A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7) 4. Course general Description: This course aims at providing students with modern techniques and instrumentation used for gathering information to write research papers such as the use of the library references, use of the internet search engines, ways of filtering data to ensure refined level of information precision and accuracy.