Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in LIBR 201.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall odd yrs, Summer

This honors course explores the evolving media landscape and how technology, manipulation, and bias shape online behavior. Students develop information literacy skills in order to deconstruct media messages, conduct specialized research, critically evaluate information, and use information ethically. Topics include artificial intelligence, misinformation, digital citizenship, consumerism, and privacy. The course emphasizes critically evaluating and analyzing appropriate sources as well as responsible and ethical uses of information. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for LIBR 201 or LIBR 201H.