Postgraduate Program in Information Management

MASTER’S PROGRAM – COURSES AND SYLLABI – CURRICULAR REFORM (MARCH 2022)

REQUIRED COURSES

Foundations of Information Science

Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Librarianship, Documentation, and Information Science: concepts and history, intersections and fundamental differences between the fields and their impacts on the labor market. Characterization in contemporary society. Political and social aspects of professional practices and performance.

Research Methodology
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Science, knowledge, and the scientific method. Scientific production and communication. Theoretical and methodological guidelines. Quantitative and qualitative research methods and techniques.

Seminar on Technical and Scientific Research Projects
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Presentation and discussion of Master’s dissertation projects from the perspective of the main theoretical and methodological approaches in Librarianship and Information Science.

ELECTIVE COURSES

Information and Decision-Making
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Concepts of decision-making and the use of information in decision processes. Stages of decision-making and cognitive biases. Decision support methodologies and tools. Information, consequences, and uncertainties.

Information Marketing and Digital Presence
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: The twelve schools of marketing thought. Interdisciplinary relations between Information Science and Marketing. Information economy and market: supply, production, and consumption. Development of information products and services. Guidelines for establishing digital presence in informational environments. Techniques, trends, tools, and marketing process models.

Data Governance
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Understanding governance concepts and their application in the context of scientific data, including Open Science and Citizen Science, and the creation of Scientific Data Management Plans.

Technologies Applied to Cataloging
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Automated cataloging – information resources. MARC21. MARC21XML. Dublin Core. Metadata. OPACs. Entity-relationship models: FRBR, FRAD. IFLA LRM. RDA. Bibframe.

Innovation in Informational Environments
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Technological innovation in informational environments. Innovation through ICT. Methods for innovation. ICT-based innovation projects for informational environments.

Human Relations in Information Management
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Human–work–organization relationships. Formation of individual subjectivity. Psychological processes in organizational environments. Leadership and power relations. The role of the individual in organizational processes.

Informational Behavior and Practices
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Informational behavior and the influence of personality traits. Informational practices. Informationalism and consumerism. Context and individual perception – creativity and intuition.

Quantitative Methods Applied to Research
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Introduction to quantitative methods. Access to concepts and computational tools applicable to data collection, analysis, and presentation. Creation and interpretation of scales. Review of linear, multiple, and logistic regression concepts.

Information Management
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Analysis of information flow and processes. Operational, tactical, and strategic information as a competitive advantage. Diagnosis: process and practice of information management. Process modeling and technologies for using data as a competitive differential. Data and information environments in organizations.

Research Data Management
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: E-Science practices. Research data: concepts, types, and structure. Platforms for data management. Research data repositories.

Scientific Writing
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Literacy and writing practices for scientific production. Specificities of scientific writing. Social function of writing. Scientific integrity and academic rigor. Construction of meaning in texts. Reading, analysis, and production of scientific texts.

Introduction to Scientific Research in Graduate Studies
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Scientific research. The scientific communication system. Information sources for research. Bibliographic survey in electronic sources. Reference managers. Research integrity and academic plagiarism. Principles of Open Science. Evaluation systems of Brazilian graduate education.

Studies on Scientific Production and Communication
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Knowledge as a process influenced by sociocultural conditions. Introduction to sociology of science. Processes of production, productivity, and scientific communication. Measurement, diagnosis, and evaluation of research activities. Introduction to Open Science principles.

Media Libraries: Information, Knowledge, and Memory
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Media libraries: conceptual aspects in light of Cultural History. Books and reading as cultural practices. Media libraries as historical spaces of sociability, information, knowledge, and memory.

Contemporary Informational Context
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Network society: sociocultural, technological, economic, and political-institutional configurations of global and local information and knowledge. Information and misinformation. Citizenship and democracy: social, political, and economic aspects of information democratization.

Information Literacy in the Management of Information Units
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Historical and conceptual aspects of information literacy. Standards and dimensions. Information literacy programs and projects. Information literacy in managing information units.

School Library: Guidelines, Contexts, and Practices
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: School libraries. International guidelines. Public policies, legal frameworks, and national parameters. Connections between local, national, and Latin American contexts. School library networks. Ideal vs. real school libraries from a phenomenological perspective.

Information, Memory, and Society
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Information and memory in contemporary society. Cultural heritage and memory policies. Educational and cultural practices in information units. Interfaces in Information Science.

Information Regime: Relations between Information, Politics, and Power
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Conceptual aspects of information regimes. Elements: actors, actions, devices, and artifacts. Relationships between information regimes and social, economic, cultural, community, and state systems. Information regimes as conditioning factors of sociocultural and political order.

Ethics in Information Management
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Ethical awareness and its social implications, professional practice, and social responsibility. Foundations of research ethics. Intellectual property. Ethical values and principles in information management.

Information and Decoloniality
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies: concepts, theories, and key authors. Decoloniality of knowledge and being. Social movements and Black intellectual production. Black epistemologies in Librarianship and Information Science.

Education, Information, and Inclusion
Credits: 4
Workload: 60 hours
Syllabus: Theoretical and curricular principles of education in Brazil. Citizenship, educational legislation, inclusion and exclusion. Information and misinformation. Educational processes and inclusion experiences in schools and information units.

Special Topics in Information Management (TEG)
Credits: 2 or 4
Workload: 30 or 60 hours
Syllabus: Current topics in Information Management.

COURSES AND SYLLABI – PRIOR TO THE 2022 CURRICULAR REFORM  (Applicable to students admitted before 2022) 

Required Courses

Statistics
Credits: 2 | Workload: 30 hours
Syllabus: Statistics applied to Information Science. Sampling principles. Data preparation. Descriptive statistics. Basic probability concepts. Use of computational tools.

Ethics in Information Management
Credits: 2 | Workload: 30 hours
Syllabus: Ethical awareness, professional responsibility, research ethics, intellectual property, and ethical principles in information handling.

Foundations of Information Science
Credits: 2 | Workload: 30 hours
Syllabus: Concepts, history, professional training, labor market, and social/political aspects of Information Science.

Research Methodology
Credits: 3 | Workload: 45 hours
Syllabus: Research trends, literature review, and scientific writing.

Psychology of Workplace Relations
Credits: 2 | Workload: 30 hours
Syllabus: Workplace relationships, teamwork, motivation, communication, and emotional aspects.

Seminar on Research Projects
Credits: 1 | Workload: 15 hours
Syllabus: Presentation and discussion of research projects.

Information and Communication Technologies
Credits: 2 | Workload: 30 hours
Syllabus: ICT concepts, applications, infrastructure, and management in information units.

Elective Courses

Study of Scientific and Technological Communication Processes
Credits: 3
Workload: 45 hours
Syllabus: Knowledge as a process influenced by sociocultural and economic conditions. Processes of production, productivity, and scientific and technological communication. Measurement, diagnosis, and evaluation of research activities and communication processes. Factors affecting information use. Information needs of users in different contexts.

Project Management and Entrepreneurship
Credits: 3
Workload: 45 hours
Syllabus: Entrepreneurship and managerial competencies. Intrapreneurship in the context of information units. Development of business plans for information services. Project management methodologies. Trends in project management in Brazil. Cultural projects and public policies. Project management in information units.

Information Technology Governance
Credits: 3
Workload: 45 hours
Syllabus: IT governance concepts. Tools, techniques, and processes. Fundamentals of COBIT and ITIL. Application of COBIT and ITIL methodologies in information units. Innovation in process automation and computerization.

Information and Decision-Making
Credits: 3
Workload: 45 hours
Syllabus: Decision-making concepts and the use of information in decision processes. Stages of decision-making and cognitive biases. Information, consequences, and uncertainties. Decision support systems.

Planning and Evaluation
Credits: 3
Workload: 45 hours
Syllabus: Information units as open systems. Stakeholders. Planning of information programs and services. Performance management methodologies (Balanced Scorecard, Performance Prism). Planning and evaluation in information units – applications and case studies. Models for evaluating the quality of information programs and services.

Technology and Innovation
Credits: 3
Workload: 45 hours
Syllabus: Concepts, types, and models of innovation. Innovation systems. Technological innovation processes. Technology and innovation in the knowledge society. Promotion and diffusion of innovation in information units.

Advanced Topics in Information Management
Credits: 2
Workload: 30 hours
Syllabus: Current topics in information management.

Public and School Libraries: Spaces of Information, Education, and Memory
Credits: 3
Workload: 45 hours
Syllabus: Public libraries as spaces for research, memory, and history. School libraries in the teaching-learning process. The contemporary reader: mediators and reading programs.

Contemporary Informational Context
Credits: 3
Workload: 45 hours
Syllabus: Network society. Sociocultural, technological, economic, and political-institutional configurations of information and knowledge at global and local levels. Information, citizenship, and democracy: social, political, and economic aspects of information democratization.

Information Society and Education
Credits: 3
Workload: 45 hours
Syllabus: Theoretical and methodological principles of education in Brazil. National Curriculum Parameters (PCNs). State and municipal curricula. Teaching procedures, educational materials, and new technologies. Educational processes and inclusion experiences in schools and information units.

Information, Society, and Memory
Credits: 3
Workload: 45 hours
Syllabus: Information, society, and memory. Memory institutions. Memory and information and communication technologies. Cultural heritage and memory policies.

Advanced Topics in Information Management
Credits: 2
Workload: 30 hours
Syllabus: Offered according to the specific topic addressed in the course.

School Library: Guidelines, Contexts, and Practices
Credits: 2
Workload: 30 hours
Syllabus: School libraries. Historical development. International guidelines. Public policies. Legal frameworks. National parameters. Social institution, actors, and social roles. Professionals and users of school libraries. Ideal and real school libraries. School library networks.