Informatics

Year 1: Understanding

Your first year is a time to build your foundations and explore your interests! First, students take introductory computer science or communication courses to begin understanding computational and media systems. Look into introductory courses in various modules to discover what matters to you.

Featured Courses:

• CMPSC 100 – Computational Expression
• CMPSC 101 – Data Structures
• COMM 342 – Digital Media and Technology

Year 2: New Approaches

You’ll continue building your foundation in your second year by taking advanced computer science, art, and communications courses. Once you declare your major and are paired with a faculty member in Informatics, you’ll work with your advisor to think through your module choice.

Featured courses:

• HIST 170 – Introduction to Public History
• PHIL 140 – Ethics and Community
• FILM 171 – Filmmaking 

Year 3: Delving Deeper

In your third year, you’ll dig into your module— think about how information and computation intersect with your module of choice. Then, begin building questions about Informatics during your Junior Seminar with your advisor, who will give you the space to develop in your interest area.

Featured Courses

• HIST 170 – Introduction to Public History
• CMPSC 304 – Robotic Agents
• CMPSC 580 – Junior Seminar

Year 4: The Comp

In your senior year, you’ll embark on the Senior Comp, a two-semester process with INFM 600 and INFM 610. In the fall, you’ll propose your project and get started on related research. Then, in the spring, you’ll produce your original project!

Featured Courses

• INFM 600 – Senior Project I
• INFM 610 – Senior Project II
• COMM 331 – Disease, Disability, and Difference in Popular Culture