All Courses at the Faculty of Information
Below is the course directory, a searchable list of courses offered by the Faculty of Information, including course descriptions, pre-requisites, co-requisites and other relevant information.
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Humanity is now violating six of the nine planetary boundaries that represent a safe ecological space for human life, including climate change, without meeting its declared social goals of equity, justice, health, and human flourishing. Technology is often positioned as a magic solution to resolve the dilemma of ‘sustainable development’, but it is implicated in […]
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This course (INF3018H: Professorial Pedagogy) is designed to help students develop knowledge of empirically-grounded theories of teaching and learning, to use those theories to reflect on their own learning and to guide pedagogical design, to practice the work of teaching and soliciting student feedback, and to develop scholarly inquiries into their teaching. Note: PhD course
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“Black Custody” moves from the premise that custody of any kind cannot be thought without blackness and indigeneity, related marginalised communities and their creative practices. The seminar (INF3105H – Black Custody) critically engages destructive influences of policing that hold communities and their knowledges “in custody.” Grounded in the transformative poetic and political relationship between definitions […]
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This course, (INF3103H: Methods for Algorithmic FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics Research) critically examines the various methodological lenses through which computational systems are designed and implemented for a wide range of socio-technical domains (e.g. healthcare, child welfare, criminal justice etc.). We will read, critique and reflect upon methods from all traditions and how we can […]
Energy harvesting information systems and design in the energy transition
Punching up: Women and LGBTQ+ comedians’ experience of work and resistance in the comedy industry
Archaeological data work as continuous and collaborative practice
Stor(y)ing Mi Desmadre: Trans-Feminist and queer community archival and digital custodial praxes in Latin America
The Political Economy of Information Literacy: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy: Policy & Strategy Guidelines
The role of information seeking and use in management accounting: Exploring the process of creating a budget for complex projects
Nation, narrative and archive: In search of queer histories in Zimbabwe
Socially conscious design: Methods towards designing inclusive voice user interfaces for older adults
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Quantitative approaches have a common concern: How can others be confident that our statistical approaches have been brought to bear on appropriate datasets? This course, INF3104H: Data Science Foundations, focuses on the ‘data’ of data science. It develops in students an appreciation for the many ways in which dealing with a dataset can get out-of-hand, […]