SYLLABUS FOR SEMINAR PLUS

 

Term: Spring, 2000 (992) January 10 - April 19, 2000

Course Number: CTE101A

Instructor: Kathleen C. Galovic

Office: Room #

Office Phone:

E-mail:

Home Phone: (optional) (219) 942-9222

Office Hours:

Course Time: Monday & Thursday 10:30-2:00p.m.

Course Description:

This course is designed to assist new students in adapting to the pressures and problems facing college students today. Topics to be covered include everything from reading the current college catalogue to how to get in touch with your professor.

Prerequisites:

None

Textbooks:

  1. BECOMING A MASTER STUDENT by David Ellis.
  2. Calumet College of St. Joseph 1998-1999
  3. Composition notebook
  4. Selected Biography
  5. Dictionary

Statement of Plagiarism:

If an instructor or other Calumet College of St. Joseph personnel find that a student has plagiarized or been involved in another form of academic dishonesty, the instructor or other personnel may elect to bring the matter up for judicial review. The maximum penalty for any form of academic dishonesty is dismissal from the College. The procedures for judicial review are listed under the section of CCSJ handbook that addresses student grievances.

Calumet College of St. Joseph adheres to citation guidelines as written in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fourth Edition. A copy is available from the Calumet College of St. Joseph bookstore. This text outlines how to cite references from a variety of sources, including electronic media.

Withdrawal from Classes Policy:

After the last day for class changes has passed (see College calendar), students may withdraw from a course in which they are registered with permission from the faculty member conducting the course. A written request detailing the reason(s) for the withdrawal must be filed with the Registrar. Written request for withdrawal must be received by the Registrar by the last day of classes prior to the final examination dates specified in the catalogue. Written requests may be mailed to the Registrar or faxed to the College fax number 219-473-4259. Students are to make note of the refund schedule when withdrawing from courses. The request is forwarded to the faculty member, who makes the final determination to accept or deny the request. If the request is honored, the student will receive notification of official withdrawal; if denied, the notification will indicate why the withdrawal is disallowed. Note: Degree Completion Division (DCD) students should consult the DCD Student Handbook for information on DCD withdrawals.

An official withdrawal is recorded as a "W" grade on the student's transcript. Dropping a

course without written permission automatically incurs an "F" grade for the course (see

Refund Schedule).

Class Policy on Attendance:

Attendance (5% of grade) - because so much material is discussed, and because this course is designed to create successful students, attendance is extremely important.

Students missing between nine and eleven hours of constant time will receive a lowered grade.

Students missing more than eleven hours will be asked to drop this course.

Class Policy For Assignments:

Course Objectives:

The Seminar for Success course is designed to assist new students in adapting to the pressures and problems facing college students today. Topics to be covered include everything form reading the current college catalogue to how to get in touch with your professor.

This course is divided into four major components:

  1. Skill required for college success

    2. Power Reading

    Time Management

    Note Taking

    Test Preparation

    Increasing Memory Power

    Thinking

    Diversity

  2. Writing Component - During this segment, students will be writing an aoutobiography and working independently in the library.
  3. Reading Component - Students will elect a particular book to read and present a written report and presentation
  4. Computer Component - Each student will be introduced to Sigi Plus (for Career Development), e-mail, and use of the Internet. The use of computers will be helpful when writing the book report and autobiography.

This course contains 39 contact or classroom hours. Although this course is intended for students entering college for the first time, many students find that the material covered is beneficial to all types of students.

Students in this course will:

Assessment:

Resume and Sigi-Plus ___15____% of grade

Autobiography ___20____% of grade

Book, written report and presentation ___20____% of grade

Tests and quizzes 20 % of grade

Classroom Assignments 15 % of grade

Class participation 5 % of grade

Class Assignments:

Class Date

Class #1 - 1.5 hours (January 10, 2000)

  1. Introduction
  2. Review Books
  3. Discuss syllabus
  4. Exchange Phone #'s
  5. Your expectations of this course
  6. Briefly discuss Intro to Master Student text.
  7. Work on Discovery Wheel in class

Assignment: Read Chapter 1 - pgs. 7-37. Work on and Complete Learning Styles Graph, to be turned in at next class.

Complete Journal Entries 3, 8, and 10 in your notebook

(and any other journal entries or exercises that may be of interest to you).

Class #2 - 1.5 hours (January 13, 2000)

  1. Discuss use of 3X5 cards and Quiz at end of chapters.
  2. Review Learning Styles Graph and how we study.
  3. Review material in Chapter 1 and journal entries.
  4. Questions and Answers.
  5. Discuss Time "Monitor" and "Plan" for next week, beg. pg. 43.

Assignment: Read Chapter 2, pgs. 37-78. Complete Journal Entry 12.

Work on "Monitor," due January 20.

Class #3 - 1.5. hours (January 17, 2000)

  1. The most important areas of your life; what motivates you.
  2. Create a Life Line, pg. 45.
  3. Establishing short and long-term goals. Review Goal sheets January 20.
  4. The ABC to-do list.
  5. Discuss Journal Entry an Progress on Time Monitor.
  6. BE HERE NOW!
  7. Procrastination.

Assignment: Photo copy your Time "Monitors;" the copies are due next class. Begin monitoring your expenses. Using your preferred "Learning Style," respond

to Style 1, 2, 3, or 4, pg. 81, in your Notebook.

Class #4 - 1.5 hours (January 20, 2000)

  1. Discuss Time "Monitors;" begin "Plans."
  2. Time in relationship to money and the choices you make.
  3. "Your Money or Your Life?"
  4. Hotmail - e-mail addresses - kgalovic@hotmail.com
  5. Briefly discuss Sigi-Plus and Career Counseling Expectations.
  6. Goal handout discussion.

Assignment: Read Chapter 5, Notes, pgs. 122-145. Complete Journal entries 25,26, and 29. Select your Learning Style Application on pg. 145 and respond to it in your notebook. Complete money monitor assignment.

Class #5 - 1.5 hours (January 24, 2000)

  1. Cornell Format, exercise.
  2. Mindmapping and Leonardo da Vinci.
  3. 3X5 cards again; Observation and note taking.
  4. Sigi (due February 21); Resume (due February 28).
  5. Let's discuss the internet.
  6. Discuss journal writings
  7. Hand in money monitor assignment.

Assignment: Read Chapter 3, pgs. 82-101, Memory; complete Journal Entries 15, 16, and 18. Using Mindmapping, take notes on the 10p.m. for the January 26, between 10:00 and 10:20.

Class #6 - 1.5 hours. (January 27, 2000).

  1. Mindmapping News.
  2. Review chapter 3; memory techniques; mnemonic devices.
  3. Memory game.
  4. "Love your Problems?"

Assignment: Quiz over chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 next class. Read chapter 4, Reading, pgs. 102, to 121. Do Journal Entries 20, 21, and 22. Goals due next class.

Class #7 - 1.5 hours (January 31, 2000)

  1. Quiz.
  2. Collect Goal Results. New Goals/Old Goals Continued?
  3. Review chapter 4, "Pry Out Questions," etc.
  4. Reading Game.

Assignment: Read pgs. 246-247 on the Library.

Have you decided who you would like to write your book report on yet? Explore the Internet for information on this person.

Class #8 - 1.5 hours (February 3, 2000)

  1. Library visit
  2. "I create it all," power process #5, pgs. 136-137
  3. you and your Biography Book Report - A brief introduction; who did you select.
  4. Library Treasure hunt.

Assignment: Do Library exercise, page 247, and hand it in next class period. Start investigating the biography book report. Read chapter 6, Tests, pgs. 146 to 177. Do Journal entries 31, 34, and 35.

Class #9 - 1.5 hours. (February 7, 2000)
  1. Collect Library exercise. Discuss biography.
  2. Test Anxiety - Disarming it.
  3. How to take tests; True/False, Essay, Multiple Choice.
  4. Worst Test Experience/Best Test Experience Essay.

Assignment: Next class - Test covering chapters 1 through 6; multiple choice, true/false, and essay.

Class #10 - 1.5 hours (February 10, 2000)

  1. Test over chapter 1-6
  2. Overcoming math and science anxiety.
  3. Cramming? Study Groups - study with others.
  4. Learning from mistakes.

Assignment: Read chapter 8, Thinking pgs. 202-231. Bring piece of cardboard to class and scissors. In your notebooks, complete Journal entries 44 and 46. Select a Learning Styles Application on pg. 230 and respond to it in your notebooks.

Class #11 - 1.5 hours (February 14, 2000)

  1. "Aha!"
  2. Tangrams
  3. Serendipity / Synchronicity, and who's Carl Jung.
  4. Discuss journals and learning styles response.

Assignment: Watch advertising during an hour's worth of television time.

Mindmapping - take notes. What was the advertisement selling, who was it directed at, was it successful?

Class #12 - 1.5 hours. (February 17, 2000)

  1. Advertising assignment.
  2. Break into groups - visual advertising project.
  3. Decision - making and "Finding a Bigger Problem".

Assignment: Send e-mail t instructor with title of book for report.

Be prepared to have the book. Sigi Plus due next class.

Class #13 - 1.5 hours (February 21, 2000)

  1. Sigi Plus due.
  2. www. Looksmart.com
  3. Book reports and presentations discussion
  4. Be a fool: overcoming fears about doing presentations.
  5. Journal Entry #50 (pg. 253)

Assignment: Prepare a two minute presentation on your book selection:

Why you selected it, who's the book about, who wrote it, etc. You should be actively reading the biography. Remember - Resumes are due Feb. 28.

Class #14 - 1.5 hours. (February 24, 2000)

  1. Introductory presentations
  2. "Point of View;" Writing a first draft.
  3. Plagiarism.
  4. The importance of Libraries / Bookstores / Computers: Group Play

Assignment: Continue reading the book selection. You should be half to three-quarters done. Bring Catalogue to next class. Be prepared to tell the class something you didn’t know about the catalogue and what you learned.

Class #15 - 1.5 hours (February 28, 2000)

  1. Collect resumes
  2. Catalogue review
  3. Grades - Accumulation of Values.
  4. Where we've been and where we're going.

Assignment: Finish reading your book for the book report. Prepare a rough draft of book report for group work.

Class #16 - 1.5 hours (February 28, 2000)

  1. Rough draft group work.
  2. Beginning your own autobiography - handout.

Assignment: Final book report presentation due; typed book report due March 9.

Class #17 - 1.5 hours. (March 6, 2000)

  1. Presentations.
  2. Begin work on auto biography introduction.
  3. Values auction handout.

Assignment: Typewritten report due next class session. Review values auction handout and be prepared to bid next week class.

Class #18 - 1.5 hours (March 9, 2000)

  1. Collect typed report.
  2. Values auction.

Assignment: Using your values auction selection, write an essay describing yourself; to be turned in at next class session. Read chapter 7, Diversity. Complete Journal Entry #40 and 42 in your notebooks. Select and respond to a Learning Style on page 201. NEXT CLASS, SELECT AN OBJECT THAT YOU FEEL SYMBOLIZES WHO YOU ARE. PLACE IT IN A SMALL PAPER BAG SO OTHER IN CLASS CANNOT SEE IT.

Class #19 - 1.5 hours. (March 13, 2000)

  1. Paper bag project.
  2. Discuss Chapter 7 and journal entry.

Assignment: Read Chapter 10, Relationships. Complete Journal Entries 52,53, and 54 in your notebooks. Select and respond to one of the Learning Styles on pg. 287 in your notebooks.

Class #20 - 1.5. hours (March 16,2000)

  1. Encoding and decoding.
  2. Apples and oranges.
  3. Conflict and resolution.
  4. Feeling Good/Feeling Bad.

Assignment: Interview an older family member about family history. Be prepared to discuss results in class.

Class #21 - 1.5 hours. (March 20, 2000)

  1. You should already be through with writing introduction of your autobiography. We will discuss chapter 1.
  2. Learn anything new about your family history?
  3. Short-term and long-term relationships and the value we place on them.
  4. Your word is your bond.

Assignment: Write an essay in your notebooks on who you believe you are most like/least like. Then ask a close friend or family member the same question about who they think you are most or least like. Include their responses in an essay. Were there any surprises.

Class #22 - 1.5 hours (March 23, 2000)

  1. Discuss essay in class.
  2. How can we create a more interesting autobiography?
  3. Discuss chapter one and two.

Assignment: Read chapter 11, Health. Complete Journal Entry #56 to be discussed in next class. Also complete Journal entries 57 and 58.

Class #23 - 1.5 hours (March 27, 2000)

  1. Review chapter 11 and Journal Entry #56.
  2. Where are you at in your autobiography?

Assignment: Explore your favorite foods, music, holidays. What family traditions do you observe? What do they mean to you personally? If you haven't already begun typing your autobiography, you should begin doing son now. Read chapter 12.

Class #24 - 1.5 hours (March 30, 2000)

  1. Share information on your favorites and traditions.
  2. Ethics.
  3. College student life
  4. Chapter 12
  5. Grades so far.

Assignment: Be prepared to read some portion of your autobiography in class, critique what is read. Journals are due next class period. Papers will be due April 10; your choice.

Class #25 - 1.5 hours (April 3, 2000)

  1. Collect journals
  2. Final exam study sheet handout
  3. Work on autobiography paper and presentations.

Assignment: Presentations are due next class. If you wish to turn in your written autobiography, to get it back before finals, bring them with you next class.

Class #26 1.5 hours (April 6, 2000)

  1. Presentations

Assignment: Papers due.

Class #27 - 1.5 hours (April 10, 2000)

  1. Collect autobiographies.
  2. Discovery Wheel/Timeline.
  3. Attitudes, Affirmations, and Visualizations.
  4. Be it!
  5. Questions and Answers.

FINAL EXAM WEEK - APRIL 13 - 19!