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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>The following ISTA courses can be substituted to satisfy the Plant Science and Crop Production requirement for ABE120.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>ISTA </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>has</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> got some cool new classes with either no or minimal prerequisites. These classes, described below, would be great for any student in any discipline, and whether they take them for their own edification or towards a minor in Information, Science, Technology, and Arts, thinking about our place in the information age is critical to becoming leaders in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Minor in Information, Science, Technology and Arts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The minor is designed to provide students in all majors complementary experience in dealing with information—deriving it, managing it, and extracting meaning from it. Courses in the minor reflect the core classes in the BA and BS offered through SISTA, and provide opportunities to focus on discipline-specific applications of information science.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA 100: Introduction to SISTA: Big Ideas in Information Science 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA 116: Statistical Foundations of ISTA 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA 130: Computational Thinking and Doing (or the equivalent) 4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA 160: Ethics in a Digital World 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>6 units of upper-division ISTA course work 6<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Interested? Contact us at <a href="mailto:advising@sista.arzoizona.edu">advising@sista.arzoizona.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA Fall 2011 Course Offerings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA 100</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Great Ideas of the Information Age<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=style1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Important ideas and applications of information science and technology in the sciences, humanities and arts. Information, entropy, coding; grammar and parsing; syntax and semantics; networks and relational representations; decision theory, game theory; and other great ideas form the intellectual motifs of the Information Age and are explored through applications such as robotic soccer, chess-playing programs, web search, population genetics among others.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 9:30-10:45am TTh, Chem 111, taught by Paul Cohen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA 116</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Statistical Foundations for the Information Age<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=style1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Understanding uncertainty and variation in modern data: data summarization and description, rules of counting and basic probability, data visualization, graphical data summaries, working with large data sets, prediction of stochastic outputs from quantitative inputs. Operations with statistical computer packages such as R.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>1:00-1:50pm MW (varying lab sections) McClelland Park 105<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA 130: Computational Thinking and Doing (in Python!)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>No programming experience necessary—just an interest in problem solving!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=pslongeditbox><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An introduction to computational techniques and using a modern programming language to solve current problems drawn from science, technology, and the arts.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>5:00pm-6:15pm TTh (varying lab sections), Ctr for ESL 102, taught by Rick Mercer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA 161 Ethics in a Digital World <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=style1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>This course explores the social, legal, and cultural fallout from the exponential explosion in communication, storage, and increasing uses of data and data production. In this class, we emphasize the opposing potentials of information technologies to make knowledge widely available and to distort and restrict our perceptions. In a world of rapid technological change, topics include (but are not limited to): eavesdropping and secret communications, privacy; Internet censorship and filtering, cyberwarfare, computer ethics and ethical behavior, copyright protection and peer-to-peer networks, broadcast and telecommunications regulation, including net neutrality, data leakage, and the power and control of search engines.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=style1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>3:00-4:15pm MW, Opt Sci 408, taught by Laura Howard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA 230 Web Development <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An introduction to web design and development, with an emphasis on client-side technologies. Topics include HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, and web design best practices. This course is designed for those with no previous web design experience. While there are no prerequisites for this course, ISTA 130 or CSC 127A or equivalent course work is recommended. There will be a brief introduction to programming. It is assumed that you are familiar with a computer (files, folders, email, and the Internet).<br>3:30pm-4:45pm, Educ 211, taught by Justin Spargur<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA 301: Computing and the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=pslongeditbox><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Also no programming necessary, just a willingness to think outside the box!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=pslongeditbox><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This course examines the ways in which computing and information science support and facilitate the production and creation of art in current society. A particular focus of the course will be to discuss how artists have used advances in technology and computing capacity to explore new ways of making art, and to investigate the relationships between technical innovation and the artistic process.</span></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2:00-3:15pm MWF, Speech & Hearing Sci 205, taught by Kelland Thomas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ISTA 370</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Research Methods for the Information Age<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For some reason, the methods and tools used by the natural sciences are not taught in the information sciences. Consequently, information scientists are rarely good at designing experiments, making data give up its secrets, or quantifying their confidence in results. This course is about how to think and work like a scientist. It covers exploratory data analysis and visualization, experimental design, statistical hypothesis testing and effect size, computer intensive methods such as the bootstrap and Monte Carlo sampling, performance assessment and other performance measures, modeling complex systems, and other empirical methods for students in the information disciplines. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2:00-3:15 TTh, Harvill 204<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheryl Craddock, Program Coordinator Senior<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>School of Information: Science, Technology, and Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Department of Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>P.O. Box 210077<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tucson, AZ 85721<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>To schedule</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> an appointment or view walk-in hours, please log in to <a href="http://advising.cs.arizona.edu/">http://advising.cs.arizona.edu/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>