INFO 6940

INFO 6940

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2021-2022.

Study of topics not currently covered in INFO offerings, as determined by faculty and student interest.

When Offered Fall, Spring.

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Red Tape: The Media of Bureaucracy

  • 18549 INFO 6940   SEM 101

    • T Upson Hall 152
    • Jan 24 - May 10, 2022
    • Vidan, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For most people, the first experience of an institution comes through its paperwork, an experience that is at once banal and totally inescapable/ But for all of its familiarity, we spend very little time thinking about the genres and media of paperwork. This seminar treats bureaucratic genres and media not simply as legacies of inefficient systems or the result of a lack of foresight, but as sites of governance, where material culture, knowledge, and politics meet. Drawing on readings from media studies, book history, history of information technology, science and technology studies (STS), and legal ethnography, we will explore the ways in which institutions come to know and create orders. The course also serves as a research methods seminar in which we will learn to access and evaluate a variety of bureaucratic genres used by cultural scholars of technological and scientific systems such as systems of classified information, research grant reports, and Freedom of Information Act requests.

Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Rural Computing and Rural Infrastructure

  • 18738 INFO 6940   SEM 102

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: INFO 4940INFO 5940

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Detecting Xenophobia Online

  • 20272 INFO 6940   LEC 005

    • R Hollister Hall 306
    • Jan 24 - May 10, 2022
    • Leshed, G

      Lyon, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Teaching and Learning Grad Sem

  • 20366 INFO 6940   SEM 006

    • W Upson Hall 222
    • Jan 24 - May 10, 2022
    • Alon, L

      Sung, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    This course is an in-person, doctoral level workshop on teaching and learning. In this course, students will engage with a wide-ranging learning and teaching theories and methods. Moving beyond traditional, lecture-style teaching methods, students will experiment with state-of-the-art pedagogical approaches and learn to teach their own areas of research and topics in IS. Topics include: Pros and cons of selected instructional methods; Designing and facilitating participation-based class in large STEM classes; Setting up highly engaging activities in class, using active learning theory and practice; Class assessment and evaluation; Online and hybrid methods and the use of digital tools; Lesson planning, learning objectives, and syllabus design; Equity and inclusion in the classroom; Writing a teaching statement. This course will particularly be beneficial for those who would like to gain teaching experience and repertoire in higher education, as well as those who want to learn how to effectively communicate and persuade their own research to others. Students will have opportunities to practice their teaching skills and engage in self and peer review processes.

Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Technology and Social Justice

  • 10628 INFO 6940   SEM 131

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Taught in NYC. Enrollment limited to Cornell Tech Master's students and Cornell Tech PhD students. Instructor Permission Required.

Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Craft at Large

  • 10656 INFO 6940   SEM 132

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Taught in NYC. Enrollment Limited to Cornell Tech Students. Instructor Permission Required.

Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Rural Computing and Rural Infrastructure

  • 19819 INFO 6940   SEM 133

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Streamed From Ithaca to NYC. Enrollment limited only to Cornell Tech PhD Students.

Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Red Tape: The Media of Bureaucracy

  • 19820 INFO 6940   SEM 134

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Streamed from Ithaca to NYC. Enrollment limited to Cornell Tech PhD Students Only.