Bachelor of Science (Science Informatics)
What is an Informatics major?
Informatics integrates knowledge from a range of disciplines including computing, information modelling and human-computer interaction. Graduates will develop skills in understanding, manipulating, visualising, integrating and exploiting data and information; these skills are crucial to many industries, particularly medical/health industries, and research in biological and physical sciences.
Why study Informatics?
During the Information Age, information was particularly valuable because it was a scarce resource. Today, the focus has shifted from the capture and distribution of information to understanding, manipulating, visualising, integrating and exploiting data and information.
The Informatics major reflects this expanded focus. Students will learn about a range of disciplines including computing, information modelling and human-computer interaction. In doing so, students will develop an understanding of the application of informatics to solving current problems in various domains.
We live in exciting times. Be in the midst of it with Informatics. Further information on informatics is available from http://www.informatics.unimelb.edu.au/.
What will the course look like?
This is an example of a course plan for a student who has decided to major in Informatics and is also interested in knowledge, thinking and learning, music and other science areas of study.
Sample course plan
Bachelor of Science major: Informatics
First year | |||
| Informatics 1: Practical Computing | Mathematics | Biology | What is Knowledge and How do we Acquire it? |
| Informatics 2: People, Data and the Web | Mathematics | Biology | Music and Health |
Second year | |||
| Reasoning with Informatics | Genetics | Genetics | Thinking, Reasoning and Learning |
| Informatics 3: Content Management | Information Visualisation | Genetics | Cabaret! |
Third year | |||
| Distributed Information | Informatics 4: Web Applications | Genetics | Ways of Knowing and Learning |
| Science Informatics in Practice | Mobile Computing | Genetics | Sounding Off: Music and Politics |
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Breadth subjects (Subjects outside science, or integrating science with humanities and social sciences) |
The course plan displayed is a sample only. The University gives no warranty and accepts no responsibility for the accuracy or the completeness of the material. No reliance should be made by any person on the material, but instead should check for confirmation with the originating or authorising faculty, department or other university body.
Please see http://www.bsc.unimelb.edu.au/bachelor/study for further information.