Equip students to be leaders in a knowledge society and innovators in a knowledge economy
Educate students for known, emerging, and currently unforeseeable careers in information sciences
Provide an interdisciplinary education where studies in fundamentals of information sciences and in application areas are fully integrated
Ensure that various upper-division elective pathways of the major share a common core of information sciences knowledge
Provide a program with enough flexibility to facilitate transfers into the major at the sophomore level, transfers across colleges at the sophomore and junior level, and transfers from two-year colleges
Since information sciences is a rapidly developing field, offer a flexible program that responds quickly to new needs and opportunities, and to new findings and approaches in the information sciences
Prepare interested students for graduate study in information sciences and related fields
Objectives (based on objectives of the required courses)
Understand relationships among people, information, and technology
Understand the history, theory, philosophy, and methodologies of the field of information sciences
Apply various approaches to research in the information sciences, including social science methods, data and text mining, digital humanities, historical approaches, and others
Apply critical analytical skills to information issues
Understand fundamental mathematical and programming tools for solving problems of information modeling, expression, and transformation