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