Course Specific Research Support for HST 246: 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

Religion in the United States to 1840 course outcomes related to research skills:

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 246

1. Gather reliable secondary sources for background information

2. Use search strategies familiar to historians

3. Choose primary sources and historical documents for use in essays

Librarian Instructional Objectives:

1. Define general indicators of credibility

2. Compare and evaluate open web and sources from databases for historicity and validity

3. Use specialized search engines, library databases and journal browsing to locate sources that historians would use

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To update Course outcomes, contact: Pam Kessinger