Curriculum 2020-2021

The total number of required ECTS credits for completing the Media Technology MSc programme is 120. Read more about ECTS and course levels or the Course and examination Regulations (OER) of the Faculty of Science. There is also an overview of previous curricula (pdf).

Students are obliged to sign up in uSis for examinations, before the examination is scheduled. Note that presentations or paper deadlines also count as examinations. It is advised to sign up for examinations using the class number. For the exact explanation, please check this link.

Core courses:	*Level*	*Credits*
Linz NL! (replacement for Visit to Ars Electronica Festival)	400	1
Creative Programming	400	6
Human Computer Interaction & Information Visualization	400	6
Research Fundamentals	400	3
Playful & Creative Science	500	6
Essentials in Art & Music	500	3
Hardware & Physical Computing	400	3
Meta Media	500	2
Sciences & Humanities	400	4
Non-Human Cognition	500	4
Artificial Creatures	500	4
Sound, Space & Interaction	500	6
Exhibition: Science to Experience	500	12
Portfolio	400	1
Graduation Lab	400	1
Graduation Project	600	30
Accent courses (choose 2 or 3 from 5):
Social Signal Processing (2021-2022)	500	6
Computational Creativity	500	6
Research Seminar: Artificial Intelligence (2021-2022)	500	6
Research Seminar: Social Technologies (2021-2022)	500	6
Scientific Narration & Visualization	500	4
Elective courses:
Elective courses	400+	10-18
Total:		120

Students are expected to take the core courses with a total of 92 ECTS including the Graduation Project. The remaining 28 ECTS are obtained through a combination of Accent courses and Elective courses in semester 3 and 4. Student must take minimally 2 and preferably no more than 3 Accent courses.