Compulsory	6 CP
2. Project (BUSINF)	WS/SS	Compulsory	9 CP
3. Written assignment (BUSINF)	WS/SS	Compulsory	6 CP
4. Final year research project and thesis (BUSINF)	WS/SS	Compulsory	12 CP

* Students must have a certain level of proficiency in one of the languages English, French, Spanish or Italian. Students are therefore required to take a diagnostic placement test. For more information, please go to: http://www.szsb.uni-saarland.de/frameset.html

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