Counseling
Why meet with your academic/puente counselor?
Answers may vary:
1. complete/alter your educational plan
2. Choose classes for following semester
3. Recommendation or teachers and classes
4. Research universities together
5. Major change/options
6. Motivation and Inspiration
7. Letter of recommendations
8. Scholarship Help
On what days does Professor Mayers usually bring pan dulce and fruit?
On the days that essay projects are due and we have a small celebration in class and then a metacognitive reflection discussion on the process of planning and writing the essay.
What classes are required for Puente program in Fall semesters?
1. English 1A and 1AS
2. AAPS 103
You need ______________ to transfer?
(answer is more than a number)
60 UC/CSU transferrable units
What is CCSF's mascot?
RAM
How often and why should you meet with your mentor?
At least once a month.
Any of these is correct:
To connect, network, feel supported, ask questions, get ideas or advice, etc.
What is a summary?
A summary is an attempt to capture the main ideas and subpoints of an author’s text in our own words. We don’t add our opinion about the ideas but try to interpret whet they are saying.
What are the inter-segmental components of the Puente Program?
Counseling, Writing and Mentoring
Name the three Puente events that we attended this FL 2023 semester?
1. Ocean Campus Tour
2. TMC (at UC Davis)
3. Mentor/ Mentee Event
Name 4 out of the 6 CCSF campuses/centers?
1. Mission
2. Ocean
3. John Adams
4. ChinaTow/North Beach
5. Evans
6. Downtown
How can you make an appointment with Ms. Rivera? Share the 3 ways!
Email her at arivera@ccsf.edu, text her google # or in person.
In Jose Antonio Vargas’ book Dear America, how does novelist Toni Morrison define the “master narrative”?
A commonly believed story created by people in power and forced on everyone else. In her words, “The Master Narrative is whatever ideological script that is being imposed by the people in authority on everybody else: The Master Fiction . . . history.”
Who was the keynote speaker for Transfer Motivational Conference?
Dr. Christopher Emdin
What are the courses considered the "Golden Four" for CSU's?
1. English Composition (ENGL 1A)
2. Critical Thinking (ENGL 1B)
3. Communications (Speech)
3. Math (transferable- higher than math70)
What is the address for CCSF Mission Center?
1125 Valencia St. San Francisco CA 94110
What are the three projects you completed in AAPS 103 class?
1. College Resources Project
2. PIQ's/ Personal Statement Project
3. Academic Goals and Transfer Project
What are some ways we discussed this semester about reclaiming our narratives?
Telling our own stories can be an active of resistance in the sense that they can contradict, challenge, and disrupt dominant narratives that are created by people in power, spread through media, and stereotype others. Oral history (or ethnography, testimonio, etc.) is a good way to do this. Speaking out in Congress and in public is another way. Publishing stories on websites.
What are the required classes and events for Puente program?
Fall semester- AAPS 103 and ENGL 1A/1AS
Spring semester- ENGL 1B
EVENTS: All of the events
Name the 9 UC campuses?
Full name of the Dean of the Mission Center.
Gregoria Cahill
Name atleast five CCSF resources that you learned about in AAPS 103?
Puente
EOPS
Student Health Center
Transfer Center
Career presentation
SCUBE
Tutoring (STAR)
In “Let Us Be the Healing of the Wound,” what does Gloria Anzaldua mean by conocimiento, or understanding?
After a period of “desconocimiento,” in which an individual, group, or nation is stuck in a sort of vortex of darkness and disconnection, “conocimiento,” or understanding, is a sort of reconciliation with, and awareness of, a facing of the trauma, which names it and brings it out into the light. This is the where the healing process begins through what she calls “spiritual activism.”
In her words, conocimiento is “the potential of knowing within, an awareness and intelligence not grasped by logical thought.”
Explain in detail the goal of the CCSF Puente model?
Puente is an inter-segmental program co-sponsored by UCB anf the California Community College Chancellor's Office. Open to All students interested in Latinx literature and culture. Puente is an academic and community leadership program designed to increase the number of academically undeserved community college students transferring to four-year colleges. Puente meets this goal through an integrated program that combines writing, counseling and mentoring.
You met a friend in the first week of your LALS 5 (Introduction to Statistical Methods in Latin American and Latino/a Studies) class and they mentioned that they are are in their last year before transferring, and that they are going to apply to UC's only UCLA, UCSC, others), and want to major in Sociology.
They confessed that they've only met with a counselor once and not sure if the courses that they are taking are needed for their major-- what do you do? what do you show them? please come up to the board and show them where and what to look for.
Answer may include: Visually showing assist.org, explaing IGETC, showing them the CCSF counseling webpage, giving them Ms. Rivera's email. Visiting UC's webpages.
What is the CCSF free city program?
Free City is a partnership between City College and the City & County of San Francisco to provide its residents free tuition to City College.
**If you drop after the deadline to receive a full refund, then you are liable for all applicable fees, including enrollment fees/tuition for each course dropped, and the money will be returned to the Free City Program.