and technical sciences as well as from medicine. This five-year diploma programme has computer science courses as its core: students learn about digital methods and electronic tools for solving picture-related problems. The technological areas of endeavour are complemented by courses on pictures in the humanities. In addition to learning about the traditional (i.e. not computerized) contexts of using pictures, students intensively practice their communicative skills. As the third component of the program, an application subject such as biology and medicine gives students an early opportunity to apply their knowledge in that they learn the skills needed for co-operating with clients and experts in other fields where digital image data are essential, e.g. microscopy and radiologic image data in biology and medicine. Bachelor and Master's programmes have been introduced in 2006. The expression 'computational visualistics' is also used for a similar degree programme of the University at Koblenz-Landau. References Further reading Jochen Schneider, Thomas Strothotte & Winfried Marotzki (2003). Computational Visualistics, Media Informatics, and Virtual Communities. Deutscher Universitätsverlag. Jörg R.J. Schirra (1999). "Computational Visualistics: Bridging the Two Cultures in a Multimedia Degree Programme". In: Forum Proceedings, ed.: Z. J. Pudlowski, p. 47–51, Jörg R. J. Schirra (2000). "A New Theme for Educating New Engineers: Computational visualistics". In: Global Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 4, No. 1, 73–82. (June 2000) Jörg R. J. Schirra (2005). "Foundation of Computational Visualistics". Deutscher Universitätsverlag Jörg R. J. Schirra (2005). "Computational Visualistics: Dealing with Pictures in Computer Science". In: K. Sachs-Hombach (Ed.): Bildwissenschaft zwischen Reflexion und Anwendung. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2005, 494–509. Jörg R. J. Schirra (2005) "Ein Disziplinen-Mandala für die Bildwissenschaft - Kleine Provokation zu einem Neuen Fach"". In: Vol. I: Bildwissenschaft als interdisziplinäres Unternehmen. Eine Standortbestimmung. 2005, Köln: Herbert-von-Halem-Verlag Bernhard Preim, Dirk Bartz (2007). Visualization in Medicine. Morgan Kaufmann, 2007. Bernhard Preim, Charl Botha (2013). Visual Computing for Medicine. Morgan Kaufmann, 2013. External links Computational visualistics (degree programme at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany) Computervisualistik (degree programme at the University Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Project Computational visualistics visualistics