The healthcare industry relies heavily on information systems to store patient information so that medical professionals can analyze the data. Information systems professionals who specialize in HIS find exciting careers. The BS in Information Systems program prepares students to be Information Systems professionals. Graduates develop and deploy enterprise-level systems to meet organizational needs. Students who graduate with the Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) emphasis will use their knowledge of information technology and records management to form the links among health-care professionals and administrations and information technology professionals.

Total Program Credits: 123

General Education Requirements:			36 Credits
	ENGL 1010	Introduction to Academic Writing	3
or	ENGH 1005	Literacies and Composition Across Contexts (5)
	ENGL 2010	Intermediate Writing Academic Writing and Research	3
	MATH 1050	College Algebra	4
or	MATH 1055	College Algebra with Preliminaries (5)
American Institutions: Complete one of the following:			3
	HIST 2700	US History to 1877 (3)
and	HIST 2710	US History since 1877 (3)
	HIST 1700	American Civilization (3)
	HIST 1740	US Economic History (3)
	POLS 1000	American Heritage (3)
	POLS 1100	American National Government (3)
Complete the following:
	PHIL 2050	Ethics and Values	3
	HLTH 1100	Personal Health and Wellness	2
or	EXSC 1097	Fitness for Life  (2)
Distribution Courses:
	Biology Distribution		3
	Physical Science Distribution		3
	An Additional Biology or Physical Science Distribution Course		3
	Fine Arts Distribution		3
	Humanities Distribution		3
	Social/Behavioral Science Distribution1		3
Discipline Core Requirements:			63 Credits
Math Requirement:			3
	MGMT 2340	Business Statistics I (3)
IS Core Requirements:
	INFO 1120	Information Systems and Technology Fundamentals	3
	INFO 1200	Computer Programming I for IS/IT	3
or	CS 1400	Fundamentals of Programming (3)
	INFO 2200	Computer Programming II for IS/IT	3
	INFO 2410	Database Fundamentals	3
	INFO 2420	Web Application Design	3
	IM 2600	Spreadsheet Applications	3
	IT 1510	Introduction to System Administration--Linux/UNIX	3
	IT 2600	Data Communication Fundamentals	3
	IT 2700	Information Security Fundamentals	3
	INFO 3130	Introduction to Applied Data Analytics	3
	INFO 3300	Web Systems Development	3
	INFO 3410	Database Systems and Warehousing	3
	INFO 3430	Systems Analysis and Design WE	3
	INFO 405G	Global Ethical and Professional Perspectives in IS and IT	3
	INFO 4430	Systems Design and Implementation	3
IS Environment/Business Foundation Requirements:
	ACC 2010	Financial Accounting	3
	ACC 2020	Managerial Accounting	3
	MKTG 220G	Written Business Communication WE	3
	MGMT 3000	Organizational Behavior WE	3
	MKTG 3600	Principles of Marketing	3
1ECON 2010 Principles of Economics I recommended.
Emphasis Requirements:			12 Credits
	INFO 3750	Healthcare Information Systems Applications	3
	INFO 4120	Business Intelligence Systems	3
	INFO 4700	Healthcare Information Systems Management	3
	HLTH 3200	Principles of Community Health	3
Emphasis Elective Requirements:			12 Credits
Choose 12 credit hours from the following list of upper-division courses:			12
	INFO 3120	Management Information Systems (3)
	INFO 4130	Data Science and Big Data Analytics (3)
	INFO 4135	Data Security Analytics (3)
	INFO 4420	Mobile Application Development (3)
	INFO 481R	Internship (3)
	IT 3350	Intellectual Property and Cyber Law (3)
	IT 4700	Enterprise Cybersecurity Management (3)
Other approved upper-division Information Systems courses

Graduation Requirements:

1. Completion of at least 123 semester credits required in the BS degree; at least 40 credit hours must be upper-division courses.
2. Overall grade point average 2.0 or above with a minimum of 2.5 GPA in all discipline core, specialty core, and elective courses with no grade lower than a "C-."
3. Residency hours: Minimum of 30 credit hours through course attendance at UVU, with at least 10 hours earned in the last 45 hours.
4. Completion of GE and specified departmental requirements. Students are responsible for completing all prerequisite courses.
5. Successful completion of at least one Global/Intercultural course.