This major is intended for students wishing to upgrade or acquire new vocational skills in the emerging field of information analysis. It is designed to provide students with skills in applying analysis to information in specific areas of emphasis such as the sciences, business, and social sciences. The results of Informatics analyses are being seen in security (military, airports, etc.), forensics, biology and chemistry, medical technology, database systems (string-pattern matching, combinatorial search, data mining), financial analysis, journalism, psychology and social informatics). Emerging fields for informatics will continue to match new developments in information technology.
The program is cross-discipline built on a core set of database skills, and data analysis tools. For the degree and career certificate the final task is either a special project or internship, encompassing data/information analysis skills and an area of emphasis (as defined above), suitable for job experience. The special project requires preparation in an area of emphasis.

The use of informatics in data/information analysis is emerging quickly. The primary job role for graduates of the program is research analyst in their respective area of emphasis.

The Associate in Science degree in Informatics requires:
• English proficiency: ENGL 1A, ESL 26 or equivalent.
• Mathematics proficiency: MATH 105 or equivalent.
A minimum of 90 total units including:
• All General Education requirements
• Program Prerequisites (9 Units)
• Core Courses (39 units)
• Subject Matter Preparation (15-20 Units or 300 hours applicable work exprience)
• Informatics Project or Internship (3 units)
• Electives & other graduation requirements

NOTE: All courses pertaining to the major must be taken for a letter grade. In addition, a GPA of 2.0 or higher is required in all Core and Support courses for the Degree or Certificates. 50% of the major units must be taken at Foothill College.

AS = Associate in Science Degree.
CA = Certificate of Achievement.
SC = Skills Certificate.

Program Prerequisites (9 Units)
CIS 61A Informatics (5 units)
CIS 60 Introduction to Business Information Systems (5 units)
or CIS 2 Computers & Society (5 units)
or BUS 91L Introduction to Business Information Processing (4 units)

Subject Matter Preparation (15 Units)
The student must show evidence of subject matter preparation in their area of emphasis either through taking appropriate course work (15-20 units minimum) or through applicable work experience (300 hours minimum). The dean in the designated area of emphasis will need to validate that the student is sufficiently prepared.

CIS 52C Database Modeling & Relational Database Design (5 units)
CIS 52B Oracle SQL (5 units)
CIS 62A Data Warehousing & Web Mining (5 units)
CIS 63A1 Systems Analysis & Design (5 units)
CIS 63B Design & Analysis for Informatics Research (5 units)
COIN 78 XML (5 units)
MATH 10 Elementary Statistics (5 units)
or PSYC 10 Introduction to Social Research (4 units)
or SOC 10 Introduction to Social Research (4 units)
And ONE of the following:
CIS 12A Fundamentals of Visual Basic.NET Programming (5 units)
CIS 15A Computer Science I: C++ (5 units)
CIS 19A Introduction to Programming with C# (5 units)
CIS 27A Computer Science I: JAVA (5 units)
CIS 68E Programming in PERL (5 units)

Informatics Project:
CIS 61Z Informatics Project (3.5 units)
or CIS 93U Computer Information Systems Experiential Internship (~100 hours) (3 units)

English and math proficiencies are required for the certificates.

This certificate is awarded upon completion of the Program Prerequisites, Subject Matter Preparation, Core courses and the Informatics Project. Other general education courses are not required.

Program Prerequisites (9 Units)
And the following:
CIS 52C Database Modeling & Relational Database Design (5 units)
CIS 62A Data Warehousing & Web Mining (5 units)
CIS 63A1 Systems Analysis & Design (5 units)
CIS 63B Design & Analysis for Informatics Research (5 units)
MATH 10 Elementary Statistics (5 units)
or PSYC 10 Introduction to Social Research (4 units)
or SOC 10 Introduction to Social Research (4 units)