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WISE COURSES FOR 2007-2008 WINTER SESSION, TERM 1 [SEPTEMBER -DECEMBER]

 

  • Please remember than only 3-5 spaces in total are available in each course for WISE students in All the participating institutions. There is no guarantee that there will be space for you in any of these courses.
  • You should not request a space in a WISE course unless you are reasonably sure you will actually take the course. It causes logistical problems to "take up" a space then drop the course at the last minute.
  • All courses have the four MLIS Core Courses as required pre-requisites: LIBR 500, LIBR 501, LIBR 502 & LIBR 503. Other required pre-requisites are noted in the individual course descriptions. If you are in the MAS program you should ask Mary Sue Stephenson [MLIS Chair] about whether or not you have taken the relevant equivalent courses in the MAS program.
  • Only students in the MAS, MLIS and Joint MAS/MLIS programs are eligible to take WISE courses. Students in other SLAIS programs [MACL, CAS & Ph.D.] are NOT eligible to take WISE courses. Students in the Joint MAS/MLIS program are buound by the MLIS pre-requisites above, even if they have yet started the MLIS portion of thier program
  • Students who wish to take one of the available courses will be registered in LIBR 593: Seminar
  • Students may take a maximum of two WISE courses [6 credits] as part of their MLIS or Joint MAS/MLIS program
  • Student must agree to the course parameters of the host institution including course management tools, grading, and dates of term
  • Student must have access to technology necessary for completion of course
  • Student must have the technical knowledge to complete course successfully
  • Marks given by the program offering the course will be converted to UBC marks using only the WISE Marking Matrix. Please read over this document carefully as it will be the sole source used to convert marks from WISE instituions to UBC marks.
  • To register for one or more of the WISE courses please follow the registration instructions distributed to all SLAIS students via email
  • Once you have completed course registration at the WISE website, please send Mary Sue Stephenson a separate e-mail [mss@interchange.ubc.ca] for each course giving this information:
    • Your name
    • Your program [MLIS, Joint MAS/MLIS, MAS]
    • Your UBC student number
    • The name, number, and institution of the course you wish to take

  • IMPORTANT- If you are in the stand-alone MAS - before we can send your request to WISE to take a course you must have first completed the "Application for Credit for External' Courses Form": http://www.slais.ubc.ca/RESOURCES/students/RequestExternalCourses.pdf

    It must also be signed by your MAS adviser as well as Terry Eastwood as SLAIS Graduate Adviser before the WISE registration process can take place.

    When you send your request to take a class to Mary Sue Stephenson please indicate that the form has already been submitted and approved. If you forget to tell her or you haven't completed the approval process it will delay the process of trying to secure a seat for you in one of the WISE courses. Given the small number of seats, it will likely keep you from obtaining one of the seats.

NOTE: Registration for Winter Session 2007-2008 Term 1 WISE courses opens on: April 5, 2007

  • Acquiring, Procuring, and Financing Information Technology [cannot be taken by students completing their SLAIS program in December 2007]
    • Description: Concepts and methods of systems analysis through decomposition and modeling. Extensive practice with structured methodologies. Systems analysis project management techniques. Introduction to automated tools and technology. Group project to apply skills
    • Institution: Syracuse University
    • Class Number: IST 600 M001 22186
    • Course tool: Web-CT
    • Faculty: Kevin Crowston
    • Start Date: 8/27/2007
    • End Date: 12/14/2007
    • Last Add Date: 8/13/2007
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
    • Class Disclaimer: Students agree to the course parameters of the host institution, including but not limited to: course management tools, grading, any required residencies, possible synchronous sessions, and academic calendars. Students are expected to meet deadlines as outlined in course syllabus and to contribute to class participation.
  • Enterprise Architecture [cannot be taken by students completing their SLAIS program in December 2007]
    • Enterprise Architecture is a 3-credit graduate level distance learning course that uses an integrated strategy, business, and technology planning approach to introduce the basic concepts and techniques associated with enterprise architecture (EA). This includes the management of information technology (IT) resources in the context of an organization-wide business and technology governance process and operating environment. Please note that this is not a course on IT systems development, web/application programming, database development, or network design. The course focuses on understanding how IT resources can best be leveraged to support an organization’s strategic goals and business requirements. Basic proficiency is developed in working with EA frameworks and documentation techniques using Dr. Bernard’s EA3 Cube™ framework and Living Enterprise™ repository approach that are applicable in both the public and private sectors (see page 6). The Federal government is a leading practitioner of EA, and related policy is covered including the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996; E-Government Act of 2002; OMB Circulars A-11 and A-130; the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF); the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA); and the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DODAF). Students will participate in a class-wide project that reinforces EA concepts through the development of EA documentation for a real or fictitious enterprise, and the posting and linkage of that documentation in a web-based EA repository
    • Institution: Syracuse University
    • Class Number:IST 600 M001 20079
    • Course Tool: Web-CT
    • Faculty: Scott Bernard
    • Start Date: 8/27/2007
    • End Date: 12/14/2007
    • Last Add Date: 6/25/2007
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
    • Class Disclaimer: Students agree to the course parameters of the host institution, including but not limited to: course management tools, grading, any required residencies, possible synchronous sessions, and academic calendars. Students are expected to meet deadlines as outlined in course syllabus and to contribute to class participation.
  • Information Industry Strategies [cannot be taken by students completing their SLAIS program in December 2007]
    • Issues in converging information industry sectors such as hardware, software, telecommunications, information services, and content.
    • Institution: Syracus University
    • Class Number: IST 600 M001 18365
    • Course Tool: Web-CT
    • Faculty: Hope Olson
    • Start Date: 8/27/2007
    • End Date: 12/14/2007
    • Last Add Date: 8/13/2007
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
    • Class Disclaimer: Students agree to the course parameters of the host institution, including but not limited to: course management tools, grading, any required residencies, possible synchronous sessions, and academic calendars. Students are expected to meet deadlines as outlined in course syllabus and to contribute to class participation.
  • Information Systems Analysis: Concepts and Practice [cannot be taken by students completing their SLAIS program in December 2007]
    • Modern organizations need computerized information systems in order to function, survive, and stay in competitive edge. Information systems analysis is an important step before implementing any computerized information system. Any mistakes made during the analysis stage will significantly affect the later stage of the system development and thus can cause an organization a lot of financial and strategic damages. The competence in information systems analysis is crucial to virtually every modern Information Technology profession, including those professionals highly demanded by the market such as Systems Analysts, Business Analysts, Web Developers, Information Architects, Database Administrators, Network Administrators, or Software Engineers. In this class, you will learn the entire process of information systems development with an emphasis on the front end of the process. You will practice several important systems analysis techniques for both structured and object-oriented approaches. Assignments include individual exercises and a group project.
    • Institution: Syracus University
    • Class Number: IST 600 M002 21432
    • Course Tool: Web-CT
    • Faculty: Kevin Crowston
    • Start Date: 8/27/2007
    • End Date: 12/14/2007
    • Last Add Date: 8/13/2007
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
    • Class Disclaimer: Students agree to the course parameters of the host institution, including but not limited to: course management tools, grading, any required residencies, possible synchronous sessions, and academic calendars. Students are expected to meet deadlines as outlined in course syllabus and to contribute to class participation.
  • In Search of Cupid and Psyche: Myth and Legend in Children's Literature [cannot be taken by students completing their SLAIS program in December 2007]
    • Issues in converging information industry sectors such as hardware, software, telecommunications, information services, and content.
    • Institution: Rutgers University
    • Class Number: 17:611:541
    • Course Tool: eCollege
    • Faculty: Michael Joseph and Constance Vidor
    • Start Date: 9/4/2007
    • End Date: 12/21/2007
    • Last Add Date:9/4/2007
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
    • Class Disclaimer: This course is part of our Youth Literature Online Certificate Program, a 15 credit post-degree online course of study for librarians, teachers, and others concerned with preserving and passing on the rich literary heritage to children and young people in a technological age. This is not a course within the Rutgers MLIS program; however with permission of an adviser MLIS students may take the class for credit towards their degree. The class is offered online asynchronously.
  • Introduction to Information Security [cannot be taken by students completing their SLAIS program in December 2007]
    • This course provides students with the fundamentals of information security. We will focus on an overview of major information security issues, technologies and approaches. Students who successfully complete this course will have a comprehensive understanding of security properties, vulnerabilities, policies, models, cryptography, PKI, network security, evaluation, and application of information security. Students will also gain hands-on experience in selected information security technologies.
    • Institution: Syracuse University
    • Class Number: IST 600 M002 21473
    • Faculty: Joseph Giordano
    • Start Date: 8/27/2007
    • End Date: 12/14/2007
    • Last Add Date: 8/13/2007
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
    • Class Disclaimer: Students agree to the course parameters of the host institution, including but not limited to: course management tools, grading, any required residencies, possible synchronous sessions, and academic calendars. Students are expected to meet deadlines as outlined in course syllabus and to contribute to class participation.
  • Introduction to Strategic Information Management [cannot be taken by students completing their SLAIS program in December 2007]
    • This course provides students with the fundamentals of information security. We will focus on an overview of major information security issues, technologies and approaches. Students who successfully complete this course will have a comprehensive understanding of security properties, vulnerabilities, policies, models, cryptography, PKI, network security, evaluation, and application of information security. Students will also gain hands-on experience in selected information security technologies.
    • Institution: The University of Maryland
    • Class Number:INFM 620
    • Faculty: Bruce Dearstyne
    • Start Date: 8/29/2007
    • End Date: 12/20/2007
    • Last Add Date: 8/15/2007
    • Syllabus Link: http://wiseeducation.org/documents/syllabi/The%20University%20of%20Maryland-INFM%20620-Fall%202007(4.2.2007).doc
  • Managing Information Systems Projects [cannot be taken by students completing their SLAIS program in December 2007]
    • Building and management of Internet information services, including information organization, information management, and information dissemination. Understanding of the use of Internet technologies within an organizational context. Practice with current technologies.
    • Institution: Syracuse University
    • Class Number: IST 600 M003 20075
    • Course tool: Web-CT
    • Faculty: Robert Emborski
    • Start Date: 8/27/2007
    • End Date: 12/14/2007
    • Last Add Date: 8/13/2007
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
    • Class Disclaimer: Students agree to the course parameters of the host institution, including but not limited to: course management tools, grading, any required residencies, possible synchronous sessions, and academic calendars. Students are expected to meet deadlines as outlined in course syllabus and to contribute to class participation.
  • Metadata [cannot be taken by students completing their SLAIS program in December 2007]
    • Metadata has broad applications in many domains that deal with digital information management and services. This course introduces concepts, principles, and practices of metadata. Topics covered include the design of metadata schemes, data binding formats, interoperability, metadata administration, tools, vocabulary for metadata elements and values, and quality control and evaluation. Students will have opportunities to examine international metadata standards, activities, and projects through case studies. The course will discuss metadata’s role in digital information search and display, and provide extensive opportunities for hand-on experience with metadata management systems. Students’ performance will be assessed by a series of exercises and presentation as well as a final group project.
    • Institution: Syracuse University
    • Class Number: IST 600 M001 22228
    • Course tool: Web-CT
    • Faculty:Jian Qin
    • Start Date: 8/27/2007
    • End Date: 12/14/2007
    • Last Add Date: 8/13/2007
    • Syllabus Link: http://wiseeducation.org/documents/syllabi/Syracuse%20University-IST%20600%20M001%2022228-Fall%202007(4.3.2007).pdf
    • Class Disclaimer: Students agree to the course parameters of the host institution, including but not limited to: course management tools, grading, any required residencies, possible synchronous sessions, and academic calendars. Students are expected to meet deadlines as outlined in course syllabus and to contribute to class participation.

  • Web Development & Information Architecture [cannot be taken by students completing their SLAIS program in December 2007]
    • Organizing and structuring content to help individuals, communities, and organizations find and manage internal and external Web-based resources and services. Application of current coding, metadata, and style standards to create Web documents. Evaluation of Web site quality and usability, and assessment of resource discovery tools. Strategic planning and user needs analysis for information architecture. Content inventory, organization, and management in support of wayfinding and navigation. Design documents for prototyping large Web sites. Readings, essays, design projects. Students will communicate with the instructor and each other via real-time conversations using Skype software and a class wiki.
    • Institution: Simmons College
    • Class Number: LIS 531g
    • Course tool: Other [see below]
    • Faculty: TBA
    • Start Date: 9/10/2007
    • End Date: 12/14/2007
    • Last Add Date: 12/14/2007
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
    • Class Disclaimer: LIS 531g will be delivered via a wiki setup specifically for the class.