ILS 28000

Understanding Your Undergraduate Research Experience I
January-May 2026

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About the Course
This course is for current Purdue undergraduate researchers to hone skills necessary for successfully reflecting on and completing the experience. During this course, students will utilize their research experience to apply skills such as managing time with a research project, communicating your research, utilizing Purdue Libraries' resources, and providing feedback to peer researchers through the seven modules. Students will deliver research elevator pitches about their own project and provide critiques to others’ pitches.
Course Goals/Learning Objectives
  1. Communicate research to various audiences with a research elevator pitch and a research abstract
  2. Provide constructive feedback and interact with peers and apply comments to your work
  3. Define skills/attributes from your undergraduate research experience
  4. Develop and expand a network of researchers within your unit and among other peer researchers’
  5. Reflect on and apply transferable skills necessary to be a successful undergraduate researcher

ILS 28000

Course Catalog
ILS 28000 Understanding Your Undergraduate Research Experience I

Description
Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is for current Purdue undergraduate researchers to hone skills necessary for successfully reflecting on and completing the experience. During this course, students will utilize their research experience to apply skills such as managing time with a research project, communicating your research, utilizing Purdue Libraries' resources, and providing feedback to peer researchers. Students will deliver research pitches about their own project and provide critiques to others' pitches. Permission of department required.
1.000 Credit hours
Levels:  Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate
Schedule Types:  Distance Learning, Lecture
Offered By:  Libraries & School of Information Studies
Department:  Libraries
Course Attributes
Provost Low Enroll Perm Waiver, Lower Division
May be offered at any of the following campuses:  West Lafayette
Learning Objectives
1. Communicate research to various audiences with a research pitch and a research abstract. 2. Provide constructive feedback and interact with peers and apply comments to your work. 3. Define skills/attributes from your undergraduate research experience. 4. Develop and expand a network of researchers within your unit and among other peer researchers. 5. Reflect on and apply transferable skills necessary to be a successful undergraduate researcher.