INF STD 291CSpecial 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
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 291A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
INF STD 291C
- INF STD 291ADoctoral Seminar: Theoretical Traditions in Information Studies
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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.