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Course Outline/Calendar

The purpose of this web site is to provide information and materials for students enrolled in Wayne Smith's University 100 course, Class #  18315, for the Fall, 2010 semester. This course meets Mon/Wed 9:30am - 10:45am (Mon 8/23 - Wed 12/8, 16 weeks) in JH2206 [ Campus Map, Google Maps, Google Earth ].

The following summary identifies the key terms used in the course outline.

Question:

A general organizing question to place this particular material in context

Topic(s):

General topic(s) to be discussed

Staley:

Readings from the textbook

Haddon:

Readings from the novel

Reader:

Readings from the course reader

Supplemental:

Readings from the supplementary materials

Due:

Assignment due at the immediate beginning of class

Homework:

Assignment to be completed before the beginning of the next class

Review:

Usually a student-led review of an assignment

Exercise:

done individually or in teams (announced and collected in-class)

Quiz:

a relatively short test

(contingency)

Slack time embedded during the course to cover unforeseen events

The following is the detail of the course in chronological order.

• Topic(s): Enrollment Management, Class Materials
• Topic(s): Class Overview, Class in Context
• Supplemental: Tips Organized Specifically for First-time Freshmen
• Supplemental: Information Specifically Organized for UNIV 100 Students

• Topic(s): Class Introductions
• Activity: Icebreaker
• Additional/Optional Activity: 11:30am-1:00pm and - 5:30pm-7:30pm President's Picnic
• Additional/Optional Activity: Eating Habits Survey Human Subjects Form
• Additional/Optional Activity: Eating Habits Survey Instructions

• Due: Assignment: Moodle
• (Note: Please a printed copy of each syllabus to class today)
• Staley: Ch. 1, Building Dreams, Setting Goals
• Reader: Bell, I., Trouble with Parents
• Reader: Light, R., Learning from Differences

• Due: Assignment: Student Essay #1
• Haddon: pp. 1-21
• Supplemental: Tips for Reading Haddon
• Additional/Optional Activity: Thu. Sep 2, 2010 - 5:00pm-7:00pm Freshman Convocation

• (no class - Labor Day)

• Topic(s): Continuous Improvement for Writing (just lecture--no reading ahead of time)
• Haddon: pp. 22-43

• Staley: Ch. 2, Learning about Learning
• Reader: Bennett, W., The Lure of Learning

• Topic(s):
• Haddon: pp. 44-64
• Quiz: Quiz #1

• Topic(s):
• Staley: Ch. 3, Making Use of Resources: Finances, Technology, and Campus Support

• Topic(s):
• Haddon: pp. 65-85

• Topic(s):
• Staley: Ch. 4, Managing your Time and Energy

• Topic(s):
• Haddon: pp. 86-115
• Due: Phillips, M. (2010), "A Chaplain and an Atheist Go to War", Wall Street Journal, Sept. 4, p. A1 [ CSUN Library ]

• Topic(s): Team Assignment, Information Competency Project

• Topic(s): Review of upcoming Religious Studies Research Paper [ Lecture audio (.mp3, 52MB) ]
• Haddon: pp. 116-140

• Topic(s):
• Staley: Ch. 5, Thinking Critically and Creatively
• Reader: Bowen, H., The Baccalaureate Degree...

• Topic(s):
• Staley: Ch. 6, Engaging, Listening, and Note-taking in class
• Haddon: pp. 141-164
• Quiz: Quiz #2
• Supplemental: Towards Insightful Questions

• Topic(s): (remind students about Student Health Center tour on Wednesday)
• Reader: Cicarelli, J., A New Debate is Joined Over an Old Question...
• Due: Discussion of at least two themes from the Haddon book for Information Competency assignment
• Due: U100 Library Tutorial

• Topic(s): Lecture/Tour of CSUN Student Health Center (meet there--9:30am sharp--just south of the University Student Union)
• Topic(s): (remind students about CSUN Library tour next week on both Monday and Wednesday)
• Haddon: pp. 165-179
• Additional/Optional Activity: Fri. Oct 22, 2010 - 5:00pm 'A Curious Night' at the CSUN Planetarium

• Topic(s): Lecture/Tour of CSUN Library (meet there, Lab 'A'--9:30am sharp--Library, Main Floor, Main Building, make a right turn just after the coffee stand)

• Topic(s): Lecture/Tour of CSUN Library (meet there, Lab 'C'--9:30am sharp--Library, Main Floor, West Wing, make a left turn just after the coffee stand)
• Haddon: pp. 179-200

• Topic(s): Review of Library Searching
• Staley: Ch. 7, Developing your Memory

• Topic(s): no formal class today (just team-based research/presentation discussions)

• Topic(s): How does a successful student craft a nurturing and productive study space?
• Staley: Ch. 8, Reading and Studying

• Topic(s): What is reading comprehension and how does it improve with maturity?
• Haddon: pp. 200-226

• Topic(s):
• Due: Information Competency Presentations (all teams)

• Topic(s): Guest Lecture
• Lecture: Informal Panel of Junior and Senior Accounting students
• Quiz: Quiz #3
• Additional/Optional Activity: Thu. Nov 18, 2010 - 10:00am-3:00pm Freshman Celebration

• Topic(s):
• Homework: "What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20" (Dr. Tina Seelig, Stanford University)
• Staley: Ch. 9, Taking Tests
• Reader: Strike, K., and Moss, P., Some Ethical Principles

• Topic(s): Guest Lecture (Business/Ethics)
• Lecture: Guest (Archie Roundtree; Record Producer, entrepreneur)
• Due: Assignment: Cultural Event

• Staley: Ch. 10, Building Relationships
• Reader: Newman, B., and Newman, P., Loneliness
• Supplemental: Deresiewicz

• Due: Assignment: Student Essay #2
• Reader: Minnick, T., Fourteen Ways to Look at Electives

• Quiz: Quiz #4
• Staley: Ch. 11, Choosing a College Major and a Career
• Reader: Burtchaell, J., Major Decisions
• Reader: Raspberry W., College Major doesn't Mean all that much

• Topic(s): What is College?
• Supplemental: The College as a Philanthropy
• Open Questions [ .ppt ] (Tue. Nov 30, 2010)
• Lecture: End of Semester Brief
• Lecture: Materials for Further Study [ .html ] (Fri. Aug 16, 2013)