Program Overview

DU CCIE (Complementary Competencies in Computer Science for Education)

Objectives

The DU CCIE diploma aims to master the basic concepts of computer science, different types of languages and programming environments, to acquire a global vision of the different fields of computer science, its evolution and new technologies, and to put into perspective the interactions with other sciences. The primary objective is to acquire practical skills and to discover the specificities of computer science for teaching.

Public Concerned

This training is mainly aimed at secondary school teachers who already have a background in science and wish to acquire additional skills in computer science. The aim is to train teachers to be able to understand with ease the contents of the official programs related to digital technology, algorithms, and computer science.

Admission Requirements

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent

Structure and Organization

This training, of a duration of 2 years, is composed of Teaching Units (UE) of 3 to 6 credits (ECTS) of the Computer Science Licence. The totality of the courses and the TD is done at a distance, organized according to a calendar from the end of October to May with 2 sessions of examinations.

Content of the Courses

This training consists mainly of existing teaching units of the Bachelor of Computer Science.

Year 1 (280 hours)

• Introduction to computer science and programming (4 ECTS)
• Computer science implementation (3 ECTS)
• Programming (6 ECTS)
• Logic (6 ECTS)
• Automata and languages (6 ECTS)
• Operating Systems (3 ECTS)

Year 2 (250 hours)

• Programming 2 (6 ECTS)
• Algorithms and discrete structures (6 ECTS)
• Databases (3 ECTS)
• Computability and Semantics (6 ECTS)
• Mathematics and Computer Science Project (6 ECTS)
• Architecture (3 ECTS)

Academic Knowledge to be Acquired

The fundamental bases essential to master the evolution of the discipline, as well as practical knowledge immediately useful in teaching, including:

• General knowledge on information representation
• Algorithms
• Languages and programming: the languages studied are JAVA, C++, and Python
• Hardware architectures

Professional Opportunities

• Teaching computer science in secondary education: The DU provides a solid foundation for preparation for the CAPES NSI.
• Possibility to complete the training to obtain a Licence in computer science.

The Teaching Team

Most of the teachers participating in this training are full professors, attached to the following laboratories: IREM/LIS/I2M

Assessment and Control of Knowledge

A first exam session in July and a second one in September. There is little compulsory continuous assessment, each student can set his or her own pace. Optional continuous assessment is only taken into account if it increases the grade for each UE.

Annual Cost of Training

234 + 90 CVEC (Contribution de Vie Etudiante et de Campus) for the year 2019/2020.