The Immunology Preprint Journal Article Review Club prepares trainees to thoroughly read preprint articles and critically evaluate the articles' merit and scientific contributions to the field of immunology as well as identify flaws and limitations in the respective study.

This online elective course provides trainees with an environment to develop confidence in public speaking and presenting experimental data in its most unedited form. The course focuses on presentations of preprint article in the field of immunology. Immunology graduate students, in the PhD program, of any year are encouraged to participate and upon enrolment will sign up to present a preprint article of their choice at least once, but preferentially more often, throughout the duration of the course. After the presentation, the presenting student will provide a ranking of the preprint article from 1 to 5 (5 being the best score) for scientific rigor, significance to the field, and novelty. These parameters guide a group discussion by all participating trainees to provide feedback and additional comments.

Each presenting trainee will write a preprint digest of approx. 2 to 3 pages for the preprint article they presented. This digest will contain the title of the presented, up to 3 keywords aligning with the research field, the main findings of the manuscript (approximately 1 page), limitations, significance and novelty to the respective area of immunology (approximately 1 to 2 pages). Careful feedback will be provided by the group and the course coordinator on the wording in this digest.

This course provides an introduction to the ways that information and information processes shape and are shaped by society. In particular, it examines the social, institutional, political, legal, and economic roles of information and knowledge in public life, including how forms of new media, new distribution channels and new delivery systems are affecting traditional means of creating and disseminating information. We also discuss changes that stem from developments in the information environment at the individual, organizational and societal level.

This course discusses fundamental perspectives and skills necessary for sound technical judgment about the place of information and communication technologies in contemporary society. Critical analysis of the design fabrication, deployment, use, and maintenance of information systems and services. Analysis of modeling, architecture, implementation, inclusive access, modularity, life-cycle, and interoperability. Use of and familiarity with programming languages, databases, interfaces, interactive technologies. Critical methods and analytic techniques from Science and Technology Studies and related disciplines.

This course can be used to fulfil the "Technical" Professional Requirement.

Experiential, participatory workshop to integrate the skills, perspectives, and knowledge introduced in the other core courses. The intention of the workshops is to broaden your exposure to other areas; we encourage students to go outside of their comfort zone. Students will be working in groups.

Experiential, participatory workshop to integrate the skills, perspectives, and knowledge introduced in the other core courses. The intention of the workshops is to broaden your exposure to other areas; we encourage students to go outside of their comfort zone. Students will be working in groups.

An introduction to information organizations and the role of effective administration in the provision of information services through selected theories, principles, and techniques of administrative science, library and information science, information systems and archives. Familiarizes the student with the realities of participation in the management of information organizations.

Focuses on developing an understanding of appropriate quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and relevant descriptive and inferential statistics for the investigation of both practical and theoretical problems in the information professions. By considering the nature, concepts, and logic of the research enterprise, permits a critically informed assessment of published research, including data gathering and data analysis procedures.

The objectives of this course are to (1) provide students with an overview of the information professions and the disciplines of library and information science; (2) present and critically reflect on the core assumptions, principles and values that inform the library and information science professions; and (3) introduce the students to the major current issues in library and information science and provide them with tools to make informed choices regarding current and emerging practices.

An introduction to the relationship between users and recordable information. Origin, evaluation, and use of general information sources in print and electronic form; principles of information service; acquisition, collection and exploitation of information resources in local and national institutions.

Principles and methods of describing, analyzing and organizing information and materials for storage and retrieval. Within the context of user needs, examines bibliographic access through codes, standards, tools and technologies. Winter 2011 detailed description for Introduction to Bibliographic Control Focus on library cataloguing

Within the context of human activity, both individual and institutional, an exploration of epistemological and ontological approaches to creating, organizing, preserving, and accessing information and knowledge. The design and evaluation of tools and techniques used in support of curatorship, stewardship, discovery, and use of cultural artefacts and their records.

Librarianship is a service profession that conceives of knowledge, in all its aspects, as fundamental to the human condition. People and communities exist at the heart of the discipline and at the heart of professional practices. They are the focus of our research and the clients of our practitioners. They come to us as unique individuals at any point along the life course seeking knowledge, and in communities (both large and small, formal and informal) working to achieve a common end. These social interactions bear the imprint of the professional values, core assumptions and principles upon which our discipline is founded. Some of these values include intellectual freedom, diversity, a respect for privacy, human rights, social justice, equal and open access without barriers, compassion, and empathy. Further, a commitment to these values demands knowledge of and participation in the public policy arena where decisions around the social, economic, cultural, and political implications of innovating information and communications technologies and their distribution are debated. Then there are the information professionals whom we work with and for; they are the communities of practice of which we are a part.

INF1323H focuses on identifying and understanding what is “informational” in any setting. Students will develop sharpened vision to discern informational patterns, that is, an ability to trace what Bates (1999) calls the “red thread of information” pervading life. This metaperspective is unique to the academic discipline of Library and Information Science (LIS) and brings information resources, structures, systems, and behaviours into focus to enable and improve information provision. Each semester the aforementioned information phenomena will be critically examined in social contexts germaine to LIS, such as: reference service, readers’ advisory, scholarly knowledge production, and hobby careers, among others. Theoretical and methodological tools will be introduced to help participants understand these information environments as socially-constructed, patterned, knit-together, and dynamic. As the semester unfolds, students will refine their observational and analytical skills by conducting an exploratory Research Project about the information experience within a setting or population of personal interest or career relevance, which can serve as the starting point for lifelong learning and a concatenated research career.

Infrastructures are ecologies of numerous systems, each with unique origins and goals, which are made to interoperate by means of standards, socket layers, social practices, norms, and individual behaviours. This course examines how information infrastructures form, how they change, and how they shape (and are shaped by) social and cultural forces. Particular focus is paid to libraries, archives, scientific research practices, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and cyber-infrastructures. The course includes an examination of the role of standards, such as library catalogues, classification systems, TCP/IP, HTML, and metadata standards, and changing social structures and knowledge practices, such as scientific disciplines, professional societies, and universities. Finally, the course engages with broad theories of infrastructure and foreground the usually hidden aspects of infrastructures, be they material, informational, or structural.

This course focuses on the principles and methods of information retrieval through interactive database searching. Problems of database organization and structure, question negotiation, strategy formulation, multidatabase searching and online search service management are investigated. Critical examination and evaluation of major vendors and their systems. Note: Good working knowledge of basic computer applications such as document preparation and spreadsheets is expected.

This course can be used to fulfil the "Technical" Professional Requirement.

The goal of this course is to introduce students to the key concepts and issues associated with archival theory, methodology and practice. The course is organized around three broad themes: the nature and purpose of archival documents and archival aggregations; contexts of creation and preservation; and professional development.

The goal of this course is to provide students with the theoretical and methodological knowledge necessary to arrange and describe archival documents. Topics include the principles and methods underlying the arrangement of archival documents as well as the description of archival materials and the establishment of name access points according to standards adopted by the archival community.

This course will examine the basic ideas of computational thinking. In particular it will focus on principled thought processes, approaches and principles that guide computational analyses, from problem formulation all the way to effective and efficient problem solving. It will contain an introduction to algorithm building and their complexity, basic data structures used in computational solutions as well as the use of necessary tools to tackle large-scale problems in a variety of domains. The course will also discuss the application of computational thinking in different areas such as the humanities, social sciences and the arts, potentially looking into the impact it may have on them. Finally, it will serve as a necessary preamble for students who will follow a more technical career, especially in the area of Information Systems and Applied Data Science.

In this course, we use a programming language to look at the design and implementation of algorithms that are relevant to Data Science tasks. The students will look into the specifics of a programming language and extend them with libraries and exercises that will add to their background in Data Science. The exercises will deal with the analysis of data sets and alternative solutions will be discussed for their processing and evaluation of the results.

Note: Former name was Programming for Information Systems. Effective September 2019, new name is Programming for Data Science

Multiple methods for modelling and analyzing information systems in their application contexts. Systematic techniques for representing and analyzing process and data, use cases and scenarios, stakeholder goals and relationships. Requirements exploration and definition. Operational and strategic perspectives.

This course discusses designing information systems in the face of competing goals from multiple stakeholders, e.g., efficiency, cost, reliability, security, privacy, usability, adaptability, reusability, time-to-market. Systematic techniques and models for identifying and evaluating alternatives. Non-functional requirements and architectural design. Organizing design knowledge for reuse.

This course can be used to fulfil the "Technical" Professional Requirement.

The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to databases by analyzing their structure, content and measurement and by applying principles governing data modeling, database design and production with an emphasis on modeling, design and representation of content, decisions and tradeoffs involved in modeling, design and creation, and issues of standardization, security and emerging trends.

This course will provide students an introduction to statistics and statistical methods. It is intended and designed for students who have little or no familiarity with statistics in the Master of Information program so that their knowledge base is built on a solid foundation, which will prepare them for advanced data science courses in the program. This course emphasizes the application of statistical concepts and methods. This course will help students develop the ability to use quantitative methods to describe real world situations and to make ethical inferences and decisions based on the statistical results. Students will strengthen critical thinking skills to assess the value and limitations of measures and statistical estimates. This course will help students learn to construct reports that include meaningful charts, tables, and graphs for various audiences and that provide text that is appropriate for different audiences. The course will have lab sessions throughout the semester. The purpose of the lab session is to provide students with hands-on experience with data handling and regression analysis.

Introduction to the wide range of issues and methodologies employed across the academy to identify, understand, analyze, investigate, and critique issues at the intersection of culture and technology. Provides a background in philosophy of information, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies. Affiliated with the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology, a program of the Coach House Institute (CHI). Particular focus on socio-technical issues having to do with computing, information systems and services, digital technologies, media, and the internet and social media.

In-depth exploration of student-selected issues at the intersection of culture and technology, using the philosophical, critical, and methodological skills, knowledge, and techniques developed in INF1501H Culture & Technology I. Students will identify a topic on which they have educational and/or professional background, and explore the socio- technical consequences of that issue’s transformation in virtue of the development of computing, digital technologies, and information systems, services, and practices. Affiliated with the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology, a program of the Coach House Institute (CHI).