Taking Responsibility:
You assume responsibility for your level of performance in the course after examining the course schedule, the requirements, the scoring and grading criteria, the opportunities for assistance, and due dates.
Working in Teams:
You are encouraged to work with classmates on most of the weekly activities, although a specific group project with a common grade is not defined. Particular activities, such as the weekly oral sharing of news, are opportunities to engage with your peers.
Persisting:
COMM150 rewards with good grades those students who display self-discipline, time management, and study skills through 15 weeks. The short-answer quizzes, the longer, constructive projects of essays, all challenge you on different cognitive levels. A habit of persistence just by being present during class is rewarded.
A Sense of Quality:
The course focuses on developing your awareness of quality and your critical evaluation through specific exercises in evaluation of sources.
Lifelong Learning:
A major goal of Information Literacy is to equip you with skills of research and of ethical communication for the workplace and everything else.
Adapting to Change:
The heavy dependence on information technology in COMM150 requires that you anticipate and adapt to change, such as the transition to new operating systems, software platforms, Internet tools, and databases.
Problem Solving:
You will evaluate models for research. You will determine how a model can expedite problem solving, which depends on filling an information need through an effective research strategy.
Information Processing:
COMM150 provides you with skills for evaluating the relevance and quality of information sources in different formats and technologies. The course helps you to communicate your findings according to a professional standard of providing credit for sources, and according to copyright law.
Systems Thinking: Realizing that research is a process and using systems to do it, can be applied across your field and even your outside interests.
