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Final
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| Lecture time |
Tuesday and Thursday, 9-10 a.m. |
| Lecture
Place |
260
Dennison |
| Instructors |
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason
(Professor)
301C West Hall
Office hours: M 9-11am or by appt
Phone: 647-4856
jmm@umich.edu |
Gary Olson (Professor)
306A West Hall
Office hours: W 9-11am or by appt
Phone: 763-5644
gmo@umich.edu |
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| Discussion
Sessions |
Students
must also register for ONE of the four discussion group
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SI502-2 Thursday 1:10 - 2:00 West Hall 431
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SI502-3 Thursday 2:10 - 3:00 West Hall 431
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SI502-4 Thursday 7:10 - 8:00 West Hall 311
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SI502-5 Thursday 8:10 - 9:00 West Hall 311
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| Course
Description |
Focuses
on the basic activity of choosing and examining the myriad factors that
influence choice, including in particular learning to choose. The concepts
of adaptability and rationality will be key ones. Much choice and learning
is in the service of achieving goals. Rational choice theory is the study
of an idealized form of goal-directed behavior. How does information affect
rational choice making? How can rational choice theory be applied to the
design or management of information systems? On the other hand, many behaviors
and social outcomes do not seem to be the consequence of explicit goal-directed
behavior. Yet, those behaviors that persist, and those social configurations
and biological structures that are stable, tend to be adaptive over longer
time scales or at larger levels of social aggregation. They are responsive
to environmental threats and to competition from alternative behaviors.
A useful link between adaptability and rationality brings the two threads
together to provide a rich, predictive, and adaptive framework for understanding
the interaction between information, choice, and learning. |
| Course
Requirements |
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Students are required to do the assigned readings
before class, to attend class and discussion session, to submit assigned
written work, and to pass a final exam.
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There will be 10 short written assignments
during the semester. They will be graded on a 1-5 scale, and one point
will be taken away for each day that they are late.
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The final exam will be on Dec. 15 (Tues),
1:30-3:30.
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The final exam will count for 40% of the grade.
The written assignments will count for 60%, and will be equally weighted.
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| Textbooks |
Required:
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Anderson, John n R. (1995) Cognitive Psychology
and Its Implications (4th Ed.). New York: W.H. Freeman
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Kingma, Bruce R. (1996) The economics of
Information: A Guide to Economic and Cost-Benefit Analysis for Information
Professionals.
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Coursepack. (available at Urich's Bookstore)
Optional:
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Varian, Hal R. (1996) Intermediate Microeconomics:
A Modern Approach (4th ed).New York: W.W. Norton.
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