Updated potential electives list (Update – 11/12 3:35PM – The list below is now ranked):
- PB AF 594, Economic Approaches to Environmental Management, (3 credits, description)
- INFO 498, Special Topics in Informatics: Programming Semantic Structures (1-5 credits, description)
- IMT 586, Information Dynamics I (4 credits)
This is after reading the description sent to the iMSIM mailing list by Mike Crandall on the 9th of this month:
“Have you ever wondered …
- what causes some ideas, products, and companies to become fads that peak and die, while others have staying power?
- why there are business cycles?
- what causes some diseases to become epidemics and others to subside with little effect?
- why real change often takes so long?
- the role information plays in the answer to each of these questions?
Would you like to learn how to answer these and other such questions yourself?
Sign up for IMT 586, Information Dynamics I, in the Winter Quarter.”
- LIS 559, Special Topics in the Social Context of Information (1-4 credits, description)
IMT 546, Data Communications and Networking (4 credits, description provided by instructor)Update (11/12 3:30PM): The professor for the course indicates that this is likely going to be review material, so it’s been removed from this list and the schedule below.
Updated visual schedule (Excel is good for this stuff):
Update (11/12 12:30AM): I have e-mail messages out to the Evans School regarding PB AF 594 and an e-mail out to the instructor for IMT 546 to figure out whether these courses should stay on my list or not. For PB AF 594, this depends entirely on which registration period I have to wait for to register. For IMT 546, it depends on whether the course covers topics I already know a lot about, which isn’t clear from the provided description.