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 School of Informatics and Computing 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.
- 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.
- Media Arts and Science: graduates will evaluate and create media-rich digital applications through research, examination, and reflection of digital design and management techniques, apply media design, psychological and cognitive principles and theories to the digital content review in diverse fields and industry, design and use novel forms and applications of media technologies, including those possible through the use of advanced and future digital technologies, apply principles and theories of quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, design research, information visualization, and visual analytics, design effective, usable, and human-centered media-rich applications using prototypes and proof of concepts, effectively communicate in digital, oral, and written form the processes, ideas, outcomes, and implications of digital media content, articulate decisions and reasoning behind decisions made related to digital media research efforts, exhibit sound judgment, ethical behavior, and professionalism in applying MAS and 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Archive 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.
- Biomedical Data Anylyst: graduates will demonstrate data mining, analyziing and integrating health data to reveal patterns that can be used for valuable collection of omics and other bioinformatics data.
- 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.
- Informatics in 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.
- Informatics in Health Information Security: graduates will demonstrate understanding technology and methodologies for processing information in health care, information literacy for health care and information management.
- Informatics in Health Information Systems Architecture: graduates will demonstrate uderstanding technology and methodologies for processing information 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.
- Omics Technologies and Precision Medicine: graduates will evaluate critically recent published literature in the field of omics and personalized medicine, apply the theories and methodologies of omics on datasets to investigate new research areas, apply appropriate principles, frameworks, and methods in omics data analysis to evaluate and interpret the frontiers of knowledge, demonstrate expository and oral communication skills appropriate for someone with a mastery of current trends in omics and personalized medicine and exhibit knowledge of ethical and privacy issues of data mining and analytics in personal genomics.
- 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: 07/2022
