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Approved Electives

Students who do not select the information architecture or human-computer interaction option can customize their degree by selecting electives in areas of their personal interest.   The following is a list of electives that the Information School has already approved. 

Students can apply these electives toward meeting their Informatics degree elective requirements without special approval. If students wishes to take a course not on this list, they should submit a petition. 

Anthropology

  • ANTH 356 Visual Anthropology
  • ANTH 358 Culture and Cognition (prereq: ANTH 203, LING 203, or PSYCH 355)
  • ANTH 415 Applied Ethnography

Architecture and Urban Planning

  • ARCH 447 Physical Structure and Human Interaction
  • ARCH 460 Design Theory and Analysis

Business Administration

  • MKTG 301 Marketing Concepts (prereq: ECON 200)
  • MKTG 445 Mult'l Marketing & Business Dev (prereq: MKTG 301)
  • MKTG 455 Entrepreneurial Marketing (prereq: MKTG 301)
  • I S 470 Business Data Communications (prereq: I S 320)

Communications

  • COM 401 Telecommunication Policy and Convergent Media
  • COM 402 New Media as Virtual Communities
  • COM 302 The Cultural Impact of Information Technology (offered jointly with CHID 370)
  • COM 322 Global Communication  (offered jointly with POL S 329)
  • COM 376 Nonverbal Communication
  • COM 482 Computer-Mediated Interpersonal Communication

Comparative History of Ideas

  • CHID 370 The Cultural Impact of Information Technology (offered jointly with COM 302)

Computer Science and Engineering

  • CSE 413 Programming Languages and Their Implementation
  • CSE 321 Discrete Structures  (prereq: CSE 143; either MATH 126, MATH 129, or MATH 136)
  • CSE 410 Computer Systems  (prereq: CSE 373)
  • CSE 472 Intro to Computational Linguistics (prereq: ANTHRO 461 or LING 461; offered jointly with LING 472)

Geography

  • GEOG 460 Geographic Information Systems Analysis (prereq: 2.0 in GEOG 360)
  • GEOG 461 Urban Geographic Information Systems (prereq: 2.0 in GEOG 360; recommended: GEOG 277)

Industrial Engineering

  • IND E 351 Human Factors in Design (prereq: ENGR 315)
  • IND E 455 Use Interface Design (prereq: IND E 316; offered jointly with T C 455

Linguistics

  • LING 442 Semantics I (prereq: LING 461)
  • LING 476 Philosophy of Language  (offered jointly with PHIL 453)
  • LING 472 Intro to Computational Linguistics (prereq: LING 461 OR ANTHRO 461; offered jointly with CSE 472)

Philosophy

  • PHIL 464 Philosophical Issues in the Cognitive Sciences
  • PHIL 466 Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  • PHIL 453 Philosophy of Language (offered jointly with LING 476)
  • PHIL 460 Philosophy of Science (prereq: one PHIL course; recommended: PHIL 120 or PHIL 160)

Political Science

  • POL S 329 Global Communication (offered jointly with COM 322)
  • POL S 410 Technology, Politics, and the State

Psychology

  • PSYCH 335 Human Factors Psychology (prereq: 2.0 in PSYCH 202; 2.0 in PSYCH 209)

Sociology

  • SOC 328 – 329 Methodology of Sociological Research
  • SOC 427 Statistical Classification and Measurement
  • SOC 428 Principles of Study Design
  • SOC 465 Complex Organizations

Technical Communication

  • T C 437 Interactive Multimedia (prereq: T C 411)
  • T C 455 User Interface Design  (offered jointly with IND E 455)

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