INF STD 291BSpecial Topics in Theory of Information Studies
Information Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Topics include information and evidence—record-keeping and memory-making, personal and community identity, accountability and trust. Information and design—design and implementation of information systems and services, information aesthetics. Information retrieval and knowledge organization. Information seeking, access, and use—contexts, techniques, needs, barriers. Information and power—groups, ideologies, identities, structures. Information and value—information ethics, evaluation of information services. Information policy and law—processes, institutions, players, stakes. Information institutions and professions—domains, ecologies, cultures, communities. Economics, geography, history, philosophy, politics, sociology of information.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.