Spring 2027

Topics in Information Studies - Technological Aspects

Explores technological aspects of information studies, including information infrastructure history, digital productivity, publishing standards, and preservation.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Jiepu Jiang

A student with no prior programming experience in text mining found the course challenging.

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

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LIS 341

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  • Sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JIEPU JIANG is recorded teaching in Fall 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

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Past student reviews · Jiepu Jiang

Students found the course accessible and stress-free, offering a relaxed environment for learning new technical tools without the intensity of typical STEM classes.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 3.74 GPA, 82.4% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2020: 3.81 GPA, 93.8% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Fall 2021: 3.93 GPA, 96.7% A/AB (n=30 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Jiepu Jiang

A student with no prior programming experience in text mining found the course challenging.

Past student reviews · Jiepu Jiang

The professor was praised for being highly accessible and providing extra information for students who wanted to dive deeper into the material.

Topics

  • Social History of Information Infrastructure
  • Digital Productivity Tools and Debates
  • Digital Publishing Standards and Tools
  • Digital Preservation

Skills

  • Explore information technology and information management subjects
  • Engage with digital productivity tools, publishing standards, and preservation

Grades

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About this comparison

1154 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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