IS 490

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Advanced Topics in Information Studies

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Credit: 2 TO 4 hours.

Directed and supervised investigation of selected topics in information studies that may include among others the social, political, and historical contexts of information creation and dissemination; computers and culture; information policy; community information systems; production, retrieval and evaluation of knowledge; computer-mediated communication.

Additional fees may apply. See Class Schedule. 2 to 4 undergraduate hours. 2 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated. Prerequisite: For undergraduates, junior standing and IS 202, or consent of instructor.

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IS 490 class schedule data for spring 2018
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
67397	Lecture-Discussion	DB	9:00AM -11:50AM	F	131 Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science	Blake, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: CC-Library Info Science course. Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Introduction to Databases Section Info: The course provides students with both theoretical and practical training in good database design. By the end of the course students will create a conceptual data model using entity-relationship diagrams, understand the importance of referential integrity and how to enforce data integrity constraints when creating a database. Students will be proficient in writing basic queries in the structured query language (SQL) and have a general understanding of relational database theory including normalization. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign or Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
67571	Online	DBO	6:30PM -9:00PM	W	n.a.	Trainor, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: CC-Library Info Science course. Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Introduction to Databases Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the Information Sciences department.
67413	Lecture-Discussion	GHU	1:00PM -3:50PM	M	12A Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science	Brooks, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: CC-Library Info Science course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Global Health Informatics Section Info: The course will examine the current state of global health informatics from both a local and global perspective, including opportunities and challenges. Focus will be placed on the transition from paper-based records to electronic systems, with a particular emphasis on large international open-source initiatives and use of mobile devices. Guest speakers will share their experiences with WHO, international education based on mobile devices, and regulatory issues. Meets with IS 590 GHG. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
67755	Laboratory-Discussion	GI	9:00AM -10:30AM	TR	12A Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science	Linville, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: CC-Library Info Science course. Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Geographic Information Systems Section Info: This course introduces geographic information systems in the broader context of information management in business, government, and civil society. It highlights the importance of location and information about location across these realms. In addition to substantial hands-on work with traditional geographic information systems software, the course will provide exposure to other systems of people, processes, hardware, and software for collecting, managing, analyzing, and visualizing information about locations on the surface of the earth. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign or Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
67398	Lecture-Discussion	ITG	9:00AM -11:50AM	R	ARR Grainger Engineering Library	Twidale, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: CC-Library Info Science course. Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Entrepreneurial IT Design Section Info: Introduces students to a range of rapid prototyping techniques and methods to analyze needs, opportunities and design spaces. Students will work in teams to develop ideas for novel computational devices or applications to meet identified needs. Covers the interlinked entrepreneurial skills of identifying an unmet need, exploiting technological opportunities, exploring a design space to refine an idea, and communicating a design vision through demonstrations with prototypes and proofs of concept. This enables developers to show how their envisaged working interactive technology will be used productively in a particular real-life context. Communicating the vision of computational devices is a challenge because dynamic use in context is hard for people other than the device's developers to imagine. The ability to produce convincing, clear, powerful demonstrations even at the early stages of a project is a highly valuable entrepreneurial skill, and also highly applicable within an organization. Meets with IS 490 ITU. Class will meet at the IDEA lab at Grainger, 1301 W Springfield, Urbana Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
67661	Lecture-Discussion	ITU	9:00AM -11:50AM	R	ARR Grainger Engineering Library	Twidale, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: CC-Library Info Science course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Entrepreneurial IT Design Section Info: Introduces students to a range of rapid prototyping techniques and methods to analyze needs, opportunities and design spaces. Students will work in teams to develop ideas for novel computational devices or applications to meet identified needs. Covers the interlinked entrepreneurial skills of identifying an unmet need, exploiting technological opportunities, exploring a design space to refine an idea, and communicating a design vision through demonstrations with prototypes and proofs of concept. This enables developers to show how their envisaged working interactive technology will be used productively in a particular real-life context. Communicating the vision of computational devices is a challenge because dynamic use in context is hard for people other than the device's developers to imagine. The ability to produce convincing, clear, powerful demonstrations even at the early stages of a project is a highly valuable entrepreneurial skill, and also highly applicable within an organization. Meets with IS 490 ITG. Class will meet at the IDEA lab at Grainger, 1301 W Springfield, Urbana Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
67578	Online	RB2	ARRANGED	n.a.	n.a.	Brunner, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: CC-Library Info Science course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Advanced Data Science Section Info: NOTE: Students must be registered for this course by 4 pm on Wednesday January 17, 2018. No new students will be allowed to register for this class after that. This course will introduce advanced data science concepts by building on the foundational concepts presented in INFO 490: Foundations of Data Science. Students will first learn how to perform more statistical data exploration and constructing and evaluating statistical models. Next, students will learn machine learning techniques including supervised and unsupervised learning, dimensional reduction, and cluster finding. An emphasis will be placed on the practical application of these techniques to high-dimensional numerical data, time series data, image data, and text data. Finally, students will learn to use relational databases and cloud computing software components such as Hadoop, Spark, and NoSQL data stores. Students must have access to a fairly modern computer, ideally that supports hardware virtualization, on which they can install software. This class is open to sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students in any discipline who have either taken a previous INFO 490 data science course or have received instructor permission. Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the Information Sciences department. Not intended for students with Freshman class standing. Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign or Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
67420	Lecture	SMG	12:00PM -1:20PM	MW	109 Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science	Duffy, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: CC-Library Info Science course. Section Title: Social Media and Global Change Section Info: 2 or 4 credits. This course covers the impact of global and national computer networks on politics, culture, and social relations during a time of upheaval and revolutionary change. Topics may include the new social media, the politics and culture of the internet, hacktivism, cyber warfare, and mobile telephony and their role in the formation, dissemination, manipulation, and suppression of public opinion in Russia/Eurasia, the China/Pacific region, Central/South America, as well as Africa, Iran, and the Middle East. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
67419	Lecture	SMU	12:00PM -1:20PM	MW	109 Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science	Duffy, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: CC-Library Info Science course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Social Media and Global Change Section Info: This course covers the impact of global and national computer networks on politics, culture, and social relations during a time of upheaval and revolutionary change. Topics may include the new social media, the politics and culture of the internet, hacktivism, cyber warfare, and mobile telephony and their role in the formation, dissemination, manipulation, and suppression of public opinion in Russia/Eurasia, the China/Pacific region, Central/South America, as well as Africa, Iran, and the Middle East. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
67493	Online	TEO	6:30PM -8:30PM	R	n.a.	McLellan, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: CC-Library Info Science course. Section Title: Intro to Technology in LIS Section Info: 2 or 4 credits. This is an introductory course in the fundamentals of technology in LIS. Following an overview of information system concepts, terminology and usage in organizations, there will be discussions covering a wide variety of topics including hardware and software, systems development (traditional and modern methods), programming languages, databases and the internet. Special attention will be paid to the knowledge and skills needed to succeed at the iSchool (servers, file access and management, office software, markup languages, website design and development, etc.) and LIS professional settings. Application of concepts is key. Readings will be supplemented with hands-on exercises and collaborative projects. Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the Information Sciences department.