Information Systems Course Requirement for the Information Teaching License

Requirement and graduation classification

Fundamentals and Exercises in Information Systems is a required course for obtaining the Type 1 Upper Secondary School Information teaching license. It is one of the shaded courses in the table of specialist subject courses, and all shaded courses in that table must be completed for the license.

The course is worth 2 credits and is classified as free-choice for graduation requirements. Therefore, its license requirement is separate from its graduation-requirement classification: a course may be free-choice for graduation while still being mandatory for the teaching license.

The listed specialist courses that are mandatory for the license include Information Society and Intellectual Property Rights, Information Ethics, Information and Occupations, Computer Fundamentals and Exercises III, Fundamentals and Exercises in Information Systems, Fundamentals and Exercises in Information and Communication Networks, and Fundamentals and Exercises in Multimedia Expression Technology.