IS 590

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Advanced Topics in Information Foundations

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Credit: 2 OR 4 hours.

Variety of newly developed and advanced topics courses within the field of information foundations, intended to augment the existing Information Sciences curricula.

Additional fees may apply. See Class Schedule. 2 or 4 graduate hours. No professional credit. May be repeated.

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 590 class schedule data for fall 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	70339	Lecture-Discussion	RGD	2:00PM -4:50PM	T	G23 Foreign Languages Building	Gipson, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Race, Gender & Digital Studies Section Info: This class will focus on the socially constructed concepts of race and gender, and how they shape aspects of the digital world. We will focus specifically on scholarship produced by researchers within the emergent field of Critical Race and Digital Studies such as Safiya Noble, Sarah J. Jackson, Ruha Benjamin, Charlton McIlwain, Andre Brock, Catherine Knight Stele and a host of other scholars who come from traditionally marginalized backgrounds. The syllabus will cover scholarship from the areas' origins in the 1990s and will extend to recent scholarship. This class is appropriate for anyone who is interested in learning how critical race theory (CRT), gender studies, Black Feminist Thought, feminist STS, etc. can be applied to studying various media forms and information. Enrollment in this course is restricted to graduate students in Information Science. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Information Sciences department.