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MIMS students are required to complete courses 202, 203, 205, 206, and 207 and the final project. MIMS students are also required to take an additional technical course from an approved list of classes. All remaining units are considered electives. SIMS electives are listed below according to the major SIMS fields. There is no requirement for students to take all electives from a single group. In fact, students are encouraged to choose from the available courses to construct a program that matches their specific interests. Please note that not all courses are offered every year so some planning and accommodation are necessary. One of the strengths of the SIMS program is that we usually offer a number of "special topics" courses each semester to supplement the regular course offerings. The special topics courses are not included in these lists, but can be viewed in the current and past course schedules. Information AssuranceInformation assurance addresses how information is gathered, protected, and evaluated. It includes issues of the quality and credibility of information, the authority of its sources (including individuals and organizations), the methods by which information users make such assessments, techniques for protecting information from alteration or loss and unauthorized uses (including uses that violate privacy), and structures for ensuring that information is accurate, complete, and available when needed and authorized. 219: Privacy, Security, and Cryptography Human-Computer InteractionHuman-computer interaction (HCI) is devoted to the design and development of interactive computing systems that are useable, useful, and enjoyable. It is an interdisciplinary field, drawing on the behavioral and social sciences for the study of the human use of information technology systems. HCI is also a design-oriented discipline, and includes the study of interaction design, graphic design, and information visualization and presentation. Researchers in the field study the uses and impacts of information and technology, using both qualitative and quantitative methods of investigation and testing. 211: Group and Organizational Approaches to Information System Use Information Design and ArchitectureInformation design and architecture is devoted to developing techniques for the organization, classification, and labeling of information, on one hand, and for information navigation, search and retrieval, and content analysis, on the other. This involves automated creation, assignment, and analysis of metadata and metadata standards. The ability to enhance information access and sharing relies as well on networked and distributed systems, database design, and document engineering. These techniques are applied in many contexts, including web sites, corporate intranets, digital libraries, online communities, and business processes, and to many types of information, including text, images, video, music, and software. 214: Needs Assessment and Evaluation of Information Systems Information Economics and PolicyEffective management of information and information systems requires an understanding of the economics of information, of information systems, and of information infrastructures as well as some grounding in information law and policy which form the regulatory framework within which information is managed. Design of information systems should be undertaken in an economically sound manner and in conformity with legal rules and policy goals (e.g., consistent with intellectual property, privacy, and telecommunications law and policy). 212: Information in Society(See also MOT courses, especially for those with management interests.) Sociology of InformationInformation technology has the potential to dramatically broaden access to information and to support novel forms of collaboration and communication; however it is deployed in social and institutional environments that can either impede or support such outcomes. Successful information systems explicitly integrate technical (software/hardware) and organization design. This requires understanding of how technology, social structure, and organization jointly shape the dynamics of information exchange and learning at various scales: within an organization, between individuals and organizations located in the same region, as well as those separated by great distances. 211: Group and Organizational Approaches to Information System Use
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