U. MD - Curricula at 3 Levels

U. MD, like Rutgers, has a Professional School focus. Course material is at all levels:

1. Ugrad - single course on Information Literacy

2. PhD - full program in this area

3. MLS - Course Areas

• Information Use
  • Follow-on Systems Analysis course
• Information Access
  • Follow-on networking (taught by EE professor)
• Information Structure (e.g., thesaurus, E-R diagrams)
  • Text is Sorbel - organizing info., written 1984
  • Follow-on: HCI
• Information Technology
  • Large number of follow-on
  • DBMS, Expert Systems, Software Evaluation, Apps., HCC
  • Electronic archives
• Thus have a base course plus higher level courses in each "strand"
• Expect to add an IR course