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New for the Fall 2020 semester, CCNY Libraries is offering its first ever credit-bearing course!
Research in the Digital Age: Media & Information Literacy will focus on the various ways information is created, circulated, and archived in our current society; the ethics of information use; and how to leverage the tools at our disposal to discover information for academic and personal research.
Currently, CCNY Libraries provides instruction to other departments in one or two session workshops where professors bring their class to the library for a 
research-intensive 75 minutes. While we enjoy being guest speakers and the opportunity to work with students in a range of disciplines, sometimes this one session format leaves us wanting more time to discuss and engage with the questions students bring to us. This course was developed with the goal of spending a semester thinking deeply about media, information literacy, and research.
Throughout the course, students will think and write critically about information and media in order to better understand and critique our current information environment, in which we all are hoped, assumed, and constructed to be passive consumers. Beyond news media, the course will explore how information is created, saved, described, and accessed through institutions like libraries and archives. Students will examine the ethics of information use and determine how to critically evaluate sources, and how to leverage the tools at our disposal to discover information in support of academic and personal research.
The final project for the class is not a traditional research paper, but a contribution to public knowledge and discourse through researching and writing a high-quality Wikipedia article.
The stated course goals are
In a media-saturated world, information literacy and research skills are critical in college, the workplace, and in life; both are necessary to understanding and changing the world. With this course, CCNY Libraries strives to develop student skills in research and information literacy. We hope to see you in class!
Research in the Digital Age will meet Monday & Wednesday 11:00AM - 12:15PM and is part of the Flexible Core - Individual and Society pathway. It is also a Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) course. You can find it listed under the CCNY Fall 2020 semester using the subject Library Science https://globalsearch.cuny.edu/CFGlobalSearchTool/CFSearchToolController
Image credit: Comics about reliable information
Racheli Rottner / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comics_about_reliable_information._EN_version.pdf
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