Educational Opportunity Fund 364
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First-Year Student Success Seminar I: College Exploration (1)
The course is designed to assist incoming freshman with a successful
transition to collegiate life through class assignments, readings, and
projects. Sessions will build upon each student's individual skills as
determined by discussions, academic performance, and observed social
skills. The curriculum will integrate various subject matter, along with
the student's personal life, to promote and develop cognitive study skills
necessary for coursework in mathematics and science. Collaborations with
university departments and community organizations will offer an adaptive
instructional pedagogy that will encourage student self-directed learning.
Seminars and out-of-class experiences will enhance the student's ability to
connect classroom activities with real-life situations to develop communication
and leadership skills, adding to their personal and intellectual growth.
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First-Year Student Success Seminar II: Career Exploration (1)
A continuation of academic sessions designed to facilitate
entering student's successful transition to collegiate life. In addition to
readdressing selected topics from SSS I in the fall semester, topics of
graduation/career planning, financial literacy, and the history of higher
education access will be incorporated using both in-class and online sessions.
Each session will build upon each student's individual skills as determined by
discussions, academic performance, and observed social skills. The curriculum
will promote and develop cognitive study skills necessary for coursework in
mathematics and science. Collaborations with university departments,
academic/community organizations, and alumni will offer an adaptive
instructional pedagogy that will encourage student self-directed learning.
Seminars and out-of-class excursions will enhance student's ability to
connect classroom activities with real-life situations to develop communication
and leadership skills, adding to their personal and intellectual growth.
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Transfer Student Seminar (TSS) (1)
This
course engages students, new to Rutgers University and the School of
Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), in learning about the processes by
which individuals learn in class and, ultimately, achieve academic
success. The course is geared toward transfer students in a semi-individualized,
small discussion/seminar format. Transfer students will gain a clear
understanding of SEBS and Rutgers University program policies; stay connected
to the Office of Academic Programs, Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) and academic advisers and be more
aware of resources offered; find and create peer support networks within the SEBS
and EOF community; and experience a smoother transition into Rutgers
developing into EOF scholars within SEBS.
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Emerging Topics in Environmental Science (2)
This course is designed to foster understanding of
societal vulnerabilities and being resilient as essential tools when
transforming our lives and practices in the 21st century to be
competitive and successful individuals. Concepts have interdisciplinary
components, which can make the class attractive to students in other
programs. This course is shorter than
the courses provided during the spring and fall semesters. It provides
an introductory understanding of the importance of new topics, including
resiliency, and areas of transformation as needed for tomorrow's world.
Online. Summer Session.
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Critical Thinking in the Sciences (1)
"Critical
Thinking in the Case of Learning the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Seminar" provides
an introductory understanding of the importance of conscious thinking,
developing and using potential intellect, and applying critical thinking to
important scientific and social matters. Most people unconsciously absorb and
adopt the thinking of the people around them, in the media, and social media.
They don't develop their own intellect or use it very effectively to
rationalize or justify their infantile or egocentric thoughts including the
matters related to the environment, food, energy, health, and ethics. Learning
to be a critical thinker is going to help students to ask the right questions at the right time with correct skills and to practice skills that enable a
student to learn quickly and speak and decide factually. This class will teach
students to learn to engage in good and efficient disagreement which is a
skillful critical thinking tool. These skills will help students learn how to
build strong arguments and to evaluate the strength of arguments made by
others. These skills will also help students in the short term in achieving
academic success and in the long term to think consciously, deliberately, and
skillfully in ways that transform them into strong and secure persons who not
only learn to agree to disagree but also dare to disagree with relevant
supporting knowledge.
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