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1863 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
Health and Wellness (2 cr.)
Select from approved course list, page 40
Additional Requirements (31-34 cr.)
World Languages (6 cr.)
Completion of two semesters in a single language, or
equivalent (Select from Chinese, French, German,
Japanese, or Spanish)
Physical and Life Sciences (10 cr.)
Courses in at least two different sciences must be
taken (Select from astronomy, biology, chemistry,
geology, or physics)
Mathematics (6 cr.)
A grade of C or higher in each course is required.
MATH-M 118 Finite Mathematics
Statistics course (300-level or higher)
General Electives (9-12 cr.)
Informatics (40 cr.)
A grade of C– or higher in each course is required. At
least 22 of the 34 credit hours must be taken within
Indiana University.
Forty credit hours in informatics, to be satisfied with the
following core and elective courses:
Core Courses (34 cr.)
INFO-I 101 Introduction to Informatics (4 cr.)
INFO-I 201 Mathematical Foundations of
Informatics (4 cr.)
INFO-I 202 Social Informatics
INFO-I 210 Information Infrastructure I (4 cr.)
INFO-I 211 Information Infrastructure II (4 cr.)
INFO-I 308 Information Representation
Select two of the following four courses:
INFO-I 300 Human-Computer Interaction
INFO-I 303 Organizational Informatics
INFO-I 310 Multimedia Arts and Technology
INFO-I 320 Distributed Systems and
Collaborative Computing
Select one of the following capstone options:
Option 1
INFO-I 450 Design and Development of an
Information System
INFO-I 451 Design and Development of an
Information System
Option 2
INFO-I 460 Senior Thesis
INFO-I 461 Senior Thesis
Electives (6 cr.)
At least 6 credit hours chosen from informatics electives
(300-level or higher). Prerequisite courses may be
required. The selection of informatics electives will be
expanded as additional cognate areas develop.
BIOL-L 311 Genetics
BUS-K 301 Enterprise Resource Planning
CSCI-A 340 An Introduction to Web
Programming
CSCI-B 424 Parallel and Distributed
Programming
CSCI-B 438 Fundamentals of Computer
Networks
CSCI-C 311 Programming Languages
CSCI-C 335 Computer Structures (4 cr.)
CSCI-C 435 Operating Systems 1 (4 cr.)
CSCI-C 442 Database Systems
CSCI-C 455 Analysis of Algorithms I
CSCI-C 463 Artificial Intelligence I
CSCI-C 481 Interactive Computer Graphics
FINA-P 374 Computer Art and Design II
INFO-I 300 Human-Computer Interaction
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,
security, game programming)
MATH-M 365 Introduction to Probability and
Statistics (4 cr.)
PHYS-P 303 Digital Electronics (4 cr.)
PHYS-P 334 Fundamentals of Optics
PSY-P 335 Cognitive Psychology
PSY-P 438 Language and Cognition
SOC-S 319 Science, Technology, and Society
Cognate Area (15-18 cr.)
The student must take five or six courses in a cognate area
of interest chosen with the consent of their advisor and
the director of informatics.
Minor in Informatics
The minor in Informatics requires students to take three
lower-level informatics courses and two upper-level
informatics or upper-level elective courses from the
table below. A grade of C– or higher in each course is
required. The minor consists of at least 15 credit hours
chosen from the following:
(All courses are 3 credit hours, unless otherwise designated.)
Lower-Level Courses
INFO-I 101 Introduction to Informatics (4 cr.)
INFO-I 202 Social Informatics