This course examines the history, social significance, and musical style of jazz. It focuses particularly on two of the central periods in the development of jazz: the Swing era (ca. 1930-45), which saw the rise of the “big bands” and the emergence of jazz as a great national popular music of America; and the Bebop era (ca. 1945-60), during which jazz became self-consciously difficult in the manner of so-called art music. We will immerse ourselves in intensive description of the music in order to understand better the extraordinary fusion of spontaneous creativity and careful intellectual structuring that characterizes jazz. We will also give in-depth consideration to socio-cultural dimensions of the music such as racial identity, American identity, and the impact of economic and technological factors. – to gain an appreciation of the richness and variety of jazz through close study of a representative selection of pieces
– to think critically about basic aspects of musical creation and production such as composition, arrangement, improvisation, and the function(s) of notation
– to develop an awareness of the complex interrelationships between the arts and cultural/ideological attitudes concerning society, property, etc. V14 College of Liberal Arts Main Campus Ren-Yan Chen 50 Tuesday 7,8,9 Music3018 3 Half Graduate Institute of Musicology http://www.gim.ntu.edu.tw/default_eng.aspx

Information can be abstract and needs to be processed so that messages are converted to things that make sense to the receivers. Utilizing various digital tools to visualize information helps us deliver information to our target audience in an intuitive and efficient way.

This course provides an overview about the state of the art in information visualization. The course highlights the principles of producing effective visualizations and introduces practical visualization procedures, including how to visualize information with software and digital tools such as the R package , Tableau, and Google fusion tables.

Specific topics include:

1. The history and background of information visualization;

2. Design principles of information visualization;

3. Data analysis methods and hands-on applications of visualization techniques;

4. Interface design issues in information visualization;

5. Future trends in information visualization.

The course will be delivered through a combination of lectures, presentations, class activities, and discussions.
This course aims to provide students with knowledge of how to effectively visualize information and hands-on experience in visualizing different types of information. The ultimate goal of this course is to provide non-technical students with tools to process, visualize, and analyze information of their own interests (e.g., data collected for their theses).

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

1. Describe the principles of information visualization;

2. Use data analysis methods and visualization tools, such as R, to manage and analyze abstract information;

3. Identify interface design issues in visualization;

4. Apply visualization techniques to specific domains of their own interests.

College of Liberal Arts Main Campus Tien-I Tsai 30 Tuesday 2,3,4 LIS5079 3 Half Department of Library and Information Science,
Graduate Institute of Library and Information Science,
Program For Knowledge Management
http://www.lis.ntu.edu.tw/en