Pictured | Connor Eichorst | Informatics | Granger, Indiana (hometown)

Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Applied Informatics

The use of technology and analytical methods has become increasingly important in our global society. Such massive use of technology has in turn created a growing demand for technically adept employees.

The Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Applied Informatics provides the necessary technical expertise to college graduates who are seeking a broad understanding of information technology, its social and psychological dimensions, and its application to the students’ chosen disciplines (STEM, Psychology, Philosophy, Business, Health Sciences, Education, Engineering, etc.)

Courses provide an understanding of information technology and how it helps solve problems in the student’s areas of interest. Students take three lower-level courses in informatics, one upper-level course in informatics, and one upper-level course from the list of electives. Upper-level courses must be chosen with the approval of the director of informatics and a faculty member from the student’s area of interest.

Students should contact the department office (info@cs.iusb.edu or (574) 520-4335) before their first semester to schedule a meeting with an Informatics advisor to develop a plan for their academic course of study.

The student must complete the requirements for the certificate at IU South Bend with a grade of C- or better unless otherwise specified. This certificate is for those who already have a 4-year non-IT bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

Requirements (at least 17 cr.)

All courses are 3 credit hours, unless otherwise designated.

Lower-Level Courses (3 courses)

• INFO-I 101 Introduction to Informatics (4 cr.)
  A grade of C or better is required. Placement exam is available.

Select two courses from the following:

• INFO-I 202 Social Informatics
• INFO-I 210 Information Infrastructure I (4 cr.)
  Test out is available.
• INFO-I 211 Information Infrastructure II (4 cr.)
  Test out is available.

Upper-Level Course (1 course)

Select one upper-level course from the following:

• INFO-I 300 Human-Computer Interaction Design and Programming
• INFO-I 303  Organizational Informatics
• INFO-I 310 Multimedia Arts and Technology
• INFO-I 320 Distributed Systems and Collaborative Computing

Upper-Level Elective (1 course)

Select one upper-level course from the following:

• CSCI-A 340 An Introduction to Web Programming
• CSCI-B 401 Fundamentals of Computing Theory
• CSCI-B 424 Parallel and Distributed Programming
• CSCI-B 438 Fundamentals of Computer Networks
• CSCI-B 451 Security in Computing
• CSCI-C 311 Programming Languages
• CSCI-C 335 Computer Structures (4 cr.)
• CSCI-C 421 Digital Design (4 cr.)
• CSCI-C 435 Operating Systems 1 (4 cr.)
• CSCI-C 455 Analysis of Algorithms I
• CSCI-C 463 Artificial Intelligence I
• CSCI-C 481 Interactive Computer Graphics
• CSCI-C 490 Seminar in Computer Science
• INFO-I 300 Human-Computer Interaction Design and Programming
• INFO-I 303 Organizational Informatics
• INFO-I 310 Multimedia Arts and Technology
• INFO-I 320 Distributed Systems and Collaborative Computing
• INFO-I 400 Topics in Informatics
  e.g., bioinformatics, game programming
• INFO-I 421 Applications of Data Mining