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The City & the Campus
Academic Skills & Services
Academic Honesty & Miscellaneous
Academic Communication
Educational Goals
100
The name of Pittsburgh's city bus system
What is Port Authority?
100
Where you can go for peer tutoring
What is The Academic Resource Center?
100
A broad term used to describe when a person passes off someone else's work as his/her own
What is plagiarism?
100
Name something you should NOT do when communicating with a professor via e-mail
What is not use a salutation, not list your name, spelling/grammar mistakes, use informal abbreviations (UR, LOL), unprofessional excuses for missing class or assignments? (any one of these possibilities counts)
100
When you need to declare a major
What is end of sophomore year?
200
The predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh
What is Squirrel Hill?
200
The building that houses the Writing Center and the Math Center
What is O'Hara Student Center?
200
True or False Whether the following scenario constitutes plagiarism: If you let a friend use your essay to write his/her own, if the friend rewords every line and rearranges paragraphs, and turns it in for a class different than yours and taught by a different instructor
What is true?
200
How to address a teaching assistant or someone whose title you don't know
What is start with the most formal/respectful (Professor, Dr., Ms., Mr.) and let the person tell you how to address him/her (watch how they sign e-mails)
200
the study abroad office Web site, your first stop for browsing possibilities for studying abroad
What is www.abroad.pitt.edu?
300
Where to go if you need to change your meal plan
What is Panther Central?
300
The building that houses the ARC
What is the Gardner Steel Conference Center?
300
Name a reason why Academic Integrity is important
What is because original critical thinking and learning are called for in college classes and the workplace beyond?
300
What to do if you need to meet with a professor but can't make it to his/her office hours
What is send a polite e-mail request for another time (best to list a few different time slots)
300
What to do if a minor you want isn't listed as a possible minor by the Advising Office
What is list it as a related study area or explore other options?
400
Name the industry that Pittsburgh was known for historically, and name one major entrepreneur in this industry.
What is the steel industry; possible names: Carnegie, Mellon, Frick, Westinghouse?
400
A type of source that is based on in-depth research and that is higher in quality for reliable scholarship
What is a scholarly article?
400
The service that links Pitt students to Pittsburgh's art community, with free Pitt-ID museum entrances, discounted tickets to cultural events such as the opera, symphony orchestra, ballet, theater performances, etc.
What is PITT ARTS?
400
List 3 things you should do when asking for a rec letter, in order to help your professor write a good one
What is ask in person, give at least 2 weeks notice, provide supporting documentation (resume, essays), give any required forms, SASE, reminder, thank-you note
400
About how many hours are spent on out-of-class work/studying for each hour spent in class per week? (General assumptions for time management at Universities.)
What is approximately 3 hours per 1 hour of class (~4 hours per class X 12 hours = 48 hours/week)
500
Where the Student Health Center is located
What is Nordenberg Hall?
500
How to reserve a Pitt Library-owned book from your computer
What is use the "Get It" option under your My Account in PittCat?
500
The acronym that represents the library service through which you can borrow a book from New York University, for example, through Pitt (if Pitt does not own the title).
What is ILL (Inter-Library Loan)?
500
The link on CourseWeb where you can find a link to your advisor
What is "My Organizations"?
500
Name the kind of education that promotes critical thinking, which 1/3 of the Fortune 500 CEOs have obtained
What is liberal arts education?