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Course Syllabus

ICS 5: Global Disruption and Information Technology

Winter 2026

Course Overview:

This class explores how new forms of information technology (IT) may support transition to a sustainable civilization. Topics include design and implementation of IT systems, science of global change, online community building, and “green IT."

This class was originally developed by three professors at UCI: Dr. Bill Tomlinson, Dr. Bonnie Nardi, and Dr. Don Patterson. Since then, many others at UCI have contributed to this class, including Juliet Norton, the staff of UCOP's Innovative Learning Technology Initiative, the staff of UCI's Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation, and other teaching staff members, past and present.

How this Course Will Work:

This course is an asynchronous online course. Each week, you will watch several pre-recorded lectures and do several readings, after which you will complete the associated quizzes. You will also do a longer reading each week on Perusall as well as complete a weekly concept mapping assignment.

The work each week will typically divided into two sections: assignments due on Wednesday and assignments due on Friday. However, you should plan to complete your assignments throughout the week.

Office Hours:

During office hours, Dr. Young and the TAs are available to discuss all course materials or related questions. You can discuss your past assignments with us, or you can even bring us your upcoming assignments and we can go over them with you (this is a good way to make sure you won't miss any points).

The readers will also hold office hours to discuss issues with specific graded assignments.

All meetings will be held in the course Zoom room (https://uci.zoom.us/j/98724244797) , and all of the times are listed on the Canvas course calendar. You do not need an appointment to come to office hours. If these times do not work for your schedule, please email the teaching staff to set up an appointment.

Readings:

You will have roughly 1-3 weekly readings in this class. Some reading may require you to use the campus network to access them. The VPN provides remote access to UCI library resources. To download the VPN client, go to: https://www.lib.uci.edu/connect. (https://www.lib.uci.edu/connect) You will have better results if you download the VPN rather than using the web-based one. Note that you usually need to manually select "UCIFull" to access library resources.

Grading:

Video Quizzes: 20%

Reading Quizzes: 20%

Weekly Perusall Assignment: 20%

Weekly Zotgraph Assignment: 20%

Other Weekly Assignments: 20%

Extra Credit Field Trips (up to 3% of your grade - see the Week 1 module for details):