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overall goal of INSC 510 is to foster a community of scholarship in HIB.
For assessment purposes, the emphasis for INSC 510 will therefore be
placed on active participation in seminar and general class discussions
and critical engagement with the ideas presented. |
Seminar presentation 45%
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Seminar
presentations will introduce fellow students to the way information
scientists study and understand a selected information behavior. Each
seminar must define, describe and explain the behavior in relation to
dominant theoretical frameworks and paradigms, identify the prominent
writers and researchers who have focused on this behavior, identify
specific research techniques or approaches that have been used to
investigate the properties or dimensions of the behavior, and summarise
what information science knows and what it needs to know about this
behavior. The presenter should identify a research agenda for the
discipline related to the information behavior studied and elaborate at
least one research question or objective that needs to be addressed.
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Evaluations and Commentaries
30%
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All
students must be well-prepared to participate in all seminars. This means
that each student will have completed the recommended reading, summarized
the papers and prepared questions to introduce into the discussion about
the information behavior covered by the seminar. All participants must be
responsive and committed to enhancing the learning opportunities that will
arise from the seminar.
Students will be required to write an evaluation and commentary (maximum 1
page in length) for each seminar including a response to the topic
discussed and an evaluation of the presentation itself. These commentaries
should be personal reflections, observations or critiques of the content,
ideas, or issues. The commentaries will be passed on to the presenters and
with permission from the presenters and participants, distributed to all
members of the class as a resource for further thinking and discussion. |
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Annotated bibliography
25%
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An annotated bibliography will be submitted in the last week of quarter
when students will also be required to give a summary presentation (15
minutes) of what they have learned about the information behavior that
they focused on during the quarter. A one-page summary must be prepared
for distribution to fellow students. This brief presentation will focus on
existing knowledge and new knowledge—what do we know and therefore what do
we need to know. Each brief presentation should conclude with a
recommended research agenda for the aspect of information behavior that
the student has been studying. These presentations will be given to
students studying Human Information Behavior in either the MLIS or MSIM
programs. |
Assessment
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