Rutgers - Curricula at 3 Levels
1. Ugrad - nothing yet in IR
2. MS
- MLS
- Background, plan
- shifted 4-5 years ago from core competencies to specializations
- one is IR, taught by Belkin and Saracevic
- target is for information professionals
More and more are lawyers looking for retraining, jobs.
Few have background for highly mathematical presentations.
- wanted minimal set of courses, at MS level,
within constraint of 36 credits
- stages IR curriculum / specialization
- explicit focus on users
- 4 courses evolved as core.
There are 3 hours of lecture in each; some have labs too.
1st 2 are prereq. for others. Others follow the sequence given:
- Intro. to Human Information Behavior (basic course for area)
(has become a de facto core course for other areas too)
(perspective carries through other courses)
- Information Technology
(familiarity with networking, ...)
- Interaction, Mediation, and Searching
(there is ongoing job need for intermediaries)
- Knowledge R
(indexing, classification, ... - Jim Anderson)
- IR
project: systems analysis and effectivenss type evaluation
goals: understand adv. & disadv.'s
no: signature files, programming
yes: models, systems as examples
- Needs Assessment and Evaluation
learn methods for understanding info. needs, doing research in
information context
prior text was "Intelligent Corporation"
refers to marketing information
- Information Analysis, Synthesis, and Dissemination
(not required, but highly recommended)
understand information problems
know how to search for solutions, synthesize results,
present the summary report
- MS Comm. Inf. Science: multidisciplinary, depts. all covered
(Communication, Education, LIS)
3. PhD - unified program