Graduate Certificate Courses

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Graduate Certificate in Digital Archives Management

Required Courses

• INFS 607 Organization of Information 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 607.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 649 Digital Curation 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Complementary Courses

• INFS 609 Metadata and Access 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Archival descriptive tools in metadata-based accesssystems. Metadata schemas (MARC, Dublin Coreand EAD), markup languages (SGML, HTML, andXML), DTD, vocabulary control, and metadatamanagement issues.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 609.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 633 Digital Media 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisites: INFS 617.
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 633.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 641 Archival Description & Access 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 641.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 642 Preservation Management 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 642

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 645 Archival Principles & Practice 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • 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.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 657 Database Design & Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Theoretical and applied principles of relational database design. Includes relational theory, conceptual design, database normalization, relational database management systems, SQL queries and database management.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisite: INFS 617 and GLIS 617.
  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 657.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 660 Enterprise Content Management 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Management of an organization’s content in digital forms that relate to the organization’s 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 660.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Graduate Certificate in Information Architecture

Required Courses

• INFS 617 Information System Design 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 617.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 625 Information Architecture 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisite(s): INFS 617
  • Corequisite(s): INFS 634 recommended
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 625.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Complementary Courses

• INFS 616 Information Retrieval 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisite: INFS 617.
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 616.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 626 Usability Analysis & Assess 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 626.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 627 User-Centered Design 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 627.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 629 Information Security 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisite(s): INFS 617
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 629.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 630 Data Mining 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisite: INFS 617 or basic knowledge of database systems.
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 630.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 633 Digital Media 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisites: INFS 617.
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 633.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 634 Web System Design & Management 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisite: INFS 617.
  • Corequisite: INFS 625 recommended.
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 634.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 657 Database Design & Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Theoretical and applied principles of relational database design. Includes relational theory, conceptual design, database normalization, relational database management systems, SQL queries and database management.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisite: INFS 617 and GLIS 617.
  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 657.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Graduate Certificate in Information & Knowledge Management

Required Courses

• INFS 619 Info Behaviour and Resources 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Introduction to information behaviour, informationneeds assessment at individual, organizational andcommunity levels, information search strategies,user-focused information resources and services.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 619.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 661 Knowledge Management 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Corequisite: INFS 601.
  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 661.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Complementary Courses

• INFS 607 Organization of Information 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 607.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 620 Managing Info. Organizations 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisite(s): INFS 601
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 620.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 662 Intellectual Capital 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 662.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 663 Knowledge Taxonomies 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 663.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 664 Managing Knowledge Communities 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 664.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 665 Competitive Intelligence 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 665.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Graduate Certificate in Library & Information Studies

Complementary Courses

Students choose three to five INFS courses 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 McGill. All such courses must be at the graduate level and receive prior approval. See additional guidelines and a required permission form here.