Education @LIACS

These webpages contain information on the various educational programmes and courses offered at or by the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), the computer science and artificial intelligence department of Leiden University.

Bachelor Informatica

This page is for internal use at LIACS only. The only authoritative source for students is the official university prospectus (study guide). No rights can be deduced from this page.

Academic year

Programme

The Bachelor Informatica is a 180 EC programme taught in Dutch, with several courses taught in English.

Bachelor Informatica — Generic information

Study coordinator: Riet Derogee (bachelor@liacs.leidenuniv.nl)
Study advisor: Saskia Jong (studieadviseur-inf@liacs.leidenuniv.nl)
Programme committee: oc-bsc@liacs.leidenuniv.nl

Year 1 (60 EC)

Course	uSis code	Institute	ECTS	Level	Location	Teachers
Calculus 1	4031CLC1XY	LIACS	3	100	Leiden	Hazra, dr. R.S., Verbitsky, prof. dr. E.
Studying and Presenting	4031STPECY	LIACS	3	100	Leiden	Meulen, dr. A.N. van der
Foundations of Computer Science	4031FDCX6Y	LIACS	6	100	Leiden	Bariatti, dr. F., Kappé, dr. T.W.J.
Fundamentals of Digital Systems Design	4031FDSDXY	LIACS	6	100	Leiden	Stefanov, dr. T.P.
Programmeermethoden	4031PRGX6Y	LIACS	6	100	Leiden	Müller-Brockhausen, dr. M.F.T., Vis, dr. J.K.
Linear Algebra	4031LINALY	LIACS	3	100	Leiden	Lukina, dr. O., Studnia, E.
Oriëntatie Informatica	4031ORINXY	LIACS	3	100	Leiden	Visser, prof.dr.ir. J.M.W.
Calculus 2	4031CLC2XY	LIACS	3	200	Leiden	Hazra, dr. R.S., Verbitsky, prof. dr. E.
Logic 1	4031LOGX1Y	LIACS	3	100	Leiden	Basold, dr. H.
Algoritmiek	4031ALGX6Y	LIACS	6	200	Leiden	Vliet, dr. R. van
Databases	4031DABX6Y	LIACS	6	200	Leiden	Bariatti, dr. F., Plaat, prof.dr. A.
Programmeertechnieken	4031PRGRTY	LIACS	6	200	Leiden	Vis, dr. J.K.
Automaten	4031AUTOMY	LIACS	3	200	Leiden	Bergh, dr. M.J.H. van den
Probability Theory for Computer Scientists	4031PTCX3Y	LIACS	3	100	Leiden	Athanasiadis, dr. C., Salehkaleybar, dr. S.

Year 2 (60 EC)

Course	uSis code	Institute	ECTS	Level	Location	Teachers
Computerarchitectuur	4032CMAX6Y	LIACS	6	200	Leiden	Rietveld, dr. K.F.D.
Concepts of Programming Languages	4032CPL3XY	LIACS	3	200	Leiden	Kalavainen, K.
Datastructuren	4032DATSXY	LIACS	6	200	Leiden	Bergh, dr. M.J.H. van den
Formele Talen en Berekenbaarheid	4032FTBERY	LIACS	6	200	Leiden	Vliet, dr. R. van
Statistics for Computer Scientists	4032STCSXY	LIACS	6	200	Leiden	Leeuwen, prof.dr. M. van, Vinkenoog, dr. M.
Complexiteit	4032COPL3Y	LIACS	3	200	Leiden	Bergh, dr. M.J.H. van den
Artificial Intelligence	4032ARTIXY	LIACS	6	200	Leiden	Preuss, dr. M.
Machine Learning	4032MACLNY	LIACS	6	200	Leiden	Athanasiadis, dr. C., Baratchi, dr. M.
Operating Systems and Networks	4032OSNWXY	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Chen, dr. Q.
Research Methods in Computer Science	4032RMCS3	LIACS	3	200	Leiden	Bergh, dr. M.J.H. van den, Kalavainen, K.
Security	4032SEC6XY	LIACS	6	200	Leiden	Bariatti, dr. F., Makri, dr.ir. E., Schoone, J.
Logic 2	4032LOG2X	LIACS	3	200	Leiden	Basold, dr. H.

Year 3 (24 EC)

Course	uSis code	Institute	ECTS	Level	Location	Teachers
AI and Ethics	4032AIETXY	LIACS	3	300	Leiden	Haring, prof.dr. S.
Bachelor Thesis Project	4032BDX15	LIACS	15	400	Leiden	Doughty, dr. H.R., Meulen, dr. A.N. van der, Salehkaleybar, dr. S.
Software Engineering	4032SFTE6	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Kalavainen, K., Yu, dr. E.

Year 3 Elective Space

Students can freely choose a total of 36 EC, so 6 electives of 6 EC, from the list of Informatica Year 3 Electives below.
It is also possible to follow a 30 EC minor, provided that students abide by the LIACS Minor Matrix, which can be found at https://edu.liacs.nl/minormatrix.pdf. In that case, students choose only 1 elective of 6 EC from the list of Year 3 Electives below.

Course	uSis code	Institute	ECTS	Level	Location	Teachers
Ethics of Cybersecurity	4032ETHCSY	FGGA	6	300	The Hague	Hulsen, L.J.F. ten
Compiler Construction	4032CMPCSY	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Nieuwpoort, prof.dr. R.V. van
Computer Graphics	4032CCGR6	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Lew, prof.dr. M.S.K.
Computer Vision	4032COVIXY	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Cao, dr. L., Doughty, dr. H.R.
Human Computer Interaction and Information Visualization	4032HCIIV	LIACS	6	400	Leiden	Verbeek, prof.dr.ir. F.J.
Introduction to Video Game Making	4032IVGM6	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Müller-Brockhausen, dr. M.F.T.
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science	4032MATSCY	LIACS	6	400	Leiden	Basold, dr. H., Wang, dr. H., Hazra, dr. R.S., Verbitsky, prof. dr. E.
Multiprocessor Programming	4032MLPRXY	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Werkhoven, dr. B.J.C. van
Natural Computing	4032NACOXY	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Kononova, dr. A.V.
Natural Language Processing	4032NLP6XY	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Meer, dr. M. van der, Wijnholds, dr. G.
Quantum Information	4403QINF3Y	LION	3	400	Leiden	Beenakker, prof.dr. C.
Cybersecurity Governance	4032CYBGVY	FGGA	6	300	The Hague	Brunner, dr. I.
Applied Data Science and Explainable AI	4032ADSEAY	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Stein, dr. N. van
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning	4032IRLRXY	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Moerland, dr. T.
Neural Computing	4032NECOXY	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Raponi, dr. E.
Program Correctness	4032PRGCXY	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Laarman, dr. A.W., Martens, dr. J.
Requirements Engineering	4032RQENXY	LIACS	6	300	Leiden	Leeuwen, drs. P. van

Extracurricular Courses

Course	uSis code	Institute	ECTS	Level	Period	Location	Teachers
Voorbereiding Programmeerwedstrijden (not yearly)	4032VPRW2	LIACS	2	200		Leiden	Vliet, dr. R. van
Capture the Flag: Cybersecurity in Practice	4032CFCiPY	LIACS	2	400		Leiden	Makri, dr.ir. E.

Page maintained by LIACS Education Management (edu-mt@liacs.leidenuniv.nl) for internal use at LIACS.