Bachelor of Informatics

Comments about Bachelor of Informatics - At the institution - Halifax - Nova Scotia

• Objectives
  The Bachelor of Informatics learning environment is patterned after the future workplace: you work to find new solutions that reflect the information needs of the real world - socially, culturally, and in real organizations. In the Bachelor of Informatics you join a team of your fellow students in an exciting new integrated studies program where you see the links between disciplines. Professors from different departments teach as a team. You see the big concepts that unite computer science, math, the humanities, the arts, and the sciences.
• Academic title
  Bachelor of Informatics in Health Informatics
• Course description
  General Requirements
             
  •     INFX 1600.18: Integrated Informatics Studies: Foundations
  •     INFX 2600.12: Integrated Informatics Studies: Structures
  •     INFX 2601.03: Introduction to Information Security
  •     INFX 2640.03: Use and Design of Databases
  •     INFX 3600.03: Project 1
  •     INFX 3601.03: Project 2
  •     INFX 3630.03: Software Engineering and Project Management
  •     INFX 4600.03: Project 3
  •     INFX 4601.03: Project 4
  •     CSCI 3160.03: User Interface Design
  •     CSCI 3172.03: Web-Centric Computing
  •     HAHP 3100.03: Research Methods (or equivalent)
  •     6 full credits in credits specified by the major
  •     2 full credits of free electives at or above the 1000 level
  •     2 full credits of free electives at or above the 2000 level
  •     Completion of three co-op work terms
  * Neither CSCI 3190.03 nor CSCI 3191.03 can be counted towards a Bachelor of Informatics degree.
  
  The Major in Health Informatics follows the general Bachelor of Informatics requirements and must include the following courses:
              
  •     HAHP 1000.03: Introduction to Health, Health Promotion and Health Professions
  •     HESA 4000.03: Canadian Healthcare System
  •     HINF 1100.03: Introduction to Health Informatics
  •     HINF 2100.03: Health Information Flow and Management
  •     HINF 2501.03: Clinical Processes and Decision Making 1
  •     HINF 2502.03: Clinical Processes and Decision Making 2
  •     HINF 3101.03: Health Data Standards and Terminologies
  •     HINF 3102.03: Medical Coding
  •     HINF 3500.03: Healthcare Decision Support Systems
  •     HINF 4100.03: Healthcare Enterprise Information Systems
  •     HINF 4102.03: Inquiry in Health Informatics
  •     HSCE 2000.03: Healthcare Ethics