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Apr 07, 2026
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INFO 250 - Introduction to Critical Information Studies
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4
Introduction to the Critical Information Studies Minor. Covers critical information literacy theory, basic academic research skills, and issues of finding, evaluating, using, and creating information sources. Examines how systems of power shape these processes and their social, political, economic implications.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Recognize and engage in the critical inquiry process.
- Determine how to scope, construct and conduct searches strategically.
- Identify sources that facilitate informed participation in a scholarly or professional conversation on the topic of inquiry, including those based on research and expertise from communities, research institutions, and individual lived experience.
- Analyze the complexity within the processes of knowledge creation, distribution, use, value, and attribution and their intersections with power structures and imbalances, including sociopolitical implications.
GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
- Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
- Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
- Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.
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