Student Learning Outcomes
Informatics is an applied, professional computing discipline. It responds to society's need to solve increasingly complex problems in all fields of human endeavor by acquiring, managing and interpreting data. Informatics studies the ways in which people, information and digital technologies interact.
Nearly all fields benefit from the rapidly evolving fields of computing and information science. Informatics graduates solve problems through the application of computing to their domains of expertise.
Computing and information technology are evolving rapidly. The student learning outcomes articulated here are central to educating Informatics graduates who possess both the technological and human-centered design skills necessary to develop and deploy useful digital tools that acquire and manage data for informed decision-making. They incorporate intellectual and ethical standards that every Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering graduate should attain.
Master of Library and Information Science: graduates will demonstrate competency in connecting core values and professional ethics to practics, facilitate engagement in the information ecosystem, curate collections for designated communities, lead and manage libraries, archives and other information organizations, organize and represent information, conduct systematic research to inform decisions and innovate professional practice with information services and technology.
Master of Science
- Applied Data Science: graduates will demonstrate competency in data analytics, data management, infrastructure and the data science life cycle. Additionally, competency will be demonstrated in the management of massive high-throughput data stores and cloud computing and data visualization. Students will learn methods of data mining, to transform large datasets into usable knowledge, and how to represent information visually.
- Bioinformatics: graduates will analyze biological data and apply the analytical skills and those analyses to pioneer research and use computational tools and develop applications that bridge the gap between data and discovery.
- Computer Science: graduates will learn problem-solving, critical thinking, and algorithmic proficiency and software development and engineering mastery. Students will also learn systems, architecture, and hardware integration as well as data management analysis and visualization. Networking proficiency and security assurance along with ethical responsibility and effective communication will be taught and finishing with reserach mastery.
Health Informatics: graduates will demonstrate competency in fundamental and profesisonal interdisciplinary skills, health and health care systems skills, technological skills and human and social context. Students will apply, analyze, evaluate biomedical information in all of these areas. Health Informatics recognizes that people are the end users of biomedical information, draws on the social and behavioral sciences to inform the design, development, and evaluation of technical solutions, policies, and economic, ethical, social, educational, and organizational systems. - Human-Computer Interaction: graduates will be able to evaluate and create interfaces by applying HCI theories, terms, principles, and methods, apply psychological and cognitive principles and theories to human factors and user experience design, research and develop interactive collaborative systems by applying social computing theories and frameworks, design novel ubiquitous computing systems by researching and applying relevant HCI and informatics theories and frameworks, design effective, usable, and human-centered interactive systems using prototypes and proof of concepts,critique interaction designs on their usability, human-centeredness, and satisfaction of requirements; evaluate the fitness of requirements, goals, and research methods; make recommendations; and create and defend alternative designs, effectively communicate in digital, oral, and written form the processes, ideas, outcomes, and implications of HCI projects, articulate decisions and reasoning behind decisions made related to interaction design choices, design and research methods,exhibit sound judgment, ethical behavior, and professionalism in applying HCI concepts and value-sensitive design to serve stakeholders and society, especially in ethically challenging situations,collaborate in teams fairly, effectively, and creatively, applying group decision-making and negotiation skills.
- Bioinformatics: graduates will be able to design computational tools and data science applications that make sense of staggering amounts of data, developing solutions that can improve health and save lives by immersing students in course projects, independent research investigations, and lab rotations that integrate informatics, technology, statistics, machine learning, computational biology, genetics, genomics, proteomics, other life science fields—and many other disciplines—in new ways.
- Computer Science: graduates will be able to pursue careers in research or academia or use their expertise for industry or government researchers to develope projects in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer security and robotics. Students can be future entrepreneurs to start high tech ventures requiring advanced knowledge and expertise in computer science research.
- Data Science: graduates learn to define and investigate relevant research problems of data science using deep technical skills and the ability to formulate and test hypotheses using massive and heterogeneous data which provides the foundation for graduates who can become successful researchers either in academic settings or in industrial research and development laboratories.
- Health and Biomedical Informatics: graduates will help to design electronic health record systems to deliver genomic and genetic information, harness the power of social media to identify, monitor, and respond to disease outbreaks and create technology to improve health care outcomes. Students will be immersed in these challenges and address them with research questions and approaches and managing and integrating systems for electronic health records and examining how we interact with technology.
- Human-Computer Interaction: graduates will be able to identify new problems in HCI and generate new knowledge to solve them by collaborating in research labs and be mentored by faculty with real-world expertise in UX research, social computing, accessibility, interaction design for health, android science, and other emerging HCI areas. Students will conduct HCI and usability research that spans disciplines including computing, communication, robotics/android science, biomedical devices, and human and social sciences. Students will integrate computing, usability, interface design, the social sciences and other disciplines in the design and development of user-friendly technologies, software and information systems.
- Archives Management: graduates will demonstrate identifying and preserving essential parts of society’s cultural heritage, organizing and maintaining the documentary record of institutions, groups, and individuals, assisting in the process of remembering the past through authentic and reliable primary sources, serving a broad range of people, who seek to locate and use valuable evidence and information.
- Clinical Informatics: graduates will demonstrate understanding technology and methodologies for processing information in health care, information literacy for health care, and information management.
- Human-Computer Interaction: graduates will demonstrate an understanding of the Internet of Things as well as HCI and UX theory with the introduction of UX design principles.
- Health Information Management and Exchange: graduates will demonstrate understanding technology and methodologies for processing information in health care, information literacy for health care and information management.
- Health Information Security: graduates will demonstrate understanding technology and methodologies for processing information in health care, information literacy for health care and information management.
- Public Health Professionals: graduates will demonstrate understanding technology and methodologies for processing information health care, information literacy for health care and information management.
- School Librarianship Certificate: core learning concept include: collaborative instruction, design, delivery, and assessment, integrated technology, student inquiry, 21st Century skills and processes, collection development, library program administration, basic resources and ILS management, PK-12 youth literature, and advocacy and leadership. (for certified teachers interested in adding to their license)
Last updated: 3/2024
