INF STD 291ADoctoral Seminar: Theoretical Traditions in Information Studies
Information Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Nature of information studies—ontological, epistemological, and ethical accounts of information and of information arts and sciences. Conceptions, theories, and models of information; information-related artifacts, agents, contexts, institutions, practices, properties, values, and related phenomena. Interdisciplinary context—subfields of information studies and cognate disciplines. Frameworks for theory construction, such as critical theory, discourse analysis, hermeneutics, phenomenology, semiotics, social epistemology.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
INF STD 291A
- INF STD 291CSpecial Topics in Theory of Information Studies
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.