The core curriculum applies to all programs under the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics. Completing the core curriculum satisfies the requirements for the Certificate. Students completing an MS degree need to take cognate courses in addition to the core curriculum. Note that students in the Geoinformatics MS and the Health Informatics MS need to take specific courses in the core curriculum as noted below. Students completing a PhD will have courses in addition to the core curriculum assigned by their doctoral committee. All students should track their progress in the core curriculum using the plan of study worksheet for core courses.
 

Core Courses

Programming (2 Courses)

Required Programming Course

CS:5110 - Introduction to Informatics

One of the following Programming Course

CS:3010 - Software Engineering Fundamentals - Java

CS:3210 - Programming Languages and Tools

CS:3980 - Topics in Computer Science I

SEES:3050 - Geospatial Programming (req for Geoinformatics students)

Statistics (1 Course)

Statistics course

STAT:4143 – Introduction to Statistical Methods 

BIOS:4120 – Introduction to Biostatistics (required for Health Informatics students)

Data Science (1 Course)

Data Science course

BAIS:6480 – Knowledge Discovery

STAT:4540 – Statistical Learning (take after completing Statistics requirement)  

Or additional approved courses listed every semester. 

Databases (1 Course)

Database course

CS:4400 – Database Systems

SEES:4580 – Introduction to Geographic Databases (req for Geoinformatics students)

Human Factors (1 Course)

Human Factor course

CS:4500 – Research Methods in HCI 

CS:4510 – Human-Computer Interaction for CS

SEES:3540 – Geographic Visualization (req for Geoinformatics students)

Ethics

Ethics course

CS:5980 - Computing Research Ethics