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