INFO 590

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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in Informatics, intended to augment existing curriculum. See Class Schedule for specific topics and prerequisites.

1 to 4 graduate hours. No professional credit. May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate Student Standing.

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INFO 590 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	62704	Lecture-Discussion	RE	1:00PM -3:20PM	W	G36 Foreign Languages Building	Pintar, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: GenTech, SocNet, Re-Image Race Section Info: Topics: Genetic Technologies, Social Networks and the Re-imagining of Race This seminar/practicum examines the production of genetic knowledge and the ways in which this knowledge comes into play in the collective re-imagining of ethnic and racial categories, identities and futures, ranging from the pseudoscientific racist to the utopian "post-racial." Students will engage in collaborative research as we track in real time the dissemination of genetic and other scientific and technological discoveries through diverse networks, (social, academic, religious, and genealogical, both hobbyist and commercial). Meets with REES 496/596 sections RE and INFO 490 section RE Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	64190	Lecture-Discussion	SI	12:00PM -2:50PM	R	109 Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science	Darch, P Gasser, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Social Analysis of ICTs Section Info: Social Informatics (SI) studies relationships between social systems and information/communication technologies (ICTs). The course teaches major SI concepts and how to apply them to analyze and solve practical SI problems. Key concepts include functional, symbolic, situational, media-centric, and social-process views of ICTs, and ICT dimensions of social power, social choice, social organization, social complexity, and social agency. Sample applications include explaining successes, failures, and specific qualities of ICTs in practice; design/implementation of ICTs in dynamic social settings; ICT policy and resource decisions; dilemmas of information privacy/security; information access in groups and society. (Note: Covers basic material for Field Exam in Social Informatics.) Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.