Levels:

1. Ugrad - nothing yet in IR

2. MS -
	* MLS
	  - 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