INFO 230: Argumentation and Information Literacy for Sustainability Topics
Catalog Description: INFO 230 meets A3, Second Composition and Sustainability Overlay GE Requirements
Students analyze case studies in sustainability and environmental justice, exploring multiple perspectives and sources of evidence. Students will build coherent and cohesive arguments, using inductive and deductive reasoning, honing their argumentation skills through dialogue, outlining, and peer review of drafts.
Meets Mon-Wed Synchronously Online 9:30am-10:45am
INFO 310: Sustainability and Information Literacy
Catalog Description: INFO 310 Upper Division Course meeting Social Science Upper Division and Sustainability GE requirements.
This course will critically examine how culture and sociopolitical power dynamics influences the debate around sustainability, and its impact in three main areas: the environment, social equity, and the economy and develop strategies for evaluating information and producing sound arguments on sustainability topics within the context of conflicting viewpoints.
Additional details: This course explores sustainability through the examination of case studies in environmental, climate, and social justice and through the development of a survey on sustainability and a sustainability proposal at the local level.
Meets Tues-Thurs Synchronously Online 9:30am-10:45am
Courses that are part of the department’s Critical Information Studies Minor:
INFO 200-01 Topics and Applications in Critical Information Studies
Description: Applications of information literacy theories, methods, and approaches to selected topics such as information ethics, critical methodologies, social justice, and data privacy. Requires individual research.
INFO 230-01: Argumentation and Information Literacy for Sustainability Topics
Description: Students analyze case studies in sustainability and environmental justice, exploring multiple perspectives and sources of evidence. Students will build coherent and cohesive arguments, using inductive and deductive reasoning, honing their argumentation skills through dialogue, outlining, and peer review of drafts.
INFO 310-01 Sustainability and Information Literacy
Description: This course critically examines cultural and sociopolitical power dynamics in the debate around sustainability and climate change, focusing on the environment, social equity, and the economy, and develops strategies for evaluating information and producing sound arguments within the context of conflict.
Additional Courses (not in Minor)
INFO 210-01 Introduction to Searching for and Evaluating Information
Description: Covers the process of developing a focused research question from a topic of your choice, translating that question into a sophisticated search strategy to find appropriate information sources, and finally learning methods to evaluate the information sources you find.