The Digital Content Management Graduate Academic Certificate (GAC) prepares information professionals to meet the challenges of managing the life cycle of digital assets regardless of their types and formats or their method of delivery. The courses provide theoretical foundation and conceptual tools through structured learning experiences and supervised class projects. Students will learn basic knowledge and technical skills necessary to manage digital content, build applications, and develop services that respond to institutional and individual user needs.

The Graduate Academic Certificate program is intended for two audiences:

Library and Information Science Professionals: Master's degreed library and information science professionals who want to develop expertise in managing digital information by taking additional graduate level courses to receive an academic credential.

Other Professionals: Bachelor's or Master's degreed individuals who want to develop or enhance their knowledge and skills of managing digital information by taking graduate level courses to receive an academic credential.

Who needs this Certificate?

Potential and practicing information professionals who foresee being in a position to collect, organize, evaluate, or provide service to users on digital information.

Prerequisites

No particular prerequisites for this GAC. However, courses listed under the GAC may have prerequisites that need to be satisfied. Students should consult the instructors prior to taking the individual courses.

Apply Today 

  • Apply HERE with the UNT GradCAS (Centralized Application System)
  • International students must also review the International Admissions page for additional required documents.
  • Transcripts: Request transcripts from all colleges and universities attended through UNT GradCAS.

For transcript questions, please contact graduateschool@unt.edu

Note: Students who are awarded Graduate Academic Certificates and later apply for admission to the M.S. in Library or Information Science program or the M.S. in Data Science program will be required to submit any additional documents required by the specific program. 

UNT Graduate Students seeking Concurrent Enrollment

Students MUST be admitted to an academic certificate program in order for the certificate to be awarded.

If you are a current UNT student, email: ci-advising@unt.edu with your 8-digit ID number and the advising office will assist you with having the certificate set up.

If you do not complete this process - in having the certificate set up on your academic record, prior to your graduating semester, the Toulouse Graduate School will not accept your request to have the certificate awarded.

Once You Are Admitted

Once admitted, contact the advising office for assistance with enrollment in courses by emailing: ci-advising@unt.edu with your 8-digit ID number.

Course Requirements

INFO 5740 Introduction to Digital Libraries. 3 hours. This course introduces the student to current research and the conceptual, practical, and technical issues in digital libraries. Theoretical foundations, technical infrastructures, knowledge organization, collection development, users & services, evaluation, as well as social, cultural, and policy issues are discussed. Students read papers and discuss related issues, evaluate a digital library of their choice, and write an in-depth term paper or conduct a class project.

INFO 5206 Information Retrieval Design. 3 hours. Study of design considerations in computer-based information retrieval systems, including conventional inverted file systems using Boolean logic and automatically indexed vector-oriented systems. Evaluation of information systems in the light of user and system criteria. Prerequisite(s): INFO 5200 or consent of department.

INFO 5223 Metadata and Networked Information Organization and Retrieval. 3 hours. Representation, organization and retrieval of networked information resources (NIR) using various forms of metadata. Examination and evaluation of key metadata schemes for representing and organizing NIR. Identification and use of metadata creation tools to build and manage metadata repositories. Explore implications for retrieval of NIR through search engines that exploit metadata. Prerequisite(s): INFO 5200 or consent of department.

INFO 5745 Information Architecture. 3 hours. This course introduces students to the basic concepts and components of Information Architecture, within the context of end-user and organizational needs. The goal of the course is to provide students with an understanding of the intellectual technologies necessary to design and implement effective and cost-efficient information technologies such as digital libraries, database systems, and a range of other web-accessible resources, as well as collaborative computer systems in organizational environments. This course focuses on the following elements of information delivery and knowledge systems: Organization of information, understanding and documenting user's needs for web-based applications, human-computer interfaces, and issues related to usability and accessibility. 
Prerequisite(s): INFO 5200 and INFO 5814 or consent of department.

 

Academic Certificate Completion Form and Request to Receive Your Certificate

Once you complete your course work, please submit the Request for Graduate Academic Certificate of Completion form to receive your certificate.


 

Contact Information:

Title Contact E-mail
Coordinator Dr. Oksana Zavalina Oksana.Zavalina@unt.edu
Asst. Dir., Student Support Services Rachel Hall CI-Advising@unt.edu
Interim Department Chair Dr. Yunfei Du LIS-Chair@unt.edu

 

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