Course offerings

Explore common data collection, management, and sharing practices around information technology and emerging technologies such as AI. Students will gain hands on experiences with collecting, analyzing, and managing user data in ethical and responsible manners. Students will design data-driven systems that are centered around user consent, transparency, and social responsibilities.

Engage in modern ethical dilemmas within archives, libraries, and museums, considering issues of collections management and preservation within changing cultural frameworks. 

This course we will explore the concepts and values of open knowledge and knowledge equity and how they intersect with the ongoing evolution of digital environments. Open knowledge can be described as information that is freely available to the public to use and redistribute. Knowledge equity extends beyond information access and use to also include what is valued as knowledge, whom that knowledge represents, and who creates it.

This course provides an overview of the major subject areas, ideas, concepts, and theories of Information Studies and introduces the basics of research, publication, and academic conventions in Information Studies. Prerequisites: Admission to the doctoral program and consent of the graduate advisor.

An overview of the nature and purposes of research, and common methods and methodologies in information studies.

An overview of concepts, results, and perspectives from philosophical, social science, humanistic, design, and technological disciplines that provide important underpinnings for information studies.