Required each semester in course work. Forum for the presentation of research and professional activities by guest speakers, faculty, and students.

The nature of information and communication processes, and the role of information and communication in individual, social, and institutional behavior. Particular emphasis on the conceptual linkages between information and communication processes.

Concepts, methods and practices of social science research in relation to communication, information science and library studies

Qualitative approaches for examining communication and information processes, including information definition, acquisition, evaluation and use.

Facets of research, problem areas, research techniques and experiments. Each student develops a research relating to a chosen topic.

THIS COURSE IS DISCONTINUED FOR 2008-09.

Integrative treatment of fundamental assumptions, paradigms, and directions in contemporary research of information, communication, and information systems. Students develop a research design relating to a chosen topic.

Major problems, trends and developments in information science and librarianship. Critical survey of current and classic research findings.

Precursors to, and characteristics of, human information seeking behavior, individual and social, both within and outside of institutional information systems. Relations between such behavior and information systems design and the relevant technologies.

Examines the basic problems of information retrieval from theoretical and experimental points of view. Develops a basis for the specification of design principles for IR systems.

Concurrent consideration of options for knowledge representation, methods for evaluating the effect of these options on costs and effectiveness, and research relating to knowledge representation for information retrieval.

Measures, models and methods for macro-evaluation of impact of information systems within their environment and for micro-evaluation of performance of system components. Experiments - their design, conduct and results.

Contemporary theories and major lines of classic and current research concerning interpersonal communication.

Survey of major principles and research organizational communication information processing. Analysis of the functions, transmission, and retention of information in the development and maintenance of organizations.

Current mass communication theories and approaches analyzed from a research perspective. Topics include: critical theory; audience ethnography, uses and gratifications; socialization processes and effects; and agenda setting.

A study of the processes through which scholarly, scientific, and technical ideas are communicated: mentoring; professional, national, and international networks; scholarly and scientific publishing; and other aspects of specialized information transfer.

Examines newly emerging mediated communication technologies (e.g., mobile phones and internet) affect social relationships and organizations; also, how social forces affect adoption and usage patterns of mediated technologies.

Focuses on how mediated communication is transforming health/medical practice and affecting health policy processes. Topics range from the way mediated communication sources affect the search for an acquisition of health information to the way these technologies are used to affect the behavior of individuals, groups and entire populations.

Impact of modern revolution in information technology; the related challenges of the contemporary problems in information policies at individual, organizational, national, and international levels. Use of information indicators.

Information law and regulation; focus on the historical and contemporary legal and regulatory issues stemming from the application of information technology.

Integrated study of measures, indicators, and methods for the study and description of information and communication systems and activities. Emphasis on the evaluation of different measures and their application to information policy studies relating to information macro-economy, mass media, science, information systems in organizations, and libraries, on the national and international levels.

Systematic consideration of the evolution of management theory leading to an evaluation of contemporary theoretical and research issues in planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling the information organization.

Systematic consideration of the theories and strategies of assessment, planning, development and change at the organizational and programmatic level in non-profit-seeking information organizations.

This seminar examines the intellectual foundations for librarianship as a discipline, the development of a broadened understanding of pervasive theories and research issues and the identification and exploration of the research literature in librarianship and pertinent allied fields.

Audience studies investigates the nature of audiences, how audiences emerge, and how audiences can be studied. Theories to be critiqued include weak/strong effects, uses and gratifications, reader response theory, cultural studies.

The course provides an overview of theories, principles, and research that inform the practice of media education worldwide. Theories of media education, various approaches to media pedagogy, and contemporary research problems are addressed.

This course addresses basic issues in the history of print and electronic media, emphasizing the media's political economy, the interrelationship of media and society, and the ideological component in writing history.

Cultural approaches to media studies, with a focus on major theories and critical analysis of media and popular culture. Topics, include: cultural theory; aesthetics and taste; representation and ideology; consumer culture; media, culture and identity; gender, race, class, and sexuality in media; fandom and subcultures.

Theories and research relating old and new media to political decision-making. Topics include public attitudes and opinion, media policy, interest articulation, political culture, ideology, rhetoric and content analysis, framing, agenda-setting.

Surveys and critiques social science research on news and the news media. Examines diverse scholarly perspectives, comparing them with the views of journalists, journalism critics, and the public.

A non-credit teaching apprenticeship designed to provide doctoral candidates with classroom experience. The apprentice will work with a participating SC&I member of the Graduate Faculty to develop a plan for the apprentice's work.

01) Communication Processes 02) Library and Information Science 03) Media Studies

01) Communication Processes 02) Library and Information Science 03) Media Studies

The Research Practicum requires registration in Independent Study.

The Research Practicum requires registration in Independent Study.

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