INFO 100 Information Literacy and College Success

This course teaches students a core of information literacy and critical thinking skills that will transfer to other coursework and will help them to reach academic and professional goals. Students will learn and refine strategies for college success and will strengthen their capacity for effective academic and professional communication and use of information resources. Through research, reading, writing, and reflection, students will assess their strengths and goals in the context of pathways for academic and career exploration.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Eligible to enroll in ENGL 086 or ENGL 096 or ENGL 095

Hours Weekly

3

Course Objectives

1. Set academic, career, and financial goals and use resources and strategies to meet those goals.
2. Determine the nature and extent of information needed for exploring an academic or career-related topic.
3. Use a variety of techniques to search and access information efficiently and effectively.
4. Evaluate information and sources through critical thinking.
5. Integrate researched information in ethical and discipline-appropriate ways.
6. Employ knowledge of conventions of academic and professional communication to express ideas effectively.
7. Explore individual beliefs about cultural and ethical issues and demonstrate awareness of others’ beliefs.

Course Objectives

1. Set academic, career, and financial goals and use resources and strategies to meet those goals.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • This goal will be assessed through student work including career and financial planning and goal setting assignments.
2. Determine the nature and extent of information needed for exploring an academic or career-related topic.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Information Literacy Rubric
3. Use a variety of techniques to search and access information efficiently and effectively.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Information Literacy Rubric

   Information Literacy

   • IL1
4. Evaluate information and sources through critical thinking.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Information Literacy Rubric

   Information Literacy

   • IL2
5. Integrate researched information in ethical and discipline-appropriate ways.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Information Literacy Rubric

   Information Literacy

   • IL3
6. Employ knowledge of conventions of academic and professional communication to express ideas effectively.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • This objective will be assessed through researched writing and presentation assignments that require students to incorporate outside resources.
7. Explore individual beliefs about cultural and ethical issues and demonstrate awareness of others’ beliefs.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • This objective will be assessed through diversity work in class and through assignments that ask students to consider and incorporate views that are different from their own.