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GLIS 601 Foundations of Information Studies | ![]() |
GLIS 603 Research Project 1 | ![]() |
GLIS 604 Research Project 2 | ![]() |
GLIS 607 Organization of Information | ![]() |
GLIS 608 Classification & Cataloguing | ![]() |
GLIS 609 Metadata & Access |
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GLIS 611 Research Principles & Analysis | ![]() |
GLIS 614 Public Libraries | ![]() |
GLIS 615 Reference and Information Services |
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GLIS 616 Information Retrieval | ![]() |
GLIS 617 Information System Design | ![]() |
GLIS 619 Information Behaviour and Resources | ![]() |
GLIS 620 Managing Information Organizations | ![]() |
GLIS 625 Information Architecture | |
GLIS 626 Usability Analysis & Assessment | ![]() |
GLIS 627 User-Centered Design | ![]() |
GLIS 629 Information Security | ![]() |
GLIS 630 Data Mining | ![]() |
GLIS 633 Multimedia Systems | |
GLIS 634 Web System Design & Management | ![]() |
GLIS 636 Government Information | ![]() |
GLIS 639 Introduction to Museology | |
GLIS 641 Archival Description & Access | |
GLIS 642 Preservation Management | |
GLIS 644 Descriptive Bibliography | |
GLIS 645 Archival Principles & Practice | ![]() |
GLIS 647 Research Project 3 | ![]() |
GLIS 649 Digital Curation | |
GLIS 656 Abstracting & Indexing | |
GLIS 657 Database Design & Development |
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GLIS 660 Enterprise Content Management | |
GLIS 661 Knowledge Management | |
GLIS 662 Intellectual Capital | |
GLIS 663 Knowledge Taxonomies | |
GLIS 664 Knowledge Networks | ![]() |
GLIS 665 Competitive Intelligence | |
GLIS 671 Health Sciences Information |
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GLIS 673 Bioinformatics Resources | |
GLIS 679 Information Literacy | |
GLIS 689 Selected Topics | ![]() |
GLIS 691 Special Topics 1: Computer Programming for Information Professionals | |
GLIS 692 Special Topics 2: Data Science | ![]() |
GLIS 693 Special Topics 3: Information and Cognition | |
GLIS 699 Practicum | |
GLIS 702 Seminar in Information Studies | |
GLIS 704 Research Design in Information Studies |
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