COGS-Q530: Programming Methods in Cognitive Science . Professor Izquierdo, MW2:00PM-3:15PM, SB 138. An introduction to computer programming methods for artificial intelligence and computer simulation of cognitive models. Emphasis on the necessary data structures and their application to cognitive science. Programming projects may be related to state-space search for problem solving and game playing, production systems, and cognitive modeling tasks including memory models and neural simulations. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
COGS-Q550: Models in Cognitive Science. Professor Busemeyer, TR2:30PM-3:45PM, PY 113. An introduction to modeling in various areas of cognitive science, including computer simulation models of complex cognition, models within artificial intelligence, models based on neural mechanisms and networks, and formal and mathematical models in areas such as psychology, linguistics, and philosophy. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
COGS-Q610: Networks of the Brain. Professor Sporns, TR2:30PM-3:45PM, PY 137C. This course explores the complexity of the brain and its network architecture on several different levels, including neuroanatomy, spontaneous dynamics, neurocognitive networks, development and disease states, and embodiment. Building on a basic foundation of network theory, information theory, and nonlinear dynamics, the course covers both empirical and computational studies. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Critical Track;
EDUC-Q528: Making for Learning . Professor Maltese, MW10:00Am-11:20AM, Ed 2261. 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;
GEOG-G538: Geographic Information Science. Professor Kim, MW11:15AM-12.30PM, SB 221. Overview of the principles and practices of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). 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. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement;
GEOG-G539: Advanced Geographic Information Systems. Professor Kim, MW2:30PM-3:45PM, SB 221. Intermediate and advanced topics in geographic information science and spatial analysis techniques using GIS software. This advanced course is for graduates who seek a greater understanding of this rapidly developing field and to learn how to construct, manage and analyze their own GIS data and models. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Critical Track; Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement;
GEOG-G639: GIS and Environmental Analysis. Professor Hwang, TR11:15AM-12:45PM, . Applications of Geographic Information Science principles in the collection, analysis and visualization of spatial data. Integration of GIS, remote sensing, and GPS technologies with web-based GIS applications. Review of current literature on techniques, theory, technology, and applications. Discussion, laboratory, and research project. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
ILS-Z503: Representation & Organization . Professor Day, F9:30AM-12:00PM, IF 1104. Introduces students to various disciplines: approaches to the understanding, organization, representation (summarizing) and use of knowledge 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:
ILS-Z511: Database Design. Professor Choi, T9:30AM-12:15PM, IF 0119. Concerned with access to bibliographic information from a user-centered point of view. Considers various database models such as flat file, relational, and hypertest in terms of text, sound, numeric, image and geographic data. The student will design and implement databases using a variety of commercial DRMS systems. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement;
ILS-Z514: Social Aspects of Information Technology. Professor Hara, T9:30AM-12:00PM, IF 0002. 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:
ILS-Z515: Information Architecture. Professor Wehner, T5:30PM-8:00PM, 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:
ILS-Z516: Human-Computer Interaction. Professor Soe, MW9:30AM-10:45AM, GY 226. 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; DAH technical requirement;
ILS-Z532: Info Architecture for the Web. Professor Ghazinejad, M4:00PM-6:30PM, 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: Info Architecture for the Web. Professor Ghazinejad, W1:00PM-3:30PM, 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-Z534: Search. Professor Liu, M9:30AM-12:00PM, IF 1104. The success of commercial search engines shows that Information Retrieval is a key in helping users find the information they seek. This course provides an introduction to information retrieval theories and concepts underlying all search applications. We investigate techniques used in modern search engines and demonstrate their significance by experiment. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
ILS-Z543: Computer-Mediated Communication. Professor Dainas, M5:45PM-8:15PM, 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:
ILS-Z581: Archives & Records Management. Professor Donaldson, W4:00PM-6:30PM, IF 0119. 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:
ILS-Z639: Social Media Mining. Professor Riddell, W9:30AM-12:00PM, SY 200. This course provides a graduate-level introduction to social media mining and methods. The course provides hands-on experience mining social data for social meaning extraction (focus on sentiment analysis) using automated methods and machine learning technologies. We will read, discuss, and critique claims and findings from contemporary research related to SMM. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement;
ILS-Z639: Social Media Mining. Professor Ghazinejad, Online, Online. This course provides a graduate-level introduction to social media mining and methods. The course provides hands-on experience mining social data for social meaning extraction (focus on sentiment analysis) using automated methods and machine learning technologies. We will read, discuss, and critique claims and findings from contemporary research related to SMM. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement;
ILS-Z642: Content Analysis for the Web. Professor Herring, T5:45PM-8:15PM, IF 0002. Application of Content Analysis methods to web documents, interactivity features, and links. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
ILS-Z645: The Social and Organizational Informatics of Big Data. Professor Soe, R9:30AM-12:00PM, IF 0002. This course surveys organizational, legal, political, and social issues surrounding the creation, dissemination and use of big data from the perspective of social and organizational informatics. It focuses on ways in which the integration of big data is changing structure, culture, and work practices in private and public sector organizations. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
ILS-Z652: Digital Libraries. Professor Walsh, W9:30AM-12:00PM, IF 0119. 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:
ILS-Z764: Seminar in Information Science: Social Media Mining. Professor Riddell, W9:30AM-12:00PM, SY 200. This course provides a graduate-level introduction to social media mining and methods. The course provides hands-on experience mining social data for social meaning extraction (focus on sentiment analysis) using automated methods and machine learning technologies. We will read, discuss, and critique claims and findings from contemporary research related to SMM. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
LING-L545: Computation and Linguistic Analysis. Professor Tyers, TR2:30PM-3:45PM, LH 030. Introduction to current semantic theory, its tools, concepts, and principles. Emphasis on constructing detailed fragments of natural language with syntactic and semantic components. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Analytical Track; DAH technical requirement;
LING-L555: Programming for Computational Language. Professor 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:
LING-L615: Corpus Linguistics. Professor Cavar, MW2:30PM-3:45PM, BH 236. 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 phenomena. The course will give an introduction to the methodology and applications in the field. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
LING-L645: Advance Natural Language Processing . Professor Cavar, MW4:00PM-5:15PM, BH 236. n 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:
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MSCH-M503: Media Theories. Professor Powell, W7:00PM-10:00PM; R3:00PM-5:30PM, FF 304C FF 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:
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MSCH-M503: Media Theories. Professor Comfort, M9:30AM-12:00PM, FF 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:
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MSCH-J560: Topics: Video Field & Post Production. Professor Krause, T5:15PM-6:05PM W8:30AM-12:00PM, TV 127 TV 157. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
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MSCH-J560: Topics: Video Field & Post Production. Professor Krause, M8:30AM-12:00PM T5:15PM-6:05PM , TV 157 TV 127. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
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MSCH-J560: Topics: Program Graphics & Animation. Professor Carmichael, R5:30P-9:00PM , TV 250. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
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MUS-K503: Electronic Studio Resources I. Professor Gibson, T11:15AM-12:45PM, MC 302. An introduction to the computer music studio, techniques of digital recording and editing, analog and FM synthesis, MIDI sequencing, and a comprehensive study of the literature and styles of the classic tape studios. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
MUS-K509: Seminar in Computer Music. Professor Gibson, TR2:30PM-3:45PM, MC 302. Study of advanced topics in computer music, including direct digital synthesis, acoustic research, and interactive composition. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
POLS-Y575: Political Data Analysis I. Professor DeSante, TR4:00-5:15PM, WH 005. Basic quantitative analysis techniques applied to political science data: principles of measurement, tables, graphs, probability distributions, nonparametric statistics, matrix algebra, Markov chains, correlation and simple regression, tests of significance. Computer processing of data and applications of bivariate statistics to problems in political science are emphasized. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
PSY-P657: Seminar: Introduction to Networks. Professor Wasserman, TR4:00-5:15PM, PY 137C. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
SOAD-S510: Graduate Topics in Digital Art: Interactive Multimedia. Professor Ahrndt, TR2:30PM-5:15PM, KH 016. Opportunity for students to investigate the computer as an interactive tool in the process of art making while examining aesthetics and processes of major artists working in this field. Provides the opportunity for exploration of the computer’s potential use in the art work of each class member. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track;
SOAD-S510: Graduate Topics in Digital Art: Video Art. Professor Yoo, MW12:20PM-3:05PM, FA 215. Opportunity for students to investigate the computer as an interactive tool in the process of art making while examining aesthetics and processes of major artists working in this field. Provides the opportunity for exploration of the computer’s potential use in the art work of each class member. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
SOAD-S510: Graduate Topics in Digital Art: 3D Computer Graphics. Professor Dolinksky, TR11:15AM-2:00PM, FA 215. Opportunity for students to investigate the computer as an interactive tool in the process of art making while examining aesthetics and processes of major artists working in this field. Provides the opportunity for exploration of the computer’s potential use in the art work of each class member. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
SOAD-S511: Graduate Digital Art. Professor 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;
SPEA-E518: Vector-Based Geographic Info Sys. Professor Ehman, MW4:00PM-5:15PM, PV 151. https://www.coursehero.com/file/32693669/VBGIS-E418-Fall-2016-Syllabusdoc/ Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
STAT-S520: Introduction to Statistics. Professor Valdivia, TR11:15AM-12:30PM, BH 330. 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:
STAT-S520: Introduction to Statistics. Professor Valdivia, TR5:45PM-7:00PM, I E150. 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:
STAT-S610: Introduction to Statistical Computing . Professor Fukuyama, TR4:00-5:15PM, AC C116. Introduction to R from a software engineering perspective and an introduction to algorithms commonly used in applied statistics. Optimization algorithms including gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent, the EM algorithm, and topics in convex optimization. Stochastic algorithms including rejection sampling, Metropolis-Hastings, and Gibbs sampling. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
STAT-S681: Topics in Applied Statistics: Introduction to Networks. Professor Wasserman, TR4:00-5:15PM, PY 137C. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
STAT-S771: Advanced Data Analysis I. Professor TBA, M10:00AM-12:30PM, . This course introduces Ph.D. students in th Department of Statistics to an in-depth cross-disciplinary research experience, emphasizing the role of statistics in solving scientific, technological, or policy problem. Each student identifies a research project, forms an advisory committee, and provides interim written and oral progress reports throughout the remainder of the semester. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
STAT-S772: Advanced Data Analysis II. Professor TBA, M10:00AM-12:30PM, . Second semester of a two-semester sequence. Ph.D. students in the Department of Statistics complete the cross-disciplinary projects they began in STAT-S 771. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements:
THTR-T531: Costume Technology II. Professor Milam, MW9:30AM-10:45AM, TH A230. Provides a strong base in costume construction techniques for incoming graduate students. It provides a foundation of sewing, craft, fitting, and patternmaking techniques as well as training in team management from which the students may develop a construction project and perform assignments including supervisory roles in production work. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track;
THTR-T538: Studies in Stage Lighting: Vectorworks and Lighting. Professor Hahn, ARR, ARR. Variable topics course focusing on lighting genres, techniques, and criticism. Topics include architectural lighting, lighting consulting for the theatre, stage lighting aesthetics, and rendering light. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track;
THTR-T546: Stage Lighting Design. Professor Hahn, TR9:30AM-10:45AM, TH A300H. Stage lighting design concept development, presentation, and implementation are emphasized. Advanced lighting techniques and approaches. A practicum will be assigned. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track;
THTR-T547: Sound Design. Professor Hopson, TR11:00AM-12:15PM, TH A002. Study of the practical use, aesthetics, and implementation of sound in theatre productions. Focus is on using computers to assist in the creation, selection, and playback of sound cues. Topics include sound system operation and design for both plays and musicals. Emphasis on researching, selecting, and recording music for production. Counts toward the following DAH certificate and minor requirements: Creative Track;
