All learning tools at LIS are available through the home page (home.lis.ac.uk).
Students are provided with log-in credentials at the start of term. These are issued through Microsoft and students are able to log-in to all LIS tools using these credentials.
Please reach out to helpdesk@lis.ac.uk for any technical support accessing these systems.
Remote classroom
Our remote learning classes and coaching will use Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Whiteboard, both which work through the browser or an app.
Meetings happen on Teams. You can access this via your browser too, but if you would like to download it follow the link below:
MASc programme overview
The MASc is delivered in two modes:
- Campus-first, full time
- Remote-first, part-time (8-10 hours a week plus intensive on campus days)
The LIS MASc consists of five strands of learning. Throughout, there is an emphasis on interdisciplinary integration, which explores how insights and methods from different disciplines can be combined in ways that are both productive and respectful of disciplinary differences. The programme is designed using a braided logic: all problems and methods intersect with each other to the maximum degree possible.
- The first strand is a problems strand, where students pick one of three modules and learn about a specific area in depth. The problem areas a chosen so as to allow for interdisciplinary exploration across the given problem topic
- The second strand is a methods strand, where students learn the methods, techniques, and protocols of disciplines that deal with numerical, linguistic, imagistic, experimental, and algorithmic data. Students will pick four out of five methods options, with the expectation that they will not pick a module in which they already have expertise.
- The third strand is an integration strand, which explores the logic and philosophy of interdisciplinary integration. This will reflect on both the problems and the opportunities of interdisciplinarity as an intellectual practice.
- The fourth strand is a research strand is where students undertake a capstone project on their problem of choice under faculty supervision. It is partnered with the integration strand, to the extent that students are expected to synthesise across the methods and problems that have learned throughout the programme.
- The final strand of the programme is professional coaching. Here, the academic content of the programme is supplemented by engagement with a professional coach who helps students reach their professional and academic goals by making visible the cognitive and behavioural factors that aid or impede their progress.
These are the modules of the curriculum:
Information on sequencing and modules:
23/24 Full time23/25 Part-time24/25 Part-time24/25 Full-timeIntegration Week
Integration Week MASc 2024Please reach out to helpdesk@lis.ac.uk for any technical support.