IL 302 Information Literacy for History Majors
This course meets once a week for 10 weeks. Each class is one hour and fifteen minutes long. The course is designed to acquaint History students with the process of finding, retrieving organizing, analyzing, using and distributing information both in print and electronic formats for the purpose of preparing for and completing their Senior Thesis. Focus is on expanding the range of documents types and research techniques students are familiar with. The course covers law materials, archival materials, and census records, as well as advanced database and catalog searching techniques. The course seeks to ensure students are using primary as well as secondary resources to create a working bibliography in conjunction with the Senior Thesis (HI 398).
Prerequisite
HI 301 Historical Method & Criticism