This course will expose students to the research skills used in many areas of the executive branch. Students will work on simulations of realistic problems faced by lawyers in the various administrative agencies or lawyers challenging those agencies.
This course will provide students with an introduction to business and federal tax law related materials and advanced research training on locating and using these materials. Topics covered will include primary sources of business and federal tax law, secondary sources for business and federal tax law, business and securities forms and filings, and competitive intelligence.
This is a broad course covering, from the perspective of the in-house intellectual property manager, engineering business unit leader or other executive, the critical areas of intellectual property portfolio management in a variety of business settings in the global economy, including methodologies to evaluate, value and create value from that intellectual property.
This externship will provide law students practical experience in the areas of humanitarian and family-based immigration law under the guidance of a practicing attorney. By the end of their externship experience, students will be able to meet with potential and existing clients, perform initial and subsequent client interviews, prepare legal research memos on assigned client based topics, and submit factually accurate and complete immigration applications.
This externship provides students guided practical experience in immigration law practice. This experience is provided in a live-client setting requiring students to conduct intake and interview, research and evaluation of claims, follow-up with clients, preparation of immigration applications, and administrative appeals. The work is done under the guidance of attorneys at the Maxwell Street Legal Clinic.
Includes an overview of the current research relating to the information behavior of children and youth in both school and everyday life, an examination of the different approaches to studying children and youth in the research literature, and consideration of the ways in which such research can inform the provision of information services for this population.
Electronic resources include all those systems (databases) and works (ebooks, periodicals) that are collected, described, provided, and managed by librarians and information specialists. Electronic resource management is therefore the management of these resources and this course examines the complexities involved with this activity. Topics covered include electronic resource systems, standards, processes and work flows, licenses, negotiations, access, evaluation, and usability.
How people learn has implications for how learning environments should be designed. This course examines theories of informal learning - primarily drawing upon research from the sociocultural tradition of learning and human development - and considers how they can be practicallyimplemented into information organization contexts.
This course explores the culture and practice of live streaming, with a particular emphasis on Twitch. Through a hands-on approach, it leads students from the various stages of live streaming - account creation, content production and delivery, audience garnering, engagement accruing and multiple possibilities of monetization. Besides Twitch, it will also examine other popular game streaming platforms such as Smashcast, Discord, YouTube, and Gosu Gamers. Interest and experience in gaming and esports a plus, but not required.
Students will learn about critical approaches to diversity in video games as well as the "serious games" and game for change movement. Drawing on academic disciplines like "Critical Race Technology" studies, Feminist theory of Technology and Queer Theory this class will explore the industrial, aesthetic and social implications of issues of representation in video games.
