Master of Science
The Master of Science degree is a 36 credit hour program that includes 18 credit hours in informatics core courses, 3 credit hours in seminar courses and 9– 12 credit hours of electives. The students have the option of taking 6 credit hours towards a thesis project or 3 credit hours towards a Capstone Project. The requirements for the Capstone Project are described in the Capstone Project Document.
Informatics Core (21 credit hours)
- INFO I501 Introduction to Informatics (3 cr.)
- INFO I511 Laboratory Information Management Systems for Health and Life Sciences (3 cr.)
- INFO I530 Foundations of Health Informatics (3 cr.)
- INFO I535 Clinical Information Systems (3 cr.)
- INFO I575 *Informatics Research Design (3 cr.)
- INFO I581 Health Informatics Standards & Terminology (3 cr.)
- GRAD 651 Intro to Biostatistics I (3 cr.)
Electives (9 — 12 credit hours)
- INFO I503 Social Aspects of Information Technology (3 cr.)
- INFO I505 *Informatics Project Management (3 cr.)
- INFO I512 Scientific Data Management (3 cr.)
- INFO I578 Data Analysis (3 cr.)
- NURS 635 Consumer Health Informatics (3 cr.)
- INFO I641 Business of Health Informatics (3 cr.)
- INFO I642 Clinical Decision Systems (3 cr.)
- INFO I643 Natural Language Processing (3 cr.)
Thesis/Capstone Project (3 — 6 credit hours)
- INFO I691 Project in Health Informatics
- INFO I691 Thesis (6 credit hours)
*Students planning to take INFO 691 project option must take INFO 505 instead of INFO 575
