Required Classes
Your initial class is LIS 6080: Information Technology. This is a 3 credit hour class. (Take a look at LIS 6080 Course Profile for more information.) Students returning for the IM certificate after graduation must have taken LIS 6080 within three years to meet the Foundation course requirement.
What is covered in LIS 6080?
By the end of the course, you should be able to ...
- Apply advanced word processing skills to develop library marketing and informational materials
- Understand and apply the basic vocabulary and principles of computer software, hardware and networks
- Apply intermediate spreadsheet techniques to perform data analysis (budgets, etc.) in the library environment
- Make informed technology purchasing decisions for information centers
- Create a web portfolio utilizing basic markup languages and style
- Apply knowledge of database construction to developing a database, to effectively using existing professional databases and to evaluating database searching
- Create and deliver online technology instructional material
- Collaborate in an online environment
- Collaborate and communicate effectively in an online environment using audio, video, chat and formal written discourse
Foundational Courses
The following courses are required for all specializations in the Information Management Certificate
- LIS 7410 Software Productivity Tools for Information Professionals
- LIS 7460 Database Concepts and Applications for Librarians
Capstone Course
Your final class is LIS 8000: Information Policy. This is a 3 credit hour seminar class.
What's covered in LIS 8000?
By the end of the course, you should be able to ...
- Differentiate among various definitions of information policy and examine the potential implications for library and information science.
- Apply an information policy model to assess how local information policies affect individual decision making.
- Create an organizational information policy using applicable state, regional and federal guidelines.
- Develop strategies for identifying the impact of information policies in professional and ethical decision making.
- Select and analyze the effects of an existing governmental information policy.
- Critically evaluate the implications of information policies at the local, professional and government levels.