col 111 overview 2010
DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to help students make a successful transition to the social and academic life of Marian University. To help students gain maximum benefits from college life, the course explores Marian’s heritage, structure, and mission, and connects students with faculty, staff, student leaders, facilities, resources, services, opportunities, Franciscan values, and learning goals.TRANSCRIPT
COL 111First Year Experience
• Catalog Description• Mission• Objective• Course Content• Assignments and Final Project
Catalog Description
This course is designed to help students make a successful transition to the social and academic life of Marian
University. To help students gain maximum benefits from college life, the course explores Marian’s heritage,
structure, and mission, and connects students with faculty, staff, student leaders, facilities, resources, services,
opportunities, Franciscan values, and learning goals. The class meets twice weekly.
Mission
Guided by Catholic Franciscan Sponsorship values, College 111 at Marian University is a first-year seminar that
introduces students to the foundations of our social and academic community, empowering them to develop the
knowledge and skills necessary to begin crafting their own stories and realize success throughout their college
experience.
Objectives • To introduce first-year students to the tradition of
Liberal Arts thought and scholarship• To assist first-year students in the navigation of
collegiate life• To connect the Franciscan Values to the culture of
Marian University• To guide first-year students in their exposure to a
diverse student population
Course Content• Discussion of readings from James Schall’s A
Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning• Analysis and discussion of the StrengthsQuest
personal assessment• Analysis and discussion of Marian University’s Our
Franciscan Heritage• Assortment of presentations from guest speakers
designed to connect students to campus resources
Assignments and Final Projects• Assignments range from exploring questions, to essays
centered on leadership strengths. • Final Project is designed for students to connect paradigms
of course texts to aspects of the Marian University community and foundations of Liberal Arts education
• Examples of past final student project presentations:– Exploration of student leadership and Marian’s mission– Exploration of social ethics, diversity and liberal
education
