IS 490

Spring 2019 All Classes

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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.

Class materials fee or field trip fee may be required.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

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IS 490 class schedule data for spring 2019
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
69372	Laboratory-Discussion	DA	9:00AM -11:50AM	F	Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science	Habing, T Weible, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Database Admin&Scaling for IS Section Info: Requires Instructor approval, Email John Weible at jweible@illinois.edu. ### The course incorporates aspects of database administration and systems architecture relevant to computational information science work. Given the rise of NOSQL systems and big data trends in analytics, the course will explore and compare several types of scalable database engines. Develops practical skills and representative tools for providing reliable and efficient DBMS infrastructure to support activities like data analytics within a context of production systems. Student teams will experiment and present findings to the class. Prerequisites: prior knowledge of SQL and DB design similar to IS490DB plus comfort with command-line tools and installing complex software. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign or Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
67397	Lecture-Discussion	DB	9:00AM -11:50AM	F	Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science	Hawkins, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Introduction to Databases Section Info: PLEASE NOTE: This section requires Microsoft Visio, which is only available on the Windows operating system. Mac users will need to install Windows virtually on their machine. While instructions will be provided, it is highly recommended for Mac users to have a computer w/at least 8GB RAM & 40GB hard drive space available to be able to successfully run the software. ### 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.
67398	Lecture-Discussion	ITG	9:00AM -11:50AM	R	Grainger Engineering Library	Twidale, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Entrepreneurial IT Design Section Info: Meets with IS 490 ITU. Class will meet at the IDEA lab at Grainger, 1301 W Springfield, Urbana. ### 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. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
67661	Lecture-Discussion	ITU	9:00AM -11:50AM	R	Grainger Engineering Library	Twidale, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Entrepreneurial IT Design Section Info: Meets with IS 490 ITG. Class will meet at the IDEA lab at Grainger, 1301 W Springfield, Urbana. ### 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. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
69287	Lecture-Discussion	PDG	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	Education Building	Pintar, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Playful Design Methods Section Info: Meets with IS 490 PDU. ### In this immersive and experiential course, students consider "playfulness" as a key aspect of design methodologies and practices. Looking closely at the philosophical, social, and relational dynamics of play from multiple disciplinary angles, students will explore how playful approaches to design thinking and other design methodologies can encourage collaboration, engagement, and emergent, transformative solutions to a range of challenges that face us in our rapidly-changing, information-based culture. The course aims to build student competency in design methods through a sequence of project experiences arising from a deep consideration of play. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
69288	Lecture-Discussion	PDU	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	Education Building	Pintar, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Playful Design Methods Section Info: Meets with IS 490 PDG. ### In this immersive and experiential course, students consider "playfulness" as a key aspect of design methodologies and practices. Looking closely at the philosophical, social, and relational dynamics of play from multiple disciplinary angles, students will explore how playful approaches to design thinking and other design methodologies can encourage collaboration, engagement, and emergent, transformative solutions to a range of challenges that face us in our rapidly-changing, information-based culture. The course aims to build student competency in design methods through a sequence of project experiences arising from a deep consideration of play. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.