BeckGroup Theoretical Chemistry: Seminar
The First-Year Experience is a required component of the university’s general education program. The university is looking for “responsiveness to ongoing student reflection and a common set of targeted learning areas: integrative learning, intellectual and self-management skills, professional and civic responsibility, and university engagement.”
Integrative learning includes helping students make connections between knowledge gained from multiple sources and experiences, apply skills and knowledge in new and various settings, understand how knowledge is developed and disseminated, and begin to learn how to utilize diverse and even contradictory points of view.
Intellectual and self-management skills include academic and task-management skills (critical thinking, ethical behavior, goal-setting, time and project management, use of technology, information literacy) and as well as personal skills such as taking responsibility, managing change and adapting to new situations, sustaining personal well-being, and forming effective relationships and learning partnerships.
Professional and civic responsibility refers to the professional, ethical, and behavioral skills that enable educated persons use to understand and take responsibility for the consequences of their actions for their community, the world, and the human condition.
University engagement covers knowledge of university services/resources, practices, and policies, participation in university- or department-sponsored outside of class activities, and experiences that create and support positive engagement with the diversity of the university community.
Please keep these targeted areas in mind. Attention to developing these targeted areas will help make our freshmen’s transition to college more effective. If possible, please try to achieve the following student learning outcomes (in addition to those already identified for your specific course).