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Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Master of Digital Innovation (Director's Page)
Vlado Keselj, Director of Digital Innovation Shortcuts: MDI Orientation 2020 MDI Official Hi, Welcome to my page about the MDI program! My name is Vlado Keselj and as the Director of the MDI program, I would like to provide this page as a welcome message to the new MDI students, as well as a source of additional information to anyone interested in the MDI program – the Master of Digital Innovation program at the Dalhousie University. The official pages about the program can be found at this URL (https://www.dal.ca/academics/programs/graduate/digital-innovation.html). |
We are very excited about the launch of this program in September 2020. Due to the unfortunate COVID-19 pandemic, we have unusual circumstances of launching the program with all classes being online during the Fall 2020 term. The need for this program is even greater in this situation, when the digital transformation of businesses and organizations has accelerated due to COVID-19, and is now sometimes called a digital revolution. This change is the main focus of the program: educating and training a new workforce that will drive the digital transformation and innovate in the new digital environment enabled by the computer and Internet technology.
In the rest of this page and other pages at this site, you will find more details pertaining to the program. If you have any questions, please feel free to send me an email to either vlado@dnlp.ca or vlado@cs.dal.ca. Mentioning MDI in the subject line will help in having a more efficient communication. For admissions and administrative questions, you can send an email to the Computer Science Graduate Office at graduate@cs.dal.ca.
Regards,
Vlado
MDI Certificates (or Specializations):
All applicants to the program should also select one of the following specialization certificates: Digital Business, Health Informatics, or Data Science. The certificate in Digital Government should be available starting Fall 2021.
MDI Curriculum: is described at this official page.
In the first term, the students take two foundation
courses, which provide necessary background for the certificate, and
are decided from the following group of courses:
DGIN 5100 Foundations in Web Technologies
DGIN 5200 Foundations in Business
DGIN 5300 Law, Policy, and Ethics in Emerging Technologies
DGIN 5300 Statistics for Health Informatics
In addition to these two foundation courses, the students take one more elective
course, which is typically a core certificate course.
The students should also take the internship preparation course
offered by the SITE office: CSCI 9890.
The students in the Certificate in Digital Business specialization
generally take in the first Fall term two of the following three foundation courses:
DGIN 5100 Foundations in Web Technologies
DGIN 5200 Foundations in Business
DGIN 5300 Law, Policy, and Ethics in Emerging Technologies
and the following core certificate course:
ECMM 6000 Overview of Electronic Commerce
The students in the Certificate in Health Informatics specialization
take in the first Fall term the following two foundation courses:
DGIN 5100 Foundations in Web Technologies
DGIN 5400 Statistics for Health Informatics
and the following core certificate course:
HINF 6101 Health Information Flow and Use
The students in the Certificate in Data Science specialization
take in the first Fall term the following two foundation courses:
DGIN 5100 Foundations in Web Technologies
DGIN 5200 Foundations in Business
and the following core certificate course:
CSCI 6505 Machine Learning
In the second term, the students take the core MDI course:
DGIN 5201 Digital Transformation
and two elective courses.
In the third term, the students will take an industry internship, or work on their thesis, if they decide to go with the thesis option.
In the fourth term, the students should take either
DGIN 5001 Capstone in Digital Innovation (internship students), or
DGIN 5002 Research methods (thesis students)
and two elective courses.