Indiana University Bloomington

Courses at Indiana

The table below lists the various courses offered at Indiana University that include Social Informatics content. To request that a course be added to this list, please send an email to the RKCSI Webmaster.

Indiana University also offers a Ph.D. minor in Social Informatics. The minor requires completion of 12 credit hours outside the student’s home department (3 foundational and 9 elective credit hours). Courses with “Core” in the “Ph.D. Minor” column in the table below serve as foundational classes for the minor. Courses with a “Y” in the “Ph.D. Minor” column may be taken as electives to satisfy the requirements of the Ph.D. minor in Social Informatics. See the Ph.D. minor page for additional details, including how to request approval of additional courses.


Course Number Course Name Professor(s) Ph.D. Minor
Kelley School of Business (KSB)
S600 Foundations in Information Systems Research Alan Dennis Y
S602 Systems Analysis and Design Research Ramesh Venkataraman Y
S603 Collaborative Technologies Research Anne Massey Y
S604 Information Systems Strategy and Management Research Alan Dennis Y
S790 Independent Study Alan Dennis Y
S798 Theory Building and Dissertation Proposal Writing Alan Dennis Y
Cognitive Science Program
Q540 Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive and Information Sciences Colin Allen Y
Department of Communication & Culture
CMCL 620 Media, Politics, and Power: Ethnographic Approaches to New Media: Configuring the Object of Analysis in New Media Research Mary Gray
School of Education
P550 Cognition and Semiotics Don Cunningham
School of Informatics (SoI)
I503 Social Impact of Information Technologies
I605 Social Foundations of Informatics
I690 Seminar in Social Informatics II: Political & Economic Issues
Christine Ogan
School of Journalism
J530 Issues in New Communication Technologies Christine Ogan Core
J614 Communication and National Development Christine Ogan Y
School of Library and Information Science (SLIS)
L503 User Needs and Behavior in Theory and Practice
L547 Organizational Informatics Alice Robbin Y
L561 The Information Industry: Electronic Commerce Howard Rosenbaum Y
L563 Information Policies, Economics and The Law Alice Robbin Y
L564 Computerization in Society Noriko Hara Core
L574 Communication in Electronic Environments: Computer-Mediated Communication Noriko Hara Y
L576 Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing in Socio-Technical Perspective Y
L597 Topics in Library & Information Science: Gender and Computerization Susan Herring Y
L600 Readings in Library & Information Science: Readings in the Political Economy of Information and Communication: Post-Fordism and the Information Society Ron Day
L610 International Information Issues Y
L642 Concepts and Contemporary Issues in HCI Yvonne Rogers
L764 Information Societies in Critical Perspective Y
Department of Political Science
Y210 Politics of the Internet Jeffrey Hart Y
Y396 Politics of High Technology Jeffrey Hart Y
Y699 International Political Economy Jeffrey Hart
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
V671 Public Organization and Management I Y
V672 Public Organization and Management II Y
Telecommunications Department
T551 Communication, Technology & Society Erik Bucy Core
T601 Origins of the Information Age Harmeet Sawhney Y
T602 Interactivity & New Media Erik Bucy Y
T610 Networked society Harmeet Sawhney Y