VIKERA07 Information Literacy

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Dagmar Chytková (lecturer)
Mgr. Jan Zikuška (assistant)
PhDr. Michal Lorenz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Michal Lorenz, Ph.D.
Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
Course objectives (in Czech)
Objective: Managing of study habits:
  • support critical thinking
  • ability to retrieval information and learning objects
  • evaluate relevance and reliability of information
  • effectively organize knowledge
  • take advantage of and actively use ICT

    Topics include not only to ability to search and evaluate information, but they correspond to components of information literacy - functional literacy (prose literacy, document literacy, quantitative literacy) and computer literacy.

    At the end of this course, students should be able to:
  • define basic concepts of research topics
  • determine his/her information needs
  • search and select relevant sources of information
  • know and use traditional and electronic domain information sources
  • effectively use various retrieval tools
  • evaluate information
  • organize and use information
  • understand difference between retrieval tools for electronics information resources
  • utilize electronic information services of libraries in study and practice
  • work with scholarly papers
  • orientate in new internet services
  • understand ethical and legal questions concerned with information and information technologies
    • Syllabus (in Czech)
    • E-learning course contents themes:
    • How to define a topic and plan a search?
    • Where do search a research information: information sources?
    • How to search a research information: search strategy?
    • How to use a special database and the Internet search techniques?
    • How to organise, evaluate and communicate information?
    • How to work with a scientific text?
    • Plagiarism, Copyright laws
    Teaching methods (in Czech)
    E-learning, tutorials, lectures
    Assessment methods (in Czech)
    Distance online course include 13 topic modules.
    Written test on computer:
  • A 100 – 93 points
  • B 92 – 85 points
  • C 84 – 77 points
  • D 76 – 69 points
  • E 68 – 61 points
  • F 60 – 0 points
    Continuously assign homeworks with terms of delivery included in particular modules or lectures
    • Language of instruction
    English
    Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
    Study Materials
    The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
    The course is taught annually.
    General note: ERASMUS.
    Information on the extent and intensity of the course: blended learning.
    The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014.
    • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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