Course Descriptions
INFO 6850 Special Topics in Information Management
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Builds on topics introduced in required courses, particularly those dealing with applications of information technology in information management. This course will take a more in-depth look at the major topics in the field. The content will change rapidly as the field progresses. Current topics include: Bibliometrics, Antiracism and Decolonization, Museums, Knowledge Justice, etc.
RESTRICTIONS: MI, MI/JD, MI/MPA, MI/MREM
INFO 6851 Special Topics in Information Management
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Builds on topics introduced in required courses, particularly those dealing with applications of information technology in information management. This course will take a more in-depth look at the major topics in the field. The content will change rapidly as the field progresses.
INFO 6852 Special Topics in Information Management
CREDIT HOURS: 3
INFO 6860 Archives II
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course will consider advanced topics in archives, with an emphasis on Canadian practice. It will provide an overview of the management of archives by closely examining topics including donor relations, archival and monetary appraisal, multi-level archival description, project management, and public service.
PREREQUISITES:
INFO 6800
RESTRICTIONS: MI, MI/JD, MI/MPA, MI/MREM
INFO 6870 Global Histories of Disputed Archives & the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage
CREDIT HOURS: 3
How are archives and cultural heritage disputed or displaced in times of war, conflict and insecurity when the borders of states shift and jurisdictions change? What laws, structures, programs, and policies are in place to protect archives and cultural heritage from violence, theft, seizure, or destruction? And how is the repatriation, restitution or transfer of archives and cultural heritage negotiated, contested, and resolved? Together in this course we will trace the development of the relevant global laws, conventions and initiatives, with a focus on the period of reconstruction after the Second World War when well over a hundred newly independent states were created through anticolonial struggle and political decolonization across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and elsewhere around the world. We will learn about international institutions like UNESCO and its satellite agencies such as the International Council on Museums and the International Council on Archives, as part of a broader exploration of the role of the global archival and cultural heritage community. The class will become familiar with legal instruments like the Hague and Vienna Conventions of 1954 and 1983 respectively, mechanisms for the repatriation of heritage and cultural property, ‘shared heritage’ approaches, the role of microfilming and digital technologies in resolving disputes, the use of oral history to address archival deficiencies, and other solutions. And we will use case studies from Iraq, Turtle Island / North America, Kenya, Britain, the West Indies, Algeria and France to make connections between this history, the international laws and norms that emerge from it, and wider debates about orality, knowledge, human rights, democracy, antiracism and decolonization still very much relevant today. These include an examination of the issues raised by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission for the archival and heritage professions in a historical and global context while learning about how professionals and scholars engage the Commission’s Call to Action.
INFO 6875 History of Archiving and Archival Records in Critical Perspective
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course is deals with two major interrelated concerns of archivists and records managers: i) the history of archiving and archival thought; and ii) the context of the creation and the characteristics of records. It covers a wide variety of international examples from ancient times to the present, with a focus on Canadian ones since the nineteenth century. The course begins with an introduction to key concepts, theories, methods, and practices that all archivists and records managers need to know (Unit 1). Against this backdrop, we will then examine milestone events and foundational texts in archival studies, and trace how these are taken up and altered with the development of the records management field in the mid-20th century. We will do so through an antiracist/anticolonial feminist lens that centers Indigenous, racialized and marginalized voices, histories and perspectives (Unit 2). As part of that, we will interrogate the assumptions and power dynamics embedded within the archives cannon and dominant recordkeeping practices/methods by drawing on relevant contemporary debates and literatures from across disciplines.
INFO 9000 Thesis
CREDIT HOURS: 6
Available by arrangement with the Graduate Coordinator. The Thesis option replaces four of the School’s electives.
RESTRICTIONS: MI, MI/JD, MI/MPA, MI/MREM
INFO 9003 Thesis Continuing
CREDIT HOURS: 0
RESTRICTIONS: MI, MI/JD, MI/MPA, MI/MREM
INFO 9100 Thesis 1
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Select this course code and number if you are a part-time thesis-option MI student.
RESTRICTIONS: MI, MI/JD, MI/MPA, MI/MREM
EXCLUSIONS:
INFO 9000.12,
INFO 9000.6,
INFO 9003.0,
INFO 9200.3,
INFO 9300.3,
INFO 9400.3
INFO 9200 Thesis 2
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Select this course code and number if you are a part-time thesis-option MI student.
PREREQUISITES:
INFO 9100.3
RESTRICTIONS: MI, MI/JD, MI/MPA, MI/MREM
EXCLUSIONS:
INFO 9000.12,
INFO 9000.6,
INFO 9003.0,
INFO 9100.3,
INFO 9300.3,
INFO 9400.3
INFO 9300 Thesis 3
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Select this course code and number if you are a part-time thesis-option MI student.
PREREQUISITES:
INFO 9100.3,
INFO 9200.3
RESTRICTIONS: MI, MI/JD, MI/MPA, MI/MREM
EXCLUSIONS:
INFO 9000.12,
INFO 9000.6,
INFO 9003.0,
INFO 9100.3,
INFO 9200.3,
INFO 9400.3
INFO 9400 Thesis 4
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Select this course code and number if you are a part-time thesis-option MI student.
PREREQUISITES:
INFO 9100.3,
INFO 9200.3,
INFO 9300.3
RESTRICTIONS: MI, MI/JD, MI/MPA, MI/MREM
EXCLUSIONS:
INFO 9000.12,
INFO 9000.6,
INFO 9003.0,
INFO 9100.3,
INFO 9200.3,
INFO 9300.3