Center for Information Media

The Center for Information Media (CIM) is the academic unit of Learning Resources & Technology Services, and its primarily function is to advise students and offer courses for CIM degree programs. At the undergraduate level CIM offers a major, a minor, a certificate, and service courses for the College of Education and the University at large. At the graduate level CIM offers three Master's programs, a certificate, and courses leading to school library media specialist licensure.

Undergraduate Programs

The IM major, minor and certificate programs provide critical skills for the Information Age. Employers need people who can analyze problems, access information, validate, select, organize and present information. Information Media incorporates all of these competencies powerfully and effectively in its Information Media major, minor and Instructional Technology certificate. Encompassed in the major, minor and certificate programs are competency development in the theory and practice of education and information technology, instructional systems design, librarianship, and message design and delivery. In addition to the major, minor and certificate programs, the information media general education courses are available to all students interested in using newer technologies of learning.

Graduate Programs

The Center for Information Media through the College of Education provides three distinct graduate program tracks leading to an MS in Information Media.

• Information Technologies
• Educational Media
• Instructional Design and Training

Applicants must pick one of the three tracks. The underlying philosophy of these programs is the development of leadership skills that make it possible to work with people to provide appropriate services to meet their needs. An essential characteristic of the three graduate tracks is the incorporation of the theory and application of current and developing technologies into leadership functions, and message design, and delivery.

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