Definition in progress of a foundation year with basic IT courses for IT students (and others?)

Skills supply Education and training

Had a meeting Tuesday e.m. 13/11 with the steering committee for the master's course Global Challenges and Solutions (formerly Global Delivery Models) at the Department of Computer & Systems Science at Stockholm University. It is a course developed in collaboration between the university, IT&Telekomföretagen and the four companies IBM, Logica, Tieto and Accenture (the latter admittedly not member companies yet, but we are decent).

The focus of the course is complex delivery of global IT solutions.

At the meeting, we also discussed a proposal driven by the program manager Christer Magnusson, to define a base year of IT studies, which students who have completed the first year of the system science program can refer to when they, for example, apply for a job. The aim is to give new students a carrot to complete their first year of study, as it is at the beginning that the biggest drop-outs occur.

In addition to completing 60 credits, the base year must also include the following courses: Programming, systems analysis and modeling, database methodology and human-computer interaction.

At the meeting, we thought that it would not be entirely wrong if this basic year could also be a foundation for other than pure IT students, such as economics, law or why not drama students? What an IT skills boost that would be!