Course Specific Research Support for HST 101-H: Home
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- Choose primary sources and historical documents for use in essays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
Placement of courses on an Information Literacy Continuum
Courses | Instructional Stages | Student's Developmental Stage |
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Connecting to College |
1. I know where the library is located and about some of the services provided. |
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Information Seeking |
2. I can identify a topic, and identify useful information sources to read about it. |
HST 100 |
Information
Literacy Skills
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3. I can develop a topic statement, locate and use library sources, and begin informational research. |
HST101H
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Academic or Career/ Technical Related |
4. I evaluate the sources I have found for relevancy to my field, and I know who some of the experts are. |
Inquiry and Exploration for Research |
5. I can identify pro- and con-positions on a topic. I can identify the perspectives of various experts in a field. |
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Discipline- or Area of Study Specific |
6. I can support my position on an issue with evidence. I can accurately summarize the scholarly or professional conversation. |
History courses with outcomes related to research and information seeking
Librarian Liaison to the History SAC (Subject Area Committee)
- Contact: Veronica Vichit-VadakanLibrarian, at the Cascade campus
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To update Course outcomes, contact: Pam Kessinger