As an institution strongly committed to graduate education and research, Rutgers University provides graduate programs of exceptional quality taught by a distinguished faculty. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers is now one of the nation’s largest state university systems, with an enrollment at the New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden campuses of approximately 34,939 undergraduate and 13,296 graduate students.

Students who choose Rutgers join a university with high standards, diverse faculty and students, excellent library facilities and computer resources, and a full complement of academic and cultural activities. In addition to the variety of attractions that New Jersey has to offer, Rutgers’ proximity to both New York City and Philadelphia is a notable asset for those who enjoy the opportunities these major metropolitan centers afford.

The Ph.D. Program in Communication, Information, and Library Studies is offered through the Graduate School-New Brunswick. The Program has 43 faculty members, and 108 students currently enrolled. The Office of the Ph.D. Program is located in the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, Room 313, 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, (732)932-7447. Information on the program and SCILS can be found at http://www.scils.rutgers.edu.

The focus of the Ph.D. Program is on the nature and functions of communication and information processes, systems, institutions, and policies, and their impact on individuals, and on social, organizational, national and international affairs. Students may elect to focus their study in any of the following areas:

1) Communication Processes; 2) Library and Information Science; 3) Media Studies.

Communication Processes reflects faculty research and scholarship focusing on three interrelated core areas: Social Interaction; Organizational Communication; and Mediated Communication. Problem-oriented research at the intersection of these areas includes such prominent contemporary concerns as Health, Gender, Globalization, Identity, and Policy. Health communication research is a particular emphasis, as is reflected in the Center for Communication and Health Issues.

Media Studies is concerned with the political, social, psychological, and economic impact or mediated communication, as well as with the cultural and historical conditions that give rise to contemporary media. The area includes the study of both the "traditional" mass media and newer electronic technologies and telecommunications. Research and coursework cover media content and effects; audience reception ;and interpretive processes; the emergence of audiences understood in terms of race, age, gender, class, and politics; the sociology and production of culture; communication law, regulation, and policy; and the media’s roles in political and international communication and in educational systems.

All students receive email accounts and have direct access to word processing, database and statistical software as well as on-line information services through the general SCILS computer system. In addition, the School has other extensive computer facilities, including instructional labs with Macintosh and PC computers, computers for Ph.D. student use, and research facilities with a variety of computer workstations.

The School has a general research laboratory space, which currently houses the Alexandria Project Laboratory, a facility for observing, monitoring, recording and analyzing human-human and human-computer interaction, and a variety of SUN and LINUX workstations for supporting various funded research activities, as well as supporting student members of the Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries.

The Rutgers library system, with its holdings of more than three million volumes, ranks among the nation’s top twenty-five research libraries. Alexander Library, next to the School, has extensive holdings in the areas of emphasis within the program.

Applicants for the Ph.D. Program will be evaluated on the basis of Graduate Records Exam (GRE) scores (Verbal and Quantitative General Test), undergraduate and graduate academic records, three letters of recommendation from persons who know the applicant in academic or professional contexts, the personal statement portion of the application relating experience and research interests to the Ph.D. Program and scores of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) for non-native English-speaking applicants. Students applying for admission to the Ph.D. Program typically have completed a Master’s degree in Communication, Information Science, Library Studies, or another related academic or professional field. Highly qualified students without a Master’s degree may also apply. Applicants should have a combined GRE verbal and quantitative score of at least 1000, and undergraduate and graduate academic performance at least at the 3.0 (B) level. Non-native English speaking applicants should have TOEFL scores above 600 (paper-based) or 250 (computer-based). The application deadline for the Fall term is May 1. Students requesting financial aid must apply by February 15.

Application forms are available from the office of Graduate and Professional Admissions, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 18 Bishop Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, or at the following url: http://gradstudy.rutgers.edu/index.html

FINANCIAL AID

Several types of financial aid are available depending on scholastic achievement and financial need. Teaching and research assistantships with stipend, health benefits, and tuition remission are available for highly qualified students. University fellowships which include stipends and tuition remission, and Garden State Fellowships administered through the New Jersey Department of Higher Education, are also available. In addition, a highly competitive program of Graduate Associates is available from the University Office of Quality and Communication Improvement. Applications for these awards should be received by February 15 for Fall admission.

Advisors for the first semester are program Area Coordinators (see attached listing of Area Faculty and Coordinators), who work with students to develop a preliminary plan of study which includes schedules for completion of necessary prerequisite and required courses, and for transfer of master degree credits. Prior to course registration for the third semester, Program Advisors are selected from within the student’s program area, and together the student and his/her Program Advisor develop a Plan of Study.

The Ph.D. degree requires the completion of 84 credits: 18 credits of core requirements; 18 credits of course work in the student’s Program Area; 24 credits of dissertation research; and a maximum of 24 credits of Masters-level course work, as described below.

NOTE: Although 24 credits may be transferred from the master's level, the general practice of the program is to accept no more than 18 credits. These courses must be theoretical or research-based courses in communication, information science, library studies or closely related fields. Applied or professional courses (such as internships, video production or newswriting) are not acceptable. For further information, request a copy of the transfer credit policy.

The core requirements include foundation courses in communication and information, research methods, and attendance at the Ph.D. Colloquium.

Students must complete a minimum or 24 credits of dissertation research under the supervision of their dissertation advisor. Credits are variable; the number taken during a particular semester should reflect the degree of involvement of the student and faculty during that semester.

The Graduate School – New Brunswick allows the following grades to be given for course work (the definitions are those of the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies):

For research credits, which are taken after the qualifying examination has been passed, the grades are:

Twenty-four credits of Satisfactory grades must be completed before submission of the Dissertation.

Upon completion of the eighteen credits of core requirements, at least eighteen credits of course work as approved by the Program Area, and the transfer of up to twenty-four credits from Master’s Degree studies (i.e. 60 total course credits), the candidate is eligible to take the qualifying examination(s). Qualifying exams cover the Program Area of specialization, including both "major" and "minor" areas. A qualifying exam consists of both a written and oral portion. Qualifying exams are offered once per semester. If a student does not pass any portion of the exam, one additional opportunity is provided for the student to retake the exam. In such instances, the exam must be repeated one semester hence.

Within 12 months of completion of qualifying exams, a dissertation advisor and partial disseration committee must be composed, and a preliminary dissertation proposal approved and scheduled for public presentation. The final dissertation proposal must be completed and approved by the dissertation advisor and committee within 18 months of completion of the qualifying exams.

The Graduate School – New Brunswick specifies that all requirements for the Ph.D. degree, including successful defense and presentation of the Dissertation, be completed within seven years of matriculation in a Program of the Graduate School. The Faculty of the Ph.D. Program in Communication, Information and Library Studies meets each Spring Semester to review the progress of all students in the Program. The Director of the Program and the Program Area Coordinators are responsible for keeping students informed of their progress.

Ph.D. students in the Communication Area should select a major and minor focus of study. 12 credit hours are required for the major area, and 6 for the minor. With the assistance of their advisors, students may designate major and minor areas that fit their interests. These may include foci within the Communication area: organizational communication, social interaction, mediated communication, or health communication, but are not limited to these areas of communication study. Students may choose as a minor area one of the other areas of the Ph.D. program. Alternatively, students may choose a minor area elsewhere in the University. A qualifying exam in each area will be taken once the student has completed all course work.

Required (any 2 of the following 3)

Electives:

16:194: 660 Audience Studies

16:194: 662 Media Literacy

16:194: 663 Media History and Institutions

16:194: 664 Media and Culture

16:194: 665 Media and Politics

16:194: 666 Social Construction of News

Mark Aakhus Marya Doerfel Mark Frank Gustav Friedrich Stephen Haas Radha Hegde

James Katz Linda Lederman Hartmut Mokros Ronald Rice Brent Ruben L.J. Shrum

Lea Stewart Maureen Taylor

James Anderson Jerome Aumente Nicholas J .Belkin Nelson Chou Lisa Covi

Jane Hannigan Carol Kuhlthau Daniel O’Connor Jose Perez-Carballo Patricia Reeling

Doug Riecken Tefko Saracevic Kay Vandergrift Jana Varlejs Mark Winston

James Katz Montague Kern Robert Kubey Shannon Martin Laurie Ouellette Barbara Reed

L.J. Shrum William Solomon Linda Steiner Kay Vandergrift Chris Vaughan

Mark Aakhus, (Ph.D., University of Arizona) Assistant Professor - Organizational communication, decision making and disputing processes, new communication technology.

Jerome Aumente, * (M.S., Columbia) Professor - Communication and information technology.

Nicholas J. Belkin,* (Ph.D., London) Professor and Director, Ph.D. Program - Information science, information retrieval theory, interactive information retrieval, people's interactions with information, human-computer interaction in information systems.

Ralph Blasingame,* (D.L.S., Columbia) Professor Emeritus - Management.

Nelson L. Chou, (Ph.D., Chicago) Librarian II, Head, East Asian Library - History of books & libraries, East Asian librarianship, computational linguistics.

Lisa M. Covi, (Ph.D., University of California) Assistant Professor - Social informatics, computer-supported cooperative work, digital libraries.

Marya Doerfel, (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo) Assistant Professor

Mark Frank, (Ph.D., Cornell University) Assistant Professor - Expression of emotion and interpersonal deception.

Gustav W. Friedrich, *(Ph.D., University of Kansas) Professor and Dean, SCILS - Communication theory, instructional communication, applied communication.

Stephen Haas, (Ph.D., Ohio State University) Assistant Professor - Health communication, interpersonal communication.

Jane Hannigan, (DLS, Columbia University) Professor Emerita, Columbia University - Librarianship, youth literature & youth services, technology, distance education.

Radha Hegde, * (Ph.D., Ohio State University) Assistant Professor - Intercultural, interpersonal communication, feminist theory, identity, race and gender.

Paul Kantor,* (Ph.D., Princeton) Professor - Networked information and decision systems, digital libraries, economics of information, value studies of library and information systems.

James Katz,* (Ph.D., Rutgers University) Professor - Societal and policy implications of telecommunications and new communication technologies, research methods.

Montague Kern,* (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins) Associate Professor - Media, political institutions and public policy, persuasion, political communication.

Robert Kubey,* (Ph.D., Chicago) Associate Professor - Mass communication theory and effects, psychology and politics of media, media literacy, sociology of culture, research methods.

Carol Kuhlthau,* (Ed.D., Rutgers) Professor - Educational media, information processes.

Linda C. Lederman,* (Ph.D., Rutgers) Professor - Communication processes, experiential learning and communication education, organizational communication.

Jenny Mandelbaum,* (Ph.D. Texas) Associate Professor - Interpersonal communication, conversational analysis.

Shannon E. Martin, * (Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) Associate Professor - Information law, access to federal government information.

Hartmut Mokros, * (Ph.D., Chicago) Associate Professor - Interpersonal communication, health communication, communication theory, research methodology, applied communication research, interaction analysis.

Daniel O’Connor, * (Ph.D., Syracuse) Associate Professor - Research methods, library science.

Jon Oliver, (MS., Rutgers University), Assistant Dean for Network and Info. Technology - Information retrieval and dissemination in distance education.

Laurie Ouellette, (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Assistant Professor - Media theory; media history; cultural studies; feminist criticism.

Jose Perez-Carballo, (Ph.D., New York University), Assistant Professor - Text processing, networked information, information retrieval.

Barbara Reed, (Ph.D., Ohio University) Associate Professor -History and contemporary studies of ethnic press and magazines.

Patricia G. Reeling, (D.L.S., Columbia) Associate Professor - Library and information studies, library & information science education, government information policy.

Ronald Rice,* (Ph.D., Stanford) Professor - Social impacts of telecommunications, computer-mediated communication systems, network analysis, public communication campaigns.

Doug Riecken, (Ph.D., Rutgers) Adjunct member – Human-computer interaction, information personalization, intelligent user interfaces and agents

Brent D. Ruben,* (Ph.D., Iowa) Professor and Executive Director, University Program for Quality & Communication Improvement - Communication theory, organizational quality, health and medical communication, communication and information systems, communication education.

Tefko Saracevic,* (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve) Professor - Information science, information education, information seeking and retrieving.

L.J. Shrum, (Ph.D., Illinois) Associate Professor of Marketing, School of Business, NB - Cognitive processes underlying media effects.

E. Wendy Skiba-King, (Ph.D., Rutgers University) Instructor - Family communication, psychotherapeutic communication, health care organizations.

William Solomon,* (Ph.D., Berkeley) Associate Professor - Sociology of Mass Media, Historical sociology. labor studies.

Jeffrey K. Smith, (Ph.D., Chicago) Professor and Associate Dean, GSE - Statistics and measurement, factors influencing test performance, learning in cultural institutions.

Linda C. Steiner, * (Ph.D., Illinois) Assistant Professor - Journalism history and ethics, alternative and feminist media.

Lea P. Stewart,* (Ph.D., Purdue) Professor - Organizational communication, diversity, gender, sexual harassment.

Maureen Taylor, (Ph.D., Purdue University) Assistant Professor - Public relations, international communication and development communication.

Betty J. Turock,* (Ph.D., Rutgers) Professor - Management, information services, information policy.

Kay Vandergrift,* (Ed.D., Columbia) Professor - Library services for children and young adults, educational media services, literary and gender studies, distance education.

Jana Varlejs, * (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Associate Professor - Library education, continuing professional education.

Chris Vaughan, (Ph.D., Berkeley ) Assistant Professor - International media, political culture, intercultural relations, media and popular culture.

Silvio Waisbord, (Ph.D., University of San Diego), Assistant Professor - International communication, broadcasting and journalism, Latin American media and culture.

Mark Winston, (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Assistant Professor - Management , information services.

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.

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.

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.

An inter-disciplinary review and exploration of current research in the communication, structure, process, and products or research and scholarship.

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.

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.

This seminar examines the intellectual foundations for librianship 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, c.ass, 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 SCILS member of the Graduate Faculty to develop a plan for the apprentice’s work,

01) Communication Processes

02) Information Science

03) Institutions and Policy

04) Library Studies

05) Media Studies

06) Advanced Topics in Quantitative Research

07) Advanced Topics in Qualitative Research

Graduate School application forms may be obtained directly from the Office of Graduate Admissions, 18 Bishop Place, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071; (732)932-7711 or through the Internet at http://gradstudy.rutgers.edu/index.html. Applications for the Graduate Record Examination may be obtained from the Educational Testing Service, Box 6000, Princeton, NJ 08641 or 1947 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704. For additional information concerning the Program contact:

Nicholas J. Belkin, Director

The Ph.D. Program

School of Communication, Information and Library Studies

4 Huntington Street

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901

Telephone: (732) 932-7447

Fax: (732)932-6916

email: nick@belkin.rutgers.edu