IS 594

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Advanced Topics in Management and Policy

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Credit: 2 OR 4 hours.

Variety of newly developed and advanced topics courses within the fields of Management and Policy, intended to augment the existing Information Sciences curricula.

2 or 4 graduate hours. No professional credit. May be repeated in the same or separate semesters to a maximum of 16 hours, if topics vary.

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

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IS 594 class schedule data for spring 2022
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
73705	Online	CDO	2:00PM -3:50PM	R	n.a.	Yang, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Community Data Section Info: The ongoing crisis of the pandemic has exposed numerous vulnerabilities inherent in the technological and political infrastructures in cities and towns. In response to many societal challenges faced by communities, emerging regimes of AI-driven surveillance and knowledge systems have claimed to make various urban problems governable in new ways. In the wake of national reports that demonstrate rising gun violence, many local communities have considered turning to technological solutions – including Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) and other digital monitoring and surveillance systems – designed to enhance the capacity of law enforcement to respond, but that have also been critiqued for increasing risks of racial discrimination and erroneous profiling of citizens. For the Spring 2022, this lab-based seminar and class will explore terms and methods to critically examine the claims about data-driven technologies that have been projected as “solutions” to community problems. We'll engage new methods and models of community data to diversify and historicize the conditions in which such forms of technological solutionism arise. These tools will enhance students’ ability to interrogate data and discern how data are used to inform civic decision making, public policy, community engagement, and the design of infrastructures for public participation. Key to the course will be engagement with distinct civic sectors involved in designing local programs to build skills in collecting, assessing, evaluating and communicating insights drawn from diverse forms of data. The course will involve reading discussions, research and data collection, and a final project in collaboration with the City of Urbana. We will begin with the introduction of inter-disciplinary literatures to examine mixed methods in data analysis and communication, critical information studies, science and technology studies, and communications and media studies. Students will use these methods to compile data resources on various case studies from local regions that have demonstrated measurable successes in developing such community-run models. Toward the end of the course, students will communicate their research with the local stakeholders and present their findings in a form of a white paper. Throughout this course, students will share an explicit objective of assessing, collecting, and curating data for building sustainable infrastructures for accountability and community relationships. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Information Sciences or Illinois Informatics Institute department.
67354	Online	GIO	7:00PM -8:55PM	M	n.a.	Hallett, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Government Information Section Info: Prerequisite: IS 501 (Reference and Info Services, formerly IS 504) or consent of instructor. Aims to acquaint students with government publications, their variety, interest, value, acquisition, and bibliographic control, and to develop proficiency in their reference and research use; considers publications of all types and all governments (local, national, international) with special emphasis on U. S., state and federal governments, and on the United Nations and its related specialized agencies. Graduate student questions may be sent to ischool-advising@illinois.edu Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Information Sciences or Illinois Informatics Institute department.
68222	Online	PMO	6:00PM -7:55PM	R	n.a.	Mead-Harvey, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Personnel Management Section Info: This course is designed to familiarize students with principles of effective personnel management in a library setting. Students will examine theory and best practice for managing staff. Topics will include: managerial authority and power; staff coaching, feedback, and communication; performance evaluations and progressive discipline; recruitment, interviewing, and selection; job creation and development; and compensation and motivation. This course will also review Human Resources law related to Equal Employment Opportunity, Family and Medical Leave Act, Exempt status, and others. Graduate student questions may be sent to ischool-advising@illinois.edu Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Information Sciences or Illinois Informatics Institute department.