Checking date: 09/02/2024


Course: 2023/2024

Information Skills
(14155)
Bachelor in Applied Mathematics and Computing (Plan: 433 - Estudio: 362)


Coordinating teacher: PERIANES RODRIGUEZ, ANTONIO

Department assigned to the subject: Library and Information Sciences Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 1.5 ECTS

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Skills and learning outcomes
CG6. Students can search and use bibliographic resources, in physical or digital support, as they are needed to state and solve mathematically and computationally applied problems arising in new or unknown environments or with insufficient information. CT1. Students are able to work in teams that are multidisciplinary and international, as well as to organize and plan work taking the right decisions based on the available information, gathering and interpreting relevant data to emit judgments and critical thoughts within their subject matter. CT3. Students are able to evaluate reliability and quality of information and their sources, using that information in an ethical way, avoiding plagiarism, and following academic and professional conventions in the subject matter. RA2. Through sustained and well prepared argument and procedures, students will be able to apply their knowledge, their understanding and the capabilities to resolve problems in complex specialized professional and work areas requiring the use of creative and innovative ideas.
Description of contents: programme
UNIT 1. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENTS - Organizing your research plan: steps and search terms. - Processes and tools for the information search in databases and academic search engines. - Knowledge and use of the main multidisciplinary and specialized databases (by area of knowledge). UNIT 2. ETHICAL USE OF INFORMATION: CITATION AND REFERENCES - Ethics and intellectual property. The academic work without plagiarism. - Create and manage in text citations and bibliographic references. Present and organize references. - Software products for generating and managing citations and bibliographies.
Learning activities and methodology
TEACHING IS FULL TAUGHT IN THE SYNCHRONOUS AND INTERACTIVE ONLINE MODALITY THEORETICAL-PRACTICAL CLASSES. [12 hours with 100% classroom instruction, 0.48 ECTS] Knowledge and concepts students must acquire. Student receive course notes and will have basic reference texts to facilitate following the classes and carrying out follow up work. Students partake in exercises to resolve practical problems and participate in workshops and evaluation tests, all geared towards acquiring the necessary capabilities. TUTORING SESSIONS. [1 hours of tutoring with 100% on-site attendance, 0.08 ECTS] Individualized attendance (individual tutoring) or in-group (group tutoring) for students with a teacher. STUDENT INDIVIDUAL WORK OR GROUP WORK [24,5 hours with 0 % on-site, 0.98 ECTS] METHODOLOGIES THEORY CLASS. Classroom presentations by the teacher with IT and audiovisual support in which the subject`s main concepts are developed, while providing material and bibliography to complement student learning. PRACTICAL CLASS. Resolution of practical cases and problems, posed by the teacher, and carried out individually or in a group. Case-studies oriented to information seeking in web sources, analysis of these sources, evaluation of results, presentation and citation of content. TUTORING SESSIONS. Individualized attendance (individual tutoring sessions) or in-group (group tutoring sessions) for students with a teacher as tutor. The days and hours of tutorship sessions for each group will be available in the course space in Aula Global.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 0
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100
Calendar of Continuous assessment
Basic Bibliography
  • Bobish, Greg y Jacobson, Trudi (ed.), 2014. The Information Literacy User´s Guide: An Open, Online Textbook . Geneseo, NY: State University of New York at Geneseo. Disponible en: http://textbooks.opensuny.org/the-information-literacy-users-guide-an-open-online-textbook/
  • Pacios Lozano, Ana R. (coord.), 2013. Técnicas de búsqueda y uso de la información. Madrid: Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces.

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.