Teaching
I teach courses in the areas of Usability Analysis, Information Behavior, and Museum Informatics, at undergraduate, master, and doctoral levels, in both web-based and face-to-face environments. This page provides brief descriptions of the courses I teach; please follow the links for course syllabi and other information about each class.
LIS 5590: Museum Informatics
This course provides an introduction to museum informatics, the study of the sociotechnical interactions that take place between people, information, and technology in museums. It covers a wide variety of topics such as interactive exhibits, virtual reality, information systems, digitization, and information management in museums, and explores the impact of new technologies on the museum professional and the museum visitor.
LIS 5203: Assessing Information Needs
This course provides students with an overview that emphasizes the user's perspective in the analysis of information needs and preferences, including the fundamentals necessary for the study and understanding of human information-seeking behaviors of a variety of users and user groups.
LIS 6205: Issues in Information Behavior
This course provides students with an overview of information behavior and the fundamentals to a broad approach emphasizing a unifying structure to understand information, information needs, information seeking, and information behaviors.
LIS 5275: Usability Analysis
This course provides a comprehensive overview of usability analysis. It has been designed to familiarize students with both the concepts and procedures involved in usability analysis by supplementing readings with hands-on experience. At the end of the course, students will possess both the resources and skills necessary to conduct basic usability analysis and evaluation in a systematic fashion for both technical and non-technical products and systems.
LIS 4277: Usability and Usefulness of Information Systems
This course provides a comprehensive overview of usability analysis. It has been designed to familiarize students with both the concepts and procedures involved in usability analysis by supplementing readings with hands-on experience. At the end of the course, students will possess both the resources and skills necessary to conduct basic usability analysis and evaluation in a systematic fashion for both technical and non-technical products and systems.