A seminar which examines current philosophical and managerial issues in library and information science. Focus is on the analysis, origins, evaluation and current status of these issues.

Advanced study of book evaluation, literary criticism, children's book ppublishing, awards, and current trends in the field. Individual projects require extensive critical reading.

This course is an introductory graduate-level survey of theory and research on human communication mediated by communication and information technologies. This course is designed to cover the areas not typically addressed in traditional courses of mass or interpersonal communication, including theory and research on the use of computers and electronic communication over a variety of communication and information systems.

The content and structure of bibliographic and other information resources in science and technology. A consideration of formal and informal communication in science and technology with emphasis on sources and services in agriculture, astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics, natural resources, zoology, and other closely related subjects.

A survey of manual and computer-based technical processing systems in libraries. Consideration given to circulation, acquisitions, cataloging and serial control systems. Trends and developments in technical processing, files and records management, and technical processing procedures and activities are examined.

In-depth coverage of the theories and practice of bibliographic description and subject analysis. Covers the organization of both print and electronic information and authority control. Emphasis is on problems in practice, special case studies, current issues and future trends of description, subject analysis and online authority control.

An introductory treatment of Fourier series and its application to the solution of boundary value problems in the partial differential equations of physics and engineering. Orthogonal sets of functions, Fourier series and integrals, solution of boundary value problems, theory and application of Bessel functions and Legendre polynomials.

General methods of combinatorial analysis with an emphasis on problem solving. Note: Designed for MAT(M) program. Not open for graduate credit to students in mathematics.

Control of discrete-time Markov processes by dynamic programming inventory theory. Computational approaches to control of Markov chains. State space methods: modeling of engineering and economic systems by linear stochastic difference equations. The discrete-time matrix Riccati equation, Kalman filtering. Optimal control of linear stochastic difference equations with complete or incomplete state information and with quadratic cost criterion.

A study of homomorphisms for groups, finite groups, solvable groups, nilpotent groups, free groups, and abelian groups.