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| DOCU0449-2 | Scientific literature and information literacy
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| Duration : | 4h Th, 6h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Bernard Pochet |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| Everyone agrees about the need for the university or graduate schools students to be able to identify quickly, independently and critically, valid and of quality informations. These skills should enable him to overcome the course's professor, and moreover is often considered as one of the fundamental objectives of higher education to prepare young people to become active and responsible citizens.
The information literacy is part of the basic tools as well as language skills or office. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Five main objectives are selected for this teaching:
- make the student able to find its place as a player and as an author in the network of scientific communication;
- make the student able to control some sixty key concepts in information science and documentation, concepts which are mandatory in his documentary practice;
- make the student able to access information independently (choice of topic and terminology, tool selection, use of tools, obtaining primary documents);
- make the student able to adopt the necessary critical and ethic attitude with the multitude of informations sources;
- make the student able to synthesize and organize the information obtained and able to integrate basic rules of writing a bibliography and a scientific paper.
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| A good control in the use of a PC and the Internet tools. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Practical exercises allow students to go through all the stages of information search, from the initial question to the answer, across the doumentary question, the information retrieval, obtaining documents ... |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is introduced in a first classroom session. Several activities and exercises are then offered on-line on the eCampus distance learning platform (corresponding to 15 hours of work for the student). Three practical sessions are also offered for groups of 20 to 25 students. The course ends with a second classroom session for debreefing and questions-answers |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Several sources, partially redundant, are offered to students:
- the book: Pochet B., 2005. Méthodologie documentaire. Rechercher, consulter, rédiger à l'heure d'Internet. Bruxelles : De Boeck Université ;
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eCampus with links, exercises, calendar and other information;
- the websites Métho.DOC and RédAction and the book la rédaction d'un article scientifique;
- the website Supports (see below) with all courses supports;
- the Library and all of its resources.
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The course is assessed by a written exam (multiple choice) and assignments. For PhD students, the course is assessed by an homework. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| For doctoral students who select this course, a special session is proposed and the assessment is a practical synthesis work. |
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Contacts :
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| Bernard Pochet(bernard.pochet@ulg.ac.be)
Bibliothèque des Sciences agronomiques
ULg - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
081/62 21 03 |
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