Course Description


FIMS 9800 (Winter 2020)   Introduction to Doctoral-Level Scholarship

Instructor: S. Sliwinski

Course Description

An introduction to the professional and intellectual challenges of doctoral work, including key skills (research, presentation, publication, peer review, ethics review, funding applications and thesis writing) and key resources (faculty and support personnel, library resources, university-wide communities and activities). 

This course is a half credit weight course offered over two terms (fall and winter).  


Course Syllabi for FIMS 9800 (Winter 2020)
The syllabi for this course is a PDF file that requires a FIMS account to view

This course is required for the LIS PhD students and optional for students in other FIMS Ph.D. programs.



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