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. We reviewed it in Week 1.
What is a syllabus?
The ability to use the hours of each day effectively or productively.
What is time management?
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?
A field or group of jobs aligned by similar duties and required skills. You had to explore two of them for the Focus-2 Career Research assignment.
What is an occupation?
A 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 the programs, courses and policies of a college. You are responsible for being familiar with it.
What is the academic catalog?
The process of interacting with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts. It's important to do with your professors, especially if you need recommendations.
What is networking?
This office supports student clubs and athletics.
What is Student Activities?
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?
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?
You can get help with essays from this office.
What is the Writing Center?
An aspect of who you are that relates to your awareness of belonging to certain groups. Some categories include gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic class.
What is social identity?
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?
The ability to bounce back after a setback.
What is resilience?
If you want assistance paying for college, you need to complete this form every year.
For DOUBLE the points, state the full name of the form.
What is the FAFSA?
A course you are required to pass before you can take a subsequent course, For example, you need to pass Anatomy & Physiology I before you can take Anatomy & Physiology II.
What is a prerequisite?
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?
Historically, this term was used to describe college students over the age of 24 who have responsibilities beyond the classroom, like full-time jobs. This population of students in increasing at colleges across the U.S.
What is non-traditional?
The process of analyzing and evaluating a problem, situation or evidence to form a judgment. You practiced this skill by evaluating your knowledge regarding a controversial statement.
What is critical thinking?
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?
Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, or thinking about thinking. It's important for critical thinking.
What is metacognition?