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General Education Course Lists by Category
Global and Cross Cultural
Studies
US Diversity and
Pluralism
Mathematics and
Statistics
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New Freshman Academic Advisement
General Education
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Information Literacy |
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ECPY 204X Principles of Career and Life
Planning |
Review of theories of decision-making career
development, occupational choice, and job
satisfaction. Additional topics: vocational
measurement and assessment, evaluation and use
of occupational information, and strategies of
life-span planning.
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IIST 100X Internet and Information Access |
Introduction to the Internet and World Wide
Web. Information literacy in technology and
online information resources. Using, finding,
evaluating, and producing information on the
Internet.
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UUNI 100U The Freshman Year Experience |
The purpose of this course is to help you
become a more effective student. During the
course of the semester, you will learn about
the college experience—experiences unique to
first year students, transitional stages that
you may undergo, and coping strategies that
can help you pass through this phase of
college life. You will learn how to use and
locate important campus resources,. You will
learn about who you are and how that
information helps you choose a major and a
career. Finally, you will learn how to
increase your chances of succeeding at the
University at Albany as your transition
through this most critical first year.
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UUNL 205X Information Literacy (1 credit) |
One-quarter course to acquaint students with
the processes of finding, organizing, using,
producing, and distributing information in
print, electronic, and other formats. Students
will learn about the flow of information in a
variety of disciplines, how to be effective at
the research process, how to access
information in a variety of formats, and how
to formulate effective searches on electronic
databases and the Internet. Students will be
taught to evaluate the quality of Web-based
and print information, and will become
familiar with practical, social, and ethical
issues relating to information.
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UUNL 206X Information Literacy and the
Sciences (1 credit) |
Using examples from scientific, technical, and
medical literatures, this quarter course will
introduce students to the basic principles and
processes of finding, organizing, using,
producing, and evaluating information
resources in all media and formats. Students
will learn about information flow in the
sciences, at all levels of presentation, and
how to access, search, and retrieve
information in a variety of formats. They will
learn to formulate effective searching on
electronic databases and the Internet, and how
to evaluate the quality of the information
that they retrieve. They will become familiar
with the practical, social and ethical issues
relating to the use of information, with
special emphasis on the role of scientific
information in an increasingly technological
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The General Education requirement for
Information literacy is one course.
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