Curating in Galleries and Museums
AADM-Y506 with Professor Lewis
This course explores the idea and practice of curating, from displaying a single object to organizing a complex exhibition. Course provides a body of knowledge and helps students develop skills to curate and evaluate the role of curation and display of objects - all essential to museum and gallery management.
Introduction to Computer Science
CSCI-A591 with Professor Shan
A first course in computer science for those intending to take advanced computer science courses. Introduction to programming and to algorithm design and analysis. Using the Scheme programming language, the course covers several programming paradigms. Lecture and laboratory.
Data Structures
CSCI-A594 with Professor Tiganj
Systematic study of data structures encountered in computing problems; structure and use of storage media; methods of representing structured data; and techniques for operating on data structures. Lecture and laboratory.
Introduction to Programming I
CSCI-A597 with Professor Hmeljak
Fundamental programming constructs, including loops, arrays, classes, and files. General problem-solving techniques. Emphasis on modular programming, user-interface design, and developing good programming style. Not intended for computer science majors.
Algorithms Design and Analysis
CSCI-B503 with Professor Chia
Models, algorithms, recurrences, summations, growth rates. Probabilistic tools, upper and lower bounds; worst-case and average-case analysis, amortized analysis, dynamization. Comparison-based algorithms: search, selection, sorting, hashing. Information extraction algorithms (graphs, databases). Graphs algorithms: spanning trees, shortest paths, connectivity, depth-first search, breadth-first search.
Applied Algorithms
CSCI-B505 with Professor Blanco Rodriguez
The course studies the design, implementation, and analysis of algorithms and data structures as applied to real world problems. The topics include divide-and-conquer, optimization, and randomized algorithms applied to problems such as sorting, searching, and graph analysis. The course teaches trees, hash tables, heaps, and graphs.
Machine Learning
CSCI-B555 with Professor Khardon
Theory and practice of constructing algorithms that learn functions and choose optimal decisions from data and knowledge. Topics include: mathematical/probabilistic foundations, MAP classification/regression, linear and logistic regression, neural networks, support vector machines, Bayesian networks, tree models, committee machines, kernel functions, EM, density estimation, accuracy estimation, normalization, model selection.
Advanced Database Concepts
CSCI-B561 with Professor Van Gucht
Database models and systems: especially relational and object-oriented; relational database design theory; structures for efficient data access; query languages and processing; database applications development; views. Transaction management: concurrency and recovery.
Advanced Computer Graphics
CSCI-B581 with Professor Hmeljak
Introduction to graphics hardware and software. Two-dimensional graphics methods, transformations, and interactive methods. Three-dimensional graphics, transformations, viewing geometry, object modeling and interactive manipulation methods. Basic lighting and shading. Video and animation
Topics in Data Science: Advanced Data Science On-Ramp
DSCI-D590 with Professor N/A
Topics in Data Science: Introduction to NLP for data Science
DSCI-D590 with Professor Scrivner
Topics in Data Science: Basic Data Science On-Ramp
DSCI-D590 with Professor N/A
Topics in Data Science: Introduction to Python Programming
DSCI-D590 with Professor N/A
Topics in Data Science: Data Visualization
DSCI-D590 with Professor Ahn
Topics in Data Science: Applied Data Science
DSCI-D590 with Professor Scrivner
Topics in Data Science: Safe and Trustworthy AI
DSCI-D590 with Professor Plale
Data Science in Practice
DSCI-D592 with Professor Wild
Environmental Remote Sensing
GEOG-G535 with Professor Khodaee
Principles of remote sensing of the earth and its atmosphere, emphasizing satellite data in visible, infrared, and microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Emphasis on practical applications and digital image analysis. A satellite data analysis project is required.
Geographic Information Systems
GEOG-G538 with Professor Kim
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. Laboratory exercises will provide significant hands-on experience. Lecture and laboratory.
Advanced Geographic Information Systems
GEOG-G539 with Professor Kim
Covers intermediate and advanced theory in geographic information science and spatial analysis using GIS software. Provides an in-depth look into this rapidly developing field and teaches the skills needed to construct, manage, and analyze data and models.
Applied Spatial Statistics
GEOG-G588 with Professor Robeson
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 is on practical applications.
Computing in Geospatial Science
GEOG-G566 with Professor Myers
A first course in scientific computing that emphasizes practical applications in the geospatial and environmental sciences. Requires high-level programming using MATLAB for visualization, data analysis, and modeling. Teaches problem solving through analysis and interpretation of a wide range of environmental and geographic data.
User Services and Tools
ILS-Z501 with Professors Courtney or Backs & Nay
This course introduces students to the basic information sources and services among different types of libraries and information centers, including academic, public, special and school media.
Database Design
ILS-Z511 with Professor Choi
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.
Social Aspects of Information Technology
ILS-Z514 with Professor Hara
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.
Information Architecture
ILS-Z515 with Professor Wehner
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.
Human-Computer Interaction
ILS-Z516 with Professor Soe
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.
Web Programming
ILS-Z517 with Professor Liu
The main focus of this course is to instruct students to develop and implement dynamic and interactive web applications. In order to do so, students will learn the basics of an open source programming language both through lectures and hands-on exercises in the lab.
Info Architecture for the Web
ILS-Z532 with Professor Ghazinejad
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.
Search
ILS-Z534 with Professor Ghazinejad
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.
Computer-Mediated Communication
ILS-Z543 with Professor Dainas
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.
Social Media Mining
ILS-Z639 with Professor Riddell or Ghazinejad
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.
Archives & Records Management
ILS-Z581 with Professor Donaldson
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.
Content Analysis for the Web
ILS-Z642 with Professor Herring
Application of Content Analysis methods to web documents, interactivity features, and links.
Digital Libraries
ILS-Z652 with Professor Walsh
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.
Seminar in Information Science: Social Media Mining
ILS-Z764 with Professor Riddell
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.
Fundamental Computer Concepts for Informatics
INFO-I500 with Professor Blanco Rodriguez
An introduction to fundamental principles of computer concepts for Informatics study, including an overview of computer architecture, computer algorithms, fundamentals of operating systems, data structure, file organization and database concepts.
Management, Access, and Use of Big and Complex Data
INFO-I535 with Professor Kouper
Innovation today is emerging from a preponderance of data from sensors, social media, and the Internet. This course covers knowledge representation, data process, and data management for big and complex data. Specific topics include data integration, semantics, and provenance; workflows and pipelines; and distributed noSQL stores.
Data Visualization
INFO-I590 with Professor Ahn
Programming for Computational Linguistics
LING-L555 with Professor Kuebler
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
Computation and Linguistic Analysis
LING-L545 with Professor Tyers
This course explores how linguistic analysis can be stated as computer programs, emphasizing the design of data structures used in linguistic analysis, the computational issues underlying them, and their use in natural processing.
Advanced Natural Language Processing
LING-L645 with Professor Cavar
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.
Seminar in Computational Linguistics
LING-L715 with Professor Kuebler
Topics: Video Field & Post Production
MSCH-J560 with Professor Krause
Topics: Program Graphics & Animation
MSCH-J560 with Professor Krause
MIDI and Computer Music
MUS-N561 with Professor Wang
Basics of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface system, its software, and instruments commonly used with desktop MIDI workstations (synthesizers, digital samplers). In-depth study of MIDI sequencing, digital audio editing, and the architecture of electronic instruments. A final project and a paper on a computer music topic are required
Computer Music: Design/Performance
MUS-N562 with Professor Wang or Warren
Projects in fixed-media computer music composition (with and without video) and live electronic music performance. Field recording, audio editing, sampling, effects processing, mixing, mastering, video synchronization, methods of synthesis, virtual instrument design, real-time hardware control of audio, live video processing.
Political Data Analysis I
POLS-Y575 with Professor DeSante
Basic quantitative analysis techniques applied to political science data: principles of measurement, tables, graphs, probability distributions, nonparametric statistics, matrix algebra, Markov chains, correlations and simple regression, tests of significance. Computer processing of data and applications of bivariate statistics to problems in political science emphasized.
Topics in Data Analysis
POLS-Y577 with Professor Koren
Graduate Topics in Digital Art: Interactive Multimedia
SOAD-S510 with Professor Ahrndt
Graduate Topics in Digital Art: Video Art
SOAD-S510 with Professor Liou
Graduate Topics in Digital Art: Computer Graphics
SOAD-S510 with Professor Dolinsky
Graduate Digital Art
SOAD-S511 with Professor Dolinsky
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.
Vector-Based Geographic Information Systems
SPEA-E518 with Professor Ehman
Discussion of theories and approaches to systems management, including responsibilities and tasks of public systems. Examination of intergovernmental relationships and intralocal governmental relationships, treatment of organizational and systems design, as well as planning, decision making, and control of public systems. Discussion of applications to services such as environment, health, and human services.
Introduction to Statistics
STAT-S520 with Professor Luen or 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.
Introduction to Statistical Computing
STAT-S610 with Professor Womack
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.
Exploratory Data Analysis
STAT-S670 with Professor Luen
Numerical and graphical techniques for summarizing and displaying data. Exploration versus confirmation. Connections with conventional statistical analysis and data mining. Applications to large data sets.
Advanced Data Analysis I
STAT-S771 with Professor Trosset
This course introduces Ph.D. students in the 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.
Costume Technology II
THTR-T531 with Professor Milam
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.
Studies in Stage Lighting: Vectorworks and Lightwright
THTR-T538 with Professor Ashton
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.
Sound Design I
THTR-T547 with Professor Hopson
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.
Lighting Design Seminar
THTR-T646 with Professor Hahn
Development of a lighting designer's critical experience with color, timing, volumetric space, lateral thinking, and creativity are addressed in successive semesters in this project-based course, heavy on critique. With these supporting skills, the designer's work in production can be conducted with greater confidence and assurance of a successful outcome.
