Table II-2-a-2
Courses or Sections of Courses with the Number of Students Enrolled Above 50
Fall 1997
Arizona | These two courses are being offered via the Virtual Education program and are not on campus courses but are taught over the Internet |
Buffalo | Required, basic core course, LIS 505, which must be taken by all new students in the first semester |
California Los Angeles | This is a core course that all entering students must take. This course is being taught as a lecture that meets one day a week for three hours |
Florida State | Eighty-seven students enrolled in the Foundations course which is required of all incoming students and only offered once each year. Fifty-nine students in Research Methods which is required and offered twice a year. |
Indiana | L401 Computer-Based Information Tools, a prerequisite course that does not count toward graduate credits for degree. L401 has one large lecture class and lab section of 20 students or fewer. |
Kent State | Four core courses. |
McGill | Three mandatory courses. |
Michigan | Core courses 501, 502 and (optional) 511 are being offered for the first time this semester. Each course is being taught by 2 faculty and each have a TA. Faculty constraints and new course content require, at this time, that the courses be taught as a single course (without sections). Future offerings of these courses will have more than one section. |
Rutgers | 610:501 The LIS Orientation class held
each semester for all new incoming students. 610:502 The LIS Colloquium Series taken by all MLS students during one semester of study. 610:510 & 610:550 Designed to be large lecture classes. 610:550 has lab component which breaks class down into smaller segments. |
Simmons | Three experimental courses. |
South Carolina | Required courses taught via distance education technologies throughout South Carolina |
Syracuse | All are undergraduate classes with teaching assistants. |
Texas | 322T Children's Literature (2
sections), undergraduate course. 386.1 Introduction to Library and Information Studies. Other section limited by size of television studio to 25. |
Washington | Three required core courses. |
Wisconsin Madison | Three foundation courses which open to all incoming masters students as well as undergraduates with Junior or Senior standing. |
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