Bachelor of Science [B.S] [Informatics] From Illinois Dominican University

Breakthroughs in technology are giving people access to unprecedented amounts of information, creating the need for skilled professionals who can manage that information and put it to work for the common good.

Five Reasons to Study Informatics at Dominican

• You?ll develop the big data skills in high demand today
• You?ll open doors to rewarding careers in health care, information technology, business, finance and many other industries
• You?ll draw on Dominican?s century-long tradition of distinction in information sciences
• You?ll be part of one of today?s fastest-growing, most relevant and most exciting fields
• You?ll be ready to make meaningful contributions to society through information and technology

Program Highlights

• Dominican offers both a major and a minor in informatics. All students complete the university?s core curriculum requirements through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences.
• Dominican?s informatics program offers specialties like cybersecurity, health informatics, organizational informatics and?community informatics.
• You?ll learn in a flexible, hybrid course format?combining the personal interaction and attention of small classes with the ease of access and rapid response of online learning.

What You'll Learn

• To think critically about the ways people use and access technology.
• To communicate to a general audience issues related to information technology.
• To explain how ethical problems, legal documents, policy constructions, and social issues interact with and reflect the nature of information technology.
• To manage projects: people, timelines, resources, goals and outcomes.
• To work collaboratively in teams to accomplish goals.
• You?ll develop socio-technical expertise and an advanced technical skill set in specific informatics contexts, and you?ll acquire the big data skills in high demand today.