Overview of the study opportunities in Tallinn University Institute of Informatics.

1. TALLINN
UNIVERSITY
Estonian Higher Education and Research-and
Development Activities in Information
and Communications Technology State
Program 2011 – 2015.

2. www.tlu.ee

3. Tallinn University is one of the six
public universities in Estonia.
Tallinn University was founded as a merger
of a number of universities and academic
institutes in March 2005.
Over 10,000 students, including 500 foreign
students.
Tallinn University has the greatest
percentage of international staf (9.4%) in
Estonia.
Innovative
Academically
Enriching

4. - educational sciences
- humanities
- arts
- natural sciences
- social sciences
- health sciences
138 study programmes:
5 professional higher education
49 Bachelor's (5 in English)
70 Master's (10 in English)
14 doctoral programmes (Estonian/English)
In the past three
years, over
160 development
projects
have been
conducted
Studies and research in
SIX DISCIPLINES:

5. STRATEGIC
RESEARCH themes
● Changes in education and lifelong learning
● Digital learning ecosystems
● The main trends in Estonian demographics
● Personal and academic development of individuals
● Cultural changes: new fields and mechanisms of meaning-making
● Nano- and mesosystems in physics and analytical biochemistry
● The functioning of wetlands and development of ecosystems
● Historical development of Livonia during Middle Ages and early
modern period
● Scientific archaeology

6. MA programmes in English
1. Anthropology
2. Audiovisual Media: Television/
Documentary
3. Communication Management
4. Comparative Literature and Cultural
Semiotics
5. Digital Library Learning
6. Economics and Management of Public
Sector
7. Film Arts (next admission 2015)
8. Human-Computer Interaction
9. International Business
10. International Relations
International
Students
From
29 countries

7. ICT STUDIES
Institute of Informatics
www.tlu.ee/ICT

8. Bachelor's level (3 years) 180 ECTS
- Computer Science (in Estonian)
Master's level (2 years) 120 ECTS
- Human-Computer Interaction (in English)
- Educational Technology (in Estonian)
- Management of Information Technology (in Estonian)
- Teacher of Computer Sciences School IT Manager (in Estonian)
Doctorate level (4 years) 240 ECTS
- Information Society Technologies (in English/in Estonian)
75
students
STUDY PROGRAMMES in ICT

9. MSc in Human-Computer Interaction
with a special emphasis in Interaction Design
2 years (4 semesters) - 120 credits

10. hci.tlu.ee

13. Examples of elective courses:
Ubiquitous Computing
User Modeling and Recommender Systems
Social Computing
Designing for User Engagement
Semantic Computing
Mobile Devises Workshop
Digital Interactive Audio
Game Design
etc

15. The International
Summer School
hosts about
300 participants
from 50 countries
every year.
TALLINN SUMMER
SCHOOL
July 13 - 31, 2015
85% international students
23 courses:
○ ICT
○ languages
○ creative workshops
○ courses in humanities
○ courses in social sciences
○ courses in educational sciences
Online registration until 15th of May, 2015.

16. Experimental Interaction Design July 20 – 31, 2015
Design of Serious Games July 13 – 17, 2015
Research Methods in HCI (doctorate level) July, 2015
summerschool.tlu.ee
tss@tlu.ee

17. TALLINN WINTER SCHOOL
January 5 - 23, 2015
5 courses:
● Estonian language
● Russian language
● Experimental Interaction Design
● Международный территориальный брендинг
● Эффективное общение и обучение
Online registration until December 1, 2014

18. Experimental Interaction Design January 12 – 23, 2015
winterschool.tlu.ee

19. PhD in Information Society Technologies
4 years (8 semesters) - 240 credits

20. General Courses:
Research methodology (compulsory)
Multivariate statistics: regression models and multivariate
analysis of variance
Multivariate statistics: methods for classifying variables
and cases
Mixed methods research designs
Planning and running R&D projects
Seminar on qualitative methods
Academic writing for doctoral students
Learning and teaching in university

21. Major courses:
information society approaches
and ICT processes (compulsory)
ICT implementation activities (compulsory)
university practice (compulsory)
research seminar
research trends in human-computer interaction
legal issues related to IT-developments
project management
terminology seminar

22. Contacts and more information:
www.tlu.ee/ICT