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Radford University Transition Seminar: Your Guide to Success

UNIV 100 is a seminar at Radford University designed to help students transition to college successfully. It covers academic skills, campus resources, and personal development. The course is interactive, community-focused, and team-taught by faculty and peer instructors.

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Radford University Transition Seminar: Your Guide to Success

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  1. University 100 Orientation and syllabus workshop

  2. Introductions

  3. What isuniv 100? • Seminar that helps students transition to college at Radford • Teaches skills and resources necessary to be personally and academically successful

  4. Course Characteristics • Interactive, discussion-based • Hands-on activities • Out-of-class explorations • Community-focused (both classroom and Radford) • 1 credit, graded A-F

  5. The People • Majority of incoming students (88% last fall) • Freshman and transfer • First-gen and continuing-gen • Faculty Instructor (FI) • Peer Instructor (PI)

  6. Team teaching • Strive to be true co-instructors: 50/50 • Play to your strengths • Communicate • Adapt for your students

  7. Don’t Worry—there’s Training • Pre-semester training • UNIV 200: Peer Education Practicum • Something informal for faculty (like a brown bag lunch series)

  8. Course Types • General sections • Topical sections • Major or program • Living-learning community • Special interest

  9. Who creates what?

  10. common Course Goals • Develop academic success skills • Understand university policies, procedures, and resources • Connect to the campus community (faculty, peers, student mentors) • Reflect on personal identity, values, and goals

  11. Course Topics • Academic success skills • Studying, time management, career planning • University policy • Registering for classes, meeting with advisors, understanding conduct and academic expectations • Personal development • Getting involved, living with roommates, maintaining wellness

  12. What else could we cover? • Academic integrity • Advising and registration • Alcohol in college • Communication and conflict resolution • Critical reading and thinking • Digital identities • Diversity and inclusion • Employability • Experiential learning (e.g., study abroad, service learning) • Faculty vs. student responsibilities • Feedback: interpreting and implementing it • Financial literacy • Global thinking • Goal setting and SMART goals • GPA calculation • High school vs. college • Interacting with faculty • Involvement on campus • Learning styles and how we learn • Major and career exploration • Mentors • Motivation and procrastination • Note taking, making the most of lectures • Off-campus living • Public speaking • Reading strategically • Reflective thinking and writing • Relationships in college • Resilience • Resources on campus • Responsible citizen habits • Roommates • Safety on campus • School history and traditions • Study skills • Sustainability • Taking tests, midterms, and exams • Technology etiquette • Technology systems (D2L, Starfish, Handshake) • Time management • University policies and procedures • Wellness

  13. Common Assignments • Club Fair • Campus engagement events • Journals • Midterm project • Final project

  14. Campus Engagement Events • Goal: Learn your way around campus and the local community in a personally relevant, hands-on way • Broad topics (you choose the specifics)

  15. journals • Great way to incorporate reflection, get to know students • Peer instructor often takes the lead on reading and responding • You can choose the topics

  16. Midterm Project • Teach students how to approach faculty or other university professionals when needed • Or do something else!

  17. Final Project • Teach classmates something they learned this semester • Do something to improve the university community • Or do something else!

  18. A Tale of Two Syllabi

  19. Course Topics: First Five weeks

  20. Campus Engagement Event Assignments

  21. Campus Engagement Event Assignments

  22. Journal prompts

  23. Midterm Project

  24. Final Project

  25. Get set… go! • Let’s start planning your own UNIV 100 course!

  26. Materials needed • Course setup checklist • Blank syllabus template • Topic list • Examples of assignments and syllabi • Academic calendar

  27. Syllabus workshop • Find your co-instructor (if applicable) • Read over the materials • Start working through the checklist • Share ideas and ask questions

  28. Let me know if you have questions! • Amber Z. Smithazsmith@radford.eduWhitt 104(540) 831-6498 Thank you so much for being here!

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