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LIS 6205 : Seminar in
Information Behavior (Fall 2006) |
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LIS 6205 : Seminar in
Information Behavior (Fall 2006) |
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Dr. Paul Marty, Assistant Professor
Office: 240 LSB
Office Hours: By appointment
Office Phone: 850.644.5133
The best (and fastest) way to reach me is by email: marty@fsu.edu ... I make every effort to respond to emails within 12 hours; if I don't respond within 36 hours, email me again, as your message might have gotten lost or junked accidentally.This syllabus is available online at: http://info.fsu.edu/~pmarty/lis6205
COURSE MATERIALS:
There is one required text for this course:
- Case, D. (2002). Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior. San Diego: Academic Press.
There will be additional readings each week, nearly all available online through databases to which FSU subscribes. These additional readings were selected to introduce you to some of the seminal historical works in this area over the past decades, as well as more recent articles which illustrate current approaches to "information needs, seeking, and behavior research." Reading these articles will help you see how the topics we discuss each week are implemented by scholars and researchers, past and present.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Provides students with an overview of information behavior and the fundamentals to a broad approach emphasizing a unifying structure to understand information, information needs, information seeking, and information behavior.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
After the completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Appreciate the basic philosophical and conceptual approaches to the study of information, information needs, information seeking, and information behavior;
- Recognize a range of approaches to information needs and behavior assessment;
- Appreciate how information behavior studies are done, using a range of technologies;
- Review the current literature addressing information behaviors for various user populations.
COURSE POLICIES:
Attendance policy for this course is consistent with Florida State University Policy as stated in the Bulletin. Your regular attendance at class meetings of this course is expected, and you are required to participate in class discussions.
Late work is not acceptable. Work submitted late with a reasonable excuse will be accepted especially if this is discussed with the instructor before the due date. Do not expect an incomplete for the course without extreme and unforeseen mitigating circumstances. If a situation arises where you will not be able to meet a deadline, you should let me know well in advance!
You are required to check your ACNS email accounts on a regular basis. All emails to the instructor must include a subject line that begins with the number of the course. You try to should set up your email account so that your full name accompanies each email (e.g. I should receive email from John Q. Smith, not from jqs4432). If you are emailing from Blackboard, please include your name in the body of your email, as Blackboard does not include your name in the from field! Emails that include neither your full name somewhere in the email nor the course number in the subject line will not receive a response.
GRADING/EVALUATION:
The most important criteria for grading are thoughtfulness, completeness, and quality. The effort you put into your assignments is just as important as the final outcome.
Assignments that have not been demonstrably spell-checked, grammar-checked, and proofread for absolute nonsense will not be accepted. Unacceptable assignments will receive a zero, and may be resubmitted at the instructor's discretion. Please note that all of your work for this class must be original.
Percentage weights for each assignment are listed below. Letter grades will be allocated on a straight scale (90 and up is an A, 80 and up a B, 70 and up a C, etc.). Pluses and Minuses will be assigned at the instructor's discretion.
ASSIGNMENTS/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Please see the course assignments page at the following URL: http://info.fsu.edu/~pmarty/lis6205/assignments.html
The following list is provided for quick reference...
- Class Participation = 20%
- Discussion Leading = 10%
- Paper 1: Personal Analysis of Information Behavior = 20%
- Paper 2: Comparing Models of Information Behavior = 25%
- Paper 3: Questioning a Population’s Information Behavior = 25%
COURSE CONTENT AND OUTLINE:
Please see the course outline at the following URL: http://info.fsu.edu/~pmarty/lis6205/outline.html
The following list is provided for quick reference...
- Week 1: Introduction and Examples, Part 1
- Week 2: Introduction and Examples, Part 2
- Week 3: Concepts, Part 1
- Week 4: Concepts, Part 2
- Week 5: Concepts, Part 3
- Week 6: Models, Paradigms, and Theories, Part 1
- Week 7: Models, Paradigms, and Theories, Part 2
- Week 8: Methods, Part 1
- Week 9: Methods, Part 2
- Week 10: Research Results and Reflections, Part 1
- Week 11: Research Results and Reflections, Part 2
- Week 12: Research Results and Reflections, Part 3
- Week 13: Research Results and Reflections, Part 4
ACADEMIC HONOR CODE:
Students are expected to uphold the Academic Honor Code published in The Florida State University Bulletin and the Student Handbook. The Academic Honor System of The Florida State University is based on the premise that each student has the responsibility (1) to uphold the highest standards of academic integrity in the student's own work, (2) to refuse to tolerate violations of academic integrity in the university community, and (3) to foster a high sense of integrity and social responsibility on the part of the university community.
Please see the following web site for a complete explanation of the Academic Honor Code.
http://www.fsu.edu/Books/Student-Handbook/codes/honor.html
http://www.fsu.edu/Books/Student-Handbook/
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT:
