Program: Archival Management certificate - University of North Texas

May 16, 2025

2016-2017 Graduate Catalog

The Department of Library and Information Sciences offers a graduate academic certificate in archival management. The graduate certificate program requires 15 semester credit hours of course work and students must earn at least a B average in each course.

Admission to the program

The student must have a:

bachelor’s or a master’s degree from a regionally-accredited college or university.
bachelor’s GPA of 2.8 or higher or a master’s GPA of 3.4 or higher.

Certificate requirements

A minimum of 15 hours of course work with at least a B in each course must be completed as follows:

Required, 9 hours

The student must complete the following three core courses:

Electives, 6 hours

The student must complete at least two of the following elective courses:

INFO 5090 - Practicum and Field Study
INFO 5230 - Records Management
INFO 5290 - Special Collections and Archives
INFO 5295 - Preservation
INFO 5841 - Digital Curation Fundamentals
INFO 5842 - Digital Curation Tools and Applications (must have completed INFO 5841 or be concurrently enrolled)
INFO 5900 - Special Problems
INFO 5960 - Library and Information Sciences Institute or Seminar (when topic is “Collections Conservation”)

Disclosures

The Gainful Employment Disclosures for Graduate Academic Certificates may be found at tsgs.unt.edu/certificatedisclosure.