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Start Smart GNST 1001

Start Smart GNST 1001. Session 1: So what are you here to do at Snow?. How do you see your time at Snow? . A time to explore career options To complete GE requirements To make friends and socialize To be away from home To get involved in clubs and service opportunities

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Start Smart GNST 1001

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  1. Start SmartGNST 1001 Session 1: So what are you here to do at Snow?

  2. How do you see your time at Snow? • A time to explore career options • To complete GE requirements • To make friends and socialize • To be away from home • To get involved in clubs and service opportunities • To choose a major or complete prereqs

  3. Engaged? Empowered? Informed? Responsible? Proactive? Unengaged? Powerless? Uninformed? Passive? Reactive? What kind of a participant will you be in your own learning? You make the choice!

  4. Did you know that Snow College has a plan for you? The Snow College Mission Statement: “The mission of Snow College is to educate students, inspire them to love learning, and lead them to serve others.”

  5. Snow’s plan for you includes: • General Education Requirements • 31-35 credits • General Education Outcomes (or goals for your learning) The General Education Outcomes seek to respond to the question “What should a college educated person know, believe, or be able to do?”

  6. Snow College’s 10 GE Outcomes Can you guess what they are? (Hint: An outcome is something someone knows, does, believes or feels at the completion of an activity.)

  7. Snow College’s 10 GE Outcomes Divide into two teams. Take a few minutes to brainstorm with your team: “What should a college educated person know, believe, or be able to do?”

  8. Snow College’s 10 GE Outcomes Example: “My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!”

  9. Snow College’s 10 GE Outcomes Ready to play? Let’s go!

  10. Snow College’s 10 GE Outcomes 1. Students will read effectively, constructively, and critically. 2. Students will write clearly, informatively, and persuasively. 3. Students will speak effectively in a variety of contexts. 4. Students will retrieve, evaluate, interpret, and deliver information through a variety of traditional and electronic media.

  11. Snow’s GE Outcomes 5. Students will apply a cultural and historical awareness to a variety of phenomena. 6. Students will apply computational skills to a variety of contexts. 7. Students will apply scientific reasoning to a variety of contexts. 8. Students will apply ethical reasoning to a variety of contexts.

  12. Snow’s GE Outcomes 9. Students will respond with informed sensitivity to an artistic work or experience. 10. Students will apply personal-fitness and wellness-management principles to lifestyle choices.

  13. Snow’s GE Outcomes • Each of your Snow College courses must address at least one of the 10 GE Outcomes. • English 1010 addresses GE Outcome #1 (Read effectively, constructively, and critically) in the following way: “Students read a variety of professional and student essays and respond on several levels: recalling content, identifying main ideas or concepts, analyzing structure, evaluating supporting evidence, considering sentence structure and word choice, and editing for mechanical errors.”

  14. Snow’s GE Outcomes • Math 1030 addresses GE Outcome #6 (Computational skills) in the following way: “The nature of the course necessitates continual use of numbers, graphs, tables, logic and their use in solving and interpreting problems of these different types. The understanding and ability to correctly use and interpret the variety of problems that students will be exposed to is a major component of the course.”

  15. Snow’s GE Outcomes When you receive your class syllabi, check each to identify the GE Outcomes that will be addressed during the course. If no GE Outcome is listed on a syllabus, ask your professor about the GE Outcomes for the course.

  16. What’s your mission statement? • What do you want to be? (Character) • What do you want to achieve? (Contributions)

  17. Your Mission Statement • How does Snow College’s mission fit with your personal mission? “The mission of Snow College is to educate students, inspire them to love learning, and lead them to serve others.” • How do the 10 GE Outcomes fit with your educational and lifetime goals?

  18. Homework: Part 1 • Write your personal mission statement • Identify your values. What is at the center of you? • What do you want to be? • What do you want to achieve? • How will you go about becoming this person? • How will you go about achieving these goals?

  19. Homework: Part 2 • Snow College’s General Education Outcomes & You • What is the value of these GE outcomes as you seek to follow your life mission statement? • How does your life mission statement affect your goals as a student?

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