Area: | Department of Media and Information |
Contact Hours: | 3.0 |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Seminar: | 1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
Prerequisite(s): | 11170 (v.4) Information Studies 101: Information Characteristics and Use
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Explores the nature of use and users of information resources and the notion of an information literate person and differentiates between use of resources and use of the information they contain and between users by individual characteristics and by intentions of resource providers. Discussions are underpinned by models and theory drawn from psychology and communications. |
Availability
Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | Y | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | Y |
Area External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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