Knowledge in Action: Research in the Workplace

Catalog description

This 2-credit course guides students toward critical thinking competencies and evaluative skills necessary for successful information-seeking strategies in workplace settings. By discovering and assessing a variety of career-specific information sources, students will explore how professional organizations develop questions to address problems of practice. Students will interrogate the contexts in which professionals create and disseminate knowledge; engage in fact-checking and other assessment activities; and address workplace issues through the effective use of relevant professional information sources.