Course Offerings at SLIS

In an effort to ensure SLIS is responsive to students, in this case considering your expressed needs and preferences concerning our course offerings, the SLIS faculty, led by Professor David Shumaker, devised an excellent survey of CUA-SLIS students to determine your needs (and preferences) for course offerings for the spring semester from SLIS. The survey was completed by 145 students. This is a significant sample and very helpful in learning more about your views, thank you! The survey results included a request for your scheduling preferences. We found that you prefer a blended format (a mixture of face-to-face and online), late afternoon class times and to have classes offered on Monday - Thursday. Many of you indicated you would like to see courses offered entirely online also.

We also took your requests for specific classes and examined them closely to see to what extent we can match the offerings with your requests. The five most requested courses were:

LSC 606, Cataloging
LSC 608, Collection Development
LSC 609, Preservation
LSC 841, Rare Book Librarianship
LSC 557, Libraries and Information in Society

For the spring semester, we expect to offer most of these. The faculty met and discussed every one of your preferences and made a conscientious effort to consider both the types and times/days/formats of the courses you indicated you need and would like to take.

We enjoy being a program that is student-centered. Asking your opinion, and using it as a basis for considering our spring offerings is something we took very seriously. I think we have an excellent, rich set of offerings for the spring semester. We hope you will agree.