IT, Computing, Telecommunications Degrees

...Traditional hardware and software design overlooks context because it conceptualizes systems as input-output functions. Systems take input explicitly given to them by a human...

...lively discussion of course readings, and assignments. Insights from social psychology, human-computer interaction, and design will be examined... Learn about: Social Psychology...

...their activities and their interactions. Students will study the cognitive and cultural basis for social visualization through readings drawn from sociology... Learn about: Interface design...

...scientific, and theoretical insights into this subject will be covered, as well as how these ideas are manifest in both natural and artificial systems...

...2 hours / session Digital Anthropology is a Spring 2003 applied social science and media arts seminar surveying the blossoming arena of digital-artifact...

...The primary goal is to help students understand the implications of public policy for different pursuits. The class examines various approaches to policy...

...We explore the design and use of games in the classroom in addition to research and development issues associated with computer–based...

...look at the impact of information technology and computers on the labor market. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session In this course...

...and other types of quantitative reasoning useful for description, estimation, comparison, and explanation are covered. Emphasis is on the use and limitations...

...The course relies on a seminar format so students are expected to read all of the assigned materials and come to class prepared to discuss key themes...

...readings aimed at helping prepare for class discussions. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Required for all entering DUSP Ph.D students...

...It thereby builds analytic skills for evaluating programs and projects, organizations, and environments. It draws on the literature of the sociology of organizations...

...place a premium on local ways of knowing, and gauge the success of research in terms of what partner-communities do with the knowledge that is co-produced... Learn about: Social Science, Data Collection, Social Change...

...look at the impact of information technology and computers on the labor market. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session In this course...

...There is a particular focus on identifying and valuing sources of flexibility using “real options”, Monte-Carlo simulation, and other techniques from the... Learn about: Real Estate...

...low-income households can be improved by adaptation of low cost and sustainable technologies. Discussion of development issues as well as project implementation... Learn about: Quality Training, Team Training...

...and the applications of that data to real-life problem solving. Exercises and tools for working with SQL, as well as sample database sets, are provided... Learn about: Database Management, Database training, Information Systems...

...transportation demand and cost analyses. As part of the core in the Master of Science in Transportation program, the course will not focus on a specific... Learn about: Demand Economics...

...The course explores ways to make research knowledge more accessible, credible, and useful in the realm of public policy and practice, a project in which...

...including (among others) Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Managua, Singapore, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Kabul, Beirut, Cairo, Kinshasa, Cape Town and Johannesburg...