INFO 105 Information and Power in Society (5 credits)

1. Interpret patterns of information disorders and their social impacts. 
2. Contextualize the role of information systems in perpetuating and disrupting oppression. 
3. Analyze your information environment, meaning how you consume, create, and disseminate information. 
4. Apply critical information literacy skills to real world instances of information inequity. 
5. Evaluate various information platforms and resource types.  
6. Describe how your engagement with and understanding of information systems has developed and will continue to develop. 

• 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. 
• 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. 
• Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.