Course Specific Research Support for HST 101-H: Home
The purpose of this page is to link curriculum requirements, for developmentally-appropriate and discipline-specific research skills, to matching library instruction and information literacy support outcomes
History of Western Civilization: Ancient to Medieval: Honors course outcomes related to research skills:
- HST 101H CCOGIdentify and investigate historical theses, evaluate information and its sources, and use appropriate reasoning to construct evidence-based arguments on historical issues.
Additional Honors outcomes:
Evaluate and critique historical scholarship
Assess the historiography of a selected subject by evaluating the relevant historical context and by utilizing primary and secondary sources
Other indicators of required research or information seeking:
From the Outcome and Assessment Strategies:
"Research projects."
From the Course Content:
Analyze and evaluate primary and secondary sources
- Connect evidence to its relevant historical context
- Analyze and evaluate written, artistic, or other evidence
- Assess the motivation and purpose of evidence
Bridging competencies to support research and information seeking at this level:
- Define a research topic in a hierarchical fashion, broad to specific
- Differentiate between databases for relevance to topic
- Differentiate key words from subject headings
- Use reference tools for building background knowledge
Corresponding research and information seeking outcomes for HST 101H
- Gather reliable secondary sources for background information
- Use search strategies familiar to historians
- Choose primary sources and historical documents for use in essays
- Locate and use scholarly history sources
- Identify relevant texts and commentary for topics in history, including through specialized archives in both print and electronic
Librarian Instructional Objectives:
- Define general indicators of credibility
- Compare and evaluate open web and sources from databases for historicity and validity
- Use specialized search engines, library databases and journal browsing to locate sources that historians would use
- Locate and use peer-reviewed journal articles
- Search for archives and collections likely to provide relevant documents, in both print and electronic
History courses with outcomes related to research and information seeking
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To update Course outcomes, contact: Pam Kessinger