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IT Graduate Concentration:
Web Science
The study of Web Science gives students insights into understanding what the web is and how to engineer its future and ensure its social benefit. The new Web Science concentration contains courses focused on one of the most powerful research, social and commercial technologies of our time.
The leader of the concentration is Dr. James Hendler, an internationally reknown figure in Web research and one of the pioneers of the Semantic Web. Along with colleagues Dr. Peter Fox and Dr. Deborah McGuinness, Dr. Hendler is working on research to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enabling rapid and easy collaboration between scientists, educators, students, policy makers, and even "citizen scientists" around the world wide web. They have created an innovative set of courses that focus on new trends in eScience and new technologies for the World Wide Web.
IT professionals who complete this concentration can apply their knowledge to careers in web-based businesses, web-based startup companies, or to playing the role of innovators in their organizations' use of the web.
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Concentration Course Options
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Course #
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Course Title
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Semester
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Select two of the following courses:
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ITEC-696X
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Semantic E-Science
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Fall*
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ITEC-696X
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Data Science
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Fall*
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CSCI-4220/ 6220
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Network Programming (or) Parallel Algorithm Design
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Spring
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ITEC-496X
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X-Informatics
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Spring*
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Select one more course:
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COMM-696X
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Information Architecture
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Spring*
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COMM-4580
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Advertising and Culture
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Fall
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COMM-6510
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Communication Theory
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Fall
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COMM-6270
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Digital Rhetoric
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Fall*
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COMM-6480
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Theory& Research in Tech, Comm & HCI
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Spring
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COMM-6750
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Communication Design for WWW
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Fall
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MGMT-696X
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Marketing with Information Technology
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Spring*
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COMM-496X
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Interface Design: Hypermedia Design and
Development
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Spring*
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COMM-496X
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Interactive Technologies: Designing for the
future
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Summer*
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*Special topics and/or alternate year options
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