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PCS Project Sequence Lessons & Activities

Information literacy assignments, lessons, activities and exercises for use in the PCS group project sequence

Notes on HUSB 332

HUSB 332 is the final class in this sequence. By this point students should be fluent in all areas of information literacy, and their completed projects and presentations should reflect this. Focus here is on presentation skills and ethical information use.

Course Objectives

Exercises in this guide support action steps #1 and #3 for HUSB 332:

1. Finalize your project in line with the project goals

3. Compile your final project report and present results to the class

Exercises and lessons in this guide support many different objectives. Check each exercise for more information.

REQUIRED exercises are marked with an asterisk. 

Faculty may also opt to have a librarian-led instruction session in place of some of required activities.  The session content will depend on the curriculum worked out between the librarian and faculty member.

Searching and finding

Mastery exercises and lessons to expand the breadth and depth of students searching skills.

Using information effectively

Mastery lessons and exercises.  The goals of these exercises is to support students as they finalize their major research project and present it. 

Pre-search and topic development

Mastery exercises and lessons to build students' ability to create manageble research projects and to think through what information they will need for the projects.

Evaluating information

Mastery lessons and exercises. Students will be able to evaluate information sources related to their discipline. Student will be able to demonstrate an ability to identify the value, the differences, and respective audiences of potential resources and formats in a specific discipline (popular/scholarly; current/historical; etc.)

Information ethics

Mastery lessons and exercises to strengthen students use of and understanding of the ethical and legal use of information.

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