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Terrence A Brooks
INFO 200
Seattle Campus
Information as an object of study, including theories, concepts, and principles of information, information seeking, cognitive processing, knowledge representation and restructuring, and their relationships to physical and intellectual access to information. Development of information systems for storage, organization, and retrieval. Experience in the application of theories, concepts, and principles.
Class description
This course covers the intellectual foundations of informatics and digital culture. It covers everything from the construction of language in a digital form, information architecture such as relational databases and extensible markup language, searching for information and the client-server model. The course writing assignment challenges students to decide if information is real, information is perceptual or information is art.
Student learning goals
- Digital basis for the construction of language
- Digital basis for the construction of information architectures
- Digital basis for searching for meaning
- Digital consequences of information networks
- Social and cultural consequences of digitization
General method of instruction
Lecture and discussion
Recommended preparation
None
Class assignments and grading
There are a series of deliverables which are to be done as web investigations. The writing project is an essay on one of these topics: Information is real, information is perceptual, information is art.
* Completion of the deliverables * Submission of the writing assignment
