EDUC-Q528: Demonstration and Field Strategies in Science” (3 cr) – Professor Adam Maltese, M/W 10-11:20AM, ED-2020 MILL Makerspace. Students will learn how to use the major tools in the makerspace community (3D printers, laser cutter, CNC machine, microcontrollers/electronics) and will participate in related outreach projects in local schools and the community. These projects might involve activities such as engaging youth in making activities, mentoring a school robotics team, offering maker-related programing at the local library or science center. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track; DAH technical requirement
GEO-G538: Introduction to GIS. Professor Yuri Kim, TR1:00PM-2:15PM, SB 221. Overview of the principles and practices of geographic information systems (GIS). The course will deal with issues of spatial data models, database design, introductory and intermediate GIS operations, and case studies of real-world GIS applications. Laboratory exercises will provide significant hands-on experience. Lecture and laboratory. GIS can be used for humanities projects such as Story Maps (https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/). See http://geography.indiana.edu/research/gis.shtml for additional information. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement
GEO-G588: Applied Spatial Statistics. Professor Scott Robeson, MW 11:15AM-12:30PM, SB 138, SB 221. Extension of Traditional statistical analysis to spatial data. Spatial means and spatial variances, the examination of differences in samples over space, spatial autocorrelation, nearest neighbor analysis, map comparison techniques. Emphasis on practical applications. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement
ILS-Z503: Representation and Organization. Professor Robert D. Montoya, TR 9:30AM-10:45AM, Cedar Hall C002. Introduces students to various disciplines’ approaches to the understanding, organization, representation (summarizing), and use of knowledge and information. This survey looks for commonality among the approaches taken in information science, cognitive psychology, semiotics, and artificial intelligence, among others. The goal is to identify criteria for evaluation and improvement of ways to organize and represent information for future retrieval. Information systems currently used in libraries and information centers will be studied as examples. Emphasis in the course is on concepts and ideas, with appropriate attention to terminology and technology. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
ILS-Z511: Database Design. Professor Carol Choksy, T 9:30AM-12:15PM, Luddy Hall 0119. Concerned with a comprehensive view of the processes involved in developing formal access to information from a user-centered point of view. Considers various database models such as flat file, hierarchical, relational, and hypertext in terms of text, sound, numeric, image, and geographic data. Students will design and implement databases using several commercial database management systems. ILS Z512 Information Systems Design: Students identify, design, and implement a significant information design project, such as the redesign of a complex Web site for a local business, library, or nonprofit. Principles and practices of project management are discussed in the context of team-based web site redesign. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement
ILS-Z511: Database Design. Professor Carol Choksy, R 9:30AM-12:15PM, Luddy Hall 0119 or . Concerned with a comprehensive view of the processes involved in developing formal access to information from a user-centered point of view. Considers various database models such as flat file, hierarchical, relational, and hypertext in terms of text, sound, numeric, image, and geographic data. Students will design and implement databases using several commercial database management systems. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: DAH technical requirement
ILS-Z514: Social Aspects of Information Technology. Professor Noriko Hara, F 9:30AM-12:00PM, Informatics West 232. The objective of this course is to help students think critically and constructively about information & communication technology and its relationship to work, leisure, and society at large. This course covers a series of concepts and analytical devices as well as empirical case studies related to social consequences of information & communication technologies when it is shaped and used by individuals, public agencies, and businesses. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Critical Track; Analytical Track
ILS-Z515: Information Architecture. Professor Kate Wehner, R 5:30PM-8:15PM, Informatics West 107. Effective information system design integrates knowledge of formal structures with understanding of social, technological, and cognitive environments. Drawing from a range of disciplines, this course investigates how people represent, organize, retrieve, and use information to inform the construction of information architectures that facilitate user understanding and navigation in conceptual space. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
ILS-Z516: Human-Computer Interaction. Professor Younei Soe, MW 1:00PM-2:15PM, Luddy Hall 0002. Examines the human factors associated with information technology and seeks to provide students with knowledge of the variables likely to influence the perceived usability, and hence the acceptability, of any information technology. In so doing it will enable students to progress further towards specialist’s work in the important field of human-computer interaction. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
ILS-Z532: Information Architecture for the Web. Ali Ghazinejad, W 1:00PM-3:45PM, Luddy Hall 0119. Focuses on Web site development. Students study information architecture as an approach for site organization and design, and learn about project management for complex web development tasks. In lab sessions, students work with advanced markup languages and scripting and develop sites, typically for real clients. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: DAH technical requirement
ILS-Z533: Online Searching. Professor Jennifer Laherty, T 4:00PM-6:30PM, Informatics West 109. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: DAH technical requirement
ILS-Z543: Computer-Mediated Communication. Ashley Dainas, M 5:45PM-8:30PM, Luddy Hall 0002. Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is human-to-human interaction via computer networks such as the Internet. This course examines potentials and constraints of several types of CMC, and considers how content and dynamics are influenced by the systems’ technical properties and the cultures that have grown up around their use. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Critical Track; Analytical Track
ILS-Z544: Gender and Computerization. Elli Bourlai, W 5:45PM-8:30PM, Luddy Hall 0002. This course explores the relationship between information communication technologies (ICTs) and the gender of the people who design, use, administer, and make policy concerning computer systems and computer networks such as the Internet. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Critical Track; Analytical Track
ILS-Z581: Archives and Records Management. Professor Devan Donaldson, R 1:00PM-3:30PM, Informatics West 232. Introduces basic theories, methods, and significant problems in archives and records management. The course also discusses how archivists are responding to the challenge of managing and preserving electronic records. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
ILS-Z604: Topics in Library and Information Science. Professor Younei Soe, MW 4:00PM-5:15PM, Luddy Hall 0002. This course will help students identify the fundamentals of findings and their meaning when they read social science research reports. For example, topics will include: data, measurement, sampling, probabilities, unobtrusive methods. If you are considering a career that entails conducting or evaluating social science research, the concepts and methods you learn in this course will be valuable. I try explain concepts using simple words (and sometimes with visuals when helpful). The course is open to graduate students in all disciplines, and there are no prerequisites. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical track
ILS-Z642: Content Analysis for the Web. Professor Susan Herring, T 5:45PM-8:30PM, Luddy Hall 0002. Application of Content Analysis methods to web documents, interactivity features, and links. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
ILS-Z652: Digital Libraries. Professor John Walsh, R 1:00PM-3:45PM, Luddy Hall 0119. Prerequisite ILS-LZ 532 or approval from instructor. Examines the design and operation of digital libraries and related electronic publishing practices from a socio- technical perspective. Students develop understanding of major issues, concepts, and trends, enabling them to understand the sociotechnical character of digital libraries that can and will be effectively supported and used by various groups. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
ILS-Z764: Seminar in Information Science: Social Aspects of IT. Professor Noriko Hara, F 9:30AM-12:00PM, Informatics West 232. Meets with ILS-Z514. A doctoral seminar in IS introduces students to topic areas within the domain of information science (e.g., social informatics, scientometrics, information retrieval, representation and organization of resources, philosophy of information, human computer interaction, visualization). It is a reading-and-writing intensive experience and emphasizes depth over breadth. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Critical Track; Analytical Track
ILS-Z764: Seminar in Information Science: Social Media Mining. Professor Allen Riddell, M 9:30AM-12:15PM, Luddy Hall 0002. Meets with ILS-Z639. Please contact ILS department for permission to enroll. A doctoral seminar in IS introduces students to topic areas within the domain of information science (e.g., social informatics, scientometrics, information retrieval, representation and organization of resources, philosophy of information, human computer interaction, visualization). It is a reading-and-writing intensive experience and emphasizes depth over breadth. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
LING-L545: Computation & Linguistic Analysis. Professor Sandra Kuebler, TR 4:00PM-5:15PM, Lindley Hall 030. L545 is a graduate course in natural language processing and computational linguistics. The course is concerned with concepts, models and algorithms to interpret, generate, and learn natural languages, as well as applications of NLP. The goal of the course is for the students to be familiar with basic concepts in NLP, understand the algorithms and methods for NLP, and acquire the skills for developing NLP tools. We will look at the different levels of linguistic analysis, morphology, morpho-syntax, syntax, and lexical semantics. Additionally, we will cover machine translation. No prior programming experience is assumed, computer experience presupposed. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement
LING-L555: Programming for Computational Linguistics. Professor Emad Mohamed, MW 2:30PM-3:45PM, Lindley Hall 030. This course is geared towards students concentrating in Computational Linguistics with little or no experience in programming; Linguistics students are welcome, too. It will introduce the fundamentals of programming and computer science, aiming at attaining practical skills for text processing. While we will work with Python, the main focus is more on introducing basic concepts in programming such as loops or functions. In contrast to similar courses in Computer Science, we will concentrate on problems in Computational Linguistics, which generally involve managing text, searching in text, and extracting information from text. For this reason, one part of the course will concentrate on regular expression search. Through lectures, lab sessions, and (bi-)weekly assignments, students will learn the essentials of Python and how to apply these skills to natural language data Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement
LING-L615: Corpus Linguistics. Professor Emad Mohamed, MW 11:15AM-12:30PM, Student Building 230. Advances in computer technology have revolutionized the ways linguists can approach their data. By using computers, we can access large bodies of text (corpora) and search for the phenomena in which we are interested. Corpora give us a chance to uncover complexities in naturally-occurring data and explore issues related to frequency of usage. In this course, we will approach the following questions such as the following: What exactly is a corpus, and what isn't? What corpora exist? How are corpora developed? What is XML, and why do we need it? How do we find a specific phenomenon in a large corpus? What is a concordancer? Do we need part-of-speech, syntactic, or semantic annotation? Are there programs that do the annotation for me? Are there tools that help me search in linguistically annotated corpora? No programming experience is assumed, familiarity with computers is presupposed. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement
LING-L645: Advanced Natural Language Processing. Professor Damir Cavar, MW 4:00PM-5:15PM, Ballantine Hall 204. In recent years, statistical methods have become the standard in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This course gives an introduction to statistical models and machine learning paradigms in NLP. Such methods are helpful for the following goals: reaching wide coverage, reducing ambiguity, automatic learning, increasing robustness, etc. In this course, we will cover basic notions in statistics, focused on the concepts needed for NLP. Then we will discuss (Hidden) Markov Models, exemplified by an approach to POS tagging. The following sessions will be dedicated to probabilistic approaches to parsing. In the second half of the course, we will cover semantic and discourse annotation, and in the final part, we will look at applications, such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, and dialogue systems. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement
MSCH-C560: Motion Picture Production. Professor Susanne Schwibs, MW 4:00PM-6:00PM, Radio-TV 180. C560 is a hands-on course that teaches visual storytelling on 16mm film. You will learn how to plan, shoot and edit a short film, and become familiar with the basics of scripting/storyboarding, cinematography and lighting, and even with some principles of animation. You will create several short films using Bolex 16mm Reflex cameras. The first three projects will be shot on black & white film and edited by hand; the final project will be shot on color film and edited digitally. While sync-sound dialogue is not an option, you can add music or voice-over. Additional course assignments include project pitch, treatment, script, storyboard, and several quizzes on readings and technical matters. While it helps to have had some experience with still photography, super-8 or video production, no experience is required to complete this course successfully and come away with a few short films to show to others. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track; DAH technical requirement.
MSCH-C660: Advanced Film Production: Double Exposure. Professor Susanne Schwibs, MW 1:00PM-3:00PM, Radio-TV 180. This course is designed around the making of short projects from script to screen, which will be a part of the annual Double Exposure project. You will collaborate with Jacobs School of Music composition and recording arts students and make a film that is screened with live musical accompaniment at the IU cinema in March of next year. The nature and format of the project is up to you. It can be dramatic, experimental or documentary in nature, it can be shot on digital video, DSLR, super-8 or 16mm film, or it could be a "camera-less" film. *The only requirements are that it fit within about 5-7 minutes, and that it treat the musical score as an equal partner to the visuals, and thus have little, if any, dialogue or narration. The course builds on the foundations of other production classes, and assumes that you have a solid grounding in the techniques of film and/or digital production. Additional assignments include a "proof of concept" short in which you develop an aesthetic approach and/or explore a technique, as well as written assignments such as project proposal, script/storyboard, artist statements, reflective responses, and peer critiques. C660 Double Exposure is a time-intensive course: expect to spend a good amount of extra time doing assignments, including pre-production and research. Please note that some work extends into the spring semester as you meet with composers and sound designers, attend rehearsals, and finalize your work for exhibition in March of spring semester. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track
MSCH-J502: Data Analysis for Journalists. Professor Gerry Lanosga, TR 2:30PM-3:45PM, Franklin Hall 215. Introduction to social science principles of measurement, sampling, statistical inferences and logic of research design in collection, analysis and interpretation of information used in journalism and mass media. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement
MSCH-M503: Media Theories. Professors Rob Potter and Stephanie DeBoer, W 7:00PM-10:00PM, R 1:00PM-3:30PM, Franklin Hall 212. Introduces students to the wide range of social scientific and humanistic theories which guide research in media. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Critical Track
MSCH-T580: Interactive Storytelling and Computer Games. Professor Norbert Herber, TR 1:00PM-2:15PM, Franklin Hall 052. This course will approach storytelling and game design from the perspective that, in design, there is no hierarchy of theory and practice: Making is thinking and thinking is making. The course will be structured like a design workshop and encourage an open context for collaboration. We will focus on design concepts and prototypes that explore the intersections of story, interface, networks, games, and both persistent and mobile platforms in contemporary interactive media. Course work will include reading, writing, design concepts, design documents and prototypes. No previous technical knowledge is required. T580 is about the exploration and development of ideas. Students should finish this course with an entirely new set of thoughts, plans, and goals related to their work as a new or continuing graduate student. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track; Critical Track
MUS-N561: Midi and Computer Music. Professor John Gibson, MWF 11:15AM-12:05PM, Simon Music Library Rec (M) 373. MIDI and Computer Music is designed to teach both music majors and non-music majors the basics of the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) system, its software, and the instruments commonly used with desktop MIDI workstations, such as synthesizers and digital samplers. Course work includes a series of creative projects, several quizzes, and a final paper. This course is geared for those with little prior technical training. Prerequisites: a modest working knowledge of personal computers, a basic understanding of rhythmic notation, and some previous experience making music (playing an instrument, singing in a choir, writing songs, etc.). The course is normally offered in the fall and spring semesters and during the second 8-week summer session. It is 3 credit hours. Classes meet in room M373 in the Music Library, which holds enough equipment for each student to have hands-on experience during class. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track
MUS-T658: Seminar in Music Theory: Visualizing Music. Professor Eric Isaacson, TR 1:00PM-2:15PM, Simon Music Library Rec (M) 285. Musical images come in countless forms and serve many purposes. Designed well, they can both reflect and shape our understanding of musical phenomena in ways that words alone cannot. This course explores the topic of music visualization. We will consider the human visual system, the ways in which it affects image perception, and strategies for leveraging those abilities in effectively conveying information visually. We will learn principles of effective visual communication, based on the work of Edward Tufte and others in the fields of information visualization and scientific visualization, and consider the important role of metaphor in designing musical pictures. We critically survey music visualizations from across history, study ways to improve existing visualizations (as in the redrawn images here), and study the potential uses of animation, color, and 3D imagery. Students will learn to use tools for creating visual representations of musical information and produce a number of original visualizations. P: MUS-T 551, MUS-T 556, or instructor permission. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track; DAH technical requirement
THTR-T536: Electronics for Theatre. Professor Paul Brunner, Lee Norvelle Theatre Drama A002, TR 9:30AM-10:45AM. Rudiments of electricity and electronics as applied to theatre. Investigation of current technology for theatrical performance, including power distribution, control systems, and creative applications for lighting, sound, special effects, and mechanized scenery. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track; DAH technical requirement
THTR-T539: Fundamentals of Theatrical Drafting. Professor Paul Brunner, Lee Norvelle Theatre Drama A205, TR 11:00AM-12:15PM. A studio course consisting of both traditional hand drafting techniques and digital CAD techniques as they are used in theatrical production communication. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track; DAH technical requirement
THTR-T608: Advanced Flat Patterning. Professor Leraldo Anzaldua, MWT 9:00AM-10:45AM, Auditorium A350. The course objective is to manipulate flat patterns through a variety of methods, including digitizing them and using the program Optitex to adjust them. The ability to see the flat pattern 13 on a 3D rendered model allows the visualization of movement, weight, texture and type of fabric. Optitex works seamlessly between the 2D flat pattern and the 3D digital model allowing for a back and forth that expands the patternmaker's ability to drape and pattern for a designer. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track; DAH technical requirement
