Fall 2017 Courses

 


University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

AMST 671 (Cross-listed: HIST 671): Introduction to Public History
Whisnant, 3 credits, M 3:35-6:05 pm, Hamilton 150
Introduces the theory, politics, and practice of historical work conducted in public venues (museums, historic sites, national parks, government agencies, archives), directed at public audiences, or addressed to public issues.

ANTH 419-001: Anthropological Application of GIS
West, 3 credits, TuTh 2:00 pm-3:15 pm, Carolina Hall 322
Permission of the instructor. GIS experience required. This course explores applying GIS science technologies to anthropological problems. Students will learn GIS skills and apply them using spatial data.

BMME 775-001(Cross-listed: COMP 775): Image Processing & Analysis
Niethammer, 3 credits, TuTh 9:30am-10:45am, Fred Brooks Hall, F007
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

COMM 453: The History of New Media Technology in Everyday Life
Palm, 3 Credits, TuTh 2:00 pm-3:15 pm, Bingham 101
Prerequisite, COMM 140. The starting point for this course, chronologically and conceptually, is the emergence of popular media technology. Our purview includes transformative innovations in mediated communication, such as telephony and e-mail, alongside familiar media technologies such as televisions and computers.

COMM 635: Documentary Production
Haslett, 3 Credits, TuTh 12:30pm-1:45pm, Swain 106A
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 638-001: Game Design
Rudinsky, 3 credits, TuTh 11:00am-12:15pm, Swain Hall 101A
Prerequisite, COMM 150. Permission of the instructor for non-majors. Studio course that explores gaming critically and aesthetically. Practice in game design and production including three-dimensional worlds and scripting.

COMM 654-001: Motion Graphics, Special Effects, and Compositing
Rankus, 3 Credits, MW 9:05 am-11:00 am, Swain Hall 200A
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.
COMM 856: Seminar in Communication Technology: Computation and Culture
Thomas, 3 credits, Tu 6:30 pm-9:20 pm, Bingham 217
Prerequisite, COMM 700. Examines new communication technologies, their spatial and social diffusion, and how these relate to theories of culture, politics, and technology and the real-world contexts in which technologies are received. May be repeated.

COMP 410: Data Structures
Stotts, 3 Credits, MW 3:35 pm-4:50 pm, Genome Sciences Bldg G100
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
Singh, 3 Credits, MWF 11:15am-12:30 pm, Sitterson Hall 0014
McMillan, 3 Credits, MWF 9:05am-10:20 am, Sitterson Hall 0014
Prerequisite, COMP 401. Digital logic, circuit components. Data representation, computer architecture and implementation, assembly language programming.

COMP 426: Modern Web Programming
Mayer-Petal, 3 credits, TuTh 3:30pm-4:45pm, Hanes Art Center 121
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.

COMP 775-001(Cross-listed: BMME 775): Image Processing & Analysis
Niethammer, 3 credits, TuTh 9:30am-10:45am, Fred Brooks Hall, F007
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

GEOG 491: Introduction to GIS
Nazario, 3 credits, TuTh 2:00 pm-3:15 pm, Carolina Hall 0220
Nazario/Giefer, 3 credits, M 2:30 pm-3:20 pm, Carolina Hall 0322
Nazario/Giefer, 3 credits, W 3:35 pm-4:25 pm, Carolina Hall 0322
Nazario/Giefer, 3 credits, F 1:25 pm-2:15 pm, Carolina Hall 0322
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 592-001: Geographic Information Science Programming
Liang, 3 credits, TuTh 9:30 am-10:45 am, Carolina Hall 322
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.

HIST 671 (Cross-listed: AMST 671): Introduction to Public History
Whisnant, 3 credits, M 3:35 pm-6:05 pm, Hamilton 150
Introduces the theory, politics, and practice of historical work conducted in public venues (museums, historic sites, national parks, government agencies, archives), directed at public audiences, or addressed to public issues.

INLS 509: Information Retrieval
Arguello, 3 credits, MW 12:20 pm-1:35 pm, Manning 0001
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
Losee, 3 credits, MW 8 am-9:15 am, Manning 0014
Feinberg, 3 credits, TuTh 12:30 pm-1:45 pm, Manning 208
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 & Applications
Capra, 3 credits, TuTh 9:30am-10:45 am, Manning 0001
Yu, 3 credits, M 6:00pm-8:45pm, Manning 0117
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 Records Management
Anderson, 3 credits, M 6:00 pm-8:45 pm, Manning 0001
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
Hughes-Hassell, 3 credits, F 9:00 am-11:45 am, Manning 303
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 550: History of the Book and Other Information Formats
Post, 3 credits, M 6 pm-8:45 pm, Manning 0014
The history of the origin and envelopment of the book in all its formats: clay tablets to electronic. Coverage includes scientific and other scholarly publications, religious works, popular literature, periodicals, and newspapers.

INLS 560: Programming for Information Professionals
Boone, 3 credits, TuTh 11:00 am-12:15 pm, Manning 117
Kim, 3 credits, MW 10:10 am-11:25 pm, Manning 117
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
Gotz, 3 credits, TuTh 9:30 am-10:45 am, Manning 208
Ndoh, 3 credits, M 6 pm-8:45 pm, Manning 307
Mazur, 3 credits, MW 12:20 pm-1:35 pm, Manning 307
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
Arguello, 3 credits, MW 1:50 pm-3:05pm, Manning 0001
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
Shaw, 3 credits, TuTh 11:00am-12:15pm, Manning 0014
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
Carter, 3 credits, Th 5:15 pm-8:00 pm, Manning 0001
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 *
Anthony, 1.5 Credits, TuTh 11:00 am-12:15 pm, Manning 0001
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 effect 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
Tufekci, 3 credits, M 12:20 pm-3:05 pm, Manning 0014

INLS 700: Scholarly Communication
Hemminger, 3 credits,TuTh 11:00 am-12:15 pm, Manning 303
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 720-01W: Metadata
Feinberg, 3 credits, Online
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
Tibbo, 3 credits, Tu 2:00 pm-4:45 pm, Manning 208
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.

MEJO 551: Digital Media Economics and Behavior
Abernathy, 3 credits, TuTh 12:30 pm-1:45 pm, Carroll 283
The course will focus on the changing economics affecting 21st-century news organizations and the economic drivers of other content providers such as music companies, the film industry, online aggregators, and commerce sites for lessons that can be applied across industry segments.

MEJO 581: Multimedia Design
Ruel, 3 credits, TuTh 11:00am-12:45 pm, Carroll 0059
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 582: Multimedia Narratives
Staff, 3 credits, TBA, TBA
Prerequisites, MEJO 180 or 187, and 221. Permission of the school. Students learn how to gather audio and video content, editing and storytelling techniques, and how to publish these media onto a variety of multimedia platforms.

MEJO 585: 3D Design Studio
Barnes, 3 credits, TuTh 9:00 am-10:45 am, Carroll  0060
Prerequisites, MEJO 187 and 182. Permission of the instructor. The use of 3D design and animation to create visual explanations.

MEJO 721-966: Usability and Multimedia
Ruel, TBA
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 782-001: Multimedia Storytelling
Ruel, 3 credits, TuTh 3:30pm-5:15pm; Carroll 0060
Theories and practices of multimedia content creation. Students gain critical understanding of various multimedia presentation methods. Hands-on experience with audio/video collection/editing.