Each graduate-level concentration is intended to prepare graduates to succeed in a wide range of positions and information settings in both private and public organizations. The following information serves as an advising guide for students. Each student works with a faculty advisor to create an individualized program reflecting the student's career goals. Information describing typical careers in the information profession and recommended courses for each program are listed below and in more detail.
Master of Science Majoring in Information Science, MS-IS
Archival Studies
Provides graduates with the skills needed for production, archival and preservation of records, appraisal, and acquisitions. Also prepares students to work with imaging for archives, museums and libraries.
Health Informatics/Health Librarianship
Prepares graduates to work with health and medical applications, electronic medical records, clinical research data, health education, e-science, as well as legal and ethical issues concerning health information.
Information Organization
Provides graduates with the necessary skills to organize information for a wide variety of information formats, resources, systems, and environments. Graduates may be responsible for library cataloging, classification, metadata development and use.
Information Systems
Provides graduates with the basic skills and competencies that will enable them to support their organization to gain strategic and tactical competitive advantage. Also prepares students for positions that require technical knowledge and technical skills.
Knowledge Management
Prepares students for positions in the private and public sectors that deals with various aspects of knowledge management processes and practices. It equips students with the skills and knowledge needed to manage organizational knowledge, intellectual capital and knowledge assets.
General Program of Study
Prepares graduates to succeed in a wide range of positions in both private and public organizations. Also provides leadership and demonstrates a theoretical knowledge of library and information science and their applications in different fields.
Master of Science Majoring in Library Science, MS-LS
Archival Studies
Provides graduates with the skills needed for production, archival and preservation of records, appraisal, and acquisitions. Also prepares students to work with imaging for archives, museums and libraries.
Information Organization
Provides graduates with the necessary skills to organize information for a wide variety of information formats, resources, systems, and environments. Graduates may be responsible for library cataloging, classification, metadata development and use.
Knowledge Management
Prepares students for positions in the private and public sectors that deals with various aspects of knowledge management processes and practices. It equips students with the skills and knowledge needed to manage organizational knowledge, intellectual capital and knowledge assets.
Law Librarianship and Legal Informatics
Prepares graduates for careers in law libraries, information organizations using legal information resources and information publishers. Enables law librarians to play key roles in the management of legal information in diverse settings.
Music Librarianship
Prepares graduates for careers as music librarians or information professionals in a music-related or performing arts environment. Graduates will be equipped to assume professional positions and leadership roles in organizations such as academic and public libraries, radio and TV stations, music publishers, orchestras, opera companies, music archives, and conservatories.
Youth Librarianship
Prepares graduates for a career in different library settings including metropolitan, suburban, rural, public and academic libraries where they can provide library services to people who teach and work with youth and youth-related information services.
General Program of Study
Prepares graduates to succeed in a wide range of positions in both private and public organizations. Also provides leadership and demonstrates a theoretical knowledge of library and information science and their applications in different fields.