We will be presenting information and experience centered around information literacy in our undergraduate program. We have a unique class that several of our faculty members share instruction with that specializes in teaching non-science majors general skills around identifying information in the media, tracking down the scientific resources and determining the credibility of the material using primary scientific literature. While the general framework of the class stays the same between instructors, each instructor has an ability to customize topics and examples used in this class. We will first present a bit of information about this class, how the format works, and some discrete examples of how we teach this information in this class. However, through the explicit breakdown of teaching non science majors these concepts, the instructors of this class realized that there were tacit steps that our entomology undergraduates were lacking and we were failing to decode these steps- we began observing a lack of some of these skills in entomology specific classes as well as classes aimed at seniors. This has led us to think of ways we can take the step by step instruction we give our non-majors and turn this into concrete tools able to also be used within our department to ensure the skills can be taught well in the future.
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