Departmental Course is a Course that is orginazed by the Study Program.
There are several Departmental Course that is cumpolsory for students, that are: Characteristic Education, ICT Global Insight, Socio-Informatics and Professionalism, Informatics for Society, Practical Work, Proposal Writing, and Final Project.
Character Education courses are mandatory subjects that are conducted by Informatics faculty students in semester 1 (one). Character Education courses encourage students to have values of the culture of harmony, excellence, and integrity at Telkom University. Character Education courses aim to build leadership, provide communication skills to build relationships and cooperation, cultivate collaboration, think critically in dealing with problems, and are creative and innovative to students. In this course, students are required to be active in lectures both in the classroom and in activities outside the classroom with a small independent group pattern (2-5 people). The courses are conducted as many as 16 meetings that are conducted in a variety of ways, discussions, presentations, assignments, and final assignments.
This course aims to develop an understanding of development in the field of Informatics and current global issues from the point of view of practitioners. In addition, students are required to be able to use supporting tools (tools or software applications) that support student expertise in the field / specialization of the study program.
This course provides an introduction to social context in IT development:: how technology can be parts of solutions for social problems and how social phenomena can influence the development of technology. This course also introduces big data, as well as tools to visualize and methods to process it.. Other topics students will learn in this course are privacy, ethical issues, and principles in professionalism, including responsibility, ethics, decision making, and required soft skills.
This course includes an understanding of the needs or problems related to technical and non-technical matters of a targeted community and the implementation of activities or products that can meet the needs or solve the problem.
Practical work is an implementation of the knowledge and skills students during studying. In the implementation of practical work, students are required to develop themselves, develop IT scientific innovations and contribute in helping solving problems in various companies / agencies and industries. The contribution can be in the form of an analysis document and the results or recommendations for solving a problem, making a product / software, design and planning documents, training modules, work procedures modules, etc.
Proposal Writing is the preparation of a Final Project plan in the form of the Proposal Writing of Final Project. Proposal Writing is the beginning of a series of Final Project intended to train students' independence and scientific responsibility. Specifically, students are expected to be able to analyze, identify, summarize and apply all of their learning experiences to solve problems in the computing family in a systematic, logical, creative, critical, original and weighted (have added value / contribution or innovate new technology) based on accurate current data / information and supported by appropriate analysis.
Final Project is a course that cover the making of scientific papers or products obtained from the results of research or solving a problem carried out systematically through analysis activities (proposed solutions and results).