Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:35:20 -0400
Message-Id: <199707212036.QAA17832@comet.connix.com>
From: Kathy Wilka <wilka@U.Arizona.EDU> (by way of mgolrick@sclc.org (Michael A. Golrick))
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: Virtual Educational Opportunities
Greetings:
The School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of
Arizona is at the forefront of distance education providing students in all
geographic locations an opportunity to earn their master's degree in as litt=
le
as two years. To obtain courses virtually (on or off campus), students must
have graphical web access. The School offers a range of courses per semester
via the Internet. Both resident and non-resident students participate in
course work distributed over the Internet and utilize a combination of tools
including World Wide Web (WWW), e-mail, conferencing network, newsgroups,
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and other environments. We provide all students,
no matter where they are geographically located, with a substantive, and
rigorous learning experience.
This fall, the School is offering the following classes via it's virtual
delivery method. Please feel free to circulate this announcement to those
who might benefit.
=B7 Li S 574 - Government Information - Charles A. Seavey
The goals and objectives for this course are to consider information
policies and resources of the government of the United States: the largest
collector and disseminator of information in the world. We will develop an
understanding of how those policies have evolved, and how they affect both
the political system, the average citizen, and the overall structure of
information dissemination in this country. Students will also develop an
awareness of, and familiarity with access to, the vast amount of
information collected and disseminated by the federal government, and be
encouraged to develop critical thinking through evaluation and criticism of
current literature in the field. http://www.sir.arizona.edu/fl97/574/
=B7 Li S 575 - Human Factors - Martin Frick=E9
Although Human Factors in Information Systems is the official title of the
course, the actual content of the course deals primarily with
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). HCI itself considers the problem of
designing composite systems, of humans and computers, which are both safe
and efficient. This is an extremely important problem these days because
everybody is, or will be, a User. [Thirty years ago, computers could have
all sorts of interface shortcomings because only experts used them and the
experts could use their skills to overcome the difficulties. But shortly we
will all be Users.] http://www.sir.arizona.edu/fl97/575/
=B7 Li S 583 - Organization of Information - Margaret Higgins
This course will address the issue of information use by individuals in
organizations such as businesses, universities, and other not-for-profit or
profit entities. The primary focus of the course is organizational use of
information, and the consequences, both internally and externally, of that
use. Formal and informal patterns of information acquisition and use are
discussed as well as the nature and evaluation of the information itself.
http://www.sir.arizona.edu/fl97/583/
=46or more information
http://timon.sir.arizona.edu/fl97/vircrs.html
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Kathryn Wilka, M.Ed., wilka@mail.arizona.edu
Program Coordinator, Academics
School of Information Resources & Library Science
1515 E. First St.
Tucson, AZ 85719
http://www.sir.arizona.edu
520/621-3567 phone, 520/621-3279 fax
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Happiness is a way of travelling, not a destination. --unknown