Degree Information
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Major: Information Science
Focus Areas: Media Information & Human-Centered Technologies
College: College of Communications Arts and Sciences
Minor: Entrepreneurship & Innovation
College: Eli Broad College of Business
Minor: Leadership in Integrated Learning (Bailey Scholars Program)
College: College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
About the Program
Information Science students will focus on the relationship between information, technology, and people and, therefore, be equipped for jobs emerging from the growing information, technology, and knowledge economy. Students will design technologies from a human-centered perspective, organize and manage groups of people using information technologies, understand how modern technologies are shaping society, and govern the role that these technologies play in our world.
This degree uniquely prepares graduates by focusing on: 1) understanding and harnessing the power of media through interdisciplinary artistic, qualitative, and quantitative methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives, 2) using the design process to inform the creative act and fuel innovation using current and emerging media technologies, 3) using media to address pressing social issues and other meaningful themes, 4) gaining fluency with the tools, practice, and techniques used in the creation of current and emerging mediated experiences, and 5) interpreting and critiquing media in the context of audiences, users, historical precedents, socio-cultural patterns of use, and ethical implications of technologies.
Coursework
Core Courses:
- MI 101: Understanding Media and Information
- MI 201 Introduction to Information Science
- MI 304: Information and Society
Methods Courses:
- MI 220: Methods for Understanding Users
- MI 301: Bringing Media to Market
Focus Area Courses:
Media and Information:
- MI 401: Media Impacts on Society
- MI 491: Special Topics
- MI 462: Social Media and Social Computing
Human-Centered Technologies:
- TC 349: Client-Side Web Development
- TC 450: HCI and Experience Design
Electives:
- TC 359: Server-Side Web Development
- ADV 205: Principles of Advertising
- ADV 420: New Media Driver’s License
- AL 285: Intro to Digital Humanities
- CAS 203: Media Design
- CAS 205: Media Photography
- CAS 206: Graphics & Illustration
- CAS 207: Media Animation
- EGR 160: Diversity and Engineering
- TC 242: The Digital Image
- TC 243: Story, Sound, and Motion
- TC 331: Intro to Interactive Media
- WRA 210: Introduction to Web Authoring
- WRA 410: Advanced Web Authoring
- WRA 482: Information Design
