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Course Specifics
You ask, you learn, You live, you learn - Alanis Morsettte, You Learn.
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Form SBO. Foundation Seminar Objectives
Student ...................................................... FN .......
Date ..............
Bucknell's Arts and Science faculty decided to require Foundation Seminars
in order to foster the objectives listed below.
Which of these objectives are most important to you? Put an "M' next
to those.
Which of these objectives are least important to you? Put an "L"
next to those.
Are there any of these objectives that you don't think you understand? Put
a "?" next to those.
The Objectives
..... 1. Encourage students to reflect on the nature and character
of the undergraduate
years in relation to lifelong learning.
..... 2. Promote active learning and responsibility....encourage students
to become
accountable for their own learning.
..... 3. Stress responsibility for one's behavior, in general and in an
academic context.
..... 4. Emphasize collaborative learning.
..... 5. Incorporate creative problem-solving, i.e., posing problems/questions
and assisting
students in working toward solutions.
..... 6. Foster intellectual development through reading, speaking, listening,
and writing.
..... 7. Improve students' ability to analyze and interpret materials they
encounter, to
synthesize and communicate the results of their studies, and to create works
of their
own.
..... 8. Teach information-retrieval skills through library instruction
and assignments
addressing computer literacy (e.g., word processing, simulations, use of
a database,
or analysis of data).
..... 9. Encourage students to see the limitations of a single viewpoint
by exposing them to
multiple perspectives.
.....10. Develop the capacity to evaluate arguments by understanding the
nature and uses of
evidence.
.....11. Emphasize the interconnectedness of knowledge.
.....12. Provide a launching point for a student's Bucknell educational
experience.
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