Your Information
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Title of Project: Enhancing Information Literacy in BIO 495 and other upper-level Biology Courses
Your Name: Tolar, Bradley
Email Address: tolarb@uncw.edu
School or College: College of Science and Engineering
College of Science and Engineering Academic Department: Biology and Marine Biology

Your Project
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Please describe your project:
All faculty in Biology and Marine Biology (BMB) at UNCW are expected to teach the BIO 495 Senior Seminar Course. The common learning outcomes for BIO 495 are that students will be able to: present biological information orally, critique biological literature, use primary literature to examine biological questions, and demonstrate competence in biological writing. BIO 495 also serves to meet the University requirement for Building Competencies/Information Literacy (IL), and thus aligns with the goals of ILFF. Additional courses taught within BMB, especially upper-level ones, include assignments or content related to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. For example, BIO 330 (Microbiology) has undergraduate students compare and contrast scientific research presented in news articles versus primary literature (Frames 1 & 2), and BIO 564 (Biological Oceanography) requires graduate students to delve deeply into the data presented in primary literature and assess the motivations, biases, and arguments (Frames 4 & 5). This ILFF project aims to further integrate and expand IL directly into a BIO 495 course focused on “Marine Microbiology and Science Communication” and explore how to intentionally add IL components to other upper-level Biology courses at UNCW (specifically, BIO 330 and BIO 564).


Please choose at least one audience: Upper-division undergraduates, Graduate Students, Faculty
Please choose at least one project category: Assignment, Teaching Plan, Course design
Please choose at least one Frame that your project incorporates: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as a Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Scholarship as Conversation
File Upload: https://library.uncw.edu/system/files/webform/ilff_final_submission_form/66/ILFF%202023%20Final%20Project%20Tolar.pdf
What does the "U" in UNCW stand for?: university
Submission date: 2023-05-04