Graduate Courses

This course provides an overview of modern database systems at the time. Both relational databases (SQL) and a few non-relational databases (NoSQL) are covered, including topics on data warehouses. The focus of the course is on the practical skills of the design and implementation of data storage and access for data and information sciences. Topics covered include ER-diagrams, database normalization, data modeling in NoSQL databases, SQL and other query languages, and data warehousing.

This course surveys and evaluates the major print and electronic bibliographic and information sources in business librarianship.  Emphasis is placed upon the user needs as they are translated into information-seeking practices.

Data Warehousing and Analytics In the Cloud will utilize concepts, frameworks, and best practices for designing a cloud-based data warehousing solution and explore how to use analytical tools to perform analysis on your data. In the first half of the course, I will provide an overview of the field of Cloud Computing, its main concepts, and students will get hands-on experience through projects which utilize cloud computing platforms.

Game development is a vast field with many advanced concepts. This course aims to teach students
such concepts, techniques and mechanisms in Unity, covering procedural content generation, design
patterns, artificial intelligence, shaders and postprocessing effects, animation, custom interactions and
gestures, and performance optimization. The students are expected to have fundamental game
development knowledge in Unity and C#. The course is heavily hands-on and project oriented. Students

This course combines theory and application in the study of the moving image as scholarly evidence. Following an overview of film history and theory, students will learn basic film and video identification, handling and preservation methods. Each student will be assigned a film or films to research and analyze as primary evidence. Evidence reels will include nonfiction film and video material in local repositories, including UA Special Collections and Arizona Historical Society.

In this course, learners will acquire skills in visual design, mathematical reasoning and computational thinking to gain an understanding of data literacy. Learners are introduced to theories of cognition and visual perception as they relate to data visualization. Together, the class will create data visualizations and engage in meaning making around representations of data to explore profiling, prediction, judgement, and decision making.

In today's digital society, people have access to a wide variety of information sources and scientific data. In this course, students will learn about the role of science and scientific data in society, and they will consider means for making science information findable and understandable for a wide variety of audiences. This course will provide students an interdisciplinary experience for considering science data and how that information gets shared across contexts.

Examines children's literature and its role in the literacy development of young children (preschool - 3rd grade). Explores both the types of literature and ways to bring children and books together.