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Aug 01, 2024
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INFO 101 Research Essentials (2 credits)
Course Description
Introduction to the essential concepts and strategies for college-level research. Students will learn how to effectively access, use and evaluate information resources, and also explore information issues such as censorship, bias, and perspective.
Course Content
A. Topic development; focusing an idea B. Types and role of information resources C. Search strategies and information seeking theory D. Organization of information systems and structures E. Evaluation of resources; Bias and perspective, questioning traditional concepts of authority F. Citing sources G. Current information issues and perspectives
Student Outcomes
Critically analyze information in order to evaluate quality, relevance, and perspective, considering the positionality of the searcher, the information source, and the audience. Express the value of diverse ideas and worldviews and interrogate how authority is traditionally granted to dominant perspectives by intentionally seeking information from voices marginalized by mainstream information sources. Access information in a variety of formats by navigating information structures such as library catalogs, subscription databases, and open repositories, recognizing that information systems underrepresent the perspectives of marginalized groups. Synthesize new ideas while accurately representing and giving credit to the original ideas of others. Identify current information issues and controversies in order to facilitate critical evaluation of information and its sources.
Degree Outcomes
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege. Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20
Potential Methods
A. Class discussion and participation
B. Written assignments and worksheets
C. Presentations or demonstrations
D. Quizzes and tests
E. Annotated bibliographies
F. Research project
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