Fall 2019 Course Offerings
- GEOG-G538: Geographic Information Systems. 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
- HIST-H585: History and the Digital World. Professor Kalani Craig, TR4:00PM-5:15PM, SE 245. How are history and computing related? How does computing support or change the theory, methodology, pedagogy and publication that historians employ? How does history inform computing practices? This class is a graduate-level introduction to the debates, historiographic challenges, and practical undertakings that arise when these two worlds combine. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
- ILS-Z503: Representation and Organization. Professor Ronald Day, T1:00PM-3:30PM, I 232. 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-Z503: Representation and Organization. Professor Devan Donaldson, TR10:30AM-11:45AM, WH 008. 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 Kahyun Choi, T9:30AM-12:15PM, IF 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-Z515: Information Architecture. Professor Kate Wehner, T5:30PM-8:15PM, I 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, MW1:00PM-2:15PM, IF 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. Professor Ali Ghazinejad, M4:00PM-6:45PM, IF 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: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement
- ILS-Z532: Information Architecture for the Web. Professor Ali Ghazinejad, W1:00PM-3:45PM, IF 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: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement
- ILS-Z543: Computer Mediated Communication. Professor Ashley Dainas, M5:45PM-8:30PM, IF 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-Z581: Archives and Records Management. Professor Marika Cifor, R1:00PM-3:30PM, I 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 Michael Casey, MW11:00AM-12:15PM, UIC 105. Audio Preservation, Principles, and Practice
- ILS-Z642: Content Analysis for the Web. Professor Susan Herring, R5:45PM-8:30PM, IF 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, W9:30AM-12:00PM, IF 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 Media Mining. Professor Allen Riddell, W9:30AM-12:15PM, GY 436. 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 and Linguistic Analysis. Professor Francis Tyers, TR2:30PM-3:45PM, LH 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 Language. Professor Francis Tyers, TR5:45PM-7:00PM, LH 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-L645: Advanced Natural Language Processing. Professor Damir Cavar, MW4:00PM-5:15PM, GA1134. 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-C792: Advanced Seminar in Media Theory (Cultural History of Digital Media). Professor Rachel Plotnick, T11:15AM-1:45PM, TV 186. Advanced study in media history and theory; major movements and historical periods and their relationship to the intellectual and cultural climate of the time; studies of technology and modes of production; advanced work in genre/auteur studies; close reading of media theories; new developments in theory and criticism. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track, Critical Track
- SOAD-S510: Graduate Topics in Digital Art. Professor Margaret Dolinsky, MW12:20PM-3:05PM, FA 215. 3D Computer Graphics Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track
- SOAD-S510: Graduate Topics in Digital Art. Professor Sarah Lasley, TR2:30PM-5:15PM, KH 016. Interactive Multimedia Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track
- SOAD-S510: Graduate Topics in Digital Art. Professor Jawshing Liou, TR11:15AM-2:00PM, FA 215. Video Art Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track
- SOAD-S511: Graduate Digital Art. Professor Jawshing Liou, TR5:45PM-8:30PM, FA 235. Through advanced studio projects in digital art, the student will create a body of work involving experimentation with technology incorporating installation, multimedia, networks, virtual environments, and/or portable media. Topics of relevance to contemporary digital art will be considered, such as interaction, time-based media, location and virtuality. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track
- SOAD-S580: Graduate Topics in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design. Professor Joshua Kosker, TR2:30PM-5:15PM, FA 210. This course is offered once a year, usually in the spring, and is listed under S480 Advanced Metalsmithing for undergrads and S580 Special Topics for Graduate students. The goal of the course is to learn the 3D modeling software Rhinoceros and how to utilize various new equipment and materials in a traditional studio practice. This is a hands-on experiential course that blends the innovative tools and technologies of today with traditional hands skills, tools and materials. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track
- STAT-S520: Introduction to Statistics. Professor Yen-Ning Huang, MW4:00PM-5:15PM, LH 035. Basic concepts of data analysis and statistical inference, applied to 1-sample and 2-sample location problems, the analysis of variance, and linear regression. Probability models and statistical methods applied to practical situations and actual data sets from various disciplines. Elementary statistical theory, including the plug-in principle, maximum likelihood, and the method of least squares. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
- STAT-S520: Introduction to Statistics. Professor Brad Luen, TR4:00PM-5:15PM, LH 035. Basic concepts of data analysis and statistical inference, applied to 1-sample and 2-sample location problems, the analysis of variance, and linear regression. Probability models and statistical methods applied to practical situations and actual data sets from various disciplines. Elementary statistical theory, including the plug-in principle, maximum likelihood, and the method of least squares. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
- STAT-S520: Introduction to Statistics. Professor Jianyu Wang, , . Basic concepts of data analysis and statistical inference, applied to 1-sample and 2-sample location problems, the analysis of variance, and linear regression. Probability models and statistical methods applied to practical situations and actual data sets from various disciplines. Elementary statistical theory, including the plug-in principle, maximum likelihood, and the method of least squares. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
- STAT-S626: Bayesian Theory and Data Analysis. Professor Daniel Manrique-Vallier, TR11:15AM-12:30PM, LH 035. Introduction to the theory and practice of Bayesian inference. Prior and posterior probability distributions. Data collection, model formulation, computation, model checking, sensitivity analysis. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track
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