The following is a tentative schedule of the material that will be covered. References to chapters from the textbook are given for each topic. Materials from other reference sources will also be used in lectures.
| Week 1: | 8/27-8/29 | Introduction and overview | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 1 |
| Week 2: | 9/1-9/5 | Web search | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 13.1-13.4 |
| Week 3: | 9/8-9/12 | Basic IR models | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 2.1.-2.5 |
| Week 4: | 9/15-9/19 | Text processing and indexing | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 7.1-7.2, 8.1-8.2 |
| Week 5: | 9/22-9/26 | Retrieval evaluation | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 3 |
| Week 6: | 9/29-10/3 | Query languages | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 4 |
| Week 7: | 10/6 | Exam One | contents covered since beginging |
| 10/8-10/10 | Query operations | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 5 | |
| 10/11-10/14 | Fall break | ||
| Week 8: | 10/15-10/17 | Relevance feedback | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 5.2, 10.7, papers |
| Week 9: | 10/20-10/24 | Crawling and meta-crawling | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 13, papers |
| Week 10: | 10/27-10/31 | Link analysis | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 13, papers |
| Week 11: | 11/3-11/7 | Database issues | papers |
| Week 12: | 11/10 | Exam two | contents covered since Exam One |
| 11/12-11/14 | Text properties | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 6.1-6.4,6.6 | |
| Week 13: | 11/17-11/21 | Text operations | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 7.3-7.6 |
| Week 14: | 11/24 | User interface | Baeza-Yates Chpt. 10 |
| 11/26-11/30 | Thanksgiving break | ||
| Week 15: | 12/1-12/5 | Student team presentation | |
| 12/8 | Float | ||
| Final exam | Date determined by university | Comprehensive |