GS49000 CRN64024 (Sec.092) Transfer, Transition and Success (1cr)

Meets Thursdays at 1:30-2:20 pm in ME 3006

Fall, 2013

Instructors / Contact Information / Office Hours
Dr. Antwione Haywood, PhD
ENAD 242
Mrs. Kathleen Wagner, MS
ENAD 242
Gabe Bryant /

/ By appointment
M&W 9:30-10:30am
M,T,W,Th2:30-3:30pm
Or by appointment
By appointment

Objective:To enable transfer students to connect to Purdue University and to have the resources to be successful. As a result students should:

  • Have a working plan of study
  • Learn how to connect to the Purdue Community
  • Develop tools improve individual needs

Course Text: On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and inLife, 7th edition.

By Skip Downing. Available at Follett’s WestBookstore on State Street.

Rules for Success:

  1. Show Up! To support my success, I choose to attend every scheduled class period in its entirety and to be on time.
  2. Do The Work! To support my success, I choose to do my very best work in preparing all my assignments and hand then in on time.
  3. Participate Actively! To support my success, I choose to stay focused and involved in every class session, coming to class prepared, listening attentively, taking notes, thinking deeply about what is being said and applying it to my course work reading ahead, asking questions and participating fully in class activities.

Attendance: Since this class meets only once a week it is important that you attend every class session. Do not ask your professor to explain what you missed in a class. The answer is … you missed a lot! Arriving on time and regular attendance is very important for you to be able to make progress in this course. Please notify your instructor beforehand if you plan to be absent from all or part of a class session. If you must be late or absent, email your instructor as soon as possible. Likewise,your instructor or tutor will make every effort to notify you if he or she must be late or absent.

Course Points:

50 points: Participation and Attendance

25 points: Pop Quizzes (5 Total)

25 points: Journals (5 Total)

50 points: Final Portfolio should contain:

  • Pre/Post Assessment
  • Plan of Study
  • Seven Roles
  • Journals- Final Draft
  • Academic Skills Plan
  • 7 Goals Work Sheet

Grad Distribution:

200 - 180 A

179 -160 B

159 - 140 C

139 - 110 D

109 – F

Campus Emergency: In the event of a major campus emergency, course requirements, deadlines and grading percentages are subject to changes that may be necessitated by a revised semester calendar of other circumstances. If you should need to get information about changes in this course, please contact our instructor at the e-mail address on the first page of this syllabus.

Cell phone use: Turn off cell phones before entering the classroom.

Purdue University Policies

The following excerpts from Purdue policies are presented here for your information. For full texts of the policies, see the Purdue website at the URL given.

Academic dishonesty

Purdue prohibits "dishonesty in connection with any University activity. Cheating, plagiarism, or knowingly furnishing false information to the University are examples of dishonesty." Furthermore, the University Senate has stipulated that "the commitment of acts of cheating, lying, and deceit in any of their diverse forms (such as the use of substitutes for taking examinations, the use of illegal cribs, plagiarism, and copying during examinations) is dishonest and must not be tolerated. Moreover, knowingly to aid and abet, directly or indirectly, other parties in committing dishonest acts is in itself dishonest."

(Note: A definition of plagiarism: Taking information from another source and presenting it as your own. This may be done by not giving credit for a quote or a passage of information, or by deliberately copying a written work, or downloading a paper or presentation from the Internet without giving credit to the source. To avoid plagiarism, cite references and sources.)

Nondiscrimination Policy Statement

Purdue University is committed to maintaining a community which recognizes and values the inherent worth and dignity of every person; fosters tolerance, sensitivity, understanding, and mutual respect among its members; and encourages each individual to strive to reach his or her own potential. In pursuit of its goal of academic excellence, the University seeks to develop and nurture diversity. The University believes that diversity among its many members strengthens the institution, stimulates creativity, promotes the exchange of ideas, and enriches campus life.

Purdue University prohibits discrimination against any member of the University community on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or ancestry, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, disability, or status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran.

Anti-Harassment

In providing an educational and work climate that is positive and harassment-free, faculty, staff, and students should be aware that harassment in the workplace or the educational environment is unacceptable conduct and will not be tolerated.

This policy applies to all faculty, staff, and students with respect to activities occurring on any University property and University-related activities occurring off-campus.Harassment is conduct towards another person or identifiable group of persons that has the purpose or effect of:

1. Creating an intimidating or hostile educational environment, work environment, or environment for participation in a University activity;

2. Unreasonably interfering with a person’s educational environment, work environment, or environment for participation in a University activity; or

3. Unreasonably affecting a person’s educational or work opportunities or participation in a University activity.

Racial harassment is conduct that demonstrates hostility toward another person (or identifiable group of persons) on the basis of race, color, national origin, or ancestry.

Sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual advance; requesting of sexual favors; or other written, verbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature.

Note: For more information about sexual harassment see the Sexual Harassment Advisors’ Network (SHAN) at

Student Bill of Rights

Article 1: The student has the right to accurately and plainly stated information that enables the student to understand clearly:

a. The general qualifications for establishing and maintaining acceptable academic standing within a particular major and at all other levels within the University.

b. The graduation requirements for the student’s specific curriculum and major.

c. The course objectives, requirements, and grading policies set by individual instructors for their courses.

Article 4: The student shall be free to discuss and express any view relevant to subject matter presented by the instructor or other class members. However, in exercising this freedom, the student shall not interfere with the academic process of the class by speaking to or behaving towards others in a hostile, demeaning, or intimidating manner.

Article 5: The student’s course grade shall be based upon academic performance, and not upon opinions or conduct in matters unrelated to academic standards. The students have the right to discuss and review their academic performance with their Instructors. Any student who feels that any course grade has been based upon other than academic performance has the right to appeal through the University Grade Appeals system.

Attendance

Scheduled courses allow students to avoid conflicts and reflect the University’s expectation that students should be present for every meeting of a class/laboratory for which they are registered.Students participating in University-sponsored activities should be permitted to make up class work missed as a result of this participation. Ultimately, students are responsible for all required coursework and bear full responsibility for any academic consequences that may result due to absence.

1. General Attendance Issues:

Instructors are expected to establish and clearly communicate in the course syllabus attendance policies relevant to individual courses. Course attendance policies must be consistent with University policy.

It is recognized that occasionally it may be necessary for a student to be absent from a scheduled course activity for personal reasons beyond his/her control (e.g., illness, family emergency, bereavement, etc.). The University expects each student to be responsible for class-related work missed as a result of an unavoidable absence; this work may be made up at the discretion of the instructor.

Only the instructor can excuse a student from a course requirement or responsibility. When conflicts or absences can be anticipated, such as for many University sponsored activities and religious observances, the student should inform the instructor of the situation as far in advance as possible and the Instructor should strive to accommodate the student.

For unanticipated or emergency absences where advance notification to an instructor is not possible, the student should contact the Instructor as soon as possible by e-mail, phone, or by contacting the main office of the department that offers the course. When the student is unable to make direct contact with the Instructor and is unable to leave word with the instructor’s department because of circumstances beyond the student’s control, the student or the student’s representative should contact the Office of the Dean of Students if the reported absence is expected to be for an extended period of time (normally a week or more). A member of the Dean of Students staff will notify the student’s Instructor(s) of the circumstances. The student should be aware that this intervention does not change in any way the outcome of the instructor’s decision regarding the students’ academic work and performance in any given course.

Week / Date / Topics / Assignments
August
1 / 8-22 / Getting On Course to Your Success
  • Introductions-Name, Where you are from
  • Icebreakers
  • Syllabus
  • Travel with me
  • Definition of Success
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  • Buy Books
  • Read Chapter 1 pgs. 1-5
  • Wise Choices in College Customs pgs.34-35
  • Complete Journal #1- How will you define your success at the end of your Purdue career? Will it be based on grades? Getting a job?
  • Bring Class Schedules

2 / 8-29 / Accepting Personal Responsibility
  • Mind Set-Victim-Creator
  • My Purdue Plan
  • Types of Advising
  • Relationship with Advisors
  • Share Advising Stories
  • Connect with students with like courses
  • SI Schedule
/
  • Go On My Purdue Plan
  • Validate with Advisor
  • Read: pgs. 13-19 in Oncourse
  • Read: Understanding Differing Levels of Challenge and Support for Transfer Students at Research Universities

September
3 / 9-5 / Choices-Forks in the Road
  • Staying focused
  • Being persistent
  • Sense of belonging
  • Transfer shock
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  • Habit Patterns in Oncourse (pgs. 183-191)
  • Chapter 1 Power of Habit
  • Start Working on Course Portfolio

4 / 9-12 / Discovering Motivation
  • Habit Patterns
  • Good and Bad Pattern Formation
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  • Take Self-Assessment on line also print out a copy of results to bring to class (pgs. 6-9).
  • Complete Journal # 2- Identify an area on your self-assessment where you make choices that will seldom or sometimes keep you on course. Diagram a habit loop for your academic pattern and discuss your plan to improve in this area
  • Read-Rewriting Your Outdated Script in Ch. 6 of Oncourse (pgs. 192-200)
  • Read the Golden Rule of Habit Change

5 / 9-19 / Creating Inner Motivation
  • Learn How to Change Habits
  • Believing in Yourself: Developing Self-Corrective Behavior
  • What is self-esteem? How do you build it?
/
  • Read pgs.205-212 Taking Tests
  • Bring Exam Schedule
  • Bring an assignment or exam you have completed

6 / 9-26 / Preparing for Exams
  • Believing in Yourself Developing Self-Acceptance-
  • Recognizing when you are off course
  • How to take different types of tests
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  • Read pgs. 175-180 in your texts. Good advice to help you study for those exams.
  • Journal #3- Complete Post Exam Survey Reflection

October
7 / 10-3 / Opportunities Outside the Classroom
  • Celebrating your talents
  • What is your timeline?
  • Covey’s 7 Roles
/
  • Readpgs. 280-288 on Wise Choices In College: Managing Money
  • Assign Journal # 4

8 / 10-10 / Things I Wish I Knew and Financial Literacy
  • Needs and Strengths
  • Money management skills
/
  • Journal #5 Review all 5 lessons from “Money Smart”:

and write a short reflection on what you learned
9 / 10-17 / Spirit of Purdue
  • Purdue Traditions
  • Feeling Connected
  • Giving and Philanthropy
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  • Next Week Meet in ENAD 242at scheduled time
  • Be sure to take the “Ways of Learning Inventory” on pgs. 224-226 for class on 10/31
  • To your Conference One-On-One’s be prepared to discuss your challenges and develop at Purdue. In addition, be prepared to discuss your progress on your portfolio

10 / 10-24 / Barriers to Staying on Course
NO CLASS - Conferences ONE- ON - ONE /
  • For next class read pgs. 216-217-238

11 / 10-31 / Adopting Life Long Learning
  • Discuss Inventory on Ways of learning pgs. 224-266
  • Discuss favorite study strategy-small groups
  • Employing Critical Thinking
  • To practice analyzing a persuasive argument-the Logic of Advertising-small groups
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  • Read pgs. 216-238 on Developing A Learning Orientation Life

November
12 / 11-7 / Developing Interdependence
  • Accountability of self and others-Icebreaker-
What’s in a name? (19-1) To enable students to know their classmates- including their cultures
  • Tootsie Roll Pops
  • If time (p. 155 Microaggressions) To identify Microagressions and to understand what messages they send to members of minority groups.
  • Timeless Wisdom Sheets- Handout
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  • Read pgs. 161-171 on Respecting Cultural Differences
  • Read pgs. 255-274 on Emotional Intelligence for next week

13. / 11-14 / Developing Emotional Intelligence
  • Reducing stress-Up on The Roof(231 30-1)
  • Making Work Play (31-2)-Creating Flow
  • Finals- Do You Feel Prepared- How can wehelp?
  • Affirmation Whisper Sheet-our secret
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  • Journal #4- Turn in your Get-Connected Reflection
  • Work on Post-Course Assessment

14. / 11-21 / NO CLASS – Work on Final Letter - Portfolio
15. / 11-28 / NO CLASS- Thanksgiving Holiday
December
16 / 12-2/7 / Finals Week

Final Portfolio Assignment

Your portfolio should include:

•Pre/Post Assessment

•Plan of Study

•Seven Roles

•Journals- Final Draft

•Academic Skills Plan

You will complete a personal Academic Skills Plan for the following 6 topics:

  • Reading (Ch 2)
  • Note Taking (Ch 3)
  • Organizing Study Materials ( Ch 4)
  • Rehearsing and Memorizing Study Materials (Ch 5)
  • Taking Test (Ch 6)
  • Writing (Ch 7)

To complete the plan, simply follow the six-step process that you will find explained in each chapter, filling in your answers to the following questions:

  1. What’s my present situation?
  2. How would I like my situation to be?
  3. What are my possible choices?
  4. What’s the likely outcome of each possible choice?
  5. Which choice(s) will I commit to doing?
  6. When and how will I evaluate my plan?

Journals

Directions:

In an effort to encourage you to reflect on the information learned in this class and your experiences as a student you will be asked to write and turn in a 1pg journal response each class. The journal prompt will expand on topics covered in class and in the readings. To earn full credit on each response it should be 1pg, double spaced, in 12pt Times New Roman Font, 1 inch margins, and should answer the question(s) in a full and thoughtful way. Grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and format will be reviewed as well. You will find each week’s journal prompt on your syllabus.