581 - Preserving Information Resources in a Digital Age
Preserving Information Resources in a Digital Age --- With a special focus on libraries, archives, and research collections, this course provides a comprehensive overview of information preservation. It will cover basic concepts, challenges, assessment methodologies, and good practices of preservation for continued access by present and future users. Preservation is discussed both as a distinct function and as an embedded feature of key information processing and dissemination. Students will explore core principles of preservation management and current trends and issues related to preservation and sustainability of digital collections.
582 - Introduction to Interaction Design
Introduction to Interaction Design --- This course will provide students with a hands-on introduction to interaction design. The course will focus on design methods and design thinking, and will allow students to develop their design sensibilities and practical skills through a series of design exercises. The course will cover individual and group ideation techniques; and contemporary perspectives on interaction design for common platforms (e.g., web, desktop, tablet, mobile, and beyond).
The course will combine readings, lectures, and in-class exercises to convey and reinforce the intellectual content. Individual and group assignments will provide an opportunity to engage more deeply with the material. The course work may include substantial individual/group project at the end of the course or a semester-long individual project. In-class presentations, along with group critique will allow students to receive feedback from peers and instructors to improve and refine their craft. In-class discussions will rely heavily on concrete examples that are analyzed and critiqued by students and instructors alike, and are used to illustrate and reinforce the course content.
583 - Managing Accountability Through Recordkeeping
Managing Accountability Through Recordkeeping --- Intensive overview for managing information as a critical organizational asset and the various accountability risks associated with their neglect. Social, legal, and policy requirements such as trust, evidence, compliance, and social transformation will be examined alongside ongoing tensions between preservation and destruction, secrecy and transparency, and privacy and openness.
585 - Scholarly Communication
Scholarly Communication --- Covers the production, access, and evaluation of scholarly information in print and digital formats. Focuses on current and historical challenges and opportunities, with emphasis on open access, peer review, modes of disseminating research and data, and the critical role of information institutions and professions in the scholarly communication landscape.
588 - Principles of User Experience
Principles of User Experience --- Surveys basic principles of cognitive and social psychology relevant to the design and use of information systems. Focuses on important findings in social science and their implications for the design and use of information systems. Topics include the basics of human perception, memory capacity and organization, the development of skill and expertise, and the characteristics of everyday reasoning and decision making, social influences on behavior, and the role of emotion in user experience.
591 - Humanitarian Innovation: Co-Design for Social Impact
Humanitarian Innovation: Co-Design for Social Impact --- Explore the role that innovation can and does play in how community development (e.g. refugee resettlement) works in the United States. This class will focus on participatory approaches for innovation, with particular attention to issues of power, gender, inclusion and psycho-social well-being. Students will work in teams to understand current challenges in selected resettlement communities, practice co-design and prototyping skills as they attempt to solve a specific design challenge, and develop tools for enhancing co-creation among various actors in the humanitarian space in SE Ml.
594 - Automotive User Experience
Automotive User Experience --- This course provides hands-on experience with the best practices and theory that exist within Automotive User Experience (UX) design space. Students will be asked to create designs of their own to convey their understanding.
602 - Mathematical Foundations for Applied Data Science
Mathematical Foundations for Applied Data Science --- This course builds and strengthens the mathematical foundations required to succeed in applied data science. The course will review fundamental concepts in statistics, probability, linear algebra, and calculus, and demonstrate how these concepts are applied to core approaches in data analysis.
605 - Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
Interdisciplinary Problem Solving --- "Interdisciplinary Problem Solving" is a course offered at the Law School through the Problem Solving Initiative (PSI). (https://problemsolving.law.umich.edu/) Through a team-based, experiential, and interdisciplinary learning model, small groups of U-M graduate and professional students work with faculty to explore and offer solutions to emerging, complex problems.
608 - Networks
Networks --- This course will cover topics in network analysis, from social networks to applications in information networks such as the internet. We will introduce basic concepts in network theory, discuss metric and models, use software analysis tools to experiment with a wide variety of real-world network data, and study applications to areas such as information retrieval. For their final project, the students will apply the concepts learned in class to networks of interest to them.