Courses

IST777: Quantitative Information Analysis

 This course provides a broad introduction of quantitative analysis for applied and academic researchers. Students should develop a portfolio of resources, demonstrations, recipes, and examples of various quantitative analysis techniques.

IST830: Seminar on Information Systems

This course is intended to help students develop an understanding of the field of information systems. The course involves extensive reading and discussion of the research literature on the development, implementation, use and impacts of information systems. A particular focus of the discussions will be an examination of the research assumptions and concepts guiding the theoretical ideas and empirical studies conducted in this area.

IST810: Practicum in Research

With Dr Michelle. This practicum investigates the roles that ICT play relative to inter-organizational arrangements.  The real estate market in the US could be a plausible context for such a research project due to the availability of access and expertise.  In this practicum we are concerned with the ways inter-organizational practices unfold, and how the adoption of ICT enables variations in  intermediation/ disintermediation/ re-intermediation.  

IST840: Practicum in Teaching

With Carsten Østerlund and Bob Benjamin. . During the first residency of the course in New York City, I teach a small piece of the course and lead a discussion that involves groups of students.  In addition, I am participating in online discussion and am supposed to facilitate students’ discussion.

IST776:  Research Design for information Science and Technology

The central goal of the seminar is to enable students to create and critique methodologically sophisticated research designs. To do so, the seminar explores the techniques, uses, strengths, and limitations of various methods, while emphasizing the relationships among these methods, alternative methods, and contemporary debates in the philosophy of science.

IST800: Seminar in Behavioral Sciences:  Structure and Foundations of Scientific Inquiry

This seminar provides PhD students with the philosophical, conceptual and methodological foundations common to all scientific inquiry—albeit centered on research specific to the social sciences.  It also involves reading of one of the seminal works in the philosophy of science, Abraham Kaplan’s “The Conduct of Inquiry”, as well as a year-long research project that is part of larger and ongoing research agendas of iSchool faculty.  

IST810: Practicum in Research

With Dr Bruce Kingma. The goals of this practicum is to develop a synthesis of this literature's key points and current issues, and to specifically look at the views on social structures and networks that give rise to innovative ideas and products. It includes a review of relevant existing literature (including economics, organizational studies, information systems, sociology of science, and etc) to develop some theoretical constructs that can partially illuminate the constitution and the importance of informal networks of  innovations.

IST840: Practicum in Teaching

With  Dr Benjamin and Østerlund. In this practicum I help the instructors develop a syllabus for IST400 - IT-Enabled Innovation and Change within a Global Enterprise to be taught in Spring 2009. I participate in several meetings where we discussed different issues on the syllabus design. I provided feedback on the assignments, which including finding other similar programs, relevant readings, and useful analysis frameworks. Overall, I participated in the following activities: develop innovative syllabus (class supporting student internships, mix-mode course design), select readings, design assignments, preliminary evaluation of online learning and residency.

IST 503: Foundations For IST Research

This course is a study of major methodological, normative, and theoretical issues in the philosophy of science related to research in information science and technology.

IST541: Qualitative Research in IST

This course explores concrete issues that researchers have encountered in their use of qualitative methods. It helps to develop research proposals, to make methodological choices, to write qualitative research reports, and to understand how to publish qualitative research in the field of IST

IST 590: Colloquium

Continuing seminars that consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.

IST 596: Individual Studies

With Dr Jack Carroll; this study examines the role of non-verbal behaviors in geo-collaboration tasks

IST 501: Integrative Theories and Methods of the IST

An integrative treatment of research and theories on how technologies are used to meet information needs at multiple levels of analysis.

IST 511: Information Management: Information and Technology (3)

Introduction to theoretical, computational, and practical issues involved in managing textual, spatial, temporal, and multimedia information in a computerized system.

IST 522 Models and Theories of Human-Computer Interaction

This course covers the theoretical foundations of human-computer interaction that prepares students in planning and conducting research in HCI.

IST 602: Supervised Experience in College Teaching

Helps teacher assistant get accustomed to new techniques and methods of teaching

IST 596: Individual Studies

With Dr Steve Sawyer; this independent study delves into the innovation discourse and organizational change through the social informatics perspective