Perspectives on information, technology and people
Syllabus
Q: What is INLS777-001 all about?
According to the SILS description, this class ...
examines the relationships between information, technology, and people from an array of disciplinary, professional, cultural, and other orientations.
Survey from historical and future viewpoints.
Explores the application of diverse perspective to understand current matters of concern.
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What does this mean?
As we approach the idea of "relationships between information, technology, and people," we must first ask ourselves how we know, or think we know, what "relations" we are considering, what "technologies", what "people"?
Accordingly, we will spend a fair amount of time reading about and discussing how we even approach the intersection between the people, technologies, and information we are familiar with and the people, technologies, and information we may not be as familiar with.
This will be less a "how-to" class and more a "why" class. There are no pat answers, but there are topics that deserve wide-ranging exploration.
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Student Learning Objectives
We will spend most of our time discussing topics related to the idea of information in society (by asking ourselves what that means).
By the end of this course, we will be able to
- Appreciate the diverse range of disciplines, professions, and other orientations by which people have attempted to make sense of information, technology, and people
- Contextualize, critique, and compare disciplinary, professional, cultural, and other perspectives with which one might identify and interpret relations between information, technology, and people
- Trace different ways of understanding current information problems through the lens of different perspectives
- Examine how your own interests and goals intersect, align, and conflict with different disciplinary, professional, cultural, and other perspectives
- Articulate your own emerging professional identity