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The Master's Degree in
Archives and Records Administration (MARA)

Program Structure

• Program Coordination
• MARA Course Descriptions
• Required Courses
• Course Rotation
• MARA Core Competencies
• New student checklist (for admitted students – Fall 2008)
• New student checklist (for admitted students – Fall 2009)
• New student checklist (for admitted students – Fall 2010)
• Organizational Consulting Project Handbook in PDF and Word document format:
  • Organizational Consulting Project Handbook (for Fall 2010 cohort) [PDF]
  • Organizational Consulting Project Handbook (for Fall 2010 cohort) [Word Document]

Program Coordination

MARA Coordinator and Academic Advisor — Dr. Pat Franks

Dr. Franks will be glad to answer questions about the MARA program. Email

Required Courses

Before commencing the program all incoming students are required to take an online course in online social networking. SLIS will add them to the course. They do not register for this course on my.sjsu.edu

• MARA 200 – The Record and the Recordkeeping Professions
• MARA 202 – Information Technology, Records, and the Information Age
• MARA 204 – Management of Records and Archival Institutions
• MARA 210 – Records Creation, Appraisal and Retention
• MARA 211 – Records Access, Storage and Retrieval
• MARA 243 – Recordkeeping Program Analysis, Design and Evaluation
• MARA 248 – Standards and Structures for Records and Recordkeeping
• MARA 249 – Electronic Recordkeeping Systems and Issues in Electronic Recordkeeping
• MARA 256 – 21st Century Archival Methods
• MARA 259 – Records and Information Preservation and Security
• MARA 285 – Research Methods in Records Management and Archival Science
• MARA 289 – Advanced Topics in Archives and Records Administration (ePortfolio)
• MARA 293 – Professional Projects
• MARA 294 – Professional Experience: Internships
• MARA 295 – Organizational Consulting Project

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Course Rotation

*A student may replace both MARA 293 and MARA 294 with MARA 295 – Organizational Consulting Project to earn 6 credits over two semesters. Contact the MARA Program Coordinator, Dr. Pat Franks, for further information.

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