COURSE: BACHELORS IN INFORMATION SCIENCE

The Bachelor of Information Science degree has been conflated from a four year to a three-year degree from 2007. Students registered prior to 2007 should follow the old curriculum (four-year degree). The curriculum for the BInf degree comprises 30 modules. The major subjects are Information Science and Applied Information Science.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years part time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Introducing Applied Information Science


• Introducing information records and sources


• Using the Internet as a reference tool


• Introduction to Information Science


• Developing information skills for lifelong learning


• Business management


• English for academic purposes


• Basic text skills


• Fundamentals of communication


• End-user Computing

Second year subjects:

• Bibliographic control, basic descriptive cataloguing and classification


• Learning how to provide reference services


• Describing library user groups and meeting their needs


• Utilising electronic library systems and services


• Developing and managing information collections


• Exploring information user studies


• Investigating information ethics in the information era


• Introducing information management


• Information and communication technologies for information science


• Research in the social sciences

Third year subjects:

• Descriptive cataloguing


• Subject organisation


• Serving the user in library and information practice


• Applying research methodology in information science


• Practical portfolio


• Information science entrepreneurship


• Information retrieval and personal information organisation


• Political economy of information


• Information and knowledge management


• Exploring information skills

Careers: archivist, bibliographer, classifier, database designer, freelance information writer, indexer, information consultant, librarian, online researcher, records officer.

Source: www.unisa.ac.za​