Bachelor in Informatics

Informatics is a bachelor's program taught in English at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, in Lublin, Poland, over three years, with yearly tuition of 8880 PLN. The program prepares students to apply a general knowledge of information technology together with specialist knowledge from a chosen specialization, either programming and information processing or computer graphics and multimedia, and to work as a programmer, IT systems designer and analyst, website designer, network administrator, system and database administrator, QA tester, computer security specialist, or computer graphic artist, whether independently or as part of an interdisciplinary team. Graduates of the programming and information processing specialization gain core skills in data protection and cryptography, graph theory and networks, and complex algorithmization methods, along with advanced knowledge of SQL, the ability to build relational databases for typical purposes, object-oriented programming, the use of design patterns, and scripting and web application development within a chosen framework. Graduates of the computer graphics and multimedia specialization gain knowledge of the mathematical foundations of computer graphics, methods and algorithms used in the field, computer-assisted image analysis, computer animation, and internet graphics, along with the ability to use computer graphics applications and tools for processing two-dimensional and three-dimensional animations. Informatics as a discipline covers the theory and practice of computing, spanning software development, data management, computer graphics, and network and systems security. This program's combination of a broad technical core with two distinct specialization tracks lets students steer their study toward either software and data-focused careers or visual computing and multimedia production, depending on their interests.