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Graduate Certificate in Digital Archives Management

Required Courses

  • INFS 607. Organization of Information.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 607
    Organization of Information.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to the theory, principles, standards, andmethods of information organization. Students learnto provide intellectual and physical access toinformation. Topics include principles of informationrepresentation, tools for information access,metadata, controlled vocabulary.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 607.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 649. Digital Curation.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 649
    Digital Curation.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    The life-cycle and value-added management of digital content for future use, re-use and access. Addresses strategies, principles, and practices of digital preservation, digital curation, digital collection management, institutional repositories, trusted digital repositories, metadata, and file formats at archives, libraries, museums, data centers, and other cultural heritage institutions.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Complementary Courses

  • INFS 609. Metadata and Access.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 609
    Metadata and Access.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Archival descriptive tools in metadata-based accesssystems. Metadata schemas (MARC, Dublin Coreand EAD), markup languages (SGML, HTML, andXML), DTD, vocabulary control, and metadatamanagement issues.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 609.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 633. Digital Media.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 633
    Digital Media.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Foundational scientific concepts and basictechniques of digital media production andmanipulation and their relevance in galleries,libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM). Toolsand techniques for creating and handling digitalmedia. Digitizing audio, image, video, and textmaterials, and using various software packagesfor manipulating and preserving digital sound,images, and video.
    • Prerequisites: INFS 617.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 633.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 641. Archival Description and Access.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 641
    Archival Description and Access.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Advanced theory and practice of archival appraisal,arrangement, description, and the creation of accesstools to archival records and collections, including theselection and application of appropriate archivaldescriptive standards, metadata schemes,management tools, and outreach programs includingthe creation and dissemination of finding aids.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 641.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 642. Preservation Management.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 642
    Preservation Management.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Principles and practices for intellectual and physicalpreservation of historical and cultural heritagematerials in all forms to extend their durability andassure continued accessibility, through selection,conservation, migration, digitization, preservationstrategies, preservation management and ongoingevaluation.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 642

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 645. Archival Principles and Practice.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 645
    Archival Principles and Practice.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Fundamental principles and practices of archivalstudies, including records life cycle, history ofarchives, cultural memory, authentic recordkeepingsystems, acquisition, appraisal, arrangement,description, preservation, reference and access,social and cultural systems, financial and legalsystems, ethics, advocacy programs, fund raising,legal issues, archives-related professions, researchmethodology and implementation.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 645
    • NOTE: Advanced work in archival science is available to a few students who do well in the introductory course.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 657. Database Design and Development.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 657
    Database Design and Development.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Theoretical and applied principles of relational database design. Includes relational theory, conceptual design, database normalization, relational database management systems, SQL queries and database management.
    • Prerequisite: INFS 617 and GLIS 617.
    • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 657.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 660. Records Management.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 660
    Records Management.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Management of an organization鈥檚 content in digital forms that relate to the organization鈥檚 operational processes for compliance, governance and decision-making purposes. Addresses principles, strategies, methods and tools used in the lifecycle management of the content, including capture, workflow, classification, metadata, collaboration, preservation, and delivery.
    • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 660.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Graduate Certificate in Information Architecture

Required Courses

  • INFS 617. Information System Design.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 617
    Information System Design.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to tools for developing informationsystems. Topics include computer terminology andsyntax and semantics of programming languages,with emphasis on their use for text parsing,searching, and database design, which arefundamental concepts in the field of informationscience.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 617.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 625. Information Architecture.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 625
    Information Architecture.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Information Architecture (IA) is the process ofanalyzing, designing, implementing and evaluatinginformation spaces. The course provides an overviewof use-design aspects of human information andcomputer interaction. Topics include: human factorsin IA; IA and information systems (IS) designprinciples and methodologies; work, task, andprocess analysis; IS modeling, requirementsgathering and evaluation; and informationvisualization.
    • Prerequisite(s): INFS 617
    • Corequisite(s): INFS 634 recommended
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 625.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Complementary Courses

  • INFS 616. Information Retrieval.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 616
    Information Retrieval.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Theoretical and applied explanation of informationretrieval in a variety of digital environments and inrelation to both textual and multimedia data:Information retrieval capabilities, information-seekingmodels, interface design issues, informationvisualization and information system evaluationcriteria.
    • Prerequisite: INFS 617.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 616.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 626. Usability Analysis and Assessment.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 626
    Usability Analysis and Assessment.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Principles and techniques for evaluating interactivecomputer-based information systems. Topics includemodels of human information processing, userexperience and decision-making; methods forrequirements gathering and task analysis; andtechniques for user testing, analytic evaluation, andperformance modelling.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 626.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 627. User-Centered Design.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 627
    User-Centered Design.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A project-based introduction to interaction design,oriented toward practical methods for designinginteractive systems. Emphasis is placed on iterativeand user-oriented approaches to design, includingthe role of observation, ideation, sketching andprototyping, and formative and summativeevaluation. The role of participatory and value-sensitive approaches to design are also examined.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 627.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 629. Information Security.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 629
    Information Security.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to information security. Topics includebasic concepts of confidentiality, integrity, andavailability; security threats; malware; operatingsystems security; access control; network security(encryption, decryption, passwords and digitalsignature); security policies and practices; riskassessments; common criteria; privacy threats andprotection techniques; cybercrime and cyberforensics.
    • Prerequisite(s): INFS 617
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 629.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 630. Data Mining.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 630
    Data Mining.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to data mining. Topics include datapreprocessing, data warehouse architecture, onlineanalytical processing (OLAP), online analyticalmining (OLAM), basic concepts and methods offrequent patterns mining, association rules mining,classification analysis, cluster analysis, and textmining.
    • Prerequisite: INFS 617 or basic knowledge of database systems.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 630.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 633. Digital Media.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 633
    Digital Media.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Foundational scientific concepts and basictechniques of digital media production andmanipulation and their relevance in galleries,libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM). Toolsand techniques for creating and handling digitalmedia. Digitizing audio, image, video, and textmaterials, and using various software packagesfor manipulating and preserving digital sound,images, and video.
    • Prerequisites: INFS 617.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 633.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 634. Web System Design and Management.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 634
    Web System Design and Management.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Principles and practices of designing websites inthe context of libraries and information centres,focusing on a conceptual approach to organizinginformation for the world wide web includingdesign, implementation and management issues.Topics include web development tools, markuplanguages, internet security and web serveradministration.
    • Prerequisite: INFS 617.
    • Corequisite: INFS 625 recommended.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 634.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 657. Database Design and Development.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 657
    Database Design and Development.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Theoretical and applied principles of relational database design. Includes relational theory, conceptual design, database normalization, relational database management systems, SQL queries and database management.
    • Prerequisite: INFS 617 and GLIS 617.
    • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 657.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Graduate Certificate in Information & Knowledge Management

Required Courses

  • INFS 619. Information Behaviour andResources.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 619
    Information Behaviour andResources.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to information behaviour, informationneeds assessment at individual, organizational andcommunity levels, information search strategies,user-focused information resources and services.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 619.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 661. Knowledge Management.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 661
    Knowledge Management.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    An introduction to knowledge management and its links to information systems and information professionals. A broad overview of the creation, capture, codification, sharing and application of knowledge in both tacit and explicit forms. Emphasis is placed on the tools and techniques as well as the role of organizational culture.
    • Corequisite: INFS 601.
    • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 661.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Complementary Courses

  • INFS 607. Organization of Information.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 607
    Organization of Information.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to the theory, principles, standards, andmethods of information organization. Students learnto provide intellectual and physical access toinformation. Topics include principles of informationrepresentation, tools for information access,metadata, controlled vocabulary.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 607.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 620. Managing Information Organizations.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 620
    Managing Information Organizations.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    This course is an introduction to management theory,in the context of information and knowledge-basedorganizations. Emphasis is placed on strategicplanning, leadership, and human-capitalmanagement (e.g. delegation, motivation, andconflict resolution). Other topics include projectmanagement, organizational design, change management, decision-making, communication,teamwork and collaboration.
    • Prerequisite(s): INFS 601
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 620.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 662. Intellectual Capital.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 662
    Intellectual Capital.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Understanding the strategic role of intellectual assets: how individuals, communities and organizations can identify and leverage their knowledge, experience, expertise and innovations more systematically to create value for the organization. Emphasis is placed on understanding the links between individuals and the organization in the sharing of intellectual assets.
    • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 662.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 663. Knowledge Taxonomies.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 663
    Knowledge Taxonomies.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Basic classification and categorization methods, major taxonomy tools and technologies and practice in knowledge mapping and modelling. Theory and techniques of organization of both tacit and explicit knowledge at three levels: individual, community and the organization. Emphasis will be placed on the social nature of knowledge codification.
    • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 663.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 664. Managing Knowledge Communities.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 664
    Managing Knowledge Communities.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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    Description

    Stages in the development of informal knowledge sharing groups and the roles and responsibilities of information professionals are examined. Focus is on the analysis of knowledge flow, knowledge creation and dissemination within and between different networks of knowledge.
    • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 664.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • INFS 665. Competitive Intelligence.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    INFS 665
    Competitive Intelligence.
    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Information Studies (Graduate Studies)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Competitive intelligence process in for-profit and notfor-profit organizations. Principles and tools for identifying competitive intelligence needs; acquiring, organizing and storing information; creating intelligence through analytical techniques; developing and distributing intelligence products. Legal and ethical aspects, information audits, and cooperative intelligence.
    • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 665.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Graduate Certificate in Library & Information Studies

Complementary Courses

Students choose three to five INFS courses聽in consultation with their advisor with the exception of the following courses: INFS 647, INFS 689, INFS 699 (MISt-only courses).

External Course Credits

Up to 6 credits may be taken outside the School, 3 credits of which may be taken outside of 黑料社. All such courses must be at the graduate level and receive prior approval.聽See additional guidelines and a required permission form here.

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