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Graduate Certificate in Information Architecture

The professional role of the information architect encompasses project management and the organization of work flows within a team-based approach to the design of information structures. The information architect is ultimately responsible for identifying the rationale and long-term objective(s) underlying the organization of a collection of data resources; for setting functional specifications and content requirements that address current and future objectives of the collection; for designing the structural organization of the collection, including its category structure and labeling scheme or controlled vocabulary; for mapping navigation pathways and information flows within the collection; and determining the metrics that will be used to measure the success of the resulting structure.

Students must complete 18 graduate credit hours; credits counted toward another degree may not be applied toward the certificate.

If a student has completed equivalent graduate coursework in one or more of the required content areas prior to admission to the program, [or the course has not been offered while the student is completing the certificate], this coursework may be applied to satisfy content requirements for the certificate.

Required courses:

  • ILS-Z 512 Information Systems Design (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 515 Information Architecture (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 516 Human-Computer Interaction (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 566 Systems Analysis and Design (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 633 Indexing (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 690 Capstone in Information Architecture (3 cr.)

Coursework must be completed within three (3) years of entering the certificate program. No credits may be transferred from another graduate or undergraduate program in order to satisfy content requirement for 18 credit hours of coursework. The student must maintain a GPA of 3.2 on a 4.0 scale with a minimum course grade of B. Any course in which the student earns a grade less than B must be repeated in the certificate program.

Elective courses:

 If a student has completed equivalent graduate coursework in one or more of the required content areas prior to admission to the program, this coursework may be applied to satisfy content requirements for the certificate. The student may then select from a list of elective courses to meet the 18 credit hours of coursework required for the certificate.

  • BUS-S 531 Advanced Web Applications Development (3 cr.)
  • CSCI-A 548 Mastering the World Wide Web (3 cr.)
  • CSCI-B 659 Topics in  Artificial Intelligence (topic: Web Mining) (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 503 Representation and Organization (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 511 Database Design (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 513 Organizational Informatics (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 517 Web Programming (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 519 Information Analysis (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 520 Information Seeking and Use (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 561 User Interface Design for Information Systems (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 603 Workshop in Library and Information Science (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 604 Topics in Library and Information Science (1-4 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 634 Metadata (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 635 Ontologies (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 636 Data Semantics (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 637 Information Visualization (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 643 The Information Industry (3 cr.)
  • ILS-Z 661 Concepts and Contemporary Issues in Human-Computer Interaction (3 cr.)

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