{
  "college": "college-of-alameda",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "code": "LIS",
  "name": "Library Information Studies",
  "sourceUrl": "https://coa.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/47221/47359/47361/47386/47390",
  "courses": [
    {
      "code": "LIS 20",
      "subject": "LIS",
      "number": "20",
      "title": "Critical Thinking and Advanced Digital Literacy",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "3 hours lecture",
      "prerequisite": "ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU"
      ],
      "description": "Critical inquiry and research: Analysis and synthesis of ideas presented in assigned readings across academic and popular sources; iterative research writing through critiques, exploratory exposition, and evidence-based essays; strategic information exploration in diverse contexts; integration of multiple perspectives and ethical reasoning.",
      "notes": [
        "Peralta GE Areas 1B;"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "LIS 74",
      "subject": "LIS",
      "number": "74",
      "title": "Information Seeking Behavior",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "3 hours lecture",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "Introduction to information-seeking theories, methods, and user behaviors; examination of social-scientific principles, research methodologies, value systems, and ethics used to study how individuals and groups seek, interpret, and use information; analysis of information behavior as a cultural and social phenomenon shaped by psychological, economic, and technological systems; exploration of issues such as power, bias, inequities in access, privacy, data ethics, AI, censorship, and intellectual property.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/college-of-alameda/schedule/fall-2026/lis/#lis-74",
          "subject": "LIS"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "LIS 85",
      "subject": "LIS",
      "number": "85",
      "title": "Introduction to Information Resources",
      "units": "2",
      "hours": "2 hours lecture",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "Introduction to the basic concepts and tools used in information research: Emphasis on how to develop a research topic, find, locate, evaluate and use information; search strategies for print and online resources including reference books, catalogs, indexes, specialized databases and the Internet.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "LIS 500",
      "subject": "LIS",
      "number": "500",
      "title": "Computer Laboratory for Library Information Studies",
      "units": "0",
      "hours": "1 - 15 hours lab",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Open-entry, open-exit library information research computer laboratory.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/college-of-alameda/schedule/fall-2026/lis/#lis-500",
          "subject": "LIS"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}