PhD Courses

School of Information Studies Courses

• INFS 701 Comprehensive Examination

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Defence of a comprehensive research proposal.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 701.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2022
  • Instructors
    • Joan Bartlett, Rebekah Jane Willson
• INFS 702 Seminar in Information Studies 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Examination of students' own specific areas of doctoral research within the broader field of information studies and comparisons of those areas with other traditions of inquiry. Theoretical models and research methodologies as applied in information studies.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 702.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2022
  • Instructors
    • France Bouthillier
• INFS 703 Research Paradigms in IS 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Philisophical foundations of research in information studies, including traditions, approaches, methods, and models of inquiry to provide the capacity to critically assess the value of qualitative and quantitative research methods in relation to specific research problems identified in the discipline.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 703.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2022
  • Instructors
    • France Bouthillier
• INFS 704 Research Design in IS 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Research project design and its application to the specific dissertation proposal through the exploration of ways to operationalize key concepts in information studies and to identify critical steps in data collection and analysis.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 704.

  • Terms
    • Winter 2023
  • Instructors
    • France Bouthillier
• INFS 705 Course not available

Courses Offered by Other Departments

McGill graduate courses outside of the School of Information Studies which may be of possible interest to PhD students include:

• REDM 610 Writing Science Articles 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Redpath Museum: Principles and techniques for clear scientific writing with an emphasis on how to transform complex ideas into direct and precise ones by explaining research to peers and writing for interdisciplinary audiences.

  Offered by: Redpath Museum

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  • Restrictions: Restricted to graduate students in the Faculty of Science; graduate students from other faculties considered, space permitting. Enrolment is limited to 12 students. The language of instruction is English and it is not intended as an ESL course. Course is graded pass/fail.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2022 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022 academic year
• REDM 710 Writing Science Articles 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Redpath Museum: Skills for writing and publishing scientific articles, including peer-reviewed manuscripts and short, critical reviews of published articles. Topics include techniques for developing logical arguments and writing publishable manuscripts.

  Offered by: Redpath Museum

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  • Restrictions: Restricted to Ph.D. students in the Faculty of Science; M.Sc. students from the Faculty of Science and Ph.D. students from other faculties considered, space permitting. Enrolment is limited to 12 students. The language of instruction is English and it is not intended as an ESL course. Course is graded pass/fail.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2022 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022 academic year
• EDPH 689 Teaching&Learning in Higher Ed 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Ed Psych & Couns (Collegial): Students will develop an understanding of teaching and learning as a process in which instruction is based on the learning to be accomplished. Students will design, develop, and evaluate a university course of their choice, and will develop facility and confidence in using teaching methods appropriate to their domains.

  Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych

  • Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2022
    • Winter 2023
  • Instructors
    • Dianne Bateman
    • Dianne Bateman

List of research methods courses currently offered at McGill potentially of interest to SIS Ph.D. students **School of Information Studies cannot guarantee these courses are offered in any given term**

researchmethodscoursesmcgill.pdf