Fridays, 9:00 - 5:50, Center 105
Instructor: Pamela Cosman
Teaching Assistant: Sonia Crasnow
Discussion Leaders:
Course Requirements and Grading:
Weekly Topics:
11/16 Reading assigment: read pages 31-39 for this Friday.
11/14
The final reflection essay is due 12/4 at 9am in lecture. Here are the
Instructions for the Final Reflection Essay in case
you want to get started on it now!
11/14
For the 11/20 session:
List of campus resources related to internships and research
11/4
Readings for the 11/13 session:
1) A Different Mirror
2) White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack
3) Exposing Hidden Bias at Google, located at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/technology/exposing-hidden-biases-at-google-to-improve-diversity.html
4) 10 words every girl should learn, located at:
http://www.alternet.org/gender/10-words-every-girl-should-learn
Assignment: Go to:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
and take the Implicit Association Test for either race or gender (or both).
10/30
Here is an item to read for next week on information literacy:
Transition Checklist for High School Seniors
Also read: Senator’s Thesis Turns Out to Be Remix of Others’ Works, Uncited.
John Walsh, Democrat, Confronts Questions of Plagiarism, which is at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/us/politics/montana-senator-john-walsh-plagiarized-thesis.html?smid=pl-share
10/30 Here are the Slides from today, Lecture 6
10/25
Here are some resources on e-mail etiquette (not required reading, just resources if you want them).
U. of Colorado Boulder, tips on e-mail etiquette
WikiHOW article that has some sample e-mails:
http://www.wikihow.com/Email-a-Professor
10/24
For the lecture on 10/30 related to communicating, read these 2 short items:
Scared Speechless and Tips on Speeches
Also, watch the 20-minute Ted talk by Prof. Amy Cuddy which is located at:
https://www.ted.com/playlists/226/before_public_speaking
10/21
I'm passing along some information which pertains to all incoming students, not specific to this FYE course:
The University requires that all incoming students complete an online Academic Integrity Tutorial.
The deadline for students to complete the tutorial is Sunday, October 25th. Please complete the tutorial well
before the deadline; don't wait until the last minute.
Students who do not complete the tutorial by the deadline will get a hold on their UCSD account,
which will prevent them from signing up for Winter classes.
Academic Integrity Tutorial Deadline -10/25/15
Link to tutorial - https://moodle.ucsd.edu/
10/20
For your discussion sections next week, please complete the FOCUS-2 Career Assessment.
If you can, do it before the lecture this Friday (October 23) in which case you can bring
to class any questions you have for our guest speaker.
FOCUS-2 is an online, interactive career and educational system that combines self-assessment,
career and decision making into one comprehensive program. It assesses your interests,
personality, skills and values and provides you with suggested career options. Students'
assessment results are matched with potential career options and the majors supporting those
careers (https://career.ucsd.edu/undergraduates/explore-careers/career-assessment.html ).
Complete the activity and bring a copy of the career assessment results to your discussion
section next week.
Instructions on how to log on:
Students can access the activity by logging into their Port Triton Account -
https://ucsd-csm.symplicity.com/students/
Type access code: triton
10/16
For the lecture on 10/23 related to choosing a major, read these 2 articles:
NYT article and WSJ article
10/9
Here are the Slides from Lecture 2 and
Slides from Lecture 3
10/8
For next week, you should read Learning Outcomes Framework and use
this list of resources in order to do
Homework Part 1 and
Homework Part 2
Also, for the lecture on 10/16 read this Article on Growth Mindset. Well, you don't have to read all of it, about 50% of the article is enough to get the main point of growth mindset.
9/28
Here is an item to read for this week: Make It Stick
P. Brown, H. Roediger III, and M. McDaniel, Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, pp. 200-217
Plus two other items which are optional (maybe skim through them):
Reading and
Taking Notes which are from S. Downing (2014) "Wise Choices in College"
9/27
Here are the (very slightly edited) Slides from Lecture 1
9/21 ASSIGNMENT for Week 1: Complete FYE Pre-Survey. Students will receive an email message from fye@ucsd.edu with instructions and a link to the survey.
9/21 Readings for week 1:
On Course, Ch 1
New York Times: The Fundamental Way that Univiersities are an Illusion
Office for Students with Disabilities:
Students requesting accommodations and services for this course due to a disability need to provide a current Authorization for Accommodation (AFA) letter issued by the Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) prior to eligibility for requests. Receipt of AFAs in advance is necessary for appropriate planning for the provision of reasonable accommodations. OSD Academic Liaisons also need to receive current AFA letters if there are any changes to accommodations. For additional information, contact the Office for Students with Disabilities: 858-534-4382 (V); 959.534.9709 (TTY) – reserved for people who are deaf or hard of hearing; or email: osd@ucsd.edu. For more, see: http://disabilities.ucsd.edu.
Standards of Academic Integrity:
Each student is responsible to know and observe the UCSD rules concerning academic integrity and plagiarism.
Familiarize yourselves and be cognizant of your responsibilities and rights under the
UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship
Your responsibilities and rights under the UCSD Student Code of Conduct can be
here.
A student found to have violated the university’s academic integrity standards will be subject to penalties ranging from failing the assignment or course to suspension or expulsion from the university, and an academic misconduct charge will be noted on your academic record. If you have any questions about what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid it, or how to credit the work of others properly, or how to evaluate sources for quality and reliability, or about any other pertinent issue, speak with your professor or TA. Ignorance of these standards will not be accepted as justification for their violation, so be sure to understand and abide by them.