Courses Required Prior to Admission to the Informatics Major
Students applying for admission to Informatics are required to complete the following courses:
Introduces skills, concepts, and capabilities necessary to effectively use information technology. Includes logical reasoning, managing complexity, operation of computers and networks, and contemporary applications such as effective Web searching and database manipulation, ethical aspects, and social impacts of information technology. Not available for credit to students who have completed CSE 142 or ENGR 142. Offered: jointly with CSE 100.
Basic programming-in-the-small abilities and concepts. Highlights include procedural and functional abstraction with simple built-in data type manipulation. Basic abilities of writing, executing, and debugging programs. Not available for credit to students who have completed CSE 210 or ENGR 141.
Applicants are required to take one English composition course selected from among the University list.
Choose ONE of the following two courses:
Elementary concepts of probability and sampling; binomial and normal distributions. Basic concepts of hypothesis testing, estimation, and confidence intervals; t-tests and chi-square tests. Linear regression theory and the analysis of variance. (Students may receive credit for only one of 220, 301, 311, and ECON 311.)
Survey of principles of data analysis and their applications for management problems. Elementary techniques of classification, summarization, and visual display of data. Applications of probability models for inference and decision making are illustrated through examples. Prerequisite: either MATH 112, MATH 124, MATH 125, MATH 134, or MATH 145.
Additionally, on the Informatics online application, each student will be asked to list two humanties courses they have completed.
* - INFO 100 will be waived for students who have already completed CSE 142 or equivalent. If INFO 100 is waived, students will make up the five credits by taking additional elective credits in the major. Students may not receive credit for INFO 100 taken after CSE 142.