Electives focus on managing big data, visualizing information, and using social media for competitive and company research. (Prerequisites are waived for MARA students.)

Students focusing on the Data Analytics and Data Driven Decision Making elective cluster should take 12 units from the following courses:

Required:

• MARA 284 Seminar in Archives and Records Management
  Topic: Technology, Privacy and the Law

Select 6 units from:

• INFO 246 Information Technology Tools and Applications (Advanced)

  • Big Data Analytics and Management
  • Information Visualization
  • Web 2.0 and Social Media
  • Web/Text/Data Mining

And select an additional 3 units from:

• INFO 282 Seminar in Library Management

  • Using Social Media for Competitive and Company Research
  • Project Management
  • Change Management
     
• INFO 287 Seminar in Information Science
  • Problem Solving with Data
  • Collecting and Analyzing Data for Evidence Based Decisions

Note: MARA students may take only 9 units of elective credit outside of MARA—so be sure that 3 units of credit are from MARA electives.

For INFO topic descriptions, select course and then topic from the MLIS course content page.

For MARA 284 topic descriptions, select course and then topic from the MARA course content page.

If you follow the Data Analytics and Data Driven Decision Making elective cluster, you can earn both your master’s degree and an advanced certificate from San José State University! See additional information about the Digital Assets Certificate on this web page.