The graduate field plans to review the set of courses annually.

The following courses have been identified as the initial group of required 600-level courses.

REQUIRED

One course in Statistics.

One course in Research Methods.

Depending on skills, a course in Computer Programming.

Information Systems (two courses required)
INFO 630: Human Language Technology
INFO 631: Web Information Systems
CS 685: The Structure of Information Networks

Human Computer Interaction
COMM 640/INFO 640: Advanced Human Computer Interaction Design

Cognition
INFO 614/PSYCH 614: Cognitive Science

Social Aspects of Information
INFO 634/S&TS 634: Information Technology in Sociocultural Context


RECOMMENDED:

Information Systems
CS 478/578 or 678: Machine Learning
CS 501: Software Engineering
CS 576/577 (aka ECON 476/477): Decision Theory
PSYCH 616: Modeling Perception and Cognition
ORIE 629: Foundations of Game Theory and Mechanism Design for Engineering Applications
CS 632: Advanced Database Systems
INFO 635: Information Science Applications
INFO 648: Speech Synthesis
CS 672: Advanced Artificial Intelligence
CS 674: Natural Language Processing

Human Computer Interaction
COMM 645/INFO 645 : Seminar in Computer-Mediated Communication
COMM 650/INFO 650: Language and Technology
DEA 651: Ergonomics, anthropometrics, biomechanics
DEA 670: Applied ergonomics methods
INFO 651: Critical Technical Practices (*also meets Methods requirement)

Cognition
Cogst 501 (2 credits): Issues in Biological Information Processing (this is the same as the 2-credit graduate section of Psych 614)
PSYCH 530 (4 credits): Representation of Structure in Vision and Language
PSYCH 531 (4 credits): Topics in Cognitive Studies
PSYCH 614 (5 credits): Cognitive Psychology

Social Aspects of Information
INFO 515: Culture, Law, and Politics of the Internet
S&TS 525: Seminar in the History of Technology
S&TS 532: Inside Technology: The Social Construction of Technology
S&TS 631: Qualitative Research Methods for Studying Science
ART H 644/INFO 644 Responsive Environments
S&TS 652: Technologies of Communication
ECON 669: Economics of Information
CS 676/677: Reasoning about Knowledge/Uncertainty
INFO 694: The Internet as a Social Phenomenon: Issues and Methods
INFO 747: Social & Economic Data (GR RDC)

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