Michael Pyant

Academic Portfolio

Bachelor of Science in Information Science
LIS-199 Information Use in a Digital World

This course will prepare you to access, evaluate, and manage information so that you may more effectively meet your personal and academic information needs. Through personal information management (PIM) techniques, this course will train you in research methods with a special focus on use of library, web, and application-based digital resources. Additionally we will explore security/privacy and ethics issues, including plagiarism, source citation, and fair use.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Describe the changes that have transformed the way we create, consume, and share information.
  2. Demonstrate essential principles for being an effective information consume.
  3. Identify, select, and use tools for identifying high quality information sources.
  4. Apply appropriate criteria to critically evaluate the quality of information sources and the arguments contained in them, with particolar attention given to weighing competing claims.
  5. Employ a slow media consumption approach.
  6. Effectively organize and manage information for personal and academic use.
  7. Select and use information effectively to provide evidence for an argument.
  8. Use information ethically.
  9. Effectively convey the information evaluation process in writing.
  10. Effectively convey information in a visual format.