Student Learning Objectives
Learning objectives that UAlbany students are expected to attain through their course of study within their academic program.
Informatics Core
- Capable of working as part of a team
- Ability to lead a project
- Present data, information, arguments, and research verbally
- Think critically and solve problems related to current digital, technological, or information challenges
- Collect and analyze data
- Apply skills learned in the classrooms to real-world situations
- Create a web site with interactive design elements as appropriate for a specific audience
- Understand the basics of computer networking
- Explore computing and information in today’s society
- Create computer programs to address a specified problem
- Demonstrate and understanding of concepts and issues in digital privacy and security
- Recognize the importance of data and its organization and manipulation in business, government, and society as a whole
- Implement basic design principles
- Distinguish between types and forms of databases, and the types of data problems such databases can address
- Distinguish between types and forms of data, and the potential uses of that data
- Identify current and future trends in information-based technologies
- Demonstrate an ability to critically evaluate the sources, content, and intention of information, along with the ability to communicate, clearly and coherently, any findings to a wider audience
Interactive User Experience Concentration
- Understand basic visual design principles
- Predict trends
- Be familiar with a variety of technologies and tools used in web and mobile design
- Write computer programs for various purposes
- Design or create new applications, ideas, or products
- Back up or modify applications and related data to provide for disaster recovery
- Determine sources of web page or server problems, and take action to correct such problems
- Critique content and design
- Implement security measures, such as firewalls or message encryption
- Administer Internet/intranet infrastructure, including components such as web, file transfer protocol (FTP), news and mail servers
- Collaborate with development teams to discuss, analyze, or resolve usability issues
- Test backup or recovery plans regularly and resolve any problems
- Implement updates, upgrades, and patches in a timely manner to limit loss of service, and using appropriate tools
- Create various forms of digital media
- Use communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media
Social Media Concentration
- Competency with current social media platforms
- Compare and utilize third-party social media management tools
- Extrapolating meaning from platform-specific and third-party social media tracking and analytics tools
- Predict trends in social media
- Create various forms of digital media
- Communicate orally and in written form for a variety of purposes (understand when it is important to be less formal and more professional)
- Develop and implement creative social media programs and campaigns
- Ability to employ community moderation techniques
- Perform outreach activities
- Use social media to foster interactivity, engagement, community growth, and loyalty
Data Analytics Concentration
- Competency with current data management and database platforms
- Utilize third-party data management tools
- Extrapolating insights from very large data sets
- Using visualization tools to represent meaning from data
- Use data modeling techniques to represent meaning from data
- Communicate orally and in written form for a variety of purposes (understand when it is important to be less formal and more professional)
- Coding and testing data analysis algorithms
- Quantifying uncertainty in analysis results
Software Development Concentration
- Develop software applications at varying levels of proficiency
- Apply principles and practices of object-oriented design to projects
- Create software using current practices and design principles
- Implement debugging and testing principles and practices
- Ability to use multiple software design methodologies (e.g. waterfall, agile).
- Demonstrate knowledge of life-cycle management.
- Demonstrate proficiency in team-based software systems design, implementation and testing.
Information Technology Concentration
- Develop and implement IT projects
- IT Fundamentals
- Apply concepts of human computer interaction to projects
- Model current principles of information assurance and security
- Analyze information management concepts and fundamentals
- Apply integrative programming techniques and technologies
- Understand and explain the foundations of networking
- Compare and utilize a variety of platform technologies
- Apply system administration and maintenance tools and techniques
- Apply a variety of web technologies
