Fall 2022 Course Offerings

Interdisciplinary Research Methods

AFRI-A650 with Professor Aherne

This course is designed to provide a foundation for conducting research and applied work in, and on, Africa. Part One examines African Studies as an area of knowledge production with an emphasis on the historical, intellectual, and institutional contexts that have shaped the field over time. Part Two, constituting about two thirds of the seminar, focuses on a) the approaches and methods of inquiry used by scholars and professionals of various disciplinary backgrounds; b) the identification and analysis of sources; c) new modes of scholarly communication and publication; and d) the ethics and politics of research and publication. Faculty members from different departments on the IUB campus will share their research and discuss associated conceptual issues and methodological techniques. African Studies Collection librarian Mireille Djenno will introduce students to research in libraries, special collections, and archives. Ms. Djenno will be also be available for research consultations by appointment throughout the semester (please make sure to schedule an appointment with her in advance). The different components of this course are relevant not only for students who plan to seek careers in academia but also for those who aim for non-profit or for-profit employment outside of academe. (Source: Faculty provided) Course Description Prepares students to conduct scholarly research and social-impact analysis in Africa as well as design and implement projects focused on contemporary issues in areas ranging from development and the environment to health and politics. Also provides students with the background for assessing the results of already completed studies.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Models In Cognitive Science

COGS-Q550 with Professor Staff

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.

Introduction To Computer Science

CSCI-A591  with Professor Shan

A first course on computing, programming, and how they go together. Introduction to the principles of systematic problem solving through programming and the basic rules of computation. No prior programming experience assumed.

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.

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 methods.

Topics In Data Science: Data Science On-Ramp

DSCI-D590 with Professor Anousheh

Emphasis on new developments and research in Data Science.

Topics In Data Science: Introduction To Nlp For Data Science

DSCI-D590 with Professor Scrivner

Topics In Data Science: Introduction To Python Programming

DSCI-D590 with Professor Kavousian

Topics In Data Science: Data Visualization

DSCI-D590 with Professor Ahn

Topics In Data Science: Applied Data Science

DSCI-D590 with Professor Scrivner

Data Science In Practice

DSCI-D592 with Professor N/A

Technology-Infused Curriculum

EDUC-W 540 with Professor Kingsley

Course focuses on technology integration to promote critical thinking, global awareness, constructivist learning, collaboration, media literacy, high student motivation, higher-level thinking, and creativity. Students will learn about universal design, differentiation, instructional and assessment strategies, and planning techniques. Students will set curricular goals and design lessons for their own contexts.

• Creative Track
• Critical Track

Quantitative Analysis For Educational Leaders

EDUC-Y 501 with Professor Rutkowski

Quantitative data analysis course for Educational Leadership Ed. D. program. Topics include descriptive statistics and elementary inferential statistics. The course is a combination of lectures, problem solving, article discussion and hand-on data analysis and interpretation exercises using appropriate software. Focus on content and data relevant to educational leadership and schools.

[Note: This course might have prerequisites and students should reach out to the faculty members. Make sure this fits your needs.]

Qualitative Inquiry In Education

EDUC-Y 611 with Professor Carspecken

Examination of qualitative approaches to educational inquiry (e.g. case study, naturalistic inquiry, educational anthropology, educational connoisseurship and criticism). Exploration of methods for collecting and analyzing qualitative data, criteria for field studies, and approaches to writing up field studies.

[Note: This course might have prerequisites and students should reach out to the faculty members. Make sure this fits your needs.]

Critical Qualitative Inquiry I

EDUC-Y 612 with Professor Dennis

This first course in the sequence provides an introduction to critical social theory as it emerges through the context of qualitative research. Students begin corresponding field work, including both data collection and analysis.

[Note: This course might have prerequisites and students should reach out to the faculty members. Make sure this fits your needs.]

Qualitative Data Analysis (Topics In Educational Inquiry Methodology)

EDUC-Y 650 with Professor Wohlwend

Advanced study of research and theory on selected topics in qualitative or quantitative inquiry methodology.

[Note: This course might have prerequisites and students should reach out to the faculty members. Make sure this fits your needs.]

Workshop In Instructional Systems Technology (Variable Title)

EDUC-R 505 with Professor Boling

Topical workshops on selected media/technology emphasizing hands-on experience. Content will vary; e.g. multi-image, microcomputers, simulations/games. This is a service course that may or may not be applicable to IST majors depending on workshop topic and content.

[Note: This course might have prerequisites and students should reach out to the faculty members. Make sure this fits your needs.]

How To Teach And Engage K-16 In Online Learning (Workshop In Instructional Systems Technology (Variable Title))

EDUC-R 505 with Professor Boling

Topical workshops on selected media/technology emphasizing hands-on experience. Content will vary; e.g. multi-image, microcomputers, simulations/games. This is a service course that may or may not be applicable to IST majors depending on workshop topic and content.

[Note: This course might have prerequisites and students should reach out to the faculty members. Make sure this fits your needs.]

Environmental Remote Sensing

GEOG-G535 with Professor Staff

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.

Advanced Remote Sensing: Digital Image Processing

GEOG-G536 with Professor Hwange

Advanced remote sensing theory and digital image processing techniques with an emphasis on environmental science applications. Hands-on computer exercises provide significant experience in digital image processing techniques for extraction of qualitative and quantitative information about Earth's terrestrial and aquatic environments.

Environmental Remote Sensing

GEOG-G535 with Professor Staff

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.

Advanced Remote Sensing: Digital Image Processing

GEOG-G536 with Professor Hwange

Advanced remote sensing theory and digital image processing techniques with an emphasis on environmental science applications. Hands-on computer exercises provide significant experience in digital image processing techniques for extraction of qualitative and quantitative information about Earth's terrestrial and aquatic environments.

Geographic Information Systems

GEOG-G538 with Professor Kim

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.

Advanced Geographic Information Systems

GEOG-G 539 with Professor Kim

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.

Qualitative Methods In Geography

GEOG-G576 with Professor Basile

Focuses on and provides practice in the various qualitative methods employed by geographers to solve problems within the geographic landscape. Each methodology is practiced in the field or within the laboratory so the students develop competency using these methods and can then apply them to a research project.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Historical Study Of German Literature Ii

GER-G579 with Professor Breithaupt

Historical treatment of a literary topic involving substantial developments within the time period between 1600 and 1800. Topics range from individual genres, types, or movements; to themes or ideas; to sociopolitical contexts of literature or its relationships to other art forms.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Literature, Culture, And Power In Contemporary Spain

HISP-S548 with Professor Deinverno

Survey of contemporary literary texts and the dynamics of censorship, gender and sexuality, memory, nation, and/or exile. These works will be studied within the historical contexts in which texts can both produce and contest gendered, sexual, class-based, and racial/ethnic power relations.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Colloquium In United States History: Us Visual Culture

HIST-H650 with Professor Cadoo

This readings-based colloquium introduces graduate students to legal, social, cultural, and economic histories of US visual culture with a particular emphasis on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our examination of visual culture includes performance, sculpture, print culture, the built environment, cartography, photography, and motion pictures. We will also investigate "ways of seeing," and how they have changed through time. The themes of our course readings and discussions are organized, for the most part, chronologically but we will also attend to questions of historiography and methodology as we consider the possibilities, limitations, and implications of viewing history through the interdisciplinary field of visual culture.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Introduction To Digital And Public History

HIST-T570 with Professor Sacco

Offers a graduate-level introduction to digital and public history. This class will provide you with an introduction to the literature of the fields of digital and public history as well as key theoretical, methodological, and practical, issues and concepts.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

User Services And Tools

ILS-Z501 with Professor Courtney; Courtney

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.

User Services And Tools

ILS-Z501 with Professor Bakcs; 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.

Representation And Organization

ILS-Z503 with Professor Staff

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.

Representation And Organization

ILS-Z503 with Professor Arave

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.

Introduction To Information Studies

ILS-Z510 with Professor Rosenbaum

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Database Design

ILS-Z511 with Professor Peters

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 Staff

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

Human-Computer Interaction

ILS-Z516 with Professor Soe

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.

• Analytical Track

Topics In Library And Information Science: Critical Info&Library Studies

ILS-Z604 with Professor Day

This class investigates information and library institutions, techniques, technologies, users and publics from the perspective of their socio-technical mechanizations, functions, and historical and cultural dispositions. Topics include: information and knowledge institutions; archival memory and cultural heritage; identity representation, social ontology and social justice; digital labor; social networks, algorithms and information platforms; critical librarianship; information literacy and the digital divide; ethics and policies; and sustainability. Class includes readings, discussions, and projects. Students will gain an appreciation for the social, cultural, and political foundations of information collections, organization, and use through public and corporate organizational means and will develop intellectual and practical tools for use as information professional.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Topics In Library And Information Science: Social And Ethical Aspects Of Big Data

ILS-Z604 with Professor Soe

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Topics In Library And Information Science: Music Data Mining

ILS-Z604 with Professor Choi

Social Media Mining

ILS-Z639 with Professor 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.

Digital Libraries

ILS-Z652 with Professor Walsh

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Introduction To Informatics

INFO-I501 with Professor Milojevic

The course deals with the foundations of Informatics as an interdisciplinary field. We will study concepts such as Information, Technology, Knowledge, Modeling, and their impact on science and society. The course will also attempt to define and understand what computational and systems thinking can bring to science and society.

• Analytical Track

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.

Introduction To Virtual Heritage

INFO-I587 with Professor Guidi

This course focuses on how digital technology can represent, restore, disseminate, and help with analysis of artifacts such as vases, furniture, sculpture, monuments, and buildings. Other topics covered include the history and methodologies of Virtual Heritage. Each semester a different case study will provide the focus for the course.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Topics In Informatics: Data Visualization

INFO-I590 with Professor Ahn

Topics In Informatics: Introduction To Virtual Reality

INFO-I590 with Professor Wood

Topics In Informatics: Computing And Environment

INFO-I590 with Professor Ensmenger

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Topics In Informatics: Creating Virtual Assets

INFO-I590 with Professor Wood

Computation And Linguistic Analysis

LING-L545 with Professor Sayyed

Introduction to current semantic theory, its tools, concepts, and principles. Emphasis on constructing detailed fragments of natural language with syntactic and semantic components.

Programming For Computational Language

LING-L555 with Professor Tyers

This course will introduce the fundamentals of programming and computer science, aiming at attaining practical skills for text processing. Through lectures, lab sessions, and weekly or bi-weekly assignments, students will learn the essentials of a given programming language (e.g., Perl) and how to apply these skills to natural language data.

• Meets Tech Requirement

Corpus Linguistics

LING-L615 with Professor Tyers

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.

Advanced Sociolinguistics

LING-L620 with Professor Nesbitt

Sociolinguistic methodology and data analysis, language ideology, and language in social institutions. Course-topics include: quantitative and qualitative methods (variationist, ethnographic, and discourse analytic methods); Anglo-American, Continental pragmatics; language and socio-cultural identity (culture, politeness, power, solidarity, and gender); and institutional discourse (juridical, therapeutic, political, religious, etc.).

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Seminar In Computational Linguistics

LING-L715 with Professor Keubler

The seminar will introduce students to current research in the field of Computational Linguistics.

• Analytical Track

Political Data Analysis

POLS-Y575 with Professor Staff

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.

Topics in Data Analysis

POLS-Y577 with Professor Koren

Content varies. Topics include: analysis of covariance structures, dynamic modeling, estimation of multiple equation systems, mathematical models, time series analysis. Applications to problems in political science research are emphasized.

Graduate Topics in Digital Art:

SOAD-S510 with Professor Ahrndt

Advanced 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.

Graduate Topics in Digital Art:

SOAD-S510 with Professor Liou

Advanced 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.

Graduate Topics in Digital Art:

SOAD-S510 with Professor Dolinsky

Advanced 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.

Seminar In Computational Linguistics

LING-L715 with Professor Keubler

The seminar will introduce students to current research in the field of Computational Linguistics.

• Analytical Track

Graduate Topics in Digital Art:

SOAD-S510 with Professor Ahrndt

Advanced 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.

Introduction To Statistics

STAT-S520 with Professor Trujillo

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.

• Analytical Track

Introduction To Statistics

STAT-S520 with Professor Trujillo

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.

• Analytical Track

Introduction To Statistics

STAT-S520 with Professor 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.

• Analytical Track

Introduction To Statistical Computing

STAT-S610 with Professor Fukuyama

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 a 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.

• Analytical Track

Introduction To Projection And Media Design (Studies In Stage Scenery)

THTR-T528 with Professor Lucas

Selected problems in designing stage scenery; composition and style.

• Creative Track

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.

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.

Stage Lighting Design

THTR-T546 with Professor Hahn

Stage lighting design concept development, presentation, and implementation are emphasized. Advanced lighting techniques and approaches. A practicum will be assigned.

Sound Design I

THTR-T547 with Professor Staff

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 (Color)

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.

• Creative Track