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. Specific competencies based on the ACRL standards have been identified for freshman and junior level general education courses.

IL_General_Education_Competencies_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

Sample Information Literacy Assignments for FYS and FYW

Critically_Evaluate_Web Page.doc 

Critically_Evaluate_an_Article.doc 

Sample_annotated_bibliography.doc 

Research Process Worksheet.doc 

General_Education_rubric.doc 

Use this informatin literacy rubric to score research papers, projects, portfolios, etc.

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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