Informatics Curriculum
Introduction
The University Libraries Informatics and Information Science curriculum meets a growing need for courses in data and information management. These courses will give students the conceptual and practical hands-on training that allows them to effectively design, manage, analyze, visualize, and preserve data and information. Students who are knowledgeable in these areas will be at a significant competitive advantage as they pursue further academic and professional efforts.
Courses
INFO 320.
Information Management for Professionals.
(3)
Students will create a database of the major information resources within a specific discipline. They will also learn research strategies, and economic and ethical issues surrounding information policy.
INFO 490.
Special Topics in Information Management.
(3 to a maximum of 9 Δ)
Study of any Information Management topic not otherwise included in the curriculum upon expression of mutual interest by students and faculty.
{Offered upon demand}
INFO 504.
Foundations of Information Management Practice.
(3)
This course is an introduction to the management of digital information resources. Students will survey essential methods for evaluating, organizing, storing and securing data and information in academic and other work environments.
INFO 506.
Metadata.
(3)
A hands-on course about describing and structuring information. Students will learn XML and XSLT, and will develop a thorough understanding of current metadata standards as well as crosswalking metadata schemas and data management applications.
INFO 520.
Introduction to Spatial Data Management.
(3)
This course builds upon the foundations of information practice with an emphasis on spatial data. Students will survey essential methods for evaluating, accessing, organizing, storing and securing spatial data and information.
INFO 522.
Information Modelling.
(3)
A practical course where students will learn how to model real world systems as object-oriented models, relational databases, XML schema and ontologies. Students will learn the fundamentals of data modeling.
INFO 530 .
Environmental Information Management.
(1-3 )
An introductory hands-on course on environmental information management and the data life cycle for the environmental sciences. With emphasis on data acquisition technologies, metadata, QA/QC procedures, data preservation, database management and web portal development.
Corequisite: 532 and 533.
INFO 532.
Environmental Data Analysis and Visualization.
(1-3)
A hands-on course in Environmental data analysis and visualization, with an emphasis on data exploration, tool assessment, and creation of effective visual representations of analytical results.
Co-requisite: 530 and 533.
INFO 533.
Spatial Data Management in Environmental Sciences.
(1-3)
Environmental data is generated and visualized by a variety of tools. This hands-on course focuses on how GeoSpatial data generated by GIS systems is effectively managed, analyzed and preserved in the Environmental Sciences.
Co-requisite: 530 and 532.
INFO 583.
Graduate Teaching I.
(1-3 to a maximum of 3 ∆ )
Introduces new Teaching and Graduate Assistants to teaching at UNM, reviews various instructional methods, assessment strategies, and pedagogical theories pertinent to teaching in higher education.
INFO 590.
Special Topics in Informatics.
(3 to a maximum of 12 Δ)
Study of any Informatics topic not otherwise included in the curriculum upon expression of mutual interest by students and faculty.
{Offered upon demand}
Prerequisite: 504.
