Research Guides: Core Curriculum Assessment: Freshman & Transfer Student Seminars

Freshman & Transfer Seminars at Other Institutions

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

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.

Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs by Gerald M. Greenfield; Jennifer R. Keup; John N. Gardner
Comprehensive, practical, how-to guide to developing new first-year programs and enhancing existing programs.
The First-Year Seminar: designing, implementing, and assessing courses to support student learning and success by Jennifer R. Keup, et. al.
Call Number: (Circulation-Reserve) LB2343.32 .F56 2011

5-volume set
The First Year and Beyond: rethinking the challenge of collegiate transition by Betsy O. Barefoot (Editor)
Call Number: LB2343.4 .F57 2008

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
Call Number: LB2331 .E76 2006

Offers concrete suggestions about specific strategies and approaches for faculty who teach first-year courses.