The First Year Program
(FYP) Library class is an active learning lesson plan customized
for each FYP cluster. Clusters are learning communities consisting of
two General Education
Requirement (GER) classes plus a one credit FYR class.
During the Library
class, students receive a brief introduction to finding different formats
of library materials, via the Library web site, or using the Library
of Congress Classification
System. Students are divided into five groups, and each group is given
a different assignment,
requiring them to find and collect two-four Library items relevant to
their cluster (i.e. when we
teach the Art/Music cluster, students are asked to find an Oversized
art book and a music CD,
while other clusters may find a video and/or DVD relevant to their two
GER classes).
When students return
to the User Education Room with their Library materials, each group
shows their peers what they found, how their material may be used, and
how/where they found
it. Sample cluster assignments are provided below, along with handouts
for the Library of
Congress Classification System and the Top 10 Things Every Freshman
Should Know About
the J. Eugene Smith Library.
First Year Program
Resources include links to The National Resource Center for The First-Year
Experience and Students in Transition as well as their listservs. “The
National Resource Center
for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition has as its
mission to build and sustain
a vibrant campus-based and international educational community committed
to the success of
first-year college students and all students in transition. We achieve
this mission by providing
opportunities for the exchange of practical, theory-based information
and ideas through the
convening of conferences, teleconferences, institutes, and workshops;
publishing monographs,
a peer-reviewed journal, a newsletter, guides, and books; generating
and supporting research
and scholarship; hosting visiting scholars; and administering a web
site and electronic listservs."
The link, First-Year
Program: Plagiarism & Cheating, leads to an active learning exercise
which
may be lead by Peer Mentors, FYP faculty or librarians (by request).
Students are led through a
series of discussions which help them understand the implications of
plagiarism, cheating and
copyright.
Top
10 Things Every Freshman Should Know About the J. Eugene Smith Library
Library
Of Congress Classification System
FYP #1: English & Education*
FYP
#2: Business & Sociology*
FYP
#3: Chemistry & Poli Sci*
FYP
#4: Art & Music*
FYP
#5-Economics & Biology*
First
Year Program Resources
First-Year
Program: Plagiarism & Cheating
Peer Mentor Resources
Contact
Information:
E-mail Susan Herzog or Janice
Wilson.
Call Susan
(x54470) or Janice (x55550)
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