Information Literacy for Academic Study-E2
| Numbering Code | U-LAS30 20027 LE13 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Second semester | |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | Lecture | |
| Target Year | All students | Target Student | For all majors | |
| Language | English | Day/Period | Tue.2 | |
| Instructor name | CHU, Chenhui (Graduate School of Informatics Program-Specific Associate Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | Effective and efficient utilization of information is one key point for studying at university. This course introduces various resources and methods that help students find valuable information for study. The practical topics include formulating a study strategy, developing search skills, evaluating sources, and referring sources. | |||
| Course Goals | Students will be able to conduct effective decision making and problem solving in their academic studies by learning the methodologies of identifying, searching, evaluating, using, and presenting information. | |||
| Schedule and Contents |
1. Introduction of Information Literacy (1 week) This lecture introduces the fundamental concepts of information literacy, the standards of information literacy for higher education, and the relation between university studies and information literacy. 2. Study Strategies (2 weeks) This lecture discusses how a student sets up an appropriate procedure to complete an assigned study/research task, such as determining the information needed, identifying the topic, developing a search strategy, collecting related information and accomplishing the task. 3. Searching in Library (1 week) This lecture first introduces the general organization of a library, and then provides methods of locating the information needed at library, which include browsing shelves, checking card catalog, and using online catalog. 4. Searching Databases (1 week) This lecture introduces the basic architecture of a database first, then the key items and methodologies for indexing. Afterwards, finding an article from magazines, newspapers, journals, and reference books in full text or reference databases is discussed. 5. Searching Internet (2 weeks) This lecture first introduces the architecture of World Wide Web, then explains the search engines including their foundation, principles, elements, and working flow (crawling, indexing, and query). Through explaining how search engines rank results and how PageRank measures individual web page, we discuss the method of precisely locating information from internet. 6. Evaluating Sources (3 weeks) This lecture explains the differences of various information materials and their formats, and introduces the evaluation criteria that one need to apply to sources. 7. Referring Sources and Academic Integrity (2 weeks) This lecture introduces the reasons, rules and types of citing sources. The issues of copyright and plagiarism, and their relation are discussed as well. 8. Presenting Information (1 week) This lecture provides tips as to how efficiently present the information gathered in a research work. 9. Practice: future study design using problem solving models (1 week) 10. Feedback (1 week) |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Evaluation is based on class participation (15%) and assignments (85%). | |||
| Course Requirements | None | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | The instructor expects students to spend over 60 minutes after each class to review the content and build up their own logic. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | Lecture handouts will be provided in the class. | ||
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