Course List
Note: the first two courses are required. Students then select one from each of the remaining groupings
Organize and Represent Information Resources
Conduct and Analyze Research
- S505: Evaluation of Resources and Services (3 cr.)
- S506: Introduction to Research (3 cr.)
- S519: Evaluation of Information Systems (3 cr.)
Apply Management and Leadership Skills
- S551: Library Management (3 cr.)
- S552: Academic Library Management (3 cr)
- S553: Public Library Management (3 cr)
- S671: School Media (3 cr)
MIS requirements
- S510: Introduction to Information Science (3 cr.)
- S511: Database Design (3 cr.)
- S513: Organizational Informatics (3 cr.)
- S515: Information Architecture (3 cr.)
- S516: Human-Computer Interaction (3 cr.)
- S556: Systems Analysis and Design (3 cr.)
Technology Electives
- S512: Information Systems Design (3 cr.)
- S517: Web Programming (3 cr.)
- S532: Information Architecture for the Web (3 cr.)
- S637: Information Visualization (3 cr.)
- S652: Digital Libraries (3 cr.)
- S656: Information Technology Standardization (3 cr.)
Human-Computer Interaction Electives
- S561: User Interface Design for Information Systems (3 cr.)
- S661: Concepts and Contemporary Issues in Human-Computer Interaction (3 cr.)
- S662: Interface Design for Collaborative Information Spaces (3 cr.)
Reference/Sources Electives
- S520: Information Seeking and Use (3 cr.)
- S521: Humanities Information (3 cr.)
- S522: Social Science Information (3 cr.)
- S523: Science and Technology Information (3 cr.)
- S524: Adult Readers Advisory (3 cr.)
- S525: Government Information (3 cr.)
- S526: Business Information (3 cr.)
- S621: Audio and Video Sources (3 cr.)
- S622: Resources and Services for People with Disabilities (3 cr.)
- S623: Genealogy and Local History (3 cr.)
- S629: Topics in Information Sources and Services (3 cr.)
Organization and Representation of Information Electives
- S531: Subject Access Systems (3 cr.)
- S533: Online Searching (3 cr.)
- S534: Information Retrieval: Theory and Practice (3 cr.)
- S631: Advanced Cataloging (3 cr.)
- S632: Technical Services (3 cr.)
- S633: Indexing (3 cr.)
- S634: Metadata (3 cr.)
- S635: Ontologies (3 cr.)
- S636: Semantic Web (3 cr.)
Social Informatics Electives
- S514: Computerization in Society (3 cr.)
- S518: Communication in Electronic Environments (3 cr.)
- S541: Information Policy (3 cr.)
- S542: International Information Issues (3 cr.)
- S543: Computer-Mediated Communication (3 cr.)
- S544: Gender and Computerization (3 cr.)
- S640: Seminar in Intellectual Freedom (3 cr.)
- S641: Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis (3 cr.)
- S642: Content Analysis for the Web (3 cr.)
- S643: The Information Industry (1-3 cr.)
Management Electives
- S554: Library Systems (3 cr.)
- S555: Strategic Intelligence (3 cr.)
- S650: Library Philanthropy (3 cr.)
- S651: Art Librarianship (3 cr.)
- S653: Health Sciences Librarianship (3 cr.)
- S654: Law Librarianship (3 cr.)
- S655: Music Librarianship (3 cr.)
Education/Literacy Electives
- S571: Materials for Youth (3 cr.)
- S572: Youth Services (3 cr.)
- S573: Education of Information Users (3 cr.)
- S574: Information Inquiry for School Teachers (3 cr.)
- S672: Seminar on Literature for Youth (3 cr.)
Rare Books/Archives Electives
- S580: History of Libraries (3 cr.)
- S581: Archives and Records Management (3 cr.)
- S582: Preservation (3 cr.)
- S583: Rare Book Librarianship (3 cr.)
- S584: Manuscripts (3 cr.)
- S680: The Book to 1450 (3 cr.)
- S681: The Book 1450 to the Present (3 cr.)
- S683: Reference Sources for Rare Books (3 cr.)
- S684: Descriptive Bibliography (3 cr.)
- S685: Electronic Records Management (3 cr.)
Independent Study, Special Topics and Workshops
- S601: Directed Readings (1-6 cr.)
- S602: Directed Research (1-3 cr.)
- S690: Capstone in Information Architecture (3 cr.)
- S603: Workshop in Library and Information Science (1-3 cr.)
- S604: Topics in Library and Information Science (1-4 cr.)
- S605: Internship in Library and Information Science (2-6 cr.)
Cross-Listed Courses
- AFRI A732: Bibliography of Sub-Saharan Africa (3cr.)
- CSCI A538: Network Technologies and Administration (formerly CSCI A547) (3 cr.)
- FINA A575: Research Sources in Art History (2cr.)
- MUS M539: Introduction to Music Bibliography (3 cr.)
Undergraduate Courses
The following courses are open only to doctoral students
- G901: Advanced Research ( cr.)
- S701: Introduction to Doctoral Research in Library and Information Science (3 cr.)
- S702: Doctoral Research Practicum I (2 cr.)
- S703: Doctoral Research Practicum II (2 cr.)
- S706: Introduction to Research (3 cr.)
- S710: Doctoral Research Practicum II (3 cr.)
- S763: Research Problems and Methods in Information Science (3 cr.)
- S764: Seminar in Information Science (3 cr.)
- S765: Doctoral Research in Information Science (1-6 cr.)
- S790: Dissertation Proposal in Information Science (3 cr.)
- S799: Ph.D. Thesis (arr cr.)
