Program: Undergraduate
Course Areas
Social Informatics
Catalog Description
Practical skills and understandings required to effectively work with open source software and understand the projects that build them. Includes git-based collaboration as well as conceptual understanding of licenses, security, technical and social processes in open source development. Class projects involve working with digital trace data from open source repositories. Also offered as Informatics 320D.
Prerequisites
Upper-division standing and Informatics 310S.
*Effective Fall 2026 - this prerequisite may also be satisfied by I 310C or I 310J.
Current and Upcoming Classes for this Course
| Class Name | Semester | Day(s) | Start Time(s) | End Time(s) | Building | Room |
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| I 320S: Topics in Social Informatics: Open Source Software Development
James Howison |
Spring Term 2027 |
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Past Classes for this Course
| Class Name | Semester | Day(s) | Start Time(s) | End Time(s) | Building | Room |
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| I 320S: Topics in Social Informatics: Open Source Software Development
James Howison Syllabus |
Spring Term 2026 |
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| I 320S: Topics in Social Informatics: Open Source Software Development
James Howison Syllabus |
Spring Term 2025 |
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