Ph.D. in Information Science
The Doctor of Philosophy is a research degree awarded to those students who have attained a broad understanding of the content, methods and theories of a field and their relation to the content, methods and theories of other fields of knowledge.
The Ph.D. program at SLIS is designed to prepare students for research and teaching in academia.
Accordingly, SLIS has identified the following goals for the Ph.D. program:
- To promote understanding of the research process and what constitutes scholarly research;
- To prepare scholars who will identify and conceptualize significant research problems and are qualified to undertake relevant research and contribute new knowledge to the field;
- To prepare students for professional roles as researchers, teachers, and consultants.
Upon completion of the Ph.D. program, a doctoral student should have demonstrated the ability:
- To generate original research that meets the scholarly standards of the field;
- To communicate the findings of this work, both orally and in writing, in a clear and convincing manner to other scholars in LIS and related disciplines.
More information about the program is available in the SLIS Ph.D. Handbook.
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