This course encompasses the essential skills needed for success in research in any discipline. The course is designed to help first-year students develop their necessary information-seeking and evaluation skills for their general education courses. The course will prepare students in all aspects of the research process: starting with the orientation to the libraries' collections, and services; through the formulation of the research question, database searching, and news literacy.

Student’s information literate abilities will be developed using the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.

 

The Framework is organized into six frames, each consisting of a concept central to information literacy. The six concepts that anchor the frames are presented alphabetically:

 

•             Authority Is Constructed and Contextual

•             Information Creation as a Process

•             Information Has Value

•             Research as Inquiry

•             Scholarship as Conversation

•             Searching as Strategic Exploration