Electives focus on the selection, collection, maintenance, preservation, and archiving of digital assets. (Prerequisites are waived for MARA students.)​

MARA students are required to take one of the courses included in this cluster in order to earn the Digital Assets Certificate: MARA 283: Enterprise Content Management and Digital Preservation, which does not count toward the 12 units of elective requirement.

Students focusing on Digital Curation elective cluster should take the following three courses for 12 units:

• INFO 284 Seminar in Archives and Records Management
  Topic: Digital Curation
• INFO 284 Seminar in Archives and Records Management
  Topic: Tools, Services, and Methodologies for Digital Curation
• MARA 284 Seminar in Archives and Records Management
  Topic: Digital Forensics for Archivists

And an additional 3 units of elective credit from the following:

• INFO 284 Seminar in Archives and Records Management Topic: Digitization and Digital Preservation 
• INFO 284 Seminar in Archives and Records Management Topic: Curating Exhibitions from Archival Collections
• INFO 220 Resources and Information Services in Professions and Disciplines Topic: Digital Humanities 

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.

The Digital Curation elective cluster does not qualify for the Digital Assets Certificate.