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WISE COURSES FOR SUMMER SESSION 2008 [May-August 2008]

 

  • 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 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 request a space in one or more of the WISE courses please follow the registration instructions distributed to all SLAIS students via email no earlier than March 4, 2008
  • 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 Heather MacNeil 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.
  • VERY IMPORTANT: When you take WISE courses you are registered in the UBC courses LIBR 593D or LIBR 593E and all the normal add/drop dates at UBC apply. All courses will be in the UBC system as full summer courses [May-August]. This means the withdrawal deadlines given below apply even if the final date for withdrawal is BEFORE the WISE course actually begins. You are held responsible for dropping ALL relevant courses by the UBC deadlines. If you forget to drop [even if the WISE course has not yet started] you will receive a mark of "F" in the course.
    • Friday, 16 May 2008
      • Last day for changes in registration and for withdrawal WITHOUT a standing of "W" recorded on a student's academic record.
    • Friday, 13 June 2008
      • Last day for withdrawal WITH a standing of "W" recorded on a student's academic record.
  • Please note that these dates are DIFFERENT from the dates for the six-week ARST/LIBR courses offered in Summer 2008. For those withdrawal dates please refer to the SLAIS Calendar for 2007-2008 Academic Yea:- http://www.slais.ubc.ca/RESOURCES/students/calendar.htm

NOTE: Registration for Summer 2008 session WISE courses opens on March 5, 2008

  • Chief Information Officers in the Public and Private Sectors
    • Description IST 700 is a 3-credit on-line graduate course taught by a practicing Chief Information Officer (CIO). The course examines the role of CIO's as key decision-makers in the public and private sectors. As a leader at the apex of information resources management, the CIO position offers a unique lens for examining senior executive perspectives on the strategic use of information systems and technology in large, complex organizations. The course uses readings, case studies, current literature, legislation, and guest speakers to review the private sector origin of the CIO position in the 1980's, emergence in the public sector in the 1990’s, and current issues. Through weekly on-line discussions, students will examine the many executive competencies needed for successful performance as a CIO, methods which CIO's use to deal with technical, strategic, financial, and administrative issues, executive relationships, and the potential value of CIO's to public and private organizations. Students will also complete a case study on a CIO in the public or private sector and a directed research paper on a CIO-related topic of interest approved by the instructor. ** SYLLABUS IS FROM SUMMER 2007 : UPDATED SYLLABUS WILL BE ADDED WHEN IT IS AVAILABLE **
    • Institution: Syracuse University
    • Class Number: IST 700
    • Total number of WISE seats available for students in all WISE institutions: 3
    • Course tool: Web-CT
    • Faculty: Scott Bernard
    • Start Date: 5/19/2008
    • End Date: 8/8/2008
    • Last Add Date: 5/4/2008
    • Syllabus Link: http://wiseeducation.org/documents/syllabi/Syracuse%20University-IST%20700-Summer%202007(3.7.2007).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. Please allow 2-3 weeks for grade processing after the end date of the course. Check that this delay will not interfere with deadline dates at your school for graduation or financial aid. ** SYLLABUS IS FROM SUMMER 2007 : UPDATED SYLLABUS WILL BE ADDED WHEN IT IS AVAILABLE **
  • Information Architecture for Internet Services
    • 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. ** SYLLABUS IS FROM SUMMER 2007 : UPDATED SYLLABUS WILL BE ADDED WHEN IT IS AVAILABLE **
    • Institution: Syracuse University
    • Class Number: IST 553
    • Total number of WISE seats available for students in all WISE institutions: 3
    • Course tool: Web-CT
    • Faculty: Vadim Parkansky
    • Start Date: 5/19/2008
    • End Date: 8/8/2008
    • Last Add Date: 5/4/2008
    • Syllabus Link: http://wiseeducation.org/documents/syllabi/Syracuse%20University-IST%20553-Summer%202007(2.7.2007).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. Please allow 2-3 weeks for grade processing after the end date of the course. Check that this delay will not interfere with deadline dates at your school for graduation or financial aid. ** SYLLABUS IS FROM SUMMER 2007 : UPDATED SYLLABUS WILL BE ADDED WHEN IT IS AVAILABLE **
  • Information Resources, Services and Technology for an Aging World
    • This term-long, 3-credit online-only course will focus on collection development, reference, and education services for older adults, and their professional and family caregivers. The course will cover the critical evaluation of materials in print, non-print, and electronic formats, and a discussion of information services provided by healthcare organizations, community agencies, medical center and hospital libraries,public libraries which serve an aging population, and academic libraries serving students in the helping professions. This course is especially appropriate for those interested in working in medical and public libraries, healthcare organizations, community agencies, and academic libraries which students intending careers in the helping or service professions, especially in fields that focus on older people.
    • Institution: The University of Pittsburgh
    • Class Number:LIS 2970
    • Total number of WISE seats available for students in all WISE institutions: 5
    • Faculty: Ellen Detlefsen
    • Course Tool: Blackboard
    • Start Date: 5/12/2008
    • End Date: 8/2/2008
    • Last Add Date:5/19/2008
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
  • Man of Advantage: Books and Boys in the Middle and High School Years
    • Mark Twain famously said that "the man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." In this course we will consider the reading interests of boys and young men aged ten to eighteen, develop criteria for evaluating books for this audience, and explore the challenges unique to maintaining their interests in literature. We will examine the voices of boys and men who have told their own stories and consider books of particular interest to middle and high school males. This course is a seminar; there will be heavy emphasis on reading and discussions.
    • Institution: Rutgers University
    • Class Number: 17:610:591
    • Total number of WISE seats available for students in all WISE institutions: 3
    • Faculty: Hastings
    • Course Tool: eCollege
    • Start Date: 5/27/2008
    • End Date: 7/22/2008
    • Last Add Date: 5/27/2008
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
    • Coiurse 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. Please allow 2-3 weeks for grade processing after the end date of the course. Check that this delay will not interfere with deadline dates at your school for graduation or financial aid.
  • Museum Archives
    • Overview of the evolution of the purposes of museums; history and development of museum record keeping systems, with particular emphasis on changes in thsoe systems in transition form paper-based to electronic records, use of functional analysis to identify principle functions of museums and to guide the appraisal of records that document those functions.
    • Institution: The University of Pittsburgh
    • Class Number:LIS 2970
    • Total number of WISE seats available for students in all WISE institutions: 5
    • Faculty: Bernadette Callery
    • Course Tool: Blackboard
    • Start Date: 5/12/2008
    • End Date: 8/2/2008
    • Last Add Date:5/19/2008
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
  • Organizational Information Security
    • Information security managers and officers: staffing, training, certification, incentives, and evaluation of information security personnel, non-security IT personnel, etc.; organizational development related to security awareness, threats, and responses; and ethics/codes of behavior in information security. ** SYLLABUS IS FROM SUMMER 2007 : UPDATED SYLLABUS WILL BE ADDED WHEN IT IS AVAILABLE **
    • Institution: Syracuse University
    • Class Number: IST 629
    • Total number of WISE seats available for students in all WISE institutions: 3
    • Faculty: Saira Haque
    • Start Date: 5/19/2008
    • End Date: 8/8/2008
    • Last Add Date: 5/4/2008
    • Syllabus Link: http://wiseeducation.org/documents/syllabi/Syracuse%20University-IST%20629-Summer%202007(2.7.2007).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. Please allow 2-3 weeks for grade processing after the end date of the course. Check that this delay will not interfere with deadline dates at your school for graduation or financial aid. ** SYLLABUS IS FROM SUMMER 2007 : UPDATED SYLLABUS WILL BE ADDED WHEN IT IS AVAILABLE **
  • Social Software
    • This class will focus on how technology is used in society to communicate information, ideas, practices, thoughts, and opinions. It will further examine how technology creates new communities and learning environments. Concentration on various types of social software and their use will be emphasized. Lastly, we will explore how libraries and information agencies can take advantage of this software to better inform and communicate with their various audiences.
    • Institution: Rutgers University
    • Class Number: 17:610:598
    • Total number of WISE seats available for students in all WISE institutions: 3
    • Faculty: Garwood
    • Course Tool: eCollege
    • Start Date: 5/27/2008
    • End Date: 7/3/2008
    • Last Add Date: 5/27/2008
    • Syllabus Link: coming soon
    • Coiurse 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. Please allow 2-3 weeks for grade processing after the end date of the course. Check that this delay will not interfere with deadline dates at your school for graduation or financial aid.

  • Technology in the School Library Media Center
    • This class will focus on how technology is used in society to communicate information, ideas, practices, thoughts, and opinions. It will further examine how technology creates new communities and learning environments. Concentration on various types of social software and their use will be emphasized. Lastly, we will explore how libraries and information agencies can take advantage of this software to better inform and communicate with their various audiences.
    • Institution: Simmons College
    • Class Number: LIS 460
    • Total number of WISE seats available for students in all WISE institutions: 3
    • Faculty: Linda W. Braun
    • Start Date: 6/16/2008
    • End Date: 7/3/2008
    • Last Add Date: 6/1/2008
    • Syllabus Link: http://wiseeducation.org/documents/syllabi/Simmons%20College-LIS%20460-Summer%202008(2.14.2008).pdf
    • Coiurse Disclaimer: LIS 460 will be delivered via a class wiki. Students are required to regularly add content to the course wiki, develop podcasts and screencasts, communicate with the instructor and classmates via IM, discussion boards, and VOIP. Those in the course must have access to a computer microphone or digital voice recorder and computer speakers. Please allow 2-3 weeks for grade processing after the end date of the course. Check that this delay will not interfere with deadline dates at your school for graduation or financial aid.