Course overview
The Master of Information Systems Development is a 1-year (49 week) full-time course. You can also follow the course part time by taking the subject units over 2 successive academic years. Upon graduation you will be awarded the title Master in Information Systems Development.
Learn from the experts in an international environment!
Our Masters course is based on the internationally renowned fact-based information modelling approach Fully Communication Oriented Information Modelling (FCO-IM). FCO-IM was developed by the HAN research and competence group Data Architectures and Metadata Management. These very same people will be your lecturers! Information technology students from all over the world come to HAN to learn from the inventors of this method.
Innovative approach
Our innovative approach to teaching Information Systems Development advocates a ‘model your way out strategy’, as opposed to the more commonly taught ‘program your way out strategy’. This teaching method involves a metadata/model-driven strategy to information systems development and is unique to HAN University of Applied Sciences.
The members of the Data Architectures and Metadata Management research group as well as the Masters staff members are all extremely focused on their teaching tasks. Our maxim for teaching is ‘research is education’. This, combined with the typically informal nature of Dutch education, provides an excellent study environment for both international and Dutch students.
Practical and research oriented
The course is both practical and research oriented. Research results are always validated by their added value to the practice of information systems development. At the beginning of the course, the focus is on learning and applying textbook methods and techniques to produce relevant models.
The focus gradually shifts to independent thinking about properties and characteristics of methods, techniques and produced models, and to independent thinking about automated model transformation.