Prof. Nancy Van House School of Information Management & Systems University of California, Berkeley

Current courses (Spring, 2007):

• I290-3, The Social Life of Visual Media, Bringing together new media and visual studies to look at the visual in new media
• I212, Information in Society: Science and Technology Studies (STS) applied to information technology and knowledge communities.

My teaching is in the areas of:

• Visual Studies and new media:
  • I290-3, The Social Life of Visual Media, Spring, 2007
  • IS212, Information in Society: Science and Technology Studies (STS) applied to information technology and knowledge communities.
    
• User needs, user-centered design, and usability assessment
  
• IS214, Needs and Usability Assessment
  • Fall, 2006
  • Spring, 2005
  • Spring, 2004
  • Spring, 2003
    

• Social approaches to information and information technology
  
  • Fall, 2004: IS203, Social and Organizational Issues of Information (with Peter Lyman)  required introductory course surverying a variety of issues related to social and organizational aspects of information and information technolgy.
    
    
  • IS204, Information Users and Society: required introductory course surverying a variety of issues related to social aspects of information and information technolgy.
    • Fall, 2003 (with Larry Downes; this course now replaced by IS203)
    • Fall, 2002 (with Pam Samuelson)
      
      
  • IS212, Information in Society: Science and Technology Studies (STS) applied to information technology and knowledge communities.
    • Spring, 2007
    • Spring, 2005
    • Spring, 2004
    • Spring, 2003
      
      
  • IS296: Social Informatics: Social Studies of Information Technology, Spring, 2002
    
    
  • IS24, Freshman Seminar: Social Aspects of Information Technology, Fall, 2002
  
  
  Links to even earlier course syllabi.
  

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