Getting What You Came For
A specific area of study in which a student chooses to specialize in college.
What is a major?
Course "contract" that provides information about course expectations and policies. You took a quiz on it in Week 1.
What is a syllabus?
The ability to use the hours of each day effectively or productively.
What is time management?
Office responsible for helping students develop and participate in clubs and extracurricular learning.
What is Student Activities?
The "M" in SMART goal
What is measurable?
Measure related to the number of hours of instruction you receive. You need a certain number of them to graduate.
What are credits?
A publication that lists all of the programs, courses and academic policies of a college. You are responsible for being familiar with it.
What is the academic catalog?
A common writing issue in which two complete sentences are fused together without punctuation or with a comma.
What is a run-on sentence?
A staff member at the college who helps you register for classes and develop your academic and career goals.
What is an advisor / Guided Pathways advisor?
Research that has been evaluated by other experts in the field, usually published in academic journals.
What is a peer-reviewed article?
The award you receive from CT State that requires you complete 60 or more credits.
What is an associate degree?
Using someone's words as your own. You can get an F for it.
What is plagiarism?
The ability to bounce back after a setback.
What is resilience?
You can get help with essays from this office.
What is the Writing Center?
Leveling the playing field so that everyone’s needs are anticipated and everyone has an equal starting point. Remember the bicycle and baseball fence examples?
What is equity?
The GPA required to stay in good academic standing.
What is 2.0?
A temporary grade that allows a student extra time to complete coursework if they have an extenuating circumstance.
What is an incomplete?
A method of note-taking with a column for notes on the right, questions on the left and summary area at the bottom.
What is the Cornell method?
A searchable online collection of reliable academic sources, including journals, e-books, and newspaper articles. We accessed a few of them during our library research module.
What is a database?
The process of analyzing and evaluating a problem, situation or evidence to form a judgment. I seem to mention it in every class!
What is critical thinking?
You'll need to apply and have an audit of your courses before you can participate in this event. It is not automatic!
What is graduation?
Persistent, disproportionate feelings of worry, often without a clear cause. It is a commom mental health concern for students.
What is anxiety?
The ability to recognize when more knowledge is needed and find and evaluate sources
What is information literacy?
Check with this department for scholarships and emergency financial assistance.
What is the Gateway Foundation?
Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, or thinking about thinking. It's important for critical thinking.
What is metacognition?