Information Literacy Competencies
This is an Infolit Intensive course. As such, you are expected to complete this course with the following minimum competencies:
1. search for, find, evaluate and use course-related information from academic books.
2. search for, find, evaluate and use course-related information from relevant periodicals.
3. search for, find, evaluate and use course-related, authoritative information from the web.
4. apply critical thinking skills to select and evaluate relevant information using access tools that are most appropriate for course-related information needs.
5. understand issues of academic integrity and plagiarism in order to foster evaluative critical thinking skills.
Because this is an upper level course, you are also expected to have achieved the following competencies:
6. search for, find, evaluate, cite and use course-related information from multiple sources.
7. integrate this information within a single product.
8. develop familiarity with the core resources within ones discipline.
9. develop a research strategy appropriate to a library assignment in ones discipline.
10. understand that a discipline-specific research strategy can be applied with some modification to other disciplines.
11. apply critical thinking skills to select and evaluate the information access tools most appropriate for ones discipline.
12. understand issues of copyright, intellectual property and the ethical use of information.
In your first three reflections, you will apply for acknowledgement in having demonstrated the initial competencies by requesting my signature on your work. In other words, if you feel that what you’ve handed in demonstrates that you have successfully searched for, found and evaluated course-related information using relevant periodicals, you will write the following on your paper:
On
_(Date)___ I mastered competency 1: search for, find, evaluate and use
course-related, authoritative information using relevant periodicals
If
I agree you have demonstrated this, I’ll put my initials on the line.
By the end of the semester you need to have achieved all 12 competencies
in order to successfully complete the course.
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