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Apr 25, 2024
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INFO 101 Research Essentials (2 credits)
Course Description
Introduction to the essential skills, concepts and strategies for college-level research. Students will learn how to effectively access, use and evaluate information resources, including books, periodicals, databases and the Internet. Information strategies will be examined through the lens of information seeking behavior. Students will also explore information issues and theories such as information flow, censorship, intellectual freedom and bias and perspective.
Student Outcomes
1. Identify and focus an academically appropriate topic or research problem.
Apply information seeking theory in order to retrieve and synthesize meaningful content
2. Navigate a variety of information systems and structures, including classification systems, catalogs and databases, in order to access information in a variety of formats.
3. Articulate the theory behind and demonstrate the application of a repertoire of creative and flexible information seeking strategies in order to solve a problem in a focused manner.
4. Analyze information in order to evaluate quality, relevance, and perspective.
5. Synthesize new ideas into current thoughts; cite sources in order to use information responsibly and ethically.
6. Identify the ideas and perspectives behind current information issues, such as censorship, intellectual freedom, information society, bias and perspective, and digital divide in order to recognize the role of information in society.
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