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 |
