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All classes are for 3 credits.

LIB 3010 Topics in Information Studies: Information, Activism, and Human Rights

Section: CTRA-LEC Regular
Days & Times: Tuesday & Thursday 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Mode: In Person
Instructor: Victoria Stratis
Prerequisite: ENG 2100

This course will explore the intersections of information, activism, and human rights in order to understand how people consume, produce, and share information in relation to social justice movements. By looking at historical and contemporary movements, students will analyze how information and media has been used as a tool for social change.

LIB 3032 Economics of Information

Section: NET-LEC Regular
Days & Times: TBA
Mode: Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Lewis Liu
Prerequisite: ENG 2100

Examines economic theories and analyses that have been applied to the information market and the issues on the uniqueness of information in contemporary society. Topics include asymmetry of information in various markets, demand and supply in the information market, production and cost functions and cost-benefit analysis of information products and services, and information as a public good vs. information as a commodity.

LIB 4900 Advanced Topics in Information: Infotainment News and Platforms, A Comparative Analysis

Section: ETA-LEC Regular
Days & Times: Tuesday 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
Mode: Hybrid Asynchronous
Instructor: Linda Rath
Prerequisite: ENG 2100 and two 3000-level LIB courses, or departmental permission

This course serves as the capstone for the Information Studies minor. Students will engage in a focused analysis of infotainment (the intersection of information and entertainment) and the debates around it from the local to the global. Discussions will include the social, political, psychological, economic, and ethical aspects of information and communication technologies. Students will develop and undertake a semester-long, original, comparative analysis research project assessing infotaining aspects of news content and the infrastructures of platforms providing news to inform, entertain, persuade, and/or mislead.

LIB 1016 Information Research in Business

Section: CMA-LEC Regular
Days & Times: Monday 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Mode: Hybrid Asynchronous
Instructor: Jason Amey
Prerequisite: none

This introduction to the nature, sources, and uses of printed and computerized information for study and problem solving develops students’ abilities in systematic approaches to analyzing information need, information searching, and evaluation and organization of data. Students learn to prepare bibliographies, literature reviews, term papers, and research reports in business disciplines and social sciences. Open only to entering freshmen. Not open to students who have taken LIB 1015.

All classes are for 3 credits.

LIB 3010 Topics in Information Studies: Political Economy of Information

Section: CTRA-LEC Regular
Days & Times: Tuesday & Thursday 10:45AM – 12:00PM
Mode: In Person
Instructor: Betsy Yoon
Prerequisite: ENG 2100 placement

What is the relationship between socioeconomic structures and information? How is information used to serve political interests and shape social change? Students will critically interpret, analyze, and evaluate historical and present-day issues through the lens of political economy at a global scale, locating themselves as active agents for social change.

LIB 3032 Economics of Information

Section: NET-LEC Regular
Days & Times: TBA
Mode: Online Asynchronous
Instructor: Lewis Liu
Prerequisite: ENG 2100

This course examines economic theories and analyses that have been applied to the information market and the issues on the uniqueness of information in contemporary society. Topics include asymmetry of information in various markets, demand and supply in the information market, production and cost functions and cost-benefit analysis of information products and services, and information as a public good vs. information as a commodity.

LIB 3040 Information and Society

Section: MTA-LEC Regular
Days & Times: Tuesday 11:10 AM – 2:05 PM
Mode: Online Mix
Instructor: Michele Costello
Prerequisite: ENG 2100

Section: PTA-LEC Regular
Days & Times: Tuesday 5:50PM – 7:05PM
Mode: Hybrid Asynchronous
Instructor: Letitia Hazell
Prerequisite: ENG 2100

This course examines the nature, production, value, and uses of information in historical perspective; the latest developments in information technology; the ways information is produced and disseminated and how they affect business, politics, media, science, arts and culture; the growth of the information society; and major information policy issues. (Cross-listed with COM 3040 and PAF 3040)

LIB 4900 Advanced Topics in Information: AI and the Future of Knowledge / Work

Section: MFA-LEC Regular
Days & Times: Wednesday 6:05PM – 9:00PM
Mode: Hybrid Asynchronous
Instructor: Kimmy Szeto
Prerequisite: ENG 2100 and two 3000-level LIB courses, or departmental permission

This course serves as the capstone for the Information Studies minor. Students will engage in a focused analysis of a selected topic in information studies and the debates around it, from the local to the global. Discussions will include the social, political, psychological, and ethical aspects of information and communication technologies. Students will develop and undertake a semester-long, original research project related to the course topic.