Spring 2023 Course Offerings

Programming Methods in Cognitive Science

COGS-Q530 with Professor Izquierdo

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.

Network Technologies and Systems Administration

CSCI-A538  with Professor Whitmer

Introduction to network principles and current network technology, both hardware and software. Network administration tools and techniques. Laboratory provides practical experience.

Mastering the World Wide Web

CSCI-A548  with Professor German

Project-oriented course leading to ability to maintain a web site with full functionality. Topics include background on internet network protocols and programming, web server administration, advanced web design and authoring, web protocols, interfacing services into the web.

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.

Computer Structures

CSCI-A593  with Professor Malbasa

Structure and internal operation of computers. The architecture and assembly language programming of a specific computer are stressed, in addition to general principles of hardware organization and low-level software systems. Lecture and laboratory.

Data Structures

CSCI-A594  with Professor Ashraf

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.

Programming Languages

CSCI-A596  with Professor Friedman

Systematic approach to programming languages. Relationships among languages, properties and features of languages, and the computer environment necessary to use languages. Lecture and laboratory.

Introduction to Programming I

CSCI-A597  with Professor Ashraf

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.

Applied Algorithms

CSCI-B505  with Professor Staff

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.

Programming Language Foundations

CSCI-B522  with Professor Sabry

Introduction to denotational, operational, and axiomatic approaches to programming language semantics. Semantic analysis of major programming language features. Logics of programs.

Advanced Database Concepts

CSCI-B561  with Professor Staff

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 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.

Data Mining

CSCO-B565 with Professor Staff

Algorithmic and practical aspects of discovering patterns and relationships in large databases. The course also provides hands-on experience in data analysis, clustering and prediction. Topics include: data preprocessing and exploration, data warehousing, association rule mining, classification and regression, clustering, anomaly detection, human factors and social issues in data mining.

Applied Database Technologies

DSCI-D532 with Professor Scrivner

This course aims to provide the basic overview of the current database landscape, starting with relational databases, SQL, and moving to several different NoSQL databases, such as XML database, MongoDB, Neo4j, Cassandra, and HBase.

Topics in Data Science: Basic Data Science On-Ramp

DSCI-D590 with Professor Anousheh

Emphasis on new developments and research in Data Science.

• Meets Tech Requirement

Topics in Data Science: Introduction to Python Programming

DSCI-D590 with Professor Malbasa

Emphasis on new developments and research in Data Science.

• Meets Tech Requirement

Information Visualization

ENGR-E583 with Professor Bueckle

This course provides students with a working knowledge on how to visualize abstract information and hands-on experience in the application of this knowledge to specific domains, different tasks, and diverse, possibly non-technical users.

Information Visualization

ENGR-E583 with Professor Bueckle

This course provides students with a working knowledge on how to visualize abstract information and hands-on experience in the application of this knowledge to specific domains, different tasks, and diverse, possibly non-technical users.

Advanced Remote Sensing

GEOG-G535 with Professor Staff

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

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.

GIS Programming

GEOG-G585 with Professor Hwang

This course introduces both spatial analysis and Python programming to undergraduate and graduate students, emphasizing hands-on based learning approaches. The ultimate goal of the course is to give students practical experience in programming based approaches in GIS and the ability to independently solve problems in GIS analysis.

User Services and Tools

ILS-Z501 with Professor Backs and 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.

• Analytical Track

Cataloging

ILS-Z504 with Professor Morrison

Historical development and principles essential to the understanding of the conceptual foundations of providing bibliographic access and control of materials and information. Discussion and examples in the application of AACR2r will be presented to illustrate and reflect current practice. Emphasis is on monographic publications.

• Analytical Track

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.

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.

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.

Introduction to Moving Image Preservation

ILS-Z587 with Professor Stoeltje

This class provides librarians and archivists skills, knowledge, and resources to properly handle moving image materials. It is also for those interested in preserving audiovisual media. Moving image archiving is in transition; the class addresses this transformation and how it affects practices, sites, and conceptions of film and video conservation.

Comic Books and Their Readers

ILS-Z604 with Professor Walsh

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Information Architecture in Practice

ILS-Z604 with Professor Wehner

Folklore Archives, Digital Age

ILS-Z604 with Professor Hillers

Class meets with FOLK-F 804 A hands-on introduction to the folklore archive which teaches students about the organization and preservation of manuscript, audio, and digital materials. The course looks at the evolution of the folklore archive from its nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origin to its digital present. Visits to several IU archives will provide students an insight into discipline-specific practices, and the final project will allow students the opportunity to work directly with archival materials. We will look at the challenges and opportunities of digitization by using major online folklore archives, such as the Irish National Folklore Collection (www.dúchas.iu). Finally we will address issues of community access, repatriation, and the ethics of cultural archiving.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Metadata

ILS-Z634 with Professor Arave

Information Visualization

ILS-Z637 with Professor Ma

Information Visualization (3 cr.) Introduces information visualization, highlighting processes which produce effective visualizations. Topics include perceptual basis of information visualization, data analysis to extract relationships, and interaction techniques.

Social Media Mining

ILS-Z639 with Professor Ghazinejad

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 Humanities

ILS-Z657 with Professor Ridell

This course explores uses of information technology in digital humanities (humanities computing) from electronic scholarly editing, to the computational analysis of style, theme, and structure, to the cultural impact of IT on scholarly discourse and publishing. It covers several technologies including extensible Markup Language (XML) and the Text Encoding Initiative.

Fundamental Computer Concepts for Informatics

INFO-I500 with Professor Staff

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.

Social Media Informatics

INFO-I505 with Professor Paolillo

Social media platforms and research on social media are both defined by their applications of algorithms and interpretations of human agents. This course emphasizes the interplay of these elements, drawing on techniques from linguistics and computational approaches such as natural language processing, network modeling and analysis, and vector space modeling.

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.

Interaction Design Methods

INFO-I543 with Professor Chivukula

Students will learn basic concepts and methods for usability studies and evaluation of interactive systems as well as apply those methods to actual system design evaluations. This course is not only for understanding the basics and traditional approaches in this area, but also for exploring new ways of evaluating the usability of state-of-the-art technology-based systems such as systems in ubiquitous computing, CSCW, tangible and social computing areas.

Meaning and Form in HCI

INFO-I561 with Professor Heidaripour

This course is a continuation of Human-Computer Interaction Design I, emphasizing the justification of design effectiveness.

Meaning and Form in HCI

INFO-I561 with Professor Blevis

This course is a continuation of Human-Computer Interaction Design I, emphasizing the justification of design effectiveness.

Topics in Informatics: Prototyping with Arduino Tools

INFO-I590 with Professor Francisco

Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.

Topics in Informatics: Introduction to Virtual Reality

INFO-I590 with Professor Wood

Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.

Topics in Informatics: ARTIFICIAL LIFE IN VR

INFO-I590 with Professor Wood

Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.

Topics in Informatics: 3D DIGITIZATION

INFO-I590 with Professor Guidi

Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.

Topics in Informatics: BUILDING VIRTUAL WORLDS

INFO-I590 with Professor Wood

Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.

Topics in Informatics: Advanced Information Ethics

INFO-I590 with Professor Terrell

Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Topics in Informatics: VISUALIZING DATA WITH TABLEAU

INFO-I590 with Professor McCoy

Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.

Topics in Informatics: EXPLORATIONS EDUCATIONAL TECH

INFO-I590 with Professor Francisco

Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.

Topics in Informatics: TECHNOLOGICAL NATURE

INFO-I590 with Professor Peirce Caudell

Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.

Topics in Informatics: INTRO TO VIRTUAL WORLD DESIGN & CULTURE

INFO-I590 with Professor Guidi

Emphasis is on new developments and research in informatics.

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION DESIGN THEORY

INFO-I604 with Professor Kaziunas

he course will explore, analyze and criticize underlying assumptions and the rationale behind some of the most influential theoretical attempts in HCI and related fields. The purpose of the course is to make students aware of how theories can influence practice and to develop critical thinking around the role, purpose, and function for theories.

Network Science

INFO-I606 with Professor Yeol Ahn

This course teaches the fundamental theories, algorithms, and key applications of network science across social and biological systems.

Network Science

INFO-I606 with Professor Yeol Ahn

This course teaches the fundamental theories, algorithms, and key applications of network science across social and biological systems.

Human Computer Interaction

INFO-I609 with Professor Blevis

Ph.D. student introduction to major historical and emerging theories, methods, technologies, and applications in Informatics. Provides students with opportunities to explore relevant research literature, results, and applications. Students will develop a profound understanding of leading research approaches and paradigms in their research area.

Computation and Linguistic Analysis

LING-L545 with Professor Dickinson

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.

Applying Machine Learning Techniques in Computational Linguistics

LING-L665 with Professor Kuebler

Course includes an introduction to CL and to W focused on supervised algorithms: decision trees and rule learning. Also considered are applications of ML algorithms to CL problems.

Seminar in Computational Linguistics

LING-L715 with Professor Tyers

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

Program Graphics & Animation

MSCH-J560 with Professor Krause

provides the technical skills and creative principles required to produce graphics and animation for television and digital filmmaking applications. Practical experience using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects, and incorporating these into the preparation of TV/film content is provided through a series of hands-on activities and projects.

Media Research

MSCH-M502 with Professor Gruszczynski

Introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methodologies used in media.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Media Research

MSCH-M502 with Professor Caddoo

Introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methodologies used in media.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Media Research

MSCH-M502 with Professor Powell

Introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methodologies used in media.

• Critical Track
• Analytical Track

Projects in Scoring Visual Media

MUS-K502 with Professor Groupe

Electronic Studio Resources II

MUS-K504 with Professor Gibson

Topics in Scoring Visual Media: Intro to Scoring Long Form

MUS-K555 with Professor Groupe

Though there will be workstations with software available for student use, it is suggested that students own or have at their disposal use of: 1) Digital Audio Workstation (DAW, sequencer); AND 2) Sound library (orchestral library, softsynth, extras as desired). More details and pre-requisites: http://tinyurl.com/gonyddy

Topics in Scoring Visual Media: Synthestration 2

MUS-K555 with Professor Thomas

Specialized techniques course developing students' skills in music scoring for visual media. More details: http://tinyurl.com/gonyddy

Projects in Electronic Music

MUS-K506 with Professor Gibson

Advanced projects in electroacoustic composition.

• Meets Tech Requirement

Political Data Analysis II

POLS-Y576 with Professor DeSante

This course is designed to build upon the concepts and skills developed in POLS Y575 (Political Data Analysis I). Successful completion of the Y575 course is a prerequisite for enrolling in this course (unless permission has been obtained from the instructor). The first half of the course will introduce students to bivariate and multivariate regression models. We will begin with the linear model, including a discussion of the goals and assumptions of ordinary least squares (OLS). We will also cover models for handling dichotomous dependent variables (logits and probits). The second half of the course will introduce students to the logic of causal inference. Topics covered include DAGs, experiments, difference-in-difference designs, regression discontinuities, and instrumental variables.

Graduate Topics in Digital Art

SOAD-S510 with Professor Young

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 Young

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 Saari

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 Digital Art

SOAD-S511 with Professor Ahrndt

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.

MFA Digital Art Seminar

SOAD-S519 with Professor Ahrndt

nvestigates the relationship between art, aesthetics, and technology. Topics can include virtual environments, screen-media, sound art, time-based media, networked art, and locative media, as well as related history, criticism and theory. Coursework includes readings, discussions and research-based projects, papers or presentations.

Graduate Topics in Graphic Design: Graphic Design & Programming

SOAD-S550 with Professor Corey

Professional problem solving in graphic design. Using a variety of mediums to communicate messages, students apply processes from printing to multimedia as appropriate for directed projects.

Graduate Graphic Design

SOAD-S551 with Professor Corey

Graphic design as an integral element of all visual communication media. Self-defined and assigned study to assure as wide as possible exposure to the problem-solving process.

MFAGraphic Design Seminar

SOAD-S559 with Professor Corey

• Creative Track

Vector-Based Geographic Information Systems

SPEA-E518 with Professor Primack

Geographic information systems using vector data structure. Vector GIS capabilities and uses. Data structure and file management of spatial data. Laboratory exercises using ARC/INFO software.

Applied Statistical Computing

STAT-S611 with Professor Pebes Trujillo

This course will be an introduction to statistical computing using R and C/C++. It will mainly focus on writing code for solving statistical problems. We will also cover a number of algorithms used in modern statistical computation. Topics may include: computer representation of numbers and finite precision arithmetic, programming in R, advanced R, programing in C/C++, random number generation, Monte Carlo methods, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, numerical linear algebra, and numerical optimization. The selection of specific topics and their emphasis can be adjusted to accommodate the class and instructor's interests and preferences.

Exploratory Data Analysis

STAT-S670 with Professor Fukuyama

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 Huang

Advanced Data Analysis II

STAT-S772 with Professor Huang

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.

• Creative Track

Lighting Design Seminar

THTR-T646 with Professor Staff

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
• Critical Track

Lighting Design in Production

THTR-T650 with Professor Staff

Lighting designers can only practice their craft by building and executing it in time and space. This course gives them the opportunity to be evaluated for that work through a dialogue-based faculty-guided process from conceptualization, through development and technical rehearsals to opening night.

• Creative Track