Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
GSE&IS Building, 300 North Charles E. Young Drive
Box 951520, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
United States
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Degrees/Certificates Offered
- Ph.D. in Information Studies
Programs Offered
Program Philosophy
Academic programs in UCLA's Department of Information Studies seek to define, study, and evaluate interactions among people, information and information technology in a pluralistic society. The Department values and promotes equity, diversity, accountability, and intellectual openness. The Department offers master's, post-master's and doctoral students unique opportunities to study issues related to archives and special collections in a plural society, preservation, and recordkeeping theory and practice. The extensive course offerings in the Department and across campus, as well as joint degree options permit students to design programs of study tailored to specific career goals and professional and community settings. The programs comprise a range of courses, experiential components, and research opportunities addressing traditional archival theory and practice, community and Internet-based archiving, moving image and sound archives, electrical records management, oral history and ethnographic work, and the latest in digital preservation, curation, and multimedia development for records and cultural heritage materials of all types.
Facilities
Over 150 archival, special collections, museum, media, and preservation management internship sites in not-for-profit, for-profit and National Archives institutions in the Greater Los Angeles area. Service learning opportunities at a diverse range of community-based organizations. Multimedia and Information Technology Lab, Center for Information as Evidence and the Horn Press within the Department of Information Studies. World renowned UCLA Special Collections, Film & Television Archive, Oral History Archives, Biomedical History & Special Collections, and Ethnomusicology Archive.
Practicum/Internships/Assistantships Offered?
MLIS students may select up to three paid or unpaid internship courses for a total of 12 credit hours. Internships are structured professional experiences overseen by the Information Studies internship coordinator. MIAS students may take paid or unpaid practica for credit at a range of Los Angeles institutions. Students may also undertake regular or executive field experience credits for up to one quarter at a site locally, nationally or internationally. All MLIS students are required to undertake a service learning experience with a community organization as part of the core course: IS 201, Ethics, Diversity and Change.
Graduate Research Assistantships, Teaching Assistantships and Special Readerships are available within the Department and elsewhere on campus as funding permits.
Research
Faculty are actively engaged in prominent national and international research projects on which students can participate as Graduate Student Researchers and are encouraged to author or co-author papers relating to the research. Students may also undertake independent research as part of their Master's thesis, Certificate of Specialization project, or Doctoral dissertation. All students must take courses in Research Methods and can select from among a minimum of 6 different methodology courses offered within the Department each year at Master's and Ph.D. levels (e.g., Social Science Methods, Systems Analysis, Historical Methods, Oral History, Ethnography, Archival Research Methods), as well as courses available elsewhere on campus.