Study modeScience Informatics is taught on campus.
Program ratingThis program will see you sift through data and information, trying to understand it, manipulating it, visualise it, integrate and transform it in the fields of geology, chemistry and biology and medical and health informatics. Australia is going through an IT skills shortage, and studying informatics will open up many career opportunities.
Aimed atIf you are interested in problem solving using computing, information modelling and human-computer interaction then Science Informatics could be for you.
EmployabilityAfter graduating in Science Informatics, work can be found in many areas, including clinical research in hospitals and interpreting geological data for mining companies.
Academic titleBachelor of Science (Science Informatics)
Course descriptionSample course plan
Bachelor of Science major: Science 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 Informatics 3: Content Management
Genetics
Genetics
Thinking, Reasoning and Learning
Information Modelling
Visualising
Information
Genetics
Cabaret!
Third year
Distributed Information Science Informatics in Practice
Genetics
Ways of Knowing and Learning
Human Computer Interaction
Mobile Computing
Genetics
Sounding Off: Music and Politics