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Learning Communities Offered, Fall 2013
First-year students will participate in one of the following learning communities. Students must enroll in all courses and sections of the learning community. Enrollment is by permit only. First-time freshmen will be able to register for a learning community at First Steps.
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Teaching in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics): Teaching in STEM is designed to show how integrated the STEM disciplines are. A feature of this community will be hands-on applications, inquiry-based learning, and an education ethics and civic engagment course, EDUC-211.
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| Athletes: This learning community addresses issues specific to student-athletes: time management, adjusting to college sports, academic success, etc. |
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| Bronco Men: The Bronco Men Learning Community provides a supportive learning environment designed to increase the academic success of males. Instructional strategies and co-curricular support structures promote responsibility, active learning, and peer support. |
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| Bronco Women: The Bronco Women Initiative is a program designed to explore experiences of women of color to improve their success by integrating social and academic activities, formally and informally. This class will emphasize positive self-images and encourage social networking. |
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| Business and Entrepreneurship: Economic decision-making demands good critical thinking skills. To make good decisions in their roles as consumers, savers, investors, voters, and above all, as productive citizens in a global setting, students must critically assess the options available to them. |
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| CHEER: The CHEER learning community will help students apply the skills learned over the summer to first year success by working with familiar instructors for math, English, and freshman seminar in a supportive environment. |
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Criminal Justice: This learning community introduces students to the institutions and processes of law making and enforcement, the judicial system, corrections and the juvenile justice system. Students will use critical thinking to assess these institutions and processes as they affect individuals and society. |
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| Environment: This learning community introduces students to a green society. It will focus on various ways to make our community more aware of green safe options. |
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| Foundations of Success: This learning community provides a firm foundation for academic success by focusing on the core of the core academic skills: writing, math, and computers. Students will develop their proficiency in an environment of intense academic support. |
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| Global Business: This learning community will take an in depth look at how America conducts business on a global scale. Areas of focus to include foreign exchange rate and exports and imports. With the realization that America and more countries are becoming extremely diverse. |
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| Global Issues: This learning community will explore global issues through English Composition I and II and World History II. In each learning community course, students will learn about global issues through reading and writing assignments, ranging from contemporary essays to historical documents. In addition, students will write a variety of documents on global issues, ranging from proposals to reports. |
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| Global Scholars: This learning community is available by invitation only to entering Global Scholars. It prepares students for the study abroad opportunity available to Global Scholars by introducing them to global issues generally and the background of their area of travel specifically. |
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| Health Professions: This learning community explores issues related to professions such as nursing, medicine, health-care management and other health-related fields. |
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| Law and Order: The Legal Profession. Future lawyers need to know the American political system, which produces and judges the laws attorneys use in their profession. Lawyers also need critical thinking skills to create persuasive legal arguments and to refute the arguments of their opponents. This learning community helps students do both: learn about American politics, and develop their critical thinking skills. |
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| Music: For intended majors, this learning community combines a section of Freshman Seminar taught by music faculty with MUSI-100, Basic Musicianship, which all Music majors need in their first semester, and MUSI-225, History of Jazz. |
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| The Seekers: Designed for students who are looking for a major, this two-semester Learning Community helps students explore possible areas of study, discover more about themselves and their relationships with others, and develop multicultural competency. Because many of the tools used to explore majors involve psychology, this is a great learning community for students planning to major in Psychology, too! |
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Social Work: This learning community will study the historical development of social welfare, social work, and various social services. Will also focus on the nature, causes, and extent of major social problems, and will provide case examples of how people are affected by such problems. Emphasis will be placed on various counseling techniques, analysis of social policy issues, and the roles, functions, and responsibilities of the social work domain. |
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| Teacher Education: This community is designed to meet the needs of education majors by creatively combining required core courses. Students learn topics and issues that are easily adaptable to the lower grades, and they will be able to begin a collection of topics that will form the basis for the development of their future lessons. |
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| Theater: This learning community will explore drama and the art and craft of the theatre, with special attention to the role of the theatre in modern society. Students will work with FSU Theatre Company productions. |
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*CHEER-friendly: CHEER Scholars can fit these learning communities into their schedule