Foundations of Information Science

Syllabus

How to Succeed in This Course

Attend the lectures

The main content of this course consists of our weekly lectures.
Everything that you will be tested on will be drawn from the lectures.

The slides will be posted to Canvas files before each lecture.

The slide icon in the left sidebar of the relevant page will be linked to the downloadable slides.

Do the readings

There is no textbook for this course. All readings have been made available through this course website.

You will get more out of the lectures if you have done the reading(s) ahead of time, but the lectures are not summarizations of the readings, and many concepts will only be introduced in the lectures.

Readings marked as optional are somewhat more advanced. They are provided for those who are curious to learn more.

Attend recitations

Recitations are your opportunity to learn more actively in a collective way.

You will be able to ask questions, clear up confusions, and connect the course topics to your other interests.