ABOUT

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 LicenseChanges 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.