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UNC & SILS Handbook: Your Guide to Success in Information Science

Discover essential resources, academic requirements, career services, and university policies for UNC's School of Information and Library Science. Find guidance on courses, advisors, grading, and academic integrity to excel in your program.

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UNC & SILS Handbook: Your Guide to Success in Information Science

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  1. Welcometo UNC & SILS

  2. 1932

  3. Don’t Suffer in Silence! • Dean/Associate Deans • Griffiths, Solomon, Gollop, Wildemuth • Student Services Staff • Dye, Hill, Bailey • Advisor • Instructors • University Resources • Writing Center • Counseling Center • Recreation Facilities Problems Us R

  4. Don’t Face an Identity Crisis! Online

  5. Handbook • Policies and Procedures • Academic Integrity and Ethics • Graduate School Record

  6. What happens when I finish? • University Career Services

  7. Curriculum Info Sci Core Requirements Lib Sci Core Requirements Capstone Requirements Electives 172, Information Retrieval 111, Information Resources & Services To be selected in consulation with your advisor 150, Organization Of Information 151, Organization of Materials 201, Research Methods 162, Systems Analysis 153, Resource Selection & Evaluation 180, Human Information Interactions 392, Masters’ Paper 131, Management For Info Professionals 102, Information Tools

  8. AdvisorProgram of Studies • Temporary  ‘Permanent’ Advisor • Take required/prerequisite courses early • Exemptions from required courses/prerequisites • Course frequency • Courses in other departments • Courses in other universities • Inter-institutional registration • Transfer credit (up to 9 semester hours) • Other schools/certificates/institutions • Joint Degrees (e.g., MSIS/MBA) • Certificates (e.g., Bioinformatics) • Study abroad • INLS 299, Field Experience

  9. Registration • Pre-registration advising • The early student gets the course! • Drop (until Friday, April 15, 2005) • Withdrawal • Incompletes (I) • 6-8 credit hours of Incomplete will limit the number of courses for which you can register • You will be unable to register with 9 or more hours of incompletes • Turn to an F* after one year • Leave of Absence • Readmission

  10. Grading • H, P (+/ -), L, F, I NOT A, B, C, . . . • Disqualifying grades • F • 9 or more credit hours of L

  11. Academic Integrity “Students enjoy a great deal of freedom at Carolina and have been entrusted to hold each other accountable for maintaining a just and safe community.” --UNC Honor System

  12. Give Credit Where Credit is Due! • Distinguish your ideas and writing from the ideas and writing of others in an appropriate manner: • In our group meeting, Mary suggested that . . . . This led me to . . . • “To be or not to be? That is the question!” (Shakespeare, 1604)

  13. Overlapping Work • Value connections between courses • Get permission for products that will be used for multiple courses!

  14. Course Evaluation • End of session • Carolina Course Evaluation (quantitative) • Fill in the blank (qualitative) • During the session • Instructor initiated • Student initiated

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  16. Have a great semester!

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