If you knew what you will know
when your candle has burnt low,
it would greatly ease your plight
while your candle still burns bright.
— Piet Hein
INFO 7000 introduces students to practices associated with successful advancement in a doctoral program, rigorous scholarship in information science, and more expert and early participation in their scholarly community of practice. It is a required course for Information Science PhD students at the University of Colorado Boulder.
You will develop practices for becoming:
1. An active reader and writer of scholarship.
2. A representative of your own scholarship and the discipline.
3. An oral communicator of scholarship.
4. A peer evaluator of scholarship.
Attributions
This Introduction to Doctoral Studies in Information Science syllabus was first created by Prof. Amy Voida, with re-use and adaption here made possible by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. If you’d like to adapt this course material, please also see the original source material. The course delivered in http://cmci.colorado.edu/~palen/courses/INFO7000/F17/ with adjustments are similarly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Changes to the course design again have occurred for Fall 2018, and are similarly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.