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Ph.D. Program

The doctor of philosophy degree is a research degree designed to produce the critical scholar. The degree is granted only to students who:

  1. have mastered definite fields of knowledge so that they are familiar not only with what has been done in their specific fields but also with the potential and opportunity for further advances;
  2. have demonstrated capacity to do original and independent scholarly investigation or creative work in their selected fields; and
  3. have the ability to integrate their selected fields of specialization with the larger domains of knowledge and understanding" (Graduate Bulletin, p. 48).

The Ph.D. in Information Studies offered by the Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies is a research degree designed to produce astute and creative researchers for academic, corporate, nonprofit, or governmental settings. Doctoral students analyze, evaluate, and explain a variety of information phenomena and become familiar with and develop backgrounds in such areas as the social sciences, information science, and/or the humanities, as they relate to information phenomena. Doctoral students will also become aware of the multiplicity of problems in the information field to which these research techniques may be applied. To demonstrate this familiarity, they will perform original research, and report the results of their research in a clearly written dissertation. The Ph.D. in Information Studies offered by the Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies is a research degree designed to produce astute and creative researchers for academic, corporate, nonprofit, or governmental settings.


Last updated: March 6, 2009 by Melissa Raulston
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