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Dec 04, 2025
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INFO 390 - Scholarly Communication & Knowledge Creation
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4
Overview of library research methods emphasizing: history and context of scholarly communication; effectively reading, evaluating, and synthesizing scholarly publications; appropriately select and using data collected using different methods; limitations, strengths, and aims of methods; identifying methods used in scholarly communication.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Critically analyze the complexity within scholarly communication, especially the creation, distribution, use, value, and attribution of information sources, and its intersections with power structures and imbalances.
- Develop a comprehensive search strategy that incorporates topic scoping; effectively navigating sources of information such as library collections and databases; applying evaluation criteria; and using evidence to support a scholarly argument.
- Analyze and describe the strengths, weaknesses, and practical applications of a variety of research methods in the social and behavioral sciences
- Read and analyze scholarly publications to determine which research methods were applied and how the chosen research methods impacted the collection of data
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes
- analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
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