HIM at Western Kentucky University

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate HIM work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 20 HIM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 10 more HIM courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on HIM, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in HIM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at HIM 350

  1. MATH 109General Mathematics
  2. MATH 183Introductory Statistics
  3. PH 383Biostatistics in the Health Sciences
  4. HIM 350Health Informatics Research

• 2 courses deep, ending at HIM 220

  1. HIM 100Health Data Content and Structure 4 Hours (repeatable max of 4 hrs)
  2. HIM 220Statistical Applications in Health Information Management

• 2 courses deep, ending at HIM 250

  1. AH 290Medical Terminology
  2. HIM 250International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Coding 4 Hours (repeatable max of 4 hrs)

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for HIM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under HIM yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

HIM does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the WKU campus feed.