Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Synopsis This subject provides a theoretical base - a body of general principles - for practice in the recordkeeping professions, drawing on traditional records management and archival approaches and information science. It explores how and why professional practice has evolved as it has, enabling students to distil from reading, study, class work and practical exercises a framework of ideas on recordkeeping and archival science. It also introduces information technology and its impact, applications and potential in relation to recordkeeping in the context of the re-invention of archival science.
Assessment Document analysis: 15% + Class debate: 15% + Major assignment: 40% + Analysis of systems: 30%