| Course |
Description |
Instructor |
Credits (Units) |
Year |
Semester |
iSchool 247
|
School of Information
The design and presentation of digital information. Use of graphics, animation, sound, visualization software, and hypermedia in presenting information to the user. Methods of presenting complex information to enhance comprehension and analysis. Incorporation of visualization techniques into human-computer interfaces. |
Marti Hearst
|
3 |
2008 |
Spring
|
iSchool 290
|
School of Information
This course focuses on employing XML and web services to reuse or ""remix"" digital content and services. Students will learn practical tools and techniques to recombine personal information through hands-on explorations and projects. Topics include: weblogs, wikis, and their underlying technologies; content syndication via RSS; building applications on top of Flickr, the image sharing site, and delicious, and other social bookmarking sites; incorporating content from libraries via new digital library technologies; sending content to the campus' new learning management system, bSpace; exploiting the XML of OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office to create and manipulate "smart documents"; incorporating geospatial services into the mix of services. Students are expected to have some basic knowledge of XML. No experience with web services is expected. |
Raymond Yee
|
3 |
2008 |
Spring
|
iSchool 290
|
School of Information
This course is designed to introduce students to the innovation process and its management. It provides an overview of technological change and links it to specific strategic challenges; examines the diverse elements of the innovation process and how they are managed; discusses the uneasy relationship between technology and the workforce; and examines challenges of managing innovation globally. |
H. W. Chesbrough
|
3 |
2008 |
Spring
|
iSchool 290
|
School of Information
This course is a broad survey of Web-based publishing, defined here as any well-designed service for providing information using Web formats and protocols. It touches on strategy and project planning considerations, but emphasizes design, implementation, and delivery issues. Design topics include publishing process modeling and document workflows, content reuse, document formats, compound documents, internationalization and localization, and the associated questions of usability and accessibility. Implementation issues include URI design, Web server setup, and storage management, starting from the foundation (XML databases) and moving on to specialized content management systems. Delivery issues include cross-media publishing and syndication alternatives such as RSS and Atom. |
Erik Wilde
|
2 |
2008 |
Spring
|
iSchool 290
|
School of Information
Course focusing on corporate strategy, technology, and marketing in wireless in the context of assessing viable business models and competitive strategies in a global context. Will discuss role of new ventures in wireless and opportunities for start-ups. |
Reza Moazzami
|
3 |
2008 |
Spring
|
iSchool 290-3
|
School of Information
This is an experimental course, incorporating elements of the humanities, social sciences, and human-computer interaction. New media will be our organizing concept. This course should appeal to students in any of the areas described above. The goal is to attract a multidisciplinary group of participants so that the interplay within the group reflects the interplay among the readings. The course will be highly participatory, with students from the various areas represented taking a lead role in the readings and discussion in their domain, but with everyone expected to learn about all the areas examined. |
Nancy Van House
|
3 |
2008 |
Spring
|
iSchool 290-4
|
School of Information
Web-based services have become popular since the Web was invented in 1989. The first wave of Web-based services were user interfaces to systems which before the Web could not be easily accessed over the network. This development made the Web as successful as it is today, as a medium delivering a globally accessible interface to services. The second wave of Web-based services are Web Services, using basic Web technologies (HTTP/XML) and robust protocols (WS-*) for implementing application programming interfaces and business-class composite applications. A more recent third wave of Web-based services uses lighter-weight protocols and ad-hoc design approaches to merge or "mash-up" information or services for use primarily by individuals. In this course, all facets of Web-based services will be examined, starting with server-side technologies for the Web, and then moving on to Web Services basics (SOAP/WSDL). Coordination and orchestration of Web Services are covered with BPEL, user interfaces to Web Services (XForms), and questions of how to design Web Services (openness and extensibility) are discussed as well. |
Erik Wilde
|
2 |
2008 |
Spring
|
JOURN 288
|
Journalism
Students not enrolled in the TV cycle who wish to learn essential techniques and examine new reporting forms are invited to apply for this experimental class. Students learn the basics of TV reporting, how to cover a slice of community life in America or abroad, and produce thoughtful works for distribution on the web and on the air. Students learn the rudiments of digital production, reporting, and
editing. The course will emphasize solid reporting, clear expression, and original storytelling. |
Neil Henry
|
4 |
2008 |
Spring
|
JOURN 298
|
Journalism
An on-going project, this class will use a virtual reality program to recreate and tell the story of the jazz and blues club scene on Oakland's 7th Street during its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s - a remarkable part of the city's history that has been all but lost to urban decay. The four block stretch of 7th Street will be recreated as a virtual world, which people can access over the Internet and then adopt avatar figures to walk up and down the streets, enter the clubs, listen to the music of the era and interact with other people logged onto the site. The VR program used in the class was developed by the UC Berkeley Architecture Department to recreate ancient cities like Cairo, and Architecture students are doing the modeling of the buildings for the VR recreation of 7th Street. This class will involve reporting and research on the old jazz and blues scene on 7th Street to provide the content for the VR world - the stories of the clubs and other activities on 7th Street, the musicians and other characters who frequented the area, the music played in the clubs, the attire people wore at the time. The class will decide how to tell the story of the clubs and the history of the area using video game narratives and storytelling techniques. |
Paul Grabowicz
|
3 |
2008 |
Spring
|
EDUC 290C
|
Education
The seminar focuses on technology-based modeling methods supporting a range of research practices. Specifically, we will explore: (a) design for student content learning; (b) research of student content learning; and (c) theory-of-learning research and development. |
Dor Abrahamson
|
Variable |
2008 |
Spring
|
MUSIC 207
|
Music
Designed for graduate students in music composition, but open to graduate students in related disciplines who can demonstrate thorough knowledge of the history of electro-acoustic music as well as significant experience with computer music practice and research. All projects are subject to approval of the instructor. Course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Syllabus and sample projects list In the beginning weeks of the semester, students present their project ideas and receive critical feedback from the group. With significant one on one interaction with the instructor, semester-length projects are defined. The seminar convenes each week for group interaction and exchange focusing on aesthetic and technical issues raised by active computer music projects. The Research staff at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) will provide technical support as needed throughout the semester. Students will have access to the CNMAT recording and production studio, the CNMAT media lab and the CNMAT eight-channel sound diffusion concert space. Students who are creating new music employing digital technologies are required to present their work in a public concert setting. Students involved in Computer Music research projects will present their findings to the seminar at the end of the semester. |
Edmund Campion
|
4 |
2008 |
Spring
|
PSYCH 210
|
Psychology
Three hours of lecture per week. A survey of the field of biological psychology. Areas covered are (a) cognitive neuroscience; (b) biological bases of behavior; (c) sensation and perception (d) learning and memory, (e) thought and language. |
New Media Affiliated Faculty
|
3 |
2008 |
Spring
|
PSYCH C215D
|
Psychology
Three hours of lecture per week for seven and one-half weeks. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. This course will cover ""high-level"" visual processing, including object recognition, visual attention, visual memory, visual imagery, and visual awareness. The approach will be interdisciplinary, including material from psychophysics, classical perceptual psychology, computational modeling and neurosciences. Also listed as Molecular and Cell Biology C264D, Vision Science C290D, and Computer Science C293D. |
New Media Affiliated Faculty
|
2 |
2008 |
Spring
|
PSYCH 229
|
Psychology
One and one-half hours of colloquium per week. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Reports and discussions of original research in the area of cognitive psychology. Not all participants must report in any given semester, but all are expected to attend and to enter into the discussions. Required course for all students in the cognition, brain, and behavior graduate program. |
A. P. Shinamura
|
1 |
2008 |
Spring
|
RHETOR 240G
|
Rhetoric
In this course we will be reading new works in science and technology studies, including recent books by Bruno Latour, Sheila Jasanoff, Peter Galison, and Donna Haraway, as well as work by scholars newer to the field. We will consider the potential contributions of STS to Rhetoric, and pay particular attention to race, gender, sexuality and science; science and technology in a transnational world; intellectual and bodily property; knowledge and information; life, climate and weapons science and technology. |
Charis Thompson
|
4 |
2008 |
Spring
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