Sue Yeon Syn, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Library and Information Science
Catholic University of America
620 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington, D.C. 20064
Office: Columbus School of Law #422A
Phone: 202-319-6277
Email: syn [at] cua [dot] edu
Research Interests
User Information Behavior and Human Information Interaction (HII)
User Created Content and Social Media
Health Informatics and Health Information Behavior
Personal Information Management, Personal Digital Archiving
Human Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience (UX) and Usability Studies
Teaching Interests
Data Science
Information Systems, Information Systems in Libraries, Healthcare Information Systems
Information Architecture
HCI, UX, User Interface Design, Interaction Design
Information Organization
Teaching in Spring 2023
Core Course (3 Credits)
Tuesdays, 5:40pm-8:10pm
This course introduces students to the theory, principles, standards, and methods of information organization. Through lectures, discussions and hands-on practice students learn to provide intellectual and physical access to information objects. Topics covered include information architecture, user information needs and behaviors, tools for information access, principles of information representation, metadata schemas, controlled vocabulary, folksonomy, classification, taxonomy, encoding standards, bibliographic networks, applications of technologies in information organization, and design of information systems to facilitate access and retrieval.
Elective Course (3 Credits)
Asynchronous Online
This course is designed for students interested in developing skills for web site and web page design. It will cover search engine architecture, evaluation of information resources and applications of information architecture to web site design. Through exercises, discussions, lectures, projects and presentations students will learn the principles of information architecture and user-centered Web design. In addition, students will have hands-on practice with web site and web page design with HTML and Dynamic HTML. They will use HTML editors and graphic tools.