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Optional Modules S1 4DP UK i 2 Study at the Sheffield Cover image by Rebecca Austin iSchool Photo Competition winner, 2010 3 The best in our field The Information School (iSchool) at The We have a track -record of innovation in University of Sheffield is the premier school learning and teaching, including in learning of its kind in the UK, attracting students led by inquiry and the creative use of digital from many different backgrounds and media. All teaching is led by academic staff countries around the world. We are proud who are also researchers working at the of our international reputation for the high cutting -edge of their fields, and by specialist quality of our teaching and research. We university teachers. Our research and are proud too of the achievements of our scholarship means that what we teach you graduates, whose knowledge, professional is based on the very latest ideas in the field. values and skills are highly prized by You will also benefit from the experience of employers across all sectors in a global academic staff who have professional and employment market. management backgrounds, and from the experience of visiting lecturers from the Study at the Sheffield Information School. The Sheffield iSchool has been at the forefront of developments in the information field for nearly fifty years and is a member of the international group of world -leading iSchools. With a distinguished record of research, we have achieved the highest possible grade in every one of the national evaluations of research quality in UK universities since these began in 1986. We are the only school of our kind in the country to achieve this. Through our research we seek to make a significant contribution to advancing knowledge in our field, but also to impact on the management and use of information in very practical ways in diverse social contexts. Our teaching portfolio includes a wide range of professional preparation and professional enhancement Masters programmes. When you join one of these, you will acquire a solid foundation of information knowledge and skills, or enhance your existing core expertise, and build on this to specialise further in areas you choose to suit your own particular interests. i 4 many external organisations with which the iSchool has links. You will have plenty of Your future opportunities to explore the connections between theory and practice, and the If you decide to continue with your studies application of ideas and techniques to real - beyond a Masters, we offer a vibrant world problems, for example through case doctoral programme covering areas scenarios and design projects. We including public, academic and digital encourage you to engage actively with the libraries, information behaviour and subject and throughout we emphasise information literacy, information retrieval learning by doing, and the synergies and interaction, information and knowledge between your learning and research in the management, educational and health field you are studying. informatics, information systems, and chemoinformatics. The staff who teach and support your learning in the iSchool are friendly and But whatever your next career move after approachable, and you will find it easy to get postgraduate study, you can be sure that to know other students and staff during graduating from the Sheffield iSchool will learning and teaching activities, personal put you on the fast track. And you will be tutorial meetings, and other iSchool able to continue to stay in touch with your activities and events. We have a friendly friends in the iSchool community, and team of IT support staff who will assist and develop your contacts further, by advise you with technical set -up and trouble participating in our alumni network and -shooting. The University’s Information activities. Commons, with its excellent resources for individual and group study, is within a few minutes’ walk from the iSchool. You’ll find plenty of support and encouragement here throughout your postgraduate study. In joining us you become part of a thriving, international community with our own, distinctive sense of identity and dedicated study facilities. The UK’s best university library More than 13,000 students were surveyed for the Times Higher Education Student The iSchool at Regent Experience Survey, and the University of Sheffield Library service was rated the best Court in the UK. The iSchool occupies purpose -built When you join the iSchool, you will of University accommodation where the heart course have access to the Library’s full of the campus leads into Sheffield’s lively range of services, both physical and online, centre, with views across the adjacent St including 24/7 online access to millions of George’s Church and grounds, built in the articles and research resources. The early 19 th century. In the iSchool, we have landmark Information Commons building is lecture/seminar space, dedicated rooms just a minute or two’s walk from the School, for students to book for small group work, and is open 24 hours a day throughout the our own computer laboratories in which year for access to printed and online many of our practical classes take place, collections, along with sofas, study areas, and wireless connectivity throughout. computers and a coffee bar. 5 Taught programmes. We offer a wide range of taught professional preparation and enhancement postgraduate programmes. MSc in Digital Library Management MSc in Information Systems (cilip* accredited) Management Run jointly with the Management School MSc in Health Informatics (International) (cilip accredited) MA in Librarianship (cilip accredited) Distance Learning MA in Librarianship (Professional MA in Information Literacy Enhancement) (cilip accredited) MSc in Information Management (cilip MA in Multilingual Information accredited) Management Run jointly with the School of Modern MSc in Information Management Languages and Linguistics (Professional Enhancement) (cilip accredited) MSc in Information Systems (cilip accredited) *Chartered Institute of Library and Includes teaching by the Department of Information Professionals Computer Science For further information on each of our MSc in Information Systems programmes, please see our website (Professional Enhancement) (cilip accredited) www.shef.ac.uk/is i 6 and several art galleries. You can play or watch every major sport here in Sheffield, from football to basketball, speedway to snooker: this was the first UK city to be designated a National City of Sport. What could be better than a big city set within a park? From the University campus it’s about ten minutes’ walk into town. Take the bus heading in the opposite direction and in about fifteen minutes you are in beautiful open countryside. Derbyshire is just on our doorstep and about a third of Sheffield is within this rural setting. The Peak District National Park has magnificent scenery, historic houses, fine walking country, and some of the best rock climbing within the UK. ... close to a National Park . A great city Sheffield is one of the best and cheapest places to live as a student in the whole of the UK. Sheffield is England’s fourth largest city, with an impressive industrial past and a redesigned city centre. This is a place with an important civic history. New fountains, new hotels and the attractive Winter Gardens enhance the bustling centre. Originally famous for steel manufacturing, Sheffield is clean, green and has an excellent reputation for safety. Shops abound in the city centre – from department stores to independent boutiques – with further shopping in one of Europe’s largest retail centres, Meadowhall, easily accessible by our Supertram. We have two theatres of national importance and the largest independent cinema outside London, together with other cinema complexes, large scale music venues 7 A great university. The University of Sheffield has produced five Nobel Prize winners, and many Accommodation illustrious alumni have studied here. This is a large Russell Group, research University Our student accommodation is a real dating back to 1905, with 73 academic attraction. We have two student villages in departments and some 24,000 students. the pleasant south west suburbs close to Along with its award -winning library service, the University with newly built student flats, - there is a Students’ Union that has been the majority of which contain en suite study voted the best in the country in the Times bedrooms. The University reserves some Higher Education Student Experience accommodation specifically for - Survey 2011, offering shops, banking postgraduates in self catering flats in the facilities, bars and places to eat. There is student villages or city centre. There is also every opportunity to make friends with like - a private sector accommodation bureau minded people here – the Students’ Union run by the University, with approved has clubs and societies of all kinds for you landlords and properties. Find out more at to join and runs schemes for trying out new www.sheffield.ac.uk/accommodation. activities and volunteering. i 8 I feel that the MSc at Sheffield gave me an After completing the MSc in Information excellent grounding for my job in e - Systems I entered the Graduate Trainee learning development. Not only has it Programme at Compaq. The experience equipped me with useful technical skills, gained from the various courses on the MSc such as web programming and database programme has been an invaluable source design, it has also given me a wider appreci- of confidence to me. The requirement and ation of the role of IT in business and the documentation techniques developed dur- opportunities and challenges that imple- ing the dissertation period have also greatly menting new systems brings. “assisted me in various other projects at “ work. Tim Thornton Web Developer Ghulam Chohan Virtual College Graduate IT Trainee Compaq Computer Ltd ” The year I undertook the MA in Librarian- ” ship was one of the best in my life so far. My work on the Case Project is a much less The skills and knowledge I acquired on traditional library job, promoting and coor- the course have been absolutely invalua- dinating the sharing of resources with other ble to me.
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