TR 1:15-2:30 PM – Davis 209 – Darin Freeburg

By the end of the semester students will be able to: Analyze how people create, find, and use data and information within communities and organizations; identify and discuss the basic concepts, theories, policies, and major trends of data and information science; critically assess physical, intellectual, and social barriers to data and information; discuss career opportunities in data and information science; examine social factors in the evaluation, acquisition, and implementation of data and information technology in communities and organizations.

Online Asynchronous – Ryan Rucker

Comprehensive overview of responsive website development for information-intensive organizations. Examine the current tools and standards used in today’s field and learn how they function together in a modern web environment. Web development foundation focusing on content management and website design with an emphasis on today’s myriad of viewing devices and specific reference to the unique needs of information-intensive institutions.

TR 8:30-9:45 AM – DAVIS 111 – TBA

The ongoing rapid growth of online data due to the Internet and the widespread use of datasets have created an immense need for information storage and retrieval that is an interdisciplinary area focusing upon methodologies for extracting useful knowledge from data. This course provides a comprehensive overview of basic information storage and retrieval concepts, tools, and applications. Students will get knowledge about new techniques, applications, and tools for informatics purpose. In addition, students will develop a research project using open-source tools. They collect and analyze text data with respect to a research question in any field such as health, social science, medical, politics, and business.

TR 2:50-4:05 PM – DAVIS 209 – Elise Lewis

Overview of major types of research methods and techniques within the field of information science. Methods of data analysis, evaluation of published research, and ethical principles. Students will get hands-on experience with different types of data collection and analysis.

MW 2:20-3:35 PM – DAVIS 216 – Gordon Jones

Blockchain is an information and communication management platform that facilitates immutable transactions between two or more parties using a network of independently distributed databases without common processors. Blockchain reduces or removes risk from organizational or business transactions by creating transparent decentralized ledgers thus lifting trust between parties. Blockchain is promising to disrupt industries, productions processes, applications and services in financial services, records management, healthcare, intellectual property management, hospitality, art industries, library and information services, supply chain management, service and product reviews, revenue collection and administration and many more. The applications are unlimited. This course introduces you to the blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and decentralized networks with applications in various professional areas, businesses and industries.

Section 001 – TR 10:05-11:20 AM – Callcott 102 – Valerie Byrd-Fort
Section J10 – Jed Dearybury – Online Asynchronous
Section J11 – Russ Conrath – Online Asynchronous

A study of materials for children from birth through elementary school (age 13) with emphasis on the evaluation, selection, and use of those materials to meet the educational, cultural, and recreational needs of children.

Section J10 – Online Asynchronous – Jeff Salter
Section J11 – Online Asynchronous – Jeff Salter

This course will provide the student with frameworks and best practices in worldwide cyber security education and information.  Students will collaborate with current cyber security experts, architects, and instructors to learn how to manage modern day cyber security risks.  Learning experiences will include Network Security, Cloud Security, and End Point and Mobile Security.  Students will receive full visibility and understanding of the Check Point Infinity Architecture.  Students will acquire essential cyber skills and earn the option to complete the Check Point certification process.

TR 10:05-11:20 AM – Petigru 108 – Vanessa Kitzie

This course positions students as active agents that engage in responsive and responsible practices when perceiving and interpreting media. Students will work on their critical thinking skills as they gain a firm grasp of relevant history and practical knowledge about the news media; develop their understanding of digital participation and democratic citizenship; identify how systems of power and oppression influence what and how information is framed and disseminated; and understand how individuals and groups interpret media frames and arguments. This combined skillset will enable students to reflect on their own mediated practices and develop a comprehensive understanding of news literacy from technical, social, cultural, political, and economic perspectives.

TR 4:25-5:40 PM - DAVIS 209 - Ehsan Mohammadi

This course aims to foster your knowledge about theoretical insights and practical issues related to managing an organization. The course will also offer an overview of the development of theories and contemporary issues of management with a focus on the role of information and technology in modern organizations.

TR 10:05-11:20 AM - DAVIS 216 - Vanessa Kitzie

Does Tik Tok make you depressed? Is YouTube contributing to the spread of mis and disinformation? This class explores these questions and more by examining the design, uses, and effects of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). Students will apply this understanding to real-world issues like artificial intelligence and machine learning, digital privacy, and policy and regulation. They will work on a semester-long project in which they identify an ICT issue and propose social and technical (sociotechnical) solutions to address this issue.

MW 3:55-5:10 PM – DAVIS 111 – Ryan Rucker

Data science is an interdisciplinary area focusing upon methodologies for extracting useful knowledge from data. The ongoing rapid growth of online data due to the Internet and the widespread use of databases have created an immense need for data science. This course provides a comprehensive overview of data science basics. Students will get knowledge about the basic concepts, applications, and tools for data science purpose. In addition, students will develop a data science project that emphasizes the concepts covered in the class.

TR 11:40 AM – 12:55 PM – DAVIS 111 – Jeff Salter

This course will be about competitive intelligence (CI), with a focus on intelligence analysis. CI is a tricky concept bound in layers of business jargon. At its core CI is the structured use of analysis to produce actionable reports and documentation providing guidance for decision-making in opaque situations. This class will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to provide structure analysis using a variety of methods, theories and techniques. To do so we will be conducting a variety of analytic exercises. In order to provide focus and show how these skills can be used in the real world, this class will incorporate hands-on practice, role-playing scenarios, and practical application of skills gained during the semester.

Online Asynchronous – Ehsan Mohammadi

*This course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

This course aims to foster theoretical insights about information visualization. Students even with no technical background will learn the ways to prepare small and large-scale datasets for visual representations. This course is a project-based and students will map real datasets and understand the methods to interpret the visualizations. Nowadays, utilizing and making sense of data is an integral part of many professions. Hence, the ability to visualize information is a hot area that students across different disciplines need to develop their knowledge and skills. To create valuable, meaningful and innovative visualizations students need to have a solid understating of human and technological sides of mapping information. In other words, machines and human brains together can provide solutions to make better insights of information. This course provides an outline of trends in information visualization. Students will learn the current techniques to make meaningful topical, temporal and geospatial visualizations. Students will learn to use some tools such as The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool, VOSviewer, OpenRefine, Tableau, Gephi, and Plot.ly.

Online Asynchronous – Ehsan Mohammadi

*This course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

This course aims to foster theoretical insights about information visualization. Students even with no technical background will learn the ways to prepare small and large-scale datasets for visual representations. This course is a project-based and students will map real datasets and understand the methods to interpret the visualizations. Nowadays, utilizing and making sense of data is an integral part of many professions. Hence, the ability to visualize information is a hot area that students across different disciplines need to develop their knowledge and skills. To create valuable, meaningful and innovative visualizations students need to have a solid understating of human and technological sides of mapping information. In other words, machines and human brains together can provide solutions to make better insights of information. This course provides an outline of trends in information visualization. Students will learn the current techniques to make meaningful topical, temporal and geospatial visualizations. Students will learn to use some tools such as The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool, VOSviewer, OpenRefine, Tableau, Gephi, and Plot.ly.

Online Asynchronous – Shana Watson
*This course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Offer students history, background, and justification for storytelling.  To enable students, through a study of storytelling methods and experience with groups, to acquire techniques requisite for ease in telling stories; and to introduce various sources and types of materials suitable for storytelling, and useful in developing effective programs of oral sharing of literature with all ages.  This course is also designed to enable the student to build a personal storytelling style and repertoire of stories for performance.

Section J50, J91, J92 – Clayton Copeland
Section J51, JB1, JB2 – Dick Kawooya

ISCI 701 is 3-credit hour course designed to provide students with the ability to communicate what it means to be a library or information professional in both historical and contemporary contexts; identify and examine issues and core values of the library and information professions including access, literacy and learning, information policy, collaboration, and service; formulate short-term and long-term plans for individual professional growth and development; and articulate a personal philosophy of culturally responsive professional behaviors and ethics. 

Sections J50, J91, J92 – Online Asynchronous – Nicole Cooke
Sections J51, JB1, JB2 – Online Asynchronous – Mónica Colón-Aguirre

ISCI 702 is 3-credit hour course designed to provide students with the ability to define and explore the concepts of community, community ownership, and community engagement; situate the library within the ecology of a community to identify existing and potential partners and inform the development of library programs and services; apply principles of message design, marketing, and public relations to the development of professional media and products for outreach and advocacy; and identify theories of interpersonal communication and how these apply to personal growth and the subsequent development of community relationships.

Sections J50, J91, J92 – Online Asynchronous – Feili Tu-Keefner
Sections J51, JB1, JB2 – Online Asynchronous – Dick Kawooya

ISCI 703 is 3-credit hour course designed to provide students with the ability to describe the components of the knowledge life cycle and interpreting the reference process through its stages; evaluate the quality, accessibility, and appropriateness of information resources for selection and use; demonstrate effective use of information resources and information searching skills; identify and describe various models for the delivery of onsite and electronic information services; explain the role of information professionals in the promotion and support of information literacy development; and identify how pedagogical theories apply to the design of instruction for specific learners, content areas, and learning settings.

Online Asynchronous – Ryan Rucker

This course provides a comprehensive overview of data science basics and applications for communications. Students will get knowledge about the basic concepts, applications, and tools of data science for communication purposes. The course will also include basic theories and approaches in communications.

Online Asynchronous – Taryn Cooksey

By the end of the semester, students will be able to use literature and resources related to archives and records to inform their thinking, and identify and solve problems; identify policies and procedures fundamental to the administration of records programs; discuss the archival functions of appraisal, representation, access, advocacy, and preservation; explain the impact of emerging standards and technologies on the practice of archivists and records professionals; advocate for the importance of archives and records to individuals, organizations and society;

articulate professional, legal, and ethical concerns related to the administration of archives and records; explain the historical and emerging relationships between the archives and records professions.

Online Asynchronous – Cynthia Johnson

Roles, functions, and organization of school library programs. Systematic program planning and evaluation, leadership, advocacy, and integration of the school library program into curriculum. The purpose of this course is to provide you with an introduction to the nature, role, functions, and management of school library programs. Emphasis is placed on systematic program development to help teachers, students, administrators, and others in the school community to “become effective users of ideas and information.” The focus of the course is on the building level professional and her/his roles and responsibilities to provide effective programs and services which are integrated into the school’s total educational program.

Online Asynchronous – TBA

This course enables students to contribute to the economic, social, and cultural progress of the community by preparing them for positions of responsibility in public libraries. This is done through examination of public library development, governance, service, and evaluation from an administrative viewpoint. It is designed to provoke critical thinking about the challenges that accompany the provision of public library service and cultivate an understanding of the ethical and operational decisions that typically confront those who provide these services.

Online Asynchronous – TBA

We will focus on the ways in which catalogers create electronic records that describe and provide access to materials through OPACs (online public access catalogs). A primary focus on books in this course lays a foundation to which you can easily add the skills necessary to catalog non-book materials and perform other advanced cataloging duties. This is a practical course which will allow you to gain hands-on experience in cataloging that will also inform your practice as a librarian in general, regardless of your specialty. We will also step back from the detail work and look at the larger issues that impact resource description and access. It is my hope as your instructor that you will leave the course with practical skills, as well as a sense of what is currently happening in the cataloging community. You will learn via “hands-on” problem-solving, readings and other media, “case studies,” presentation, and discussion.

Online Asynchronous – TBA

The course is focused on the role of the school librarian in integrating the school library media program into a K-12 standards-based, inquiry-based curriculum including best practices, needs assessment, collaboration, instructional design, and resource provision. This course provides future school librarians with a broad understanding of their place within 21st Century pedagogical practice focusing on research skills (information literacy), collaborations with classroom teachers, and instructional technology.

Online Asynchronous – Feili Tu-Keefner

ISCI 749 is designed to give health, communication, and information professionals the skills needed for evidence-based practice. It provides comprehensive coverage of essential health information and communication resources in various formats. The required skills for health information seeking and evaluation of health-related resources are also covered.

Online Asynchronous – Clayton Copeland

An overview of the concept of literacy, an historical perspective of the literacy issue, a current perspective of the efforts to improve literacy through libraries, and ways in which librarians can become more effective providers and partners in the literacy movement, particularly through systematic program development. The challenges and consequences of illiteracy make the quality of life for too many far less than it can be; illiteracy is also a serious threat to our country's capability to compete in a global, information-based economy. Libraries and librarians in coalition with other educational and social agencies can play a deterministic role in helping to reduce the problem of illiteracy. One of the ways that this can be made possible is through systematic, cooperative program development and the use of literature as a foundation of basic literacy. This course will help provide a foundation, necessary skills, essential knowledge, and positive attitudes for information professionals. Each student will effect change in their communities through service learning and direct application of the concepts and skills studied throughout the course.

Online Asynchronous – Valerie Byrd-Fort

In ISCI 756, students will learn about current children's materials, including print resources and digital resources. We focus on resources for school age children. A brief history of children's literature is covered as well as an overview of genres and classics. We focus on diversity in children's literature and current trends. Targeted audience for this course is students who want to be school librarians or youth service librarians in public libraries. 

Jenna Spiering

A study of materials for young adults (13-19) with emphasis on the process of evaluating them to meet the educational, cultural, and recreational needs of young adults. ISCI 757’s goal is to help students become familiar with a wide range of materials that meet the reading interests and educational, emotional, and recreational needs of young adults, ages 13 – 19, and to develop competence in using evaluative criteria in their selection.

Online Asynchronous – Jesselyn Dreeszen Bowman                      

This course provides: definition of terms and concepts currently associated with information technologies; instruction in the systematic identification, selection, use, and evaluation of technology resources for instruction and information services; management of technology; and the consideration of various theories of human cognition, perception, and communications related to information technology and the information transfer process. An emphasis is placed on the role of the library information professional as an instructional partner, manager, and coordinator of information that is currently available in the full range of information systems including public, commercial, and educational telecommunications (radio, TV, cable, Internet) and other local and global resources accessed via digital technologies.

Online Asynchronous – Clayton Copeland

This course will offer an introduction to the process of selecting and evaluating materials for children and youth who are differently-abled, or who have disabilities. It will also offer an introduction to the process of planning and implementing programming for these populations. Special emphasis will be placed upon Universal Design and creating inclusive environments and service learning opportunities.

Online Asynchronous – TBA

The course will provide students with an opportunity to explore the nature of information agencies and their purposes, collections, collection policies and acquisition procedures. The purpose of this course is to provide students with a systematic method for managing the growth and development of collections and information resources in various information institutions. The primary themes covered by the course content center upon the following major concepts: · the importance of understanding users and communities · the necessity of reflective selection practices · the meaning of effective acquisition processes.

Online Asynchronous – Ryan Rucker

This course presents introductory concepts related to the creation, manipulation, and implementation of visual collections in various online environments. It identifies resources, procedures, and skills needed to successfully design, implement, manage digital image collections in a collaborative environment. More specifically, this course will allow students hands on experience with the management and curation of digital content within cultural heritage institutions. Major topics will include: creation of digital images, image metadata and retrieval, preservation, copyright, and expansion of the Archiving South Carolina Women project.

Online Asynchronous – Nicole Cooke

This course is intended to help students conceptualize, critique, and reformulate social justice as an outcome while working towards a better understanding of how their social identities and systems of oppression contribute to and/or work against the social justice process. As a class we will focus on some of the fundamental issues of social justice and engage in dialogue and experiential activities that will extend our ability to empathize with and advocate for diverse and marginalized populations. Students will be challenged to think deeply the role social justice plays in their personal and professional lives and how that can be powerfully and effectively communicated to others.

Wednesday 10:00 AM – 12:45 PM – DAVIS 112 – Darin Freeburg

Seminar examining a range of issues, theories, and research questions that currently shape thinking and discourse in library and information science.
Goal Statement: By the end of this course, students will be able to overview and critically analyze LIS research and theory, identify gaps in theory and research, propose theoretical interventions to address identified gaps, and exhibit an understanding of academic life both within and outside of the iSchool.

Monday 10:00 AM – 12:45 PM – DAVIS 112 – Mónica Colón-Aguirre

This course focuses on the various applications of information in society. Topics will cover various information behaviors including information needs, information seeking, information avoidance and information encountering as manifested in different aspects and groups in society.