Information Literacy and Critical Thinking Freshman Course Experience

The aim of the research is to prove author's intention of designing a successful high school freshmen course that can improve students' generic skills and competences needed to empower them on a journey to become valuable contributors of modern society. Literature review of similar successful courses was used for general course design technique with some learning outcomes modified from information literacy and critical thinking international standards. All main design principles of “Information literacy and Critical thinking” course syllabus is elaborated. Discussion part concerning students' satisfaction and skills improvement is followed after the analysis of two types of surveys conducted over the first two generations of students. This particular course is very rare, if not unique, as an approach for freshmen generic skills improvement in Croatian High Education society. This elaborated experience is excellent opportunity to provoke wider society discussion in order to establish formal ways to improve employability skills of Croatian students.