As technology becomes increasingly prevalent in our lives, there's a growing need for skills in managing the digital world, and in understanding the social impact of computing and the big picture of how people and technology connects. Informatics focuses on putting information technology to work solving today's problems in healthcare, privacy, security, education, poverty, and the environment.

IU Online’s Bachelor of Science in Informatics prepares you to harness the power of computing to bring about  positive change and address challenges in such areas as business, security, privacy, healthcare, education, poverty, and environmental sustainability. Adopting tools and techniques from communication, mathematics, multimedia, and human-computer interaction design, you learn interdisciplinary approaches to transforming data into knowledge that creates real-world innovations.

Students may choose one of the following tracks:

• Business track - Coursework will provide instruction in several areas of business and business management, including accounting, bookkeeping, marketing, human resource management, financial management, and supply chain management.
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP) track - Students will study several skill areas within business ERP, including financial accounting, information systems, marketing, operation management, supply chain, and ERP.
• Health information management track - Coursework will provide instruction in several areas of health information management, including ethics, communication, confidentiality, and data analysis. Students will learn to follow standards of a professional healthcare environment, and to effectively and accurately analyze healthcare information.
• Legal informatics track - Students will study several skill areas necessary in legal informatics, including specialized technology, handling evidence, information governance, security, privacy, and protection of intellectual property. Students will assist with presenting a legal case in court. 
• Sustainability track - Students will study several skill areas within sustainability studies, including environment, society and economy, natural science and social science principles of sustainability, and their application to innovative problem solving, and application of sustainability to work and career choices.

The IU Online Bachelor of Science in Informatics prepares you for work in technology start-ups, health information systems, human-computer interaction, sustainability, and technology research, opening the door to such careers as:   

• Database developer/manager 
• Digital library specialist 
• E-commerce specialist 
• Information architect 
• Information security professional
• Network manager 
• Software developer 
• System administrator
• User experience designer 
• Web developer  

This 100 percent online, consortial program is taught by IU East, IUPUI, IU Kokomo, IU Northwest, IU South Bend, and IU Southeast. This consortial model allows you to take coursework from several campuses and learn from a wide range of faculty.   

Degree Requirements  

To graduate with the BS in Informatics students must complete a total of 120 credit hours, including the general education and college/school requirements of the home campus, and the following courses in informatics.  

1.  Informatics Core (39 cr.) 

 Complete all of the following courses:

• INFO-C 100 Informatics Foundations (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 112 Tools for Informatics: Programming and Databases (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 201 Mathematical Foundations of Informatics (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 203 Social Informatics (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 210 Problem Solving and Programming I (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 211 Programming 2 (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 300 Human Computer Interaction (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 307 Data Representation and Organization (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 399 Database Systems (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 413 Web Design and Development (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 450 System Design (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 451 System Implementation (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 452 Project Management (3 cr.)

2.  Informatics Electives (9 cr.)

Complete three courses from the following:

• INFO-C 342 Mobile Application Development  (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 421 Applications of Data Mining  (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 453 Computer and Information Ethics  (3 cr.) 
• INFO-C 416 Applied Cloud Computing (3 cr.) 
• INFO-I 303 Organizational Informatics (3 cr.) 
• INFO-I 310 Multimedia Arts and Technology  (3 cr.) 
• INFO-I 441 Interaction Design Practice  (3 cr.) 
• INFO-I 459 Media and Tech Entrepreneurship (3 cr.)
• Any 300 or 400 online INFO/CSCI course(s) (3 cr.)

3.  Informatics Tracks: Complete one of the following options:

A.  Business Track (18 cr.)

1) Accounting: Complete one of the following: 

• BUS-A 201 Introduction to Financial Accounting  (3 cr.)
• BUS-A 202 Introduction to Managerial Accounting (3 cr.)  

2) Management:

• BUS-J 404 Business and Society  (3 cr.) 

3) Marketing: Complete one of the following: 

• BUS-M 300 Introduction to Marketing (3 cr.)  
• BUS-M 301 Introduction to Marketing  (3 cr.) 

4) Human Resources:

• BUS-Z 440 Personnel: Human Resource Management  (3 cr.) 

5) Finance: Complete one of the following: 

• BUS-F 301 Financial Management  (3 cr.)  
• BUS-F 302 Financial Decision Making  (3 cr.)

6) Operations: Complete one of the following: 

• BUS-P 301 Operations Management (3 cr.)  
• BUS-P 421 Supply Chain Management (3 cr.)

B.  Health Information Management Track (15-18 cr.)

1) Medical Terminology: Complete one of the following: 

• HIM-M 195 Medical Terminology (3 cr.)
• HIM-M 330 Medical Terminology (3 cr.)   
• AHLT-M 195 Medical Terminology (3 cr.) 
• AHLT-M 330 Medical Terminology (3 cr.) 

2) Health Information Management: Complete one of the following:

• HIM-M 101 Introduction to Health Records  (3 cr.)
• HIM-M 108 Introduction to Health Information Management  (3 cr.)
• AHLT-M 192 Introduction to Health Information Management and Reimbursement (3 cr.) 
• AHLT-M 392 Introduction to Health Information  (3 cr.)  

3) Healthcare Standards: Complete one of the following:

• HIM-M 301 Healthcare Quality and Information Management   (3 cr.) 
• HIM-M 325 Healthcare Information Requirements and Standards I (3 cr.)

4) Health Information: Complete one of the following:

• HIM-M 107 Computer Applications in Health Information Technology (3 cr.)
• HIM-M 425 Quantitative Analysis of Health Information  (3 cr.)

  5) Choose between either the Pathophysiology & Pharmacology requirement OR the Electronic Health Records requirement   

• Pathophysiology & Pharmacology: HIM-M 350 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology for HIM I AND HIM-M 351 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology for HIM II  (3 cr. each)  
• Electronic Health Records: HIM-M 410 Computer Systems in Healthcare (3 cr.) 

C.  Legal Informatics Track (15 cr.)

• INFO-C 401 Foundations in Legal Informatics (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 402 Legal and Social Informatics of Security (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 403 Electronic Discovery (3 cr.) 
• INFO-C 404 Litigation Support Systems and Courtroom Presentations (3 cr.)
• INFO-C 405 Technology and the Law (3 cr.) 

D.  Enterprise Resource Planning Track (18 cr.)

1) Accounting: BUS-A 201 Introduction to Financial Accounting  (3 cr.)

2) Information Systems: BUS-K 321 Management of Information Technology (3 cr.) 

3) Functional Areas of Business: Complete two of the following:  

• BUS-F 301 Financial Management  (3 cr.) 
• BUS-M 300 Introduction to Marketing  (3 cr.)
• BUS-P 301 Operations Management  (3 cr.) 
• BUS-P 421 Supply Chain Management  (3 cr.)

4) ERP Operations: BUS-K 301 Enterprise Resource Planning  (3 cr.)

5) ERP Programming and Configuration: Complete one of the following:  

• BUS-K 440 Business Intelligence  (3 cr.) 
• BUS-S 435 Advanced Topics in Computer Information Systems  (3 cr.)

E.  Sustainability Track (15 cr.)

1) Foundations: SUST-S301 Foundations of Sustainability Studies  (3 cr.)

2) Science: Complete one of the following:  

• AHLT-H 331 Environmental Health  (3 cr.)
• GEOL-G 185 Global Environmental Change  (3 cr.)
• GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation (3 cr.) 
• GEOL-G 400 Energy: Sources and Needs  (3 cr.)
• GEOL-G 476 Climate Change Science (3 cr.)

3) Social Sciences, Cultural, Economics: Complete one of the following:   

• BUS-B 399 Business and Society (3 cr.) 
• GEOG-G 338 Geographic Information Systems (3 cr.) 
• PHIL-P 306 Business Ethics  (3 cr.) 
• POLS-Y 308 Urban Politics  (3 cr.)
• SOC-S 308 Global Society (3 cr.) 
• SUST-B 399 Sustainable Food Systems  (3 cr.)

4) Practicum: SUST-S490 Sustainability Practicum  (3 cr.)

5) Elective: Complete one additional course from either Science or Social Sciences, Cultural, or Economics courses above. (3 cr.)