[hacKSU] Two Really Cool Classes for the Spring

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Hello fellow hackers,

Check out these awesome classes offered next semester! These are places you
can directly apply what we have been learning and work on some great
projects (think experience, resume builders, and fun).

Enjoy!

- hacKSU

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 The School of Digital Sciences is offering two Special Topics classes in
the Spring 2013 semester that you may find of interest.  The Web
Programming for Multimedia Journalism course is the third instantiation of
this very unique course.  The Mobile & Social course is our first offering
of a course in this high-demand area.

  *Spring 2013 Special Topics Course Offering
DSCI 49995-001 (CRN 20798) / DSCI 59995-001 (CRN 20801)*

*Special Topics: Mobile, Social and Other Emerging Channels:
Designing Solutions to Meet the New Business Reality*

With the emergence of *smartphones* and *mobile technology* as well as the
proliferation of *social networks* and *other emerging channels* for
engaging customers, the business and technology landscape is changing.
This course will explore the key technologies and trends that are causing
this change, and will help students prepare to define, develop and market
solutions to help businesses succeed in this new environment.

Course topics include mobility, social media, designing for mobile, mobile
engagement models, leveraging emerging channels, gamification of mobile and
social channels, developing mobile strategy, mobile web, and smartphone and
app development.  Students will work in teams on a final project to design
solutions for real world business scenarios.

Pre-requisites:  DSCI 15310, CS 13001, MIS 24065, or other programming or
web programming background.  For more information, contact the School of
Digital Sciences' Academic Advisor Coordinator, Kay Levandowski, at
klevand1 at kent.edu or  330-672-9069

*Instructor*:  Brian Stein, President of Pervasive Path Consulting

Brian is a seasoned consultant with more than 8 years of mobility
experience supported by his 15-year background in the management consulting
field.

In the field of mobility, Brian has led implementations of mobile banking
projects at over 40 banks and credit unions and helped other large clients
craft mobile strategies, identify and prioritize mobile initiatives across
lines of business, and manage the complexity of implementation with
back-end systems.  Brian has helped clients envision, plan for, implement
and launch solutions — for customer engagement and commerce, field service,
mobile supply chain, and business process enablement.

Additionally, Brian has worked with Fortune 1000 companies to define and
execute their strategies across many different areas including mobile and
web application development, process optimization, program management,
organizational design, IT governance and IT management.

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*Spring 2013 Special Topics Course Offering
DSCI 49995-002 (CRN* *21046) / DSCI 59995-002 (CRN* *21047)*

*Special Topics: Web Programming for Multimedia Journalism
Journalists & Programmers -- Go Deep with Data!*

This spring, journalists and programmers will work together to investigate
an important public-health issue: suicide on college campuses. Using
research data sets and in-depth storytelling, students will create and
engaging, interactive website to illuminate and explain this issue.

   - Work as part of a multidisciplinary project team.
   - Learn to tell data stories using VIDI, a group of open-source,
   Drupal-based data-visualizations modules.

The course is open to juniors, seniors and graduate students in DSCI, JMC,
CS, VCD, MIS, and IAKM. Enrollment is by permission.  For more information,
please contact Prof. Jacqueline Marino (jmarino7 at kent.edu).
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