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INSC 450 - Writing About Science and Medicine 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Journalism and Electronic Media 450.)
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INSC 500 - Thesis 1-15 Credit Hours
Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities 1-15 Credit Hours
Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 504 - Research Methods in Information Sciences 3 Credit Hours
Research methods in a variety of information environments; primary and secondary research; research project design; research results interpretation; analysis of published research; techniques supporting research process.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 505 - ePortfolio 3 Credit Hours
Builds an environment for capstone learning experiences. Integrates core knowledge of information science and related fields to build a strong knowledge base. Develops necessary IT skills for ePortfolios. To showcase learning outcomes and professional growth. Identifies and fosters competences for career success.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 506 - edTPA Seminar 1 Credit Hours
Integrates foundational concepts of librarianship, including academic language and the discovery, use, and evaluation of information, into K-12 information literacy instruction and school library program administration. Preparation for the edTPA capstone experience.
Registration Permission: Restricted: open only to students required to complete the edTPA for school librarianship licensure and endorsement.
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INSC 510 - Information Environment 3 Credit Hours
Generation, production, management, dissemination, and use of information. Roles of information in society, information seeking and user behavior, information industry, economics of information products and services, technological and organizational change, information professions, and issues.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 511 - Information Concepts and Foundations 3 Credit Hours
Required course. Introduction to foundational concepts and theories, principles, and models of Information Sciences, including information behavior. History and nature of the discipline. Information policy, and the role of information in society. Evolution and scope of the information professions and their central issues, values, and ethical frameworks.
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INSC 512 - Information Organization and Retrieval 3 Credit Hours
Required course. Introduction to subject vocabularies and classification systems; theories and methods of information organization and retrieval, including approaches to evaluating information retrieval systems. Practical, ethical, and representational issues related to IR systems implementation.
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INSC 514 - Information Technology Foundations 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to foundational concepts; theories, models, and frameworks for designing, adopting, learning, and using information technology (IT); analysis, evaluation and management of electronic tools and resources; trends, capabilities, and limitations of information technologies for accessing, managing, and applying information from service user and service provider perspectives in various information settings.
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INSC 516 - Geospatial Technologies 3 Credit Hours
Explores the creation, distribution and growth of geospatial data, highlighting their uses and misuses. Structured as an applications-based course where students learn how geospatial technologies are used to turn geospatial data into maps, tables and imagery through hands-on exercises and laboratory work.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 520 - Information Representation and Organization 3 Credit Hours
The structure and organization of intellectual content regardless of format. Emphasis on how content is created, exchanged, and stored so it can be found. Includes standards and best practice for describing and characterizing intellectual content.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 521 - Cataloging and Classification 3 Credit Hours
Basic library-oriented cataloging and classification techniques, tools, and supporting operations. Descriptive cataloging, choice and form of non-subject entries, subject heading work, general classification, authority control, bibliographic utilities, online library catalogs.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 522 - Cataloging of Non-print Materials 3 Credit Hours
Cataloging of all non-book materials using RDA rules and OCLC’s Bibliographic Formats and Standards to create machine readable catalog records for maps, videos, recorded music, realia, graphic materials, electronic resources, continuing resources, microforms and three-dimensional artifacts.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 524 - Metadata 3 Credit Hours
Explores the role of metadata in our evolving information ecosystem(s) with an emphasis on metadata IN the digital environment. Development and use of metadata schemas in information communities, including digital libraries, museums, and archives; scientific data centers, and governmental organizations. Interoperability, metadata models, ontologies, metadata for the semantic web, metadata generation, metadata and search engines, metadata quality, and the evaluation of metadata schemas and tools. Enabling technologies used to create machine-understandable metadata (e.g., XML and RDF).
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 520 or 512.
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INSC 530 - Information Access and Retrieval 3 Credit Hours
Information access, retrieval, and use. Information seeking, user interfaces, information services and tools. Database structure, search engines, query logic, and evaluation of retrieval system performance.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 531 - Introduction to Information Sources and Services 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to reference services in libraries and information centers, including the reference interview, service standards and guidelines, and general reference sources and source types.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 532 - Sources and Services for Science and Engineering 3 Credit Hours
Information sources in engineering, physical and life sciences.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 533 - Humanities and Social Sciences Sources, Services, and Scholarship 3 Credit Hours
Information sources in history, philosophy, religion, classical studies, folklore, and mythology; anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and language; psychology, geography, political science, business, and economics; communication, information science, and education; fine arts, performing arts, and literature. Scholarly communication patterns of humanists and social scientists.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 530 or 531.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 534 - Government Information Sources 3 Credit Hours
Selection, acquisition, organization, and utilization of government information in variety of formats from legislative, judicial and executive branches of federal, state, local, and international government and intergovernmental agencies.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 535 - Advanced Information Retrieval 3 Credit Hours
Bibliographic, non-bibliographic, full-text databases, (e.g., non-bibliographic formula and structure databases, contents-page/full-text databases), patents; document delivery alternatives, evaluation, and testing.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 538 - User Instruction 3 Credit Hours
Theory, strategy, design, and practice in providing instructional services and technology for end users of information and information systems. Includes practical experience.
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INSC 541 - Knowledge Management for Information Professionals 3 Credit Hours
Covers classic theories of knowledge and theories of first and second-generation knowledge management paradigms. Introduces related disciplines and the knowledge lifecycle, types of knowledge, organizational learning, intellectual capital, communities of practice, knowledge ecologies, knowledge audits, knowledge sharing repurposing of information, uses of information technology, and roles of information professionals in developing knowledge management initiatives.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 542 - Social Informatics 3 Credit Hours
Social consequences of information and communication technologies (ICT) at micro (e.g., personal level), meso (e.g., organizational level) and at macro level (e.g., information society studies), and applications of ICT for businesses, governments, and society are covered by the umbrella term “social informatics.” It is a highly multi-disciplinary area worth exploring, since it will expose you to a range of contemporary global issues and phenomena shaped by ICT-mediated information.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 543 - Spatial Data Management 3 Credit Hours
Introduces the concepts related to spatial data management, including types of spatial data, spatial data discovery, data curation, and spatial dataset metadata creation. Issues related to research data management policies and related information services.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 544 - Business Intelligence for Information Professionals 3 Credit Hours
Principles and practices of gathering and synthesizing business intelligence: including competitive intelligence, environmental scanning, and issues management; information evaluation and synthesis; role of strategic information in modern organizations.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 545 - Scientific and Technical Communications 3 Credit Hours
Evolution of scientific and technical communication; current trends; role of formal and informal communications; major STI organizations and their roles.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 546 - Environmental Informatics 3 Credit Hours
Focuses on the interdisciplinary field of environmental informatics. Explores collection, classification, storage, retrieval, dissemination, integration and visualization of environmental information. Reviews the role of computer technology including geographic information systems.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 547 - Health Sciences Information Centers 3 Credit Hours
An overview of health sciences libraries, including management, collection development, reference, and current trends. Topics include the role of health sciences libraries/information specialists, relevant management and administrative issues, collection development and related matters, reference and information sources and services, consumer health and literacy, the process of evidence-based practice, and current information trends related to biomedical science.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 548 - Federal Libraries and Information Centers 3 Credit Hours
Mission, status, and history of federal libraries and federal information center work in various settings across the three branches of government; trends in employment, government dissemination efforts, information policy, information technology, and government’s impact on services in other types of libraries/information centers.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 550 - Management of Information Organizations 3 Credit Hours
Supervisory, management and leadership concepts, strategies, and techniques applicable to information professionals working in libraries, archives, records management, and other information organizations.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 551 - School Libraries 3 Credit Hours
Planning, implementing, and evaluating school library programs. Curricular involvement, role of technology, site-based management, relationships with district and state services.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 552 - Academic Libraries 3 Credit Hours
Mission, status, and history of academic libraries and academic librarianship in community colleges, colleges and universities; trends in higher education, information technology, and government’s impact on public, technical, and administrative services.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 553 - Specialized Information Agencies and Services 3 Credit Hours
Development and present status, scope and objectives. Information resources external to organization.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 554 - Public Library Management and Services 3 Credit Hours
Development, roles, political environment, governance, organization, fiscal management, services, marketing, and performance evaluations.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 558 - Planning and Assessment 3 Credit Hours
Overview of history of and issues related to planning and assessment in libraries and other information organizations, including approaches, methods, and tools.
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INSC 559 - Grant Development for Information Professionals 3 Credit Hours
Develops grant-writing and strategic relationship management skills for information professionals who may benefit from external funding opportunities and proposals. Creates and manages community partnerships to provide innovative information services to various constituencies such as underserved populations, public libraries, special libraries, and others in diverse information-related environments.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 560 - Development and Management of Collections 3 Credit Hours
Selecting and preserving a variety of items (tangible and intangible) to meet needs of particular users; community analysis; policies and procedures; evaluation; purchasing.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 562 - Digital Curation 3 Credit Hours
Explores the life-cycle, value-added management and maintenance of scholarly and scientific digital content. Examines the diverse set of skills to select, execute and administer a range of approaches and procedures across the lifecycle of digital objects, from conceptualization, creation, appraisal and selection, and ingest through preservation, storage, access, use and re-use. Digital curation occurs across a broad array of professional, disciplinary and organizational contexts. Introduces principles and practices to inform digital curation planning and practice for application in a variety of organizational settings, including archives, libraries, museums, data centers, and other cultural heritage and information agencies.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate
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INSC 564 - Archives and Records Management 3 Credit Hours
Objectives and functional elements of records systems, archival programs, management information systems and techniques within various types of organizations. Management of information internal to organizations.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 565 - Digital Libraries 3 Credit Hours
Technological and social aspects of electronic publishing and digital libraries. Technologies and standards that enable electronic publishing and digital libraries. History of electronic publishing and digital libraries and their impact on user needs and information provision.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 571 - Children’s Materials 3 Credit Hours
Critical survey of diverse children’s materials, for birth through age 12, in all formats and genres, including print, digital, and multimodal. Emphasis on evaluation, selection, and recreational or curricular use in school and public libraries.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 572 - Young Adult Materials 3 Credit Hours
Critical survey of diverse young adult materials, for ages 13-18, in all formats and genres, including print, digital, and multimodal. Emphasis on evaluation, selection, and recreational or curricular use in school and public libraries.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 573 - Programming for Children and Young Adults 3 Credit Hours
Philosophy and objectives of diverse, culturally and developmentally appropriate library services for children and young adults. Emphasis on program planning, implementation, and evaluation.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 571 or 572.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Science – Information Sciences major. Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 574 - Resources and Services for Adults 3 Credit Hours
Examines strategies and procedures for developing programs in libraries. The course provides public service librarians with the knowledge and skills to create, evaluate, and improve programs with some emphasis on reader’s advisory.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 575 - Valuing Diversity: International and Intercultural Resources for Youth 3 Credit Hours
Examines texts and materials for youth that reflect the contemporary settings and lives of young people from all over the world. Reviews the scholarship of literature and film to determine how to recognize stereotypes; how to understand publishing worlds; and how to recognize universal themes that transcend ethnicity, religion, gender, class, and nationhood.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 576 - Storytelling as a Communications and Learning Tool in Diverse Settings 3 Credit Hours
Explores storytelling as a communications tool in information agencies and other types of corporate and not-for-profit organizations. Students will learn the history of storytelling, various types of stories, and best practices for gathering and telling stories.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 577 - Picture Books Across the Curriculum 3 Credit Hours
Provides guidance for selecting and using quality picture books, wordless books, graphic novels and other media for teachers and librarians. Will focus on cross-curricular with an emphasis on using these materials in traditional and nontraditional ways to enhance student learning for grades K-12.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 580 - Information Technologies 3 Credit Hours
Evolution, trends, capabilities, and limitations of technologies applied to information capture, storage, preservation, access, and distribution.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 581 - Information Networking Applications 3 Credit Hours
Scholarly and community-based electronic communications. National and international standards, tools, resources; identification, analysis, evaluation, and management of tools and resources; construction of local technologies as developed and applicable.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 580 or instructor’s consent.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 582 - Information Systems Design and Implementation 3 Credit Hours
Information systems used in libraries and information agencies. System development life cycle (SDLC), usability engineering, human computer interaction, and project management.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 583 - Introduction to Youth Informatics 3 Credit Hours
Introduces the study of youth informatics. Presents essential concepts of the study of youth and informatics. Explores the connection between youth, technology, and community. Project-driven with intensive experiential learning components.
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INSC 584 - Database Management Systems 3 Credit Hours
Defining data needs, data structures, role of operating systems in data management, file organization, database management systems, logical data models, internal data models, database administration and evaluation. Design and implementation of application using database management system.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 586 - Usability Testing and Evaluation 3 Credit Hours
Comprehensive overview of theory and practice of usability evaluation. Assessing information systems from a user-centered design perspective using methods including usability testing, heuristic evaluation, web analytics, eye tracking and interaction modeling. Focus on usability testing and its various techniques including Think Aloud protocol, performance testing, face-to-face testing and remote testing.
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INSC 587 - Mining the Web 3 Credit Hours
Covers strategies for mining the web, web engines and directories, cognitive accessibility, web design and development, and usability engineering.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 588 - Human-Computer Interaction 3 Credit Hours
Survey of human-computer interaction and introduction to human and technological factors of importance to design of usable information systems. Basic phenomena of human perception, cognition, memory, and problem solving, and relationship to user-centered design. Methods and techniques for interaction design and evaluation.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 590 - Problems in Information Sciences 3-6 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of academic advisor.
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INSC 591 - Independent Project or Research 3 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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INSC 592 - Introduction to Data Analytics and Visualization 3 Credit Hours
Introduces the concepts of big data and data analytics in academics, businesses, sciences, the Web, etc. To master basic concepts and process of data analytics. To practice data mining techniques and skills (ETL). To design effective information visualizations.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 584 or instructor’s consent.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 593 - Seminar in Youth Informatics 3 Credit Hours
Explores key areas in youth informatics. Seminar includes discussion of basic, applied, and evaluative research and projects at the national and international levels. Covers research trends in youth informatics. Provides a forum for presentation and criticism of past and current research by students.
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INSC 594 - Graduate Research Participation 3 Credit Hours
Advanced research techniques under supervision of staff research director whose area coincides with interests of student.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of advisor and research director.
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INSC 595 - Student Teaching in School Libraries 9 Credit Hours
Planned professional semester: full day school library work and classroom observation activities.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 596 - Field-Based Experience in School Libraries 1-2 Credit Hours
Prescribed activities to gain competencies in a school library. Must be taken twice.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 597 - Information Architecture 3 Credit Hours
Introduces fundamental concepts, methods, and practices in information architecture for virtual space. Focuses on organization, navigation, labeling, and searching of Web sites and intranets, as well as user experience.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 598 - Web Design 3 Credit Hours
Provides hands-on experience with creating websites using latest web site design tools and techniques as well as a theoretical insight into emerging trends and techniques. Emphasizes understanding the basics of web design, website creation and evaluation. Covers basics of usability testing and search engine optimization.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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INSC 599 - Practicum 3-6 Credit Hours
Opportunity to translate theory into practice under guidance of qualified information professionals.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Recommended Background: Completion of core and pertinent advanced courses relevant to student’s practicum design.
Registration Restriction(s): 3.0 GPA required. Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of advisor and approval of practicum coordinator.
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INSC 680 - Information Science Theory 3 Credit Hours
Survey of major theories and studies in information science.
Registration Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students in the College of Communication and Information or consent of instructor. Minimum student level –graduate.
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