SI at University of Ljubljana
The study of Social Informatics (SI) as an independent programme inside the study of sociology, began on the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in the year 1985.
The Faculty of Social Sciences is (in Slovenia) also the official host faculty for the field of social informatics.
The programme of Social Informatics combines the social sciences with other disciplines, e.g. informatics, computer science and statistics. The programme enables students to use information technologies in empirical research in designing, creating, and controlling information systems in the social sciences. This programme also prepares students for studying problems of an information society from sociological perspective.
Social Informatics programme requires students to be not only familiar with substantial issues of social sciences, but also with mathematics, statistics and informatics.
The study is ambitious as it expects students to have interests and talents to work in different fields.
Three levels of Social informatics study programme is carried out at Faculty of Social Sciences:
