The professional Bachelor of Applied Computer Science offers a professional and practice-oriented training program by teaching professional, multifunctional knowledge and competences. Working from four perspectives: Application development, Systems and Networks, Business and Problem Solving. The bachelor trains students to become IT professionals with a strong technological background, strongly embedded in the business context, generically as well as specialized by majors.

competencies

• analyses a problem, translates it to an IT context and presents information needs of an organisation in a structured way using analysing and modelling techniques.
• Collects and processes process and data information, saves it and makes it available to others in such a way that it can be consulted in a correct and efficient way.
• Designs, develops, documents and tests safe IT solutions
• Installs, configures, secures, maintains and supports IT solutions and adjusts them if necessary so they continue to answer to the changing needs of an organisation.
• Acts in a deontologically and socially responsible way in accordance with legislation, best practices and strategies and from his or her own insight and knowledge.
• Researches and evaluates existing and innovative IT solutions critically.
• Offers advice about IT solutions, products, services and technologies for different domains and/or sectors.
• Can handle a task in a thematic way both independently and in a multi-disciplinary and/or multicultural team. Can tackle an assignment in a project-based manner, both independently and in a multidisciplinary and/or multicultural team.
• Can execute simple managerial tasks and design, interpret, execute, adapt and explain a project plan.
• Cummunicates in Dutch and English, both orally and in writing, and adapted to the target audience.
• Is aware of the international context of the professional field.
• Is enterprising, takes initiative and reacts to new developments and application domains.
• Supports processes of change when IT-solutions are introduced.
• Can evaluate his/her own qualities and challenges critically, and adjust them in function of personal and professional development.

Major in Artifical Intelligence

The professional Bachelor of Applied Computer Science, with a major in artificial Intelligence, can developt intelligent and self-learning software. Based on large amounts of data, he or she can design smart algorithms, build neural networks and apply machine learning techniques. He/she specializes in data analysis and data engineering, and programs smart systems (such as robots)