# Library Information Studies (LIS) courses

College of Alameda · 2026-2027 Catalog · 4 courses

Source: https://coa.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/47221/47359/47361/47386/47390

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026.

### LIS 20 — Critical Thinking and Advanced Digital Literacy

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 1B;

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.

### LIS 74 — Information Seeking Behavior

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/college-of-alameda/schedule/fall-2026/lis.md)

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.

### LIS 85 — Introduction to Information Resources

- **Units:** 2
- **Hours:** 2 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

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.

### LIS 500 — Computer Laboratory for Library Information Studies

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 1 - 15 hours lab
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/college-of-alameda/schedule/fall-2026/lis.md)

Open-entry, open-exit library information research computer laboratory.