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Thematic Concentration:
Information and Society

2008-2009 Course List

Study of the effects of information technology and technologies—e.g., computers, digital artifacts, and mass media—on society, including social institutions, groups, processes, and structures. The concentration also permits exploration of how social and cultural forces shape information technologies, including human-computer interfaces, the diffusion of IT, and its regulation.

Foundational Courses

COMM 1A: Media, Technologies, Peoples, and Society (4-5, A)

COMM 108: Media Processes and Effects (4-5, W)

COMM 117: Digital Journalism (4-5, W)

COMM 120: Digital Media in Society (4-5, S)

COMM 158: Free Expression and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (4-5, NO)

COMM 166: Virtual People (4-5, NO)

COMM 169: Computers and Interfaces (4-5, W)

COMM 172: Media Psychology (4-5, S)

CS 105: Introduction to Computers (3-5, A/S)

CS 106A: Programming Methodology (3-5, A/W/S/Sum)

CS 106B: Programming Abstractions (3-5, A/W/S/Sum)

CS 106X: Programming Abstractions, Accelerated (3-5, A)

CS 147: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction Design (3-4, A)

Advanced Courses

COMM 117, 120, 166, 169,  or 172 taken at a non-introductory level by arrangement
              with professor or at 200-level (e.g., 217, 220, 225, 266, 269,  or 272)

COMM 268: Experimental Research in Advanced User Interfaces (1-5, W/S)

CS 181: Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy (3-4, W)

CS 247 & 247L: Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio (3-4, W) & Technology Laboratory (1, W)

CS 255: Introduction to Cryptography (3, W)

CS 377: Topics in Human-Computer Interaction (2-3, NO)

CS 378: Phenomenological Foundations of Cognition, Language, and Computation (3-4, A)

* Admission by permission of instructor

Sample Concentration:

  • Comm 1A [Foundational]
  • Comm 120 (unless taken for STS Core) [Foundational]
  • Comm 169 (unless taken for STS Core) [Foundational]
  • Comm 268 [Advanced]
  • CS 147
  • CS 247 [Advanced]
  • CS 377 [Advanced]

Center of Gravity: Communication

 

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