Course offerings are subject to change. Contact department staff or faculty for the most up-to-date information.
Biomedical Engineering
BMME 775 (Cross listed with COMP 775): Image Processing & Analysis
TuTh 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM, Sitterson Room 001, Stephen Pizer
Prerequisites, COMP 665, MATH 547, and STOR 435. Approaches to analysis of digital images. Scale geometry, statistical pattern recognition, optimization. Segmentation, registration, shape analysis. Applications, software tools.Considerable prior experience in programming and mathematics is absolutely necessary for success in grad-level Computer Science courses.
Instructor permission required
Communications
COMM 431: Advanced Audio Production
TuTh 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM, Swain Hall 200A, Mark Robinson
Prerequisite, COMM 130 or 150; Grade of C or better in COMM 130; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Advanced analysis and application of the principles and methods of audio production.
COMM 635: Documentary Production
TuTh 11AM – 12:15 PM, Swain Hall 106A, Julia Haslett
Prerequisite, COMM 230. A workshop in the production of video and/or film nonfiction or documentary projects. The course will focus on narrative, representational, and aesthetic strategies of documentary production.
COMM 644: Documentary Production: First Person Filmmaking
TuTh 12:30PM- 1:45 PM, Swain Hall 106A, Julia Haslett
Prerequisite, COMM 230. Permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Students create documentaries emphasizing the filmmaker’s personal perspective and experience: essay, diary, and autobiographical films, and pieces in which the filmmaker performs a role for expressive or political ends. Significant class time is devoted to work-shopping student films.
COMM 654: Motion Graphics, Special Effects, and Compositing
MoWe 9:05AM – 11:00AM, Swain Hall 200A, Edward Rankus
Prerequisites, COMM 130 or COMM 150 with a C or better, Department Consent Required. In this course course students will learn a wide range of post-production techniques for video projects, using primarily After Effects (and Photoshop to a lesser extent). Topics explored include: Compositing, that is to say the integration and collage-ing of multiple video/film/still/text layers. Motion Graphics deals with the movement through 2D and 3D screen space of these layers, and Visual Effects will consider the myriad ways one can distort, color manipulate, and modify these layers, or create such phenomena as clouds, fire, etc. Besides creating projects using these techniques, we will also screen and analyze how this form of image manipulation is used in television and motion pictures.
Computer Science
COMP 410: Data Structures
MoWe 1:25PM – 2:40PM, Genome Sciences Bldg G100, Paul Stotts
Prerequisite, COMP 401. The analysis of data structures and their associated algorithms. Abstract data types, lists, stacks, queues, trees, and graphs. Sorting, searching, hashing.
COMP 411: Computer Organization
Section 001, MoWeFr 9:05AM – 10:20AM, Sitterson 0014, Leonard McMillian
Section 002, MoWeFr 11:15AM – 12:30PM, Sitterson 0014, Montek Singh
Prerequisite, COMP 401. Digital logic, circuit components. Data representation, computer architecture and implementation, assembly language programming.
COMP 426: Modern Web Programming
TuTh 3:30PM – 4:45PM, Stone Center 0103, Ketan Mayer-Patel
Prerequisites, COMP 401 and 410. Developing applications for the World Wide Web including both client-side and server-side programming. Emphasis on Model-View-Controller architecture, AJAX, RESTful Web services, and database interaction.
Geography
GEOG 491: Introduction to GIS
TuTh 2:00PM – 3:15PM, Carolina Hall 0220, Javier Arce Nazario
Prerequisite, GEOG 370. Permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Stresses the spatial analysis and modeling capabilities of organizing data within a geographic information system. (GISci)
GEOG 541: GIS for Public Health
Mo 3:35PM – 6:35PM, Carolina Hall 0322, Paul Delamater
Explores theory and application of geographic information systems (GIS) for public health. The course includes an overview of the principles of GIS in public health and practical experience in its use. (GISci)
GEOG 591: Applied Issues in GIS
TuTh 2:00PM – 3:15PM, Carolina Hall 0322, Jun Liang
Prerequisite, GEOG 477, 491, or equivalent. Through a novel research workshop format, this graduate and undergraduate course explores political and geographical dimensions of technological change around key environmental issues–energy, water, and waste. The class is largely a research-project oriented course. Examples of the work produced can be found on the course’s page on Digital Atlases and Resource Pages.
GEOG 592: Geographic Information Science Programming
TuTh 9:30AM – 10:45AM, Carolina Hall 0322, Jun Liang
Prerequisite, GEOG 370 or 491. This course will teach students the elements of GISci software development using major GIS platforms. Students will modularly build a series of applications through the term, culminating in an integrated GIS applications program.
Information and Library Science
INLS 509: Information Retrieval
Section 001: TuTh 9:30AM – 10:45AM, Manning 208, Staff
Section 002: Mo 5:45PM – 8:30PM, Manning 001, Jaime Arguello
Study of information retrieval and question answering techniques, including document classification, retrieval and evaluation techniques, handling of large data collections, and the use of feedback.
INLS 520: Organization of Information
Section 001: MoWe 8:00AM – 9:10AM, Manning 0014, Robert Losee
Section 002: TuTh 12:30PM – 1:45PM, Manning 208, Staff
Online, Staff
Introduction to the problems and methods of organizing information, including information structures, knowledge schemata, data structures, terminological control, index language functions, and implications for searching.
INLS 523: Intro to Database Concepts and Applications
Section 001: Mo 5:45PM – 8:30PM, Manning 117, Adam Lee
Section 002: TuTh 9:30AM – 10:45AM, Manning 001, Staff
Section 003: MoWe 10:10AM – 11:25AM, Bingham 101, Staff
Pre- or corequisite, INLS 161 or 461. Design and implementation of basic database systems. Semantic modeling, relational database theory, including normalization, indexing, and query construction, SQL.
INLS 525: Electronic Record Management
Mo 10:10AM – 12:55PM, Manning 001, Heather Barnes
Explores relationships between new information and communication technologies and organizational efforts to define, identify, control, manage, and preserve records. Considers the importance of organizational, institutional and technological factors in determining appropriate recordkeeping strategies.
INLS 534: Youth and Technology in Libraries
Fr 9:05AM – 11:50AM, Manning 304, Sandra Hughes- Hassell
This course encourages students to explore the array of technologies available to children and adolescents, the issues surrounding the use of technology, the role of care givers, and potential impacts on development.
INLS 560: Programming for Information Professionals
Section 001: TuTh 11:00AM – 12:15PM, Manning 117, Staff
Section 002: Th 5:45PM – 8:30PM, Manning 001, Jason Carter
Online, Gotz
Introduction to programming and computational concepts. Students will learn to write programs using constructs such as iteration, flow control, variables, functions, and error handling. No programming experience required.
INLS 582: Systems Analysis
Section 001: MoWe 1:25PM – 2:40PM, Manning 307, Lukasz Mazur
Section 002: Mo 5:45PM – 8:30PM, Manning 307, Staff
Introduction to the systems approach to the design and development of information systems. Methods and tools for the analysis and modeling of system functionality (e.g., structured analysis) and data represented in the system (e.g., object oriented analysis) are studied. Undergraduates are encouraged to take INLS 382 instead of this course.
INLS 613: Text Mining
MoWe 1:25PM – 2:40PM, Manning 001, Staff
This course will allow the student to develop a general understanding of knowledge discovery and gain a specific understanding of text mining. Students will become familiar with both the theoretical and practical aspects of text mining and develop a proficiency with data modeling text. Offered annually.
INLS 620: Web Information Organization
TuTh 11:00AM – 12:15PM, Manning 0014, Ryan Shaw
Prerequisites, INLS 520 or 560. Similar programming background needed. Understand the Web as a platform for information organization systems. Learn how the Web has been designed to be a service platform, data publishing platform, and application platform.
INLS 623: Database Systems II: Intermediate Databases
TuTh 12:30PM – 1:45PM, Manning 304, Staff
Prerequisites, INLS 382 or 582, and 523. Intermediate-level design and implementation of database systems, building on topics studied in INLS 523. Additional topics include MySQL, indexing, XML, and non-text databases.
INLS 690-249: Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues in Archives
Tu 11:00AM – 12:15PM, Manning 214, Denise Anthony
In an increasingly digital world in which researchers expect to find primary source material available to them online, many archivists are concerned about violating intellectual property rights. If I digitize this document and publish it online am I infringing on someone’s copyright? Is social media in the public domain? Does anyone own a Tweet? This course will cover intellectual property rights laws, how these affect the use of materials in archives and the best practices archivists have developed to deal with these issues.
INLS 690-189: Big Data, Algorithms, and Society
Mo 12:20PM – 2:45PM, Manning 0014, Zeynep Tufekci
This course examines the increasingly important technologies of connectivity from a theoretical and empirical perspective. We will explore the evolution, implications and complications of social media in multiple spheres of life including sociality, community, politics, power and inequality, education, knowledge, and information. Our emphasis will not be on any one current platform (such as Facebook or Twitter) or even a particular device. Rather, we will study how different configurations of connectivity encourage or stifle different socio-cultural practices and values. This course will provide conceptual and methodological foundations for studying and evaluating current and future developments in this area.
INLS 700: Scholarly Communication
TuTh 11:00AM – 12:15PM, Manning 303, Bradley Hemminger
Addresses how scholarship is communicated, shared, and stored. Includes scholars approach to academic work; social relationships within academia; external stakekholders in the scholarly communication system; and emerging technologies’ impact upon work practices. Topics covered include academic libraries and presses, publishing, serials crisis, open access, peer review and bibliometrics. Offered in the fall
INLS 718: User Interface Design
Tu 5:45PM – 8:30PM, Manning 208, Fei Yu
Prerequisite: INLS 582. Basic principles for designing the human interface to information systems, emphasizing computer-assisted systems. Major topics: users’ conceptual models of systems, human information processing capabilities, styles of interfaces, and evaluation methods.
INLS 720: Metadata
Online, Feinberg
Examines metadata in the digital environment. Emphasizes the development and implementation of metadata schemas in distinct information communities and the standards and technological applications used to create machine understandable metadata. Explores the limits of metadata standards and critically examines the inevitable role of interpretive diversity for information systems. Our semester-long project will engage the challenge of designing and implementing standards and guidelines for interoperable metadata while acknowledging the messy reality of interpretive diversity.
INLS 752: Digital Preservation and Access
Tu 2:00PM – 4:45PM, Manning 304, Staff
Focuses on best practices for the creation, provision, and long-term preservation of digital entities. Topics include digitization technologies; standards and quality control; digital asset management; grant writing; and metadata.
Media and Journalism
MEJO 581: Multimedia Design
TuTh 12:30PM – 1:45PM, Carroll 0011, Laura Ruel
Prerequisite, MEJO 187. Permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Theory and practice of multimedia design with an emphasis on usability, design theory, and evaluative methodologies, including focus groups, survey research, eye-track testing, and search engine optimization.
MEJO 585: 3D Design Studio
MoWe 8:00AM – 9:45AM, Carroll 0059, Spencer Barnes
Prerequisites, MEJO 187 and 182. Permission of the instructor. The use of 3D design and animation to create visual explanations.
MEJO 721: Usability and Multimedia
TBA, Laura Ruel
Introduces students to five basic areas of multimedia design and develops expertise in each. By examining the latest eye-tracking research and usability testing, students will assess the practical application of many concepts. Through critiques and original storyboards, students will work to expertly integrate all this knowledge into well-designed packages
MEJO 782: Multimedia Storytelling
TuTh 3:30PM – 5:15PM, Carroll 058, Laura Ruel
Theories and practices of multimedia content creation. Students gain critical understanding of various multimedia presentation methods. Hands-on experience with audio/video collection/editing.
