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Welcome to the Ph.D. News Webpage. This Webpage site contains items of interest to iSchool Ph.D. students at University of Texas at Austin.
Announcements Dr. Harmon provides the following information: Colleagues: As promised in our GSC meeting today, I am forwarding the web site address in which I and 11 other UT advisors have published dissertation tips for doctoral students. The site also contains a dissertation writing bibliography, reflections of former graduate deans on dissertation completion, advice from UT alumni, and numerous other useful items for students and advisers. The address is http://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/disslist.html Glynn. 2004 10 05.
Current Week Events of General Interest to Students Sunday, Oct 31, 2-5 PM, Erwin Center, Kids Halloween. BOOVO awaits you and your little goblins on Sunday for the Haunted House, Chemistry Circus and a cauldron full of otherworldly adventures! Thanks to all who signed up to volunteer, provide entertainment or sponsor a booth. All slots filled quickly, and there are waiting lists. Special thanks to the University Federal Credit Union and the University Co-op for their support. Free parking is available in the Trinity parking garage at Trinity Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. Please enter on the northwest side at plaza level. More more information, please visit the event Website, or contact Susan Clagett, UT Office of Relationship Management and University Events Division of Public Affairs. Sunday, Oct 31 - Saturday, Nov 6, Archives week: Balancing Power: Government Records and Secrecy. During this time, we will be having speakers discuss matters related to government archives, security and access as well as our annual Archives Clinic. For more information, please visit the Archives Week Website or contact Mary Ann Mardock, SAA Student Chapter President. Events are listed below, details on each event are provided later in the calendar.
Monday, Nov 1, Archives Week, 7-8:30 PM, Mezes B0.306, Dr. David B. Gracy, II, What You See is Not What You Get: The Nature and Impact of Documentary Forgery. Dr. Gracy is a professor in the UT iSchool. This latest of Dr. Gracy's interesting and entertaining lecture on forgery will help you spot (or at least consider) the possibility that all things are not what they are purported to be. Wednesday, Nov 3, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM, Convention Center Ball Room D, 2004 InnoTech Austin Conference and Exposition. Registration is 8 AM. In a one day focused event, InnoTech (produced by Atypical Productions) covers the new and emerging technologies that best suit your business as well as the policy, planning and compliance issues you need to understand to serve your organization's changing business needs. InnoTech provides access to emerging trends and to the most effective technology and solution providers available by creating an environment where education, innovative solutions and peer-to-peer networking converge. InnoTech will draw a gathering of business and technology executives in the state. Attendance is open to business executives, managers, entrepreneurs, CIO's, VPs of IT, Line of Business VPs, Direct Reports to VPs, network managers, CSOs, CISOs, and CTOs. InnoTech current technology themes to be addressed include, Wireless Technologies & Mobility Solutions, Security, Disaster Recovery & Storage Solutions, Business Continuance, Voice over IP Telephony. I am not sure how useful this conference would be to iSchoolers but it is only a short bus trip away. All day registration is $25; If you are interested in attending please contact me. For more information, please visit the conference Website. Wednesday, Nov 3, 4-5 PM, ASIST Planning Meeting.
Dr. Bias, the Faculty Advisor to the student chapter, writes, "Please
join me and the ASIST student chapter co-directors Sam Burns and Patrick
Williams on Wednesday, November 3rd, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 468 to talk
about UT ASIST, the UT student chapter of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology. ASIST supports a diverse community of
information professionals leading the search for new and better
theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to
information. Among the special interest groups within ASIST are areas
concentrating on Information Architecture, Human Computer Interaction,
Usability, Digital Libraries, and a number of other areas.
We are looking to build a strong student chapter here at the Wednesday, Nov 3, Archives Week, 7-8:30 PM, LBJ Library 8th Floor Atrium, Dr. Philip K. Doty, Government, Secrecy, and Privacy: Dare We Frame the "Fearful (A)Symmetry?" Dr. Doty is a professor in the UT iSchool. Thursday, Nov 4, 4:30-6:30 PM, Bass Concert Hall, Lecture. The University of Texas School of Law will present a free public lecture on Thurs., Nov. 4, featuring U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison with guest speakers Donald L. Evans, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and Luis Ernesto Derbez, Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs. The lecture, which celebrates the establishment of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Chair in Latin American Law. Secretary Evans and Secretary Derbez will discuss trade issues within the Western Hemisphere and government relations between the United States and Latin America. Senator Hutchison, a 1967 UT Law graduate, UT President Larry Faulkner and UT School of Law Dean William Powers will also speak at the event. In addition, Hutchison, Evans and Derbez will answer pre-selected questions from members of the public, who are encouraged to submit their questions in advance of the event via email to communications@mail.law.utexas.edu. The Kay Bailey Hutchison Chair in Latin American Law--a new initiative-- center and programmatic chair dedicated to Latin American law--builds on an important investment that The University of Texas at Austin has made in Latin America, its culture, its law, and its history. Since its founding in 1883, UT-Austin has developed one of the most important academic relationships in the hemisphere with Latin America. And now, The Center for Latin American Law will complement these relationships by facilitating scholarly research, as well as faculty and student exchanges, on topics of mutual interest, including trade, investment, and the rule of law. Senator Hutchison, a class of 1967 Law School alumna, has long been a proponent of closer ties between the U.S. and Latin America, and the Hutchison Chair is a fitting tribute to her work to strengthen the relationships among the countries of the Western Hemisphere. Tickets to this event are free and will be available in person beginning Mon., Oct. 25, at the UT Performing Arts Center Ticket Office at Bass Concert Hall, UT Law's Communication Center in the atrium of Townes Hall, and The Frank Erwin Center Box Office at 1701 Red River. Bass Concert Hall is located on the east side of The University of Texas campus at the corner of 23rd Street and Robert Dedman Drive. For more information please contact the Law School, Laura Castro, Communications Strategy Manager, by email or phone, 232-1229, or Jodi Bart, Communications Coordinator, by email or phone, 471-7330. Thursday, Nov 4, 5-8 PM, The Foundation, GSA Celebration. The Graduate Student Assembly invites you to celebrate ten years of graduate student representation during Happy Hour. This event honors important graduate student initiatives of the last decade, including travel grant funding and the safeguarding of health care benefits for student employees. We hope you will come, enjoy the camaraderie of fellow graduate students, and share any suggestions you have for improving graduate life at the University of Texas. Happy hour drink prices will be in effect from 5 to 8pm. GSA will provide free appetizers and giveaway promotional items to graduate student attendees with ID, while supplies last. You must be 21 years of age to attend. The Foundation is at 307 W. 5th St. For more information please visit the GSA Website. Thursday, Nov 4, Archives Week, 7-9 PM, Texas Union, 4.206, Sarah Rowe-Sims, Opening the Spy Files: The Case of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission. Our keynote speaker, Sarah Rowe-Sims, is an Archivist in the Electronic Records Section of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Sarah will discuss the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Records and the legal battle surrounding the opening of these records of a anti-civil rights state agency. Thursday, Nov 4, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, UT Club, TX Ex Business Network, Panel Discussion, Image, Career Transition, and the Marketplace Today. How do you differentiate yourself in a marketplace filled with top talent? Find out at our Panel Discussion. Ask the Experts! Scheduled panelists are Eleanor Derounian, Business Image Consultant; Jennifer Duncan, Director of Career Services for The Texas Exes, the alumni association for The University of Texas at Austin; and Jacque Ford, Career Consultant and Job Lead Developer. Pre-pay discounts for registrations prior to 12 noon on October 4, 2004 are $12 for Texas Exes members and $15 for non-members; registrations after then or at the door are $15 and $18 respectively. For more information please visit the event Website or contact Walt Esquivel. Saturday, Nov 6, Archives Week, 1-5 PM, Archives Week, Austin History Center, UT Chapter SAA, Archives Clinic. Come and participate in this annual event where we ask members of the community to bring in their preservation and maintenance questions and do our best to provide them with solutions. Texans also bring their items of antiquity seeking expert opinion of their authenticity. The Austin History Center is located at 810 Guadalupe.
Future Events - Mark Your Calendar Friday, Nov 12, 7:30-9:30, Deborah's place, iSchool Reading Group, Books in which a character turns into something else. For more information and directions please visit the Reading Group Website or contact Cristen Williams. Saturday, Nov 13 - Thursday, Nov 18, Providence RI, ASIST Conference. The information society, especially after recent world events, is displaying an increasing tension between forces that encourage and discourage integration and cooperation. A major focus of this conference will be on conflicts and solutions involving many national and international information cultures, including social, professional, educational, and technological interests. These themes and others will be explored by plenary and invited speakers and through refereed presentations. Submissions on a wide variety of information and technology topics are solicited, including (but not limited to):
For further information and registration visit the conference Website. Tuesday, Nov 16, 9 AM - Noon, NOA 5.138, ORSC Human Research Participants Session, IRB Access, Student Research, and Datasets. For more information polease visit the ORSC training Website. Tuesday, Nov 16, 11:30-1 PM, Austin State Hospital, ARMA Meeting. Cheryl, Watrobka, Classification of Business Records: the Need, the Theory, and the Practical Application. Cheryl i s a CRM and a senior consultant with Iron Mountain Consulting Services. She will present the basic concepts and theory of records classification during the regular monthly meeting. And following the meeting she will conduct a hands-on workshop in applying the theory--see details in the calendar item below. The meeting will be held at the Austin State Hospital, Conference Rooms adjoining the Nifty 50 Cafe. Attendance is free to ARMA members, first time guests, and students. Non-members are $5.00. For more information, please visit the ARMA Austin Website or contact Scott Willrich, ARMA Chapter President. Tuesday, Nov 16, 1-3 PM, Austin State Hospital, ARMA, Hands-on Records Classification Workshop. Following the above ARMA meeting, in the same location, Cheryl will lead an additional opportunity to increase your practical knowledge in a two-hour interactive workshop in which attendees will work in teams to classify records. The Workshop is $10.00. Thursday, Nov 18, 6:30 - 9 PM, ACE AVAYA Auditorium, IEEE, David Burnstein, The choice and comparison internationally of Fiber vs DSL over Copper vs Cable TV in providing Triple Play, IP Broadband Services VOIP, DATA and IP-TV Video in the Last Mile. What's real, and where? Will Austin ever catch up with Paris , Shanghai , and Seoul? The presentation will have three parts, with questions throughout:
David Burnstein is the editor of DSL Prime Newsletter. He writes, "I've reported the birth of an industry, the boom and bust in the U.S., and the shift to a lead in Asia. It's a great job; I get to go around the world and ask questions of the best in the business. I've learned a fair amount that way, wrote a book (DSL, Wiley 2000, with Jennie Bourne), and seen my work picked up in government reports and all." For more information please visit the IEEE Central Website or contact Howard Headrich, Chairman of the local Communications Society. section. Thursday, Nov 18 - Saturday, Nov 20, HRC Protho
Theater,
Conference, Internet, Society, and Culture: French and
American Perspectives.
For Fall 2004 the France-UT Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies is
planning a conference entitled Internet, Culture, and Society: French and
American Perspectives.
This is a timely and exciting topic which will be explored from various
perspectives, since the internet has developed multifaceted ways of
communicating with others, creating new forms of expression, and storing
knowledge, and has raised as well a host of complex questions. The
conference is organized around topics which highlight the interests and
expertise of faculty and students at the University of Texas as well as
counterparts and colleagues in France. It deals with the intersections of
the social, the cultural, and the technological in plenary sessions, round
tables, digital posters, and artistic performances. Thursday, Nov 18, 5:30 - 7 PM, JES A115 (CEC Library), Perspectives on Conscious Careering. This is the first workshop in an experiential series that will delve into the connection between work, purpose, meaning, and fulfillment. This 90-minute inquiry into perspectives on work gleaned from both Eastern and Western philosophies will serve as an introspective foundation for your next steps in conscious careering. Seating is limited to 30 people. To reserve a seat, go to the OGS Workshop Website. For more information please visit the Workshop Website or contact Lynne Levinson, CEC, via email or phone, 471-1217. Sunday, Nov 21, 4-6 PM, Bates, Choral Arts Society, Romantic Voices. Dr. James Morrow conducts the UT Choral Arts Society in Anton Bruckner, Mass in E Minor, Johannes Brahms Begräbnisgesang, and Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms. Admission is $16.00 General Public, $13.00 Faculty/Staff, and $10.00 Students. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact the music department by phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806. Monday, Nov 22, Resume's due for ALISE the Conference. (See Jan 14 below.) This year, resumes will be accepted only in electronic form (PDF or MS Word) and must be received no later than November 22, 2004. These will be distributed to interested Universities and included in the Resumes Binder and CD-ROM that will be available on site during the conference. Interested parties should send their resume in electronic form to: Lance Vowell, Subject: Resume for ALISE Conference. For questions or more information please contact the ALISE staff via email or phone, 865-425-0155. If you need a good review of your resume please contact Ron Pollock Director of Career Services via email or phone, 471-262. Tuesday, Nov 30, 3-6:30 PM, ACES Avaya Auditorium, academic publishing meeting. Dean Lariviere writes, "Colleagues, Nov. 30 3-6:30 PM there will be a meeting on academic publishing. Details of the meeting are given at http://www.utexas.edu/cola/college_events/current/publishing/ . As you know the world of academic publishing is undergoing dramatic changes. These changes have implications for the most fundamental activities in the academy--how we disseminate information and how we judge the contributions made by our colleagues. Representatives from Oxford University Press, Google, UT Press, TAMU Press, our library and ARL libraries in the region are getting together to talk about these changes. The changes in academic publishing affect all of us. They have consequences for those who are looking to be promoted, and for those who are asked to make judgments about promotions. These changes will affect the evolution of scholarship and research. This is not a marketing exercise. We have asked the participants to come to UT to discuss with the producers and consumers of academic knowledge how that knowledge is to be disseminated. If you have interest in any of these issues, I suggest that you try to attend this meeting on November 30. Thanks, Richard, Richard W. Lariviere, Dean and Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, College of Liberal Arts" For more information please visit the above Website. Wednesday, Dec 1, 6:30 - 8 PM, JES A115 (CEC Library), Take Your Degree and Run With It. A career exploration workshop that is cosponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) and Career Exploration Center (CEC). Did you sprint down the career path toward academia, and then wonder whether it's the right direction for you? In this 90-minute workshop you will assess where you are, where you are going, and learn how to explore other career paths outside academia. Seating is limited to 30 people. To reserve a seat, go to the OGS Workshop Website. For more information please visit the Workshop Website or contact Lynne Levinson, CEC, via email or phone, 471-1217. Tuesday, Dec 7, 4:30 - 6 PM, JES A115 (CEC Library), Take Your Degree and Run With It. A career exploration workshop that is cosponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) and Career Exploration Center (CEC). Did you sprint down the career path toward academia, and then wonder whether it's the right direction for you? In this 90-minute workshop you will assess where you are, where you are going, and learn how to explore other career paths outside academia. Seating is limited to 30 people. To reserve a seat, go to the OGS Workshop Website. For more information please visit the Workshop Website or contact Lynne Levinson, CEC, via email or phone, 471-1217. Tuesday, Nov 16, 9 AM - Noon, NOA 5.138, ORSC Human Research Participants Session, IRB Access and Informed Concent. For more information polease visit the ORSC training Website. \Friday, Dec 17, 9-10 PM, Bates, Gerre and Judith Hancock, Holiday Concert. Organ works. Gerre and Judith are senior lectures in organ and sacred music in the Music School. Tickets are $28 and are available from the UT Performing Arts Center box office, 471-1444, or online. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact the music department by phone, 471-7764. Tuesday-Friday, Jan 11-14, Boston, ALISE Conference. For further information please visit the conference Website. Sunday, Jan 23, 3-5 PM, Bates, Erik Mellenbruch, Great Organ Series Benefit Concert. Eric is the Organist at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Austin. Admission, Great Organ Season Pass $44.00 , $14.00 General Public, $10.00 Student. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact the music department by phone, 471-7764. Monday, Feb 28, 8-10 PM, Bates, Choral Arts Society, Quintessentially French. Dr. James Morrow directs the UT Choral Arts Society in Gabriel Fauré, Requiem, Louis Vierne, Messe Solennelle, and César Franck, Psalm 150. Featuring Judith and Gerre Hancock will be at the organ. Admission is $16.00 General Public, $13.00 Faculty/Staff, and $10.00 Students. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact the choral department by phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806. Sunday, March 6, 3-5 PM, Bates, Bradley Welch, Great Organ Series Concert. Bradley is the organist at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas and the 2003 winner, of the Dallas International Organ Competition. Admission, $14.00 General Public, $10.00 Student. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact the music department by phone, 471-7764. Monday, May 2, 8-10 PM, Bates, Combined Concert, Classical Perfection. Mozart Mass in C Minor, (The Great) and Beethoven Choral Fantasy. Dr. James Morrow conducts the UT Choral Arts Society, UT Chamber Singers,and the UT Symphony Orchestra in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (The Great), and Ludwig van Beethoven, Choral Fantasy. Featuring Anton Nel, piano. Admission is $16.00 General Public, $13.00 Faculty/Staff, and $10.00 Students. For more information visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact The music department by phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806.
Who We Are Webpage The information on the Ph.D. student Webpage is slowly growing. Names of all current Ph.D. students have been added. Your other information is needed to complete it . Please send Don a jpeg photo, information to post, and a link to your Website whenever you can. What is this Webpage? Well, as we agreed in spring semester, 2002, we wanted to have a summary page with a list of all Ph.D. students and links to more detailed information on each of us. The summary page consist of a photo, name, academic interest, contact information, and links to other pages. A detail page repeats the summary information and provides, education, a brief biography, and specialization. Students information should be linked to each student's individual Website with their vita, resume, and any other information they may wish to provide. If there is interest, we can also add Ph.D. alumni to this list. There is an input form that might work with your browser. Otherwise you can copy and paste.
Professional Associations, Email Lists, and other Forums Information on professional associations, student governance organizations, email lists and and other forums of interest to Information school Ph.D. students is provided through the Ph.D. Forums link on the left. Included is information on email lists, Blackboard, Websites and other forums.
Information School Forums The school of information sponsors weekly or fortnightly iforums (or ifora) of interest to School of Information Students and Faculty. Scholars from across the campus and occasionally from other universities are invited to present their work at a forum. From time to time, Ph.D. students are also invited to present their work to the forum. Each individual forum will be listed in the above schedule when details are known. In 2001 and 2002 , Ph.D. students organized the Ph.D. students organized a colloquia to share their work in a friendly environment. The last series we had was the Fall 2002 Ph.D. Colloquia Series. Such a series could be reestablished if there was an interest. If you are interested in leading such a series, please contact Don Drumtra for his experience on leading the 2002 Colloquia
Orientations New students (and even old) might appreciate the following
two Orientation Websites:
Disclaimer. The following information is compiled from various sources and is current as of the time it was written and the documents available. It is not official UT, Graduate School, or School of Information policy. It is offered to help Ph.D. students gain an overview of Ph.D. requirements. Please refer to official sources for current information before taking irreversible action. General. UT Graduate School requirements for award of the Ph.D. degree are listed in the UT Graduate Catalog. Detailed requirements for the School of Information are listed the provided on the Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. Lisa Kleinman provided an unofficial summary of the requirements to the participants in the Fall 2004 Ph.D. Orientation. Milestones. Program milestones consist of development and approval of a Program of Study, satisfactory completion of course work and a comprehensive doctoral examination including written, oral, and research components, presentation and approval of credentials to Graduate School (including a separate Program of Work), approval of a dissertation proposal, research and completion of a dissertation culminating in a final examination consisting of defense of the the dissertation and final presentation approval of the student's credentials to the Graduate School. Administrative progress through most of these milestones is described in the Checklist for the Doctoral Program (1993). Annual reviews are submitted to the students Advising Committee so that the committee may evaluate the student's progress. The student's Supervising Committee monitors the student's progress after the student reaches candidacy. Graduate Studies Committee. Within the School of Information, the Graduate Studies Committee or GSC approves the students Program of Study and Annual review. Doctoral Program of Study. The content of the Program of Study is provided in the Guidelines for Development of the Doctoral Program of Study (ca. 1993). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved programs on their Websites. Annual Review. Required content of the Annual Reviews is provided in the Annual Review of GSLIS Doctoral Students (2002) and the Annual Review of Ph.D. Students (draft, 2003). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved Annual Reviews on their Websites. Qualifying Procedures. In order to qualify to apply for candidacy, the iSchool requires a written exam and oral defense (often called the comprehensive exam or "comps") and a research paper accepted by the student's committee. This committee (perhaps, it could be called the Examination Committee) ordinarily consists of three members of the iSchool faculty and one outside member. The three iSchool members could be your Advising Committee, potential members of your Supervising Committee, or any other three members who agree to serve. Application for Candidacy. On June 1, 2004 the UT Office of Graduate Studies automated the application for candidacy and placed it online. Instructions for completion of and a link to the actual online form is provided in the application Webpage. Other candidacy requirements are also provided on that page including the requirement for the Program of Work.
Dissertation. Requirements for the content of your dissertation are developed between you and your Supervising Committee and the Graduate School sets guidelines for format. There are two format guidelines are provided by the Graduate School (Office of Graduate Studies or OGS), print guidelines and electronic submission guidelines. Even though you must submit your dissertation electronically, you would do well to meet both guidelines because someone might very well want to print your dissertation in the future. An a point of interest, the final authority on both the content and format of your dissertation is your Supervisory Committee--not the folks in the Office of Graduate Studies. However, the OGS folks can make life really difficult for you if you do not listen to them. Dr. Harmon and eleven other UT advisors have published dissertation tips for doctoral students. It is posted on the UT Intellectual Entrepreneurship, Dissertation List-Serve and Resources Webpage. The Webpage also contains a dissertation writing bibliography, reflections of former graduate deans on dissertation completion, advice from UT alumni, and numerous other useful items for Ph.D. students. Final Oral Exam (Defense of Dissertation. A satisfactory final oral examination is required for the approval of a dissertation. The Office of Graduate Studies publishes the time and place of this examination. The exam is open to all members of the University community and the public, unless attendance is restricted by the Graduate Studies Committee. Information is available in the Graduate Catalog and an application form are available from the Office of Graduate Studies. Application for Graduation. There are lots of forms for graduation listed by the Office of Graduate Studies. You would be well advised to visit the office of Graduate Studies well before the deadlines to be sure you have the latest information and do not forget an essential form the absence of which might hold up your graduation. Graduation. After all that work you won't want to miss the graduation celebration and fireworks at the end of the spring semester. UT introduced a new doctoral robe in 2001, which will be first available for graduating students in May, 2005. You can be one of the first scholars to wear one. Additional Sources. The University of Texas and the UT Office of Graduate Studies provide the latest information on degree and administrative requirements requirements in three publications:
Research Methods and Other Graduate Courses The iSchool PhD Methods Courses Webpage lists many research methods courses available in the university that may be suitable for meeting the iSchool Ph.D. research methods requirements listed on the iSchool Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. Lisa Kleinman has written an excellent summary that should be of particular interest. She describes her summary as follows, "yo, in case (like me) you were overwhelmed by the number of research methods courses that seemed available at UT, but were suspiciously vague in terms of description -- here is a list that I've compiled with/ course names & descriptions. the doctoral studies committee & your own advisor may be able to make further recommendations as to which would be specifically appropriate for you" (2003 Dec. 15, personal communications). Doctoral Committee recommendations will be posted on this Website as soon as they become available. Research Methods in Information Systems, MIS 381N.26. Earlier, Lisa provided us this information on a this course. "The Information Systems department in the Business School is interested in having more iSchool folk taking their courses. In particular, Ph.D. students may want to consider taking “Research Methods in Information Systems” taught by Salina Circus. I took this class last year, and it provides an excellent survey of the multitude of different research methods (both qualitative and quantitative) as applied to understanding the effects of information technology. Alina is very flexible about the core focus areas, so if a whole bunch of people want to “study X”, she'll find a way to incorporate it. If you’re a Masters student, you can take this course if you’re interested in subjecting yourself to reading a ga-zillion journal articles from the latest sexy issues of MIS Quarterly... which ain’t the “Miss Quarterly” that I was hoping for, let me tell you... The course is offered in spring 2004" (personal communications). Information provided by Lisa Kleinman. For more information about the course see the Course Webpage or contact Dr. Chircu" (2003 Oct. 31, personal communications). Graduate School Courses provide a unique opportunity for School of Information Ph.D. students because they provide a multidisciplinary atmosphere of learning. Students from across the campus attend these courses and share experiences and viewpoints form their own departments. Two courses of major interest to our programs are:
Check to Be Sure. Please do not forget however, that not all of the courses listed will be satisfactory to meet any particularly student's Ph.D. program requirements. "Since advancement to candidacy is contingent on faculty approval of a course of work, the student should consult regularly with their committee on matters of course selection" (School of Information, undated, Academic Programs, Ph.D.). Information on Qualitative Research Methods. In September 2004, Dr. Davis loaned a copy of the three-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2004) to the lab for our use. It not only provides excellent summaries of lots of issues and topics related to research methodology, but it provides reference sources under each topic to allow further exploration. A copy is also available is also at the PCL reference desk.. Content Manager:
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