First Year Seminar Topics --- Fall 2010  

ESCI 100: Search in Earth Science: Energy: Principles and Problems 

Global demand for energy is increasingly linked to the consequences of resource consumption.  Inquiry into the science of energy is necessary to understand its effect on our environment. This course provides an overview of the physical principles behind energy and the environmental impacts of its use.  It is designed for students with an interest in Earth Sciences and/or the environment.  Prerequisite:  MATH 101 (may be taken concurrently) or placement score.

FYS 101: Arts and Aesthetics in Education 

Through the arts and aesthetics in diverse educational learning communities, this course will explore teaching, diversity, the roles teachers play, and the human imagination. Highlights experiences around exploring the meaning of teaching and learning through the lens of cultural symbols and the arts. Classes will be held both at CCSU and the New Britain Museum of American Art. Fieldwork will be involved in a local school working with children.

FYS 102: Feeding the Good Wolf:  Education and a Sustainable Future  

This course is designed to give students a sense of agency for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society. The aim is to present an ethical vision in which we as humans become more mindful of how our personal and collective actions either enhance or diminish the quality of life for humans and other living species. Course content will emphasize how principles and thematic content relate to the world they will enter as educators.            

FYS 103: 4Mat 4 First-year students

The study of learning style and its relation to the natural learning cycle.  Identification of learning style and specific strategies for success including linear and holistic thinking, the use of graphic organizers, and study skills.  We will examine the 4MAT model of teaching and learning, a research-based methodology of teaching developed by Bernice McCarthy (1987) that is built upon the principles of learning styles and their relationship to the natural learning cycle.

LEARNING COMMUNITY #4 (FYS 106 & ENG 110): It’s Greek To Us

This learning community will address what 21st century student can learn from the ancient Greeks.  So what can you learn from the Greeks?  The basics of being a successful college student: how to understand complicated textbooks, how to analyze information you’ll be learning in classes, and how to write essays you’ll be assigned in college.  ENG 110 will guide students through the ethical questions explored by Greek philosophers, Socrates and Plato, and the tragedians, Sophocles and Euripides.  FYS 106 will explore important mathematical concepts discovered by Greek mathematicians and philosophers including Pythagoras, Euclid, Plato, and Archimedes, their roots in Egypt and Babylonia, and their application to art, music, geography, and astronomy.  FYS 106 prerequisite:  MATH 101 (may be taken concurrently) or placement score. This course cannot be counted as fulfilling the Mathematics or Statistics requirement in Skill Area II.  It may count as the other required course within Skill Area II.

 

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