IS 390

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Special Topics in Information Studies

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Credit: 1 TO 3 hours.

Directed and supervised investigation of selected topics in information studies that may include among others computers and culture; information policy; community information systems; production, retrieval and evaluation of scientific or social science knowledge; computer-mediated communication; and computer-supported cooperative work.

May be repeated. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.

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CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
67703	Lecture-Discussion	BS	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	134 Armory	Rusch, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Blockchain and Society Section Info: This course examines blockchain and decentralized technologies through both a technical and social lens. Topics include the introduction and evolution of blockchain networks, consensus mechanisms used to facilitate transactions, smart contracts and decentralized applications, and the implications of governance models. No special skills or prerequisite knowledge are needed as the course also covers the technical specifics needed to implement blockchain systems. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
72304	Lecture-Discussion	CHP	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	212 1205 W Oregon	Tilley, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Degree Notes: Camp Honors/Chanc Schol, Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - US Minority course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Race, Gender, Sex in Comics Section Info: This course meets in room 212 at 1205 W. Oregon St., Urbana. All in the Gutter: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Comics: This course is a critical, historical, scholarly exploration of US comics engagement with race, gender, and sexuality. Reading comics from a range of genres and formats from the past 150 years, we will consider 1) how comics have affirmed and challenged social and cultural norms, 2) changing visual, textual, authorial, and publishing conventions for comics engaging with race, gender, and sexuality, and 3) the ways visual culture problematizes the representation and circulation of complex identities. This course will count as GenEds for iSchool students (other students should confirm with their college): Humanities & the Arts and also Cultural Studies: U.S. Minority Cultures. Restricted to Chancellor's Scholars in the Campus Honors Program (CHP). However, non-CHP students may petition to take the class. Go to https://honors.illinois.edu/curriculum/ and complete the form entitled "CHP Course Request Form for Non-CHP Students. Send the completed form to chp@illinois.edu. Restrictions will not be lifted on this course. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to Chancellor's Scholar-CHPHonors students.
66790	Lecture-Discussion	DAM	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	12A Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science	Dubin, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Decision Analysis and Modeling Section Info: Decision making is an essential part of the human experience. We take part in hundreds of decisions per day, both individually and collectively. During the last one hundred years, advances in applied philosophy and probability theory have contributed tools for representing decisions, their rationales, and outcomes with clarity and precision. Alongside these developments have emerged findings in the behavioral sciences about how individuals and groups tend to make decisions in practice. The former (normative) and the latter (descriptive) branches of decision science offer us complementary windows into the decisions we face in our personal and professional lives. In our work as information specialists, the tools of decision theory can help us incorporate our familiar inferential modeling and analysis methods into wellreasoned justifications for plans of action. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.