The course is designed to give you transferable knowledge, skills and approaches that support advanced information management roles and complement a range of wider management responsibilities.

The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.

You’ll study the following core modules:

• Information and Digital Literacy (15 credits) – Investigating theories for assessing and using information resources, along with those on how to teach digital literacy skills and a study of the range of digital tools available for personal information management.
• The Information Professional: Contexts and Competencies (30 credits) – This module provides you with a comprehensive overview of the key issues facing information services in different contexts, alongside practical skills sessions to develop your competency. This includes systematic literature searching, presentation skills and digital capability relevant to your career aspirations.
• Knowledge Organisation (30 credits) – Essential practical skills, including metadata, mark-up and classification, and current issues in digitisation, digital collection management and digital curation.
• Information Services: Planning and Provision (15 credits) – This module will prepare you for understanding and developing management skills relevant to information services provision. Topics include strategic planning, project management, change management, marketing and advocacy.
• CSCT Masters Project (60 credits) – This is the most significant single piece of work on the MSc. It gives you the opportunity to develop deep knowledge and expertise in a cutting-edge area within your specialism, and to improve your performance on a variety of employability skills, including creative problem solving, negotiation and communication. The project is your own to steer and develop, but you’ll have an experienced supervisor to help you develop a suitable and manageable proposal and to progress from concept to execution and evaluation.