Information Literacy and Science Communication in Undergraduate Courses That Connect Chemistry to Sustainability

Information literacy and science communication, while important skills in all chemistry courses, are particularly relevant in courses that address connections between chemistry and issues of sustainability. This chapter presents a course learning outcome focused on information literacy for a 100-level non-science majors' chemistry course, a multiphase assignment to develop students' information literacy skills in the context of issues of sustainability, and a discussion of how the assignment and students' ability to evaluate the validity of sources are assessed. The chapter presents a course learning outcome focused on science communication for a 300-level chemistry course, an assignment in which students evaluate how scientific aspects of sustainability challenges are presented to general audiences, and discussion of how the assignment is assessed.