UNIV 349 - Transfer Year Seminar

Description

Hours: Three hours lecture per week Prerequisite: Junior Standing or Consent of Instructor Description: This interdisciplinary seminar for first year transfer students promotes successful intellectual and social transition to CSU Channel Islands through a problem-based approach. Students examine the modern world and issues facing societies from multiple perspectives, and develop and convey to others analyses of and solutions to problems using the methodologies, tools and techniques of academic disciplines. Students will develop inquiry skills that emphasize critical thinking and independent learning as well as identify how universities and specific disciplines relate to social problems. The seminar promotes student reflection on prior learning at other institutions and its relationship to the CI mission and their degree program, and aims to increase student engagement in intellectual life at the university. Themes will vary. Students will meet outside of class for one hour on a bi-weekly basis in small groups with a peer leader.

Meeting Information

Info current as 5/12/2024
Days Times Room Meeting Dates Instructor
TH  9:00 AM  -  11:50 AM  Bell Tower 2352 1/20/2018 - 5/25/2018 Cynthia King

Status: Open
Class Number: 1382
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 3.00
Class Components: Lecture
Career: Undergraduate
Dates: 1/20/2018 - 5/25/2018
Grading: Letter Grade

Class Availability

Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 18
Available Seats: 7
Wait List Capacity: 15
Wait List Total: 0

Textbook / Other Materials

Status: Required
ISBN: 9780345407511
Title: Argument Culture
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Author: Tannen

Status: Required
ISBN: 9780312595371
Title: Soul of a Citizen (New & Rev)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Author: Loeb

Status: Required
ISBN: 9781429934077
Title: Soul of a Citizen
Publisher: Macmillan
Author: Loeb

Status: Recommended
ISBN: 9780316204361
Title: David & Goliath
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Author: Gladwell

Status: Recommended
ISBN: 9780073534305
Title: First Look at Communication Theory
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Author: Griffin

Status: Recommended
ISBN: 9780670019274
Title: Political Mind
Publisher: Penguin
Author: Lakoff

Status: Recommended
ISBN: 9781594205552
Title: Reclaiming Conversation
Publisher: Penguin Group USA Inc
Author: Turkle

Status: Recommended
ISBN: 9781555977917
Title: Bunk
Publisher: Graywolf
Author: Young

More textbook information including prices

Enrollment Information

  • Upper Division
  • A3: Critical Thinking
  • E: Life-Long & Self-Development
  • UDIGE: Interdisciplinary

Notes

Course Title: Critical Thinking: How do I Make Informed Decisions in an era of ¿fake news?¿ Open to Juniors and Seniors Only. This transfer seminar includes an embedded peer mentor, with in-class and out-of-class activities student success activities.