Hey friends – I have an opportunity to pitch a new class and am looking for some ideas.

Here are the basics:

• Summer class
• Online
• Lower-division undergraduate
• in the School of Information
• Asynchronous, hosted in Canvas, but a few chat sessions/google hangouts in small groups over the semester
• Readings/viewings/listenings, I’m sure I’ll make a few jing videos
• I’m not sure if I want to do a final paper or project –  I need to clarify my learning objectives first (you can help with this)

I want to teach it like I taught my FYS at my old place which used the guise of Women in Sitcoms to teach:

• Database searching
• Effective use of the libraries (LibGuides, keywords)
• Citations

all that good library stuff

and:

• feminist theory
• critical media studies
• categories of race/class/gender/sexuality and their representation in US culture
• US history
• how to be good at this whole college things
• awareness of campus resources

I have doubts that the sitcom class will fly under the INF title, and I’d need to beef it up from 1 credit to 3 credits. I don’t want to just do the library 101 without a hook topic though – I’m still working on that part. I also have the general model I used for the 9 billion one-shots I did – my menu of things that I adapted for class session time and topics. My concern is, that I’ll just repeat the stuff I’ve done (even though I think a good amount of it was useful) without pushing myself.

So.

What I’d love to hear from you – if you were doing a semester-long class under the INF umbrella what concepts would you definitely include in your curriculum? Is there something you teach in your current one-shots or classes that you think I should include?

Hit me up in the comments, friends!