Cornell Engineering : Information Science Minor

Information Science Minor

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Offered by: Department of Computer Science
Administered by: Department of Computer Science, 303 Upson Hall
Contact Person: Lindsay Marzano, 303A Upson Hall, 255-9837, minor@infosci.cornell.edu
Eligibility: Students in all Majors except Information Science, Systems and Technology may participate in this minor. Students interested in pursuing the Information Science minor must initiate the process by sending an e-mail message with their name, college, year of study (e.g., second-semester sophomore), expected graduation date, and (intended) Major to minor@infosci.cornell.edu.
Educational Objective: The program has three main areas: information systems, human-centered systems, and social systems. The minor has been designed to ensure that students have substantial grounding in all three of these areas in addition to having a working knowledge of basic probability and statistics necessary for analyzing data occurring in the real world.

Requirements
At least six (6) courses (minimum of 18 credits) chosen as follows:

I. Statistics: one course
II. Information systems (primarily computer science): two courses
III. Human-centered systems (human computer interaction and cognitive science): one course
IV. Social systems (social, economic, political, cultural, and legal issues): one course
V. Elective: one additional course from either human-centered systems or social systems

Statistics
An introductory course that provides a working knowledge of basic probability and statistics and their application to analyzing data occurring in the real world.

ENGRD 270	Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics
CEE 304	Uncertainty Analysis in Engineering

Information Systems

INFO 172	Computation, Information, and Intelligence
*COM S 211	Computers and Programming
*INFO 230	Intermediate Web Design and Programming for the Web
CIS 300	Introduction to Computer Game Design
INFO 330	Applied Database Systems
LING 424	Computational Linguistics
INFO 430	Information Retrieval
INFO 431	Web Information Systems
COM S 432	Introduction to Database Systems
COM S 465	Computer Graphics I
COM S 472	Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
LING 474	Introduction to Natural Language Processing
OR&IE 474	Statistical Data Mining
COM S 478	Machine Learning
OR&IE 480	Information Technology
OR&IE 481	Delivering OR Solutions with Information Technology
OR&IE 483	Application of Operations Research and Game Theory in Information Technology
COM S 501	Software Engineering
COM S 513	Systems Security
COM S 530	Architecture of Large-Scale Information Systems
ECE 562	Fundamental Information Theory
ORIE 574	Statistical Data Mining II
COM S 578	Empirical Methods in Machine Learning and Data Mining

Human-Centered Systems

COGST 101	Introduction to Cognitive Science
PSYCH 205	Perception
INFO 214	Cognitive Psychology
INFO 245	Psychology of Social COmputing
PSYCH 280	Introduction to Social Psychology
PSYCH 342	Human Perception: Applications to Computer Graphics, Art, and Visual Display
INFO 345	Human-Computer Interaction Design
PSYCH 347	Psychology of Visual Communications
PSYCH 380	Social Cognition
PSYCH 413	Information Processing: Conscious and Unconscious
PSYCH 416	Modeling Perception and Cognition
INFO 440	Advanced Human-Computer Interaction Design
INFO 445	Seminar in Computer-Mediated Communication
INFO 450	Language and Technology
DEA 470	Applied Ergonomic Methods

Social Systems

INFO 204	Networks
STS 250	Technology in Society
INFO 292	Inventing an Information Society
*ECON 301	Microeconomics
SOC 304	Social Networks and Social Processes
*ECON 313	Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
*AEM 322	Technology, Information, and Business Strategy
INFO 349	Media Technologies
INFO 355	Computers: From the 17C. to the Dot. Com Boom
INFO 356	Computing Cultures
*ECON 368	Game Theory
INFO 387	The Automatic Lifestyle: Consumer Culture and Technology
LAW 410	Limits on and Protection of Creative Expression—Copyright Law and Its Close Neighbors
STS 411	Knowledge, Technology, and Property
ECON 419	Economic Decisions Under Uncertainty
*OR&IE 435	Introduction to Game Theory
STS 438	Minds, Machines, and Intelligence
INFO 447	Social and Economic Data (also ILRLE 447 and ILRLE 740)
ECON 476/477	Decision Theory I and II
COMM 494	Special Topics in Communication: Copyright in the Digital Age
INFO 515	Culture, Law, and Politics of the Internet
*H ADM 574	Strategic Information Systems

Academic Standards
At least C in each course in the minor.
*Computer Science majors cannot use INFO 230. COM S 211 cannot be used by majors for which it is a required course, e.g., computer science and operations research. Only one of ECON 301 and ECON 313 can be taken for IS credit. Only one of OR&IE 435 and ECON 368 can be taken for IS credit. Only one of AEM 322 and H ADM 574 can be taken for IS credit.

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