Course Description

Global Disruption and Information Technology, I&C SCI 5

Explores how new forms of information technology may support transition to a sustainable civilization. Topics include design and implementation of IT systems, science of global change, online community building, and “green IT”. Activities involve reading, writing, discussion, and final project.

Key Information

Credit: 4 quarter units / 2.67 semester units credit
UC Irvine, Information and Computer Science

Course Credit:

Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.

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UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit

UC Davis:
Unit Credit

UC Irvine:
General Education: II - Science and Technology

UC Los Angeles:
Unit Credit

UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)

UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units

UC San Diego:
General Education: TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major, Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Social Science

UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: Area C - Science, Mathematics, and Technology

UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: PE-T

Prerequisites

None.

Course Fees

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Course Creators

Bonnie Nardi
Bonnie Nardi is a Professor in the Department of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. She is is interested in social theory, environmental informatics, and human computer interaction. Her current work includes studies of occupational identity, political economy and human-computer interaction, and post-growth strategies for the design of information systems. She is the author of My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (Michigan University Press 2010) and co-author of  Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: a Handbook of Method  (Princeton University Press, 2012). She co-edited Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World  (Oxford University Press, 2012).  She co-edits the MIT Press Series “Acting with Technology.” Bonnie Nardi is a Professor in the Department of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. She is is interested in social theory, environmental informatics, and human computer interaction. Her current work includes studies of occupational identity, political economy and human-computer interaction, and post-growth strategies for the design of information ...

Bonnie Nardi is a Professor in the Department of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. She is is interested in social theory, environmental informatics, and human computer interaction. Her current work includes studies of occupational identity, political economy and human-computer interaction, and post-growth strategies for the design of information systems. She is the author of My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (Michigan University Press 2010) and co-author of  Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: a Handbook of Method  (Princeton University Press, 2012). She co-edited Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World  (Oxford University Press, 2012).  She co-edits the MIT Press Series “Acting with Technology.”

William M. Tomlinson
Bill Tomlinson is a Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He studies the fields of environmental informatics, human-computer interaction, multi-agent systems and computer-supported learning. His book Greening through IT  (MIT Press, 2010) examines the ways in which information technology can help people think and act on the broad scales of time, space, and complexity necessary for us to address the world's current environmental issues. In addition, he has authored dozens of papers across a range of journals and conferences in computing, the learning sciences, and the law. His work has been reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Wired.com, Scientific American Frontiers, CNN, and the BBC. In 2007, he received an NSF CAREER award, and in 2008 he was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow. He holds an A.B. in Biology from Harvard College, an M.F.A. in Experimental Animation from CalArts, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the MIT Media Lab.  Bill Tomlinson is a Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He studies the fields of environmental informatics, human-computer interaction, multi-agent systems and computer-supported learning. His book Greening through IT  (MIT Press, 2010) examines the ways in which ...

Bill Tomlinson is a Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He studies the fields of environmental informatics, human-computer interaction, multi-agent systems and computer-supported learning. His book Greening through IT  (MIT Press, 2010) examines the ways in which information technology can help people think and act on the broad scales of time, space, and complexity necessary for us to address the world's current environmental issues. In addition, he has authored dozens of papers across a range of journals and conferences in computing, the learning sciences, and the law. His work has been reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Wired.com, Scientific American Frontiers, CNN, and the BBC. In 2007, he received an NSF CAREER award, and in 2008 he was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow. He holds an A.B. in Biology from Harvard College, an M.F.A. in Experimental Animation from CalArts, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the MIT Media Lab. 

Donald Patterson
Donald J. Patterson is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Irvine where he also serves as director of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction. Professor Patterson's research lies at the interface of ubiquitous computing, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. In this space he researches applications, algorithms and systems that use intelligent context to support situated sustainable computing. He has received multiple impact awards for his research as well as for his support of undergraduate teaching and research. Donald J. Patterson is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Irvine where he also serves as director of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction. Professor Patterson's research lies at the interface of ubiquitous computing, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. In this space ...

Donald J. Patterson is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Irvine where he also serves as director of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction. Professor Patterson's research lies at the interface of ubiquitous computing, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. In this space he researches applications, algorithms and systems that use intelligent context to support situated sustainable computing. He has received multiple impact awards for his research as well as for his support of undergraduate teaching and research.

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