Teaching
The department welcomed its new undergraduates with a small buffet.
As part of a national university degree reformation, the teaching at the department adopted the two-cycle degree system in accordance with the Bologna process. After intensive planning the department decided to cut back on sub-programmes. Six sub-programmes were left in the new degree system: a Master's degree can be taken in algorithms, bioinformatics and computational biology, distributed systems and data communications, software engineering, data management, and intelligent systems. The sub-programmes for teachers and computer mathematicians were discontinued, as they had had few participants, and so was the sub-programme of applied computer science – its original function will partially be filled by the sub-programme in bioinformatics in future. The requirements for a Bachelor's degree will remain the same for all.
The department had its own representation in several degree reformation workshops at the university and faculty level. Besides the department's degree reformation committee, a large number of teachers participated in the analysis of course contents that was required for the reformation. Some of the new requirements for the Bachelor's degree could be arranged by simply making some solutions that had already been used at the department into permanent parts of the degree.
As a result of the degree reformation, a three-year transition period started. During this period, the teaching must serve both the old and the new degree system. Most of the teaching at the department can be fitted into either system without problem. Thorough instructions supporting students in their transition from the old to the new system were drawn up.