Critical Approaches to Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses includes chapters that examine how both critical pedagogy and critical information literacy are applied throughout a credit-bearing course as well as in specific lesson plans. The ideas explored in this book can be adapted for a variety of class and course lengths and for a range of students, from first-year undergraduates to doctoral students. Chapters include case studies of how information literacy courses can respond to preconceptions and unexamined ideologies students may bring to the course; explorations of marginalized knowledge and racial bias and justice in the information literacy course; individual lessons or sets of lessons situated within the larger course context; and reflections on the process of developing a more critical approach. Critical Approaches to Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses can provide valuable strategies for those just starting to adopt a critical approach as well as new perspectives for those with more experience in this area.

Introduction /Angela Pashia and Jessica Critten -- No room for argument: researching politicized topics as a learner / Susan Wood -- Critical credits: making the most of a first-year information literacy class / Erin Anthony, Rebekah Miller, and Marcia Rapchak -- When students accept their corporate overlords: privilege and position in our information society / Kate Hinnant and Robin Miller -- Balancing acts in the critical library classroom: inviting constructive dialogue and resisting "post-truth" discourse in politically contentious moments / Andrea Baer -- An unfinished journey: towards a democratic information literacy classroom / Rachel Dineen and Lyda Fontes McCartin -- Reflections on adopting a critical media and information literacy pedagogy / Spencer Brayton and Natasha Casey -- Opening to the margins: information literacy and marginalized knowledge / Christine M. Larson and Margaret Vaughan -- Manufacturing a context: rhetorical implications of standalone critical information literacy courses / Joel Burkholder -- Using fan studies to put information literacy in context: on teaching a credit course with a theme / Nancy Foasberg -- The machine stops: critical orientations to our information apparatus / Patrick Williams -- Examining structural oppression as a component of information literacy / Angela Pashia -- Teaching copyleft as a critical approach to "Information has value" / Kenneth Haggerty and Rachel E. Scott -- Wikipedia-based assignments and critical information literacy: a case study / Amanda Foster-Kaufman -- Exploring epistemological lineages: using the gallery walk with students and instructors of a first-year seminar course / Gina Schlesselman-Tarango.