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College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Information Science Major

Note: All courses used towards the IS major must be taken for a letter grade.
All INFO courses will count as in college credit.

Key:

Fall Course

Spring Course

Fall & Spring Course

[ ]=not offered 07-08

Introductory Course (1)

	INFO 1301	Introduction to Programming Web Applications*
	INFO 1302	Introduction to Designing Web Applications*

*Students must enroll in both INFO 1301 & 1302. Together these courses replace INFO 130, and count toward the major as one course.

Core Courses (10)

1. Courses in Math & Statistics (4)

	MATH 1110(111)	Calculus I
	INFO 2950(295)	Mathematical Methods for Information Science

One of the following

	MATH 1710(171)	Statistical Theory and Application in the Real World
	H ADM 2201 (201)	Hospitality Quantitative Analysis
	AEM 2100 (210)	Introductory Statistics
	PAM 2100 (210)	Introduction to Statistics
	ENGRD 2700 (270)	Basic Engineering Probability & Statistics
	BTRY 3010 (301)	Biological Statistics I
	SOC 3010 (301)	Evaluating Statistical Evidence
	CEE 3040 (304)	Uncertainty Analysis in Engineering
	ILRST 3120 (312)	Applied Regression Methods
	ECON 3190 (319)	Introduction to Statistics and Probability
	PSYCH 3500 (350)	Statistics & Research Design

One of the following

	MATH 2210 (221)	Linear Algebra
	MATH 2310 (231)	Linear Algebra with Applications

2. Human-Centered Systems (2)

	INFO 2140 (214)	Cognitive Psychology
	INFO 2450 (245)	Psychology of Social Computing

3. Information Systems (2)

	CS 2110 (211)	Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures
	INFO 2300 (230)	Intermediate Design & Programming for the Web

4. Social Systems (2)

One of the following

	ECON 3010 (301)	Microeconomics
	ECON 3130 (313)	Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

One of the following

	[INFO 2921 (292)]	Inventing an Information Society
	INFO 3200 (320)	New Media and Society (new course, Spring 2008)
	INFO 3551 (355)	Computers: From the 17th Century to the Dot.Com Boom
	[INFO 3561 (356)]	Computing Cultures

Note:
Where options in the core courses exist, the choice will depend on the student's interests and planned advanced courses for the selected primary and secondary tracks.

Tracks (7 courses)
Students must complete four advanced courses in their selected primary track and three advanced courses in their selected secondary track. The primary and secondary tracks should be selected from the course areas listed below (Human-Centered Systems, Information Systems, and Social Systems).

Courses taken to satisfy the core course requirements may not be used to fulfill the track requirements.

Additional information on Information Science courses can be found below and in the CIS section of Courses of Study. Course information for all other courses in the major can be found in the relevant departments (i.e. AEM, CS, S&TS, etc.).

1. Human-Centered Systems

	INFO 3450 (345)	Human-Computer Interaction Design
	INFO 3650 (365)	Technology in Collaboration (New course, spring 2008)
	INFO 4400 (440)	Advanced Human-Computer Interaction Design
	[INFO 4450 (450)]	Seminar in Computer Mediated Communication
	INFO 4500 (450)	Language and Technology
	DEA 4700 (470)	Applied Ergonomic Methods
	PSYCH 3420 (342)	Human Perception: Applications to Computer Graphics, Art, and Visual Display*
	PSYCH 3470 (347)	Psychology of Visual Communications
	PSYCH 3800 (380)	Social Cognition*
	[PSYCH 4130 (413)]	Information Processing: Conscious and Unconscious
	PSYCH 4160 (416)	Modeling Perception and Cognition
	[PSYCH 4260 (426)]	Learning Language

*Students who take PSYCH 3420 may also count its prerequisite, PSYCH 205, towards the Human-centered Systems primary/secondary track requirements. Similarly, students who take PSYCH 3800 may also count PSYCH 2800 towards the Human-centered Systems primary/secondary track requirements. At most, one of PSYCH 2050 or PSYCH 2800 can be counted towards the primary/secondary track requirements.

2. Information Systems

	INFO 3300 (330)	Data-Driven Web Applications
	INFO 3720 (372)	Explorations in Artificial Intelligence
	INFO 4300 (430)	Information Retrieval
	INFO 4310 (431)	Web Information Systems
	INFO 5300 (530)	Architecture of Large-Scale Information Systems
	CS 4450 (419)	Computer Networks
	CS 4320 (432)	Introduction to Database Systems
	CS 4620 (465)	Introduction to Computer Graphics
	CS 4700 (472)	Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
	CS 4780 (478)	Machine Learning
	CS 5150 (501)	Software Engineering
	CS 5430 (5130)	System Security
	CS 5780 (5780)	Empirical Methods in Machine Learning and Data Mining
	LING 4424 (424)	Computational Linguistics
	[LING 4474 (474)]	Introduction to Natural Language Processing
	ORIE 4740 (474)	Statistical Data Mining I
	ORIE 4800 (480)	Information Technology

3. Social Systems

	INFO 2040 (204)	Networks
	INFO 3200 (320)	New Media and Society (new course, Spring 2008)
	[INFO 3491 (349)]	Media Technologies
	INFO 3551 (355)	Computers: From the 17th Century to the Dot.Com Boom
	[INFO 3561 (356)]	Computing Cultures
	INFO 3660 (366)	History and Theory of Digital Art (new course, Fall 2007)
	[INFO 3871 (387)]	The Automatic Lifestyle: Consumer Culture and Technology
	INFO 415	Environmental Interventions (new course, only offered Fall 2007)
	INFO 4290 (429)	Copyright in the Digital Age
	[INFO 4350 (435)]	Seminar on Applications of Information Science
	[INFO 4144 (444)]	Responsive Environments
	[INFO 4470 (447)]	Social and Economic Data
	INFO 4850 (485)	Computational Methods for Complex Networks (New, spring 2008)
	INFO 5150 (515)	Culture, Law, and Politics of the Internet
	AEM 3220 (322)	Internet Strategy*
	[ECON 3680 (368) ]	Game Theory*
	[ECON 4190 (419)]	Economic Decisions Under Uncertainty
	[ECON 4760 (476)]/	Decision Theory I
	[ECON 4770 (477)]	Decision Theory II
	[H ADM 5574 (574)]	Strategic Information Systems*
	H ADM 4489 (489)	The Law of the Internet and E-Commerce
	[ORIE 4350 (435)]	Introduction to Game Theory*
	[SOC 3040 (304)]	Social Networks and Social Processes
	[S&TS 4111 (411)]	Knowledge, Technology, and Property

*Only one of ORIE 4350 and ECON 3680 can be taken for IS credit. Only one of AEM 3220 and H ADM 5574 can be taken for IS credit.

Note: In addition to completing all IS major requirements, students will need to finish all of the necessary college-level requirements prior to graduation.

For assistance in course scheduling, refer to these course conflict charts:

Fall 2007 [PDF]
Spring 2008 [PDF]