<p>Seminar, four hours. Nature of information studies—ontological, epistemological, and ethical accounts of information and of information arts and sciences. Conceptions, theories, and models of information; information-related artifacts, agents, contexts, institutions, practices, properties, values, and related phenomena. Interdisciplinary context—subfields of information studies and cognate disciplines. Frameworks for theory construction, such as critical theory, discourse analysis, hermeneutics, phenomenology, semiotics, social epistemology. Letter grading.</p>

Information Studies

The school engages in fundamental work on what matters most in education and information studies in the 21st century: the discovery and application of usable knowledge at the crossroads of policy and practice.

School of Education and Information Studies

The principal goal of research and practice in information studies is to support the making of culture and community in an increasingly pluralist, globalizing world.

General Catalog

Doctoral Seminar: Theoretical Traditions in Information Studies

INF STD 291A

4 units