Library and Information Science Department

As an Information Technology and Informatics (IT and Informatics) major, you’ll build strong technical skills while exploring the social, economic, and organizational impact of technology, preparing you to tackle complex challenges and design thoughtful, people-centered solutions.

IT & Informatics majors who have completed 90 credits may apply to earn an IT and Informatics bachelor’s degree and a Master of Information (MI) degree in five years of continuous study.

The design of the Master of Information (MI) program engages students from a wide variety of professional and academic contexts to focus on information: its creation, organization, classification, retrieval, preservation, management, and use. Built upon the values and foundations of Library and Information Science, the MI program focuses on the integral relationships between people, information, and technology.

The Library and Information Science area of concentration (also known as iSchool) in our interdisciplinary Ph.D. provides an excellent environment for research in such areas as Human Information Behavior; Information Retrieval, Language and Communication; Information Agencies and Artifacts; Learning, Youth, Information and Technology; and Social and Community Informatics.