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Course Description
Instructor: A. Pyati
Course Description
This course focuses on issues and critical perspectives surrounding equitable access to information, the relationships between information and social change, and social equity and justice in the information professions. Libraries and information services are framed within larger social, political, cultural, and economic contexts and power structures. Course topics include issues such as the digital divide and information poverty within both North American and global contexts.
Course Syllabi for LIS 9136L-001 (Summer 2018)
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Prerequisites: GRADLIS 9001
0.5 course
Program Content Areas
Information Policy
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of readings, assignments, and class participation, students will be able to:
1. Critically examine the context (social, political, cultural, economic, etc.) and power structures of library and information services (PLLO 3, 5);
2. Analyze how social inequities can manifest in the provision of information services (PLLO 2, 3, 5, 8);
3. Develop an awareness and sensitivity to information equity issues, with an understanding of how to become critically reflective and socially aware information professionals (PLLO 3, 7, 9).
MLIS Program Goals and Objectives