Courses


  1. INFSCI 2000 INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SCIENCE

    • Introduction to major ideas and concerns of the information professions and examination of formal communication of relevant ideas, information, and knowledge.
    • Exploration of nature and role of organizations in which archivists, librarians, and other information professionals work.
    • recommended as your first course in the MSIS program.

  2. INFSCI 2130 DECISION ANALYSIS AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

    • Introduction to decision analysis with elements of human cognition under uncertainty, including structuring decision problems and developing creative decision options, quantifying uncertainty and preferences, and combining uncertainty and preferences to arrive at optimal decisions. area.
    • Foundations needed for applying the methods of decision analysis in decision support systems.
    • NOTE: Can also be used to fulfill distribution requirement in Cognitive Science

  3. INFSCI 2140 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

    • Problems and techniques related to storing and accessing unstructured information with an emphasis on textual information.
    • Overview of several approaches to information access with a primary focus on search-based information access. Covers automated retrieval system design, content analysis, retrieval models, result presentation, and system evaluation.
    • Examines applications of retrieval techniques on the Web, in multimedia and multilingual environments, and in text classification and event tracking.

  4. INFSCI 2470 INTERACTIVE SYSTEM DESIGN

    • Introduction to principles and techniques of interactive system design. Focuses on GUI and Internet programming techniques and project-based experience in the design and evaluation of practical user interfaces.
    • Emphasis on practical skills of user interface design and evaluation.
    • Builds a connection between human information processing and interactive system design practice, reviews interactive programming for major interface paradigms, and covers main analysis and evaluation techniques of modern usability engineering.

  5. INFSCI 2500 INTRODUCTION OF DATA STRUCTURES

    • Theory and application of data structures, queues, stacks, linked lists, trees, graphs, searching, sorting, and Polish notation.
    • Data and file structures and their appropriateness to various applications.

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