Programs & ServicesX157: Key Strategies for Academic Success
This eight-week, one-credit-hour course has been designed to fit the unique needs of students who could benefit from research on and exploration of topics of their own choosing. We initially recommend six areas we think students could benefit from exploring. They are:1)Fitness, 2) Diversity, 3) Culture and Arts, 4) Intellectual Development, 5) Service Learning, and 6) Technology. In addition to the focus area (for which students will make anywhere from three to eight explorations depending on the time length involved), students will be asked to visit each of their professors, their advisor, and the main library.
Examples of focuses include the following:
Whatever focus is chosen, the student is encouraged to become actively engaged in inquiry-based learning.
The class itself meets twice a week for 50 minutes. The first week will be devoted to individual meetings between the students and instructor to fill out an "Exploration Plan" for the eight weeks. The other weeks will be spent in group meetings and presentations of students' findings. Each student will make a final oral presentation during the last two weeks of class relating the findings from the focused study. A five-six page paper will also be submitted summarizing the research.
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This file was last updated on November 10, 2003 by Hope Elkins
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Trustees of Indiana University