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MSc/PGDip/PGCert Information Management
Course overview
| Qualification | Master's Degree |
| Study mode | Full-time |
| Duration | 1 year |
| Intakes | September |
| Tuition (Local students) | Data not available |
| Tuition (Foreign students) | Data not available |
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Entry Requirements
- We normally require an honours degree of 2.2 or above.
- Before starting the course, we recommend that you gain work or voluntary experience in a library, archive, bookshop, cataloguing, database, records, learning resources or web content management.
- We can consider applicants who do not meet the normal entry requirement, but who do have relevant professional experience or qualifications. In your application, you should describe in detail your professional experience and qualifications.
Curriculum
The full Master's course comprises of 180 credits divided into three 60 credits stages: Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, and Master's. Students work incrementally through the three stages and must pass all modules at each stage in order to progress to the next.
The course is designed to give you transferable knowledge, skills and approaches that support advanced information management roles and complement a range of wider management responsibilities.
- Information Contexts (30 credits) - An introduction to key information issues in a selection of professional environments, together with over-arching themes such as information as a human right, understanding user information needs and fostering partnerships.
- Knowledge Organisation (30 credits) - Essential practical skills, including metadata, mark-up and classification, and current issues in digitisation, digital collection management and digital curation.
- Information and Digital Literacy (15 credits) - Investigating theories for assessing and using information resources, along with those on how to teach digital literacy skills and a study of the range of digital tools available for personal information management.
- Personal and Organisational Management (15 credits) - Essential professional skills for the information specialist, including communication; networking; presenting; and people, project and financial management.
You also choose two optional 15 credit modules from:
- Information and Knowledge Management
- Data Management
- Designing The User Experience
- Big Data
- Cloud Computing
- Linked, Open Data and The Internet of Things
- Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics
- Social Media and Web Science