Map It! Strategic Ways to Target Essential Learning in Your Discipline

This poster will demonstrate techniques for developing an information literacy curriculum within a particular Major or program of study. At Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a new core curriculum requires students to take a course that integrates advanced information literacy skills into disciplinary coursework. This poster will chronicle how the Business librarian used the “curriculum map” technique to support this high-impact educational initiative for the College of Business. The curriculum mapping process required the analysis of Business course syllabi and the identification of relevant information literacy learning outcomes at LMU’s institutional, departmental, and course levels. Additionally, national standards and “threshold or transformative concepts” from the Business literature were evaluated