IS CORE COURSES
This course provides an introduction to different approaches to research in the information sciences, including social science methods, data and text mining, digital humanities, historical approaches, and others. Topics include methods for evaluating research, developing research questions, selecting research methods, conducting research ethically, and communicating findings clearly and effectively through words, graphics, and other visualizations.
Date Range Meets 05/17/21-06/11/21
Term S1
CRN: 40600 Online MTW 9:00am-12:00pm Kendall, Lori
Restricted to Information Sciences majors until 5/6/21 by noon. For more information about this major, please visit: http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/BSIS. We will not provide overrides, please wait until the course restrictions are removed. Questions may be sent to ischool-is@illinois.edu
Introduction to database technology concepts and architecture. Explore data types and reading/writing database layout descriptions. Discussion of database ethics and privacy concerns. Comparison of different database systems a user might encounter including RDBMS, XML/RDF/JSON, NOSQL, and Graph database systems. Labs involving common database tools and exercises in SQL.
Date Range Meets 05/17/21-08/05/21
Term SF1
CRN: 40977 Online MWF 1:00pm-1:50pm Evans, Craig
Restricted to Information Sciences majors until 5/6/21 by noon. For more information about this major, please visit: http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/BSIS. We will not provide overrides, please wait until the course restrictions are removed. Questions may be sent to ischool-is@illinois.edu
IS ELECTIVE COURSES
This course introduces students to data science approaches that have emerged from recent advances in programming and computing technology. They will learn to collect and use data from a variety of sources, including the web, in a modern statistical inference and visualization paradigm. The course will be based in the programming language R, but will also use HTML, regular expressions, basic unix tools, XML, and SQL. Supervised and unsupervised statistical learning techniques made possible by recent advances in computing power will also be covered.
Date Range Meets 05/17/21-08/05/21
Term SF
CRN: 40997 Section: AOU Online R 6:00pm-8:00pm Besser, Stephanie
Restricted to Undergraduates with Junior standing or above. Restrictions: 1U; No Fresh/Soph. Undergraduate questions may be sent to ischool-is@illinois.edu
Covers common data, document processing, and programming constructs and concepts. Focuses on problem solving and abstraction with a programming language. By the end of the course students will be able to design, develop and test a moderately complex computer program to manage full text, bibliographic records or multimedia. The course prepares students for working with applications in data analytics, data science, digital libraries, text mining and knowledge management. No prior programming background is assumed.
Date Range Meets 05/17/21-08/05/21
Part of Term SF
CRN: 40998 Section: AOU Online W 6:00pm-8:00pm Trainor, Kevin
Restricted to Undergraduates with Junior standing or above. Restrictions: 1U; No Fresh/Soph. Undergraduate questions may be sent to ischool-is@illinois.edu
The course provides students with both theoretical and practical training in good database design. By the end of the course students will create a conceptual data model using entity-relationship diagrams, understand the importance of referential integrity and how to enforce data integrity constraints when creating a database. Students will be proficient in writing basic queries in the structured query language (SQL) and have a general understanding of relational database theory including normalization.
Date Range Meets 05/17/21-08/05/21
Part of Term S1
CRN: 40628 Section: AOU Online T 6:00pm-8:00pm Trainor, Kevin
Restricted to Undergraduates with Junior standing or above. Restrictions: 1U; No Fresh/Soph. Undergraduate questions may be sent to ischool-is@illinois.edu
The ability to communicate effectively in multiple types of media is a crucial part of literacy in our society. In this course, students will explore the intersections of various media: print, film, images, sound, etc. Students will consider the ways in which writing--as an object and as a practice--is shaped by multimodal interactions. Also integrates practical activities with broader theoretical issues in order to provide effective strategies for designing multimedia presentations, projects, and texts that integrate photography, video, and sound.
Date Range: Meets 06/14/21-08/05/21
Part of Term: S2
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Summer 2020 for: Advanced Composition
- CRN: 35151 Online Section: A 11:00AM - 12:15PM TR Instructor: TBD
- CRN: 41263 Online Section: B 03:00PM - 04:15PM MW Instructor: TBD
