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Core Curriculum Assessment: Freshman & Transfer Student Seminars

Freshman & Transfer Seminars at Other Institutions

University of Maryland - Baltimore County Transfer Seminars
Multiple transfer seminars are listed, by discipline. 1 to 2 units.
SUNY - Albany Freshman & Transfer Seminars
Download files of seminar descriptions and publicity flyers
University of California Irvine - Transfer Seminar Program

Syllabi Examples

UHCL First-Year Seminar Syllabus
Developed around critical thinking framework by Dr. Wanalee Romeo, Director of the First-Year Seminar Program, University of Houston-Clear Lake.

Junior Transfer Seminar
From University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
First Year Seminar Recommended Syllabus
From Minnesota State University - Mankato

Websites

National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
Serves education professionals by supporting and advancing efforts to improve student learning and transitions into and through higher education.
Teaching First-Year Students
From Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Outlines principles, strategies, and challenges.

Featured Titles

Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs by Gerald M. Greenfield; Jennifer R. Keup; John N. Gardner
Ebook; comprehensive, practical, how-to guide to developing new first-year programs and enhancing existing ones.
The First-Year Seminar: designing, implementing, and assessing courses to support student learning and success by Jennifer R. Keup, et. al.
5 volumes
The First Year and Beyond: rethinking the challenge of collegiate transition by Betsy O. Barefoot (Editor)
Includes a view of transitions that precede and follow the traditional first year, as well as the critical junctures throughout the undergraduate years that promote or impede student progress to a degree.
Teaching First-Year College Students by Calvin B. Peters; Diane Weltner Strommer; Bette LaSere Erickson
Offers concrete suggestions about specific strategies and approaches for faculty who teach first-year courses.

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