Information Literacy in General Education

Information Literacy Across the Curriculum GenEd Disciplines Psychology Department's IL plan

IL learning competencies will be infused into General Education so that all students will sequentially build a set of skills throughout the curriculum.

Information Competency Checklist.doc

General Education Courses

First Year Writing

Introduction to IL with online tutorial. Reinforced with librarian-led class session.

• Fundamentals of using Bunch Library
• Online Catalog
• Periodical Databases
• Search Strategies
• BILS online tutorial 
   
   

First Year Seminar

Librarian-led classroom instruction tailored to meet needs of specific assignments. Focus on scholarly journal articles.

• Research Process: Preliminary research, narrowing the topic, formulating the research question
• Types of publising: Scholarly, popular, trade
• Evaluating articles

Third Year Writing

Librarian-led classroom instruction builds on competencies introduced in First Year Writing

• Reading and interpreting citations
• Advanced searching strategies
• Finding sources from bibliographies
• Subject-specific sources and vocabulary

Junior Cornerstone

Librarian-led classroom instruction tailored to meet specific needs of classes. Instructors choose content covered from a menu of choices.

• Menu.doc
  More in-depth research skills
  Specialized databases
  Literature reviews
   

Senior Capstone

Goal: to be integrated by Fall 2008.

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