Spring 2015 Schedule

# | day | date | topic ⇒ deliverable (if any)

Module ① Introduction to the field

  01 | Thu | 08 Jan | intro

  02 | Tue | 13 Jan | What Is Information?

  03 | Thu | 15 Jan | What is Information Science?

  --- | Mon | 19 Jan | Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday ⇒ do something with your community

  04 | Tue | 20 Jan | History of Information Science

Module ① report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 21 Jan 2015

Module ② Organizing Information

  05 | Thu | 22 Jan | Foundations

  06 | Tue | 27 Jan | Categorizing

  07 | Thu | 29 Jan | Classification

  08 | Tue | 03 Feb | Thesauri, Controlled Vocabulary and Metadata

Module ② report due by 2359 on Wednesday, 04 Feb 2015

Module ③ Information Structures

  09 | Thu | 05 Feb | Markup

  10 | Tue | 10 Feb | Markup in practice

  11 | Thu | 12 Feb | Relational Databases

  --- | Tue | 17 Feb | weather cancellation

  12 | Thu | 19 Feb | Relational Databases in practice

Module ③ report due by 2359 on Monday, 23 Feb 2015

Module ④ Information Pathways

  13 | Tue | 24 Feb | networks in general

  --- | Thu | 26 Feb | weather cancellation

  14 | Tue | 03 Mar | networks in practice

  15 | Thu | 05 Mar | structure of the internet

Module ④ report due by 2359 on Monday, 16 Mar 2015

  --- | Tue | 10 Mar | Spring Break ⇒ be safe

  --- | Thu | 12 Mar | Spring Break ⇒ be safe

Module ⑤ Information Retrieval

  16 | Tue | 17 Mar | Search & Retrieval

  17 | Thu | 19 Mar | Introduction To Ad-hoc Retrieval

  18 | Tue | 24 Mar | Retrieval Models

  19 | Thu | 26 Mar | Indexing

Module ⑤ report due by 2359 on Monday, 30 Mar 2015

Module ⑥ Information Design

  20 | Tue | 31 Mar | Information Behaviors

  21 | Thu | 02 Apr | Information Architecture

  22 | Tue | 07 Apr | Human-Computer Interaction

  23 | Thu | 09 Apr | Information Design

Module ⑥ report due by 2359 on Monday, 20 Apr 2015

Module ⑦ Thinking about Information

  24 | Tue | 14 Apr | Big Data and you

  25 | Thu | 16 Apr | Information Ethics

  26 | Tue | 21 Apr | open source

  27 | Thu | 23 Apr | course review & evaluation

final exam on Friday, 01 May 2015 at 1200-1500