In a recently piloted First Year Experience course, new Concordia students were taken to the University’s top research units and asked to explore how the units engaged with the “here and now.” They used arts-based inquiry to examine the experience, honed their oral and digital presentation skills with ePortfolios and lightning talks, examined their university-readiness through psychometric tests at the Student Success Centre, and examined ACRL threshold concepts with their Teaching & Learning Librarian. There was a lot going on! This workshop will share ideas from the information literacy component – as well feedback from both students and faculty partners on ACRL’s threshold concepts, and what they see as priorities for first year students.
