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List of Courses and Descriptions

LIS 50647     INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES     

3 Credit Hours

(Slashed with LIS 40647) Provides students with a greater understanding of how new forms of knowledge production and representation, computational thinking and applications of various information and digital technologies have impacted research and pedagogy in humanities disciplines. Special attention is given to how information professionals can support and promote digital humanities work. Students have the opportunity to explore, apply and critique the technologies, tools, methods and values of the digital humanities field.

LIS 60020     INFORMATION ORGANIZATION     

3 Credit Hours

Introduction to the theory and practice of information organization and retrieval in various information environments. Familiarity with principles, standards, tools and current systems relating to organization of information and retrieval. Exploration of supported information system functions such as searching, browsing, and navigation. Assessment and evaluation of information organization and retrieval systems.

LIS 60030     PEOPLE IN THE INFORMATION ECOLOGY

3 Credit Hours

Takes a user-centered approach in exploring the information needs and behaviors of people (as individuals and in groups, communities, and institutions) in relation to the larger information ecology that surrounds them. Topics covered include an overview of information ecology; the user-centered paradigm; major information needs and information behavior theories, models, and findings; the landscape of information sources and services for users; factors that influence people’s information needs and behaviors; and user empowerment, information ethics, information fluency, and related issues.

LIS 60040     INFORMATION INSTITUTIONS AND PROFESSIONS     

3 Credit Hours

Examines the political, social, economic, and technical forces that influence the larger environments in which information institutions are situated. This course explores characteristics of the environments in which information professionals may work, including but not limited to academic, school, public, and special libraries, museums, archives, cultural heritage institutions, government organizations, corporations across all industries, and information creators and publishers. The course explores characteristics of the information profession including core values and principles, emerging professions, and understanding possible futures in profession, and explores ideas of organizational behavior in information institutions that operate across the institution as a whole, within groups, and within individuals in the organization.

LIS 60654   PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF HERITAGE MATERIALS     

3 Credit Hours

Types and causes of deterioration of various kinds of library, archival, and museum collections; storage and preventive care, preservation through photographic reproduction and digital conversion, and conservation of rare materials.

LIS 606057    THEORY AND METHODS OF ARCHIVAL ACQUISITION, SELECTION AND APPRAISAL    

  3 Credit Hours

(Slashed with LIS 80657) This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory, methods and traditions employed by records professionals to form and shape archives as societal memory. This course focusses primarily on acquisition, selection, documentation and appraisal theory and methods. Students will also examine contemporary records frameworks and approaches and issues faced by archivists, special collections librarians and manuscript curators employed to identify, evaluate, acquire and dispose of records.

LIS 60658     THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION     

3 Credit Hours

This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of archival description, including 1) principles of provenance and original order, 2) hierarchical arrangement and description; 3) standards central to archival description including Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS), Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC), and Encoded Archival Description (EAD); 4) archival authority work, including Encoded Archival Context (EAC); and 5) subject access for archival materials. Other related topics to be addressed include approaches to description of born-digital archival records, management of description programs, design of information systems for archival description, project management and cost analyses, and community-driven archival description such as tagging and reparative description.

LIS 60099     MASTER’S PORTFOLIO IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE     

1 Credit Hour

Completed in a student’s last semester. It will include the creation of an electronic portfolio to represent and self-evaluate the student’s experience throughout the MLIS program, considering program learning outcomes and preparation for a career in the field of library and information science.

LIS 61095     SPECIAL TOPICS IN INFORMATION STUDIES (CONNECTING ARCHIVES AND PEOPLE)

1-3 Credit Hours

(Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with LIS 81095) Offered irregularly as resources and/or opportunities permit. Topics could include current or emerging issues in information studies. Specific topics are announced in the schedule of classes.

LIS 50693     VARIABLE TITLE WORKSHOP IN INFORMATION STUDIES   (Grant Writing)

1-3 Credit Hours

(Repeatable for credit) Maximum workshop credit accepted for M.L.I.S. degree is 4 credit hours. Intensive examination of special topics of interest to current M.L.I.S. students and practicing librarians, archivists and museum studies professionals.

LIS 60401     LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTERS     

3 Credit Hours

This course will review the concept of leadership while delving into its relationship to and differences from management, and its application in the personal and professional lives of information professionals. Beginning with an examination of personal leadership styles, the course will review the major philosophies of leadership thought that affect the library and information fields, the role of mentors, team building, project management, the moral and ethical responsibilities of leading others and leading through change in the information world.

LIS 60510     DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES I: DATA FUNDAMENTALS     

1 Credit Hour

The first of three one-credit courses in digital technologies, this course presents foundational knowledge on the principles that underlie digital resources and services in modern information society, with specific emphasis on data representation, encoding, formatting, and data modeling.

LIS 60511     DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES II: INTERNET FUNDAMENTALS     

1 Credit Hour

The second of three one-credit courses in digital technologies, this course presents foundational knowledge on the principles that underlie digital resources and services in modern information society, with specific emphasis on online information systems, the Internet, and data security

LIS 60652     FOUNDATIONS OF RECORDKEEPING IN SOCIETY     

3 Credit Hours

An introduction to the core principles and practices of recordkeeping and the multiple and complex roles records and archives play in identity, evidence, transparency, memory, accountability, equity, representation and trust in society. This course covers historical and contemporary recordkeeping contexts related to individuals, family, community, organization, corporate, academia and government, as well as traditional, nontextual and digital formats of records and archives.

LIS 60050     RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE     

3 Credit Hours

Focuses on quantitative and qualitative research methods applicable to information settings and environments. Explores research design, data analysis, proposal development, and ethical issues.

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