C匿名并用JSON返回过滤属性

从集合IEnumerable仅返回几个属性到JSON结果的最佳方法是什么?

Department对象有7个属性,在客户机中我只需要其中2个。我可以使用匿名类型吗?

    public class Department
    {
        public string DeptId { get; set; }
        public string DeptName { get; set; }
        public string DeptLoc1 { get; set; }
        public string DeptLoc2 { get; set; }
        public string DeptMgr { get; set; }
        public string DeptEmp { get; set; }
        public string DeptEmp2 { get; set; }            
    }



    [HttpGet]
    public JsonResult DepartmentSearch(string query)
    {

        IEnumerable<Department> depts = DeptSearchService.GetDepartments(query);

        //Department object has 15 properties, I ONLY need 2 (DeptID and DeptName) in the view via returns JSON result)


        return Json(depts, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet); // I don’t want all the  properties of  a department object
   }