College Terms
This key document outlines everything you need to know about a course including dates assignments are due, grading policies, late policies, and office hours
What is a syllabus?
As soon as you enroll in a course, you can find a list with these items in your Student Center
What is a textbook list?
The first university in Nevada
What is UNR?
This page length for resumes is especially well-suited for anyone with one to ten years of relevant work experience, current students, or recent college graduates
What is a one-page resume?
This Canadian award-winning artist is known for hits like "After Hours" and "Blinding Lights." One of our seniors will go to his concert over the summer!
What is the Weeknd?
A building on a college campus that is devoted to student activities and that usually contains lounges, auditoriums, offices, and game rooms.
What is the student union?
Rent or buy used books online or on campus, rent temporary digital copies
What’s the smartest way to save money on textbooks?
The mission of this organization is to empower the voice of the undergraduate student population, provide resources to enhance the student experience, and help build community on the UNLV campus. Getting involved with this organization is a great way to build leadership skills that can help you beyond the classroom and your UNLV career.
What is UNLV CSUN/student government?
This resume format allows you to list your experiences from most recent work experience to least recent, emphasizing the most relevant skills
What is a chronological resume?
More than one of our seniors is visiting this country in Central America over the summer
What is El Salvador?
This person helps you decide on courses, majors/minors, dropping or withdrawing from a course, and more
What is an academic advisor?
Most colleges don't ask for students to declare a major until the end of ___.
What is sophomore year?
All _________ contain the following spaces that can be reserved in advance to study:
-Quiet Study rooms
-Reserved Group rooms
-Collaborative spaces
-Multimedia spaces
-Solo study pods
What are NV libraries?
Collaborated, directed, organized, designed and planned are all examples of the types of words recommended for resumes
What are active verbs?
One of our seniors is visiting this city during the summer, and it is the capital of the Dominican Republic
What is Punta Cana?
UNLV defines these students as those who have earned at least 24 transferable credits from a regionally accredited postsecondary institution upon application to UNLV.
What are transfer students?
Provides personalized help with the course and helps you build a network of recommenders for future letters of recommendations to graduate school
What is a key benefit of attending a professor’s office hours?
Students who_____________ can gain foreign language skills important to many careers, as well as understand our changing society and planet from a global perspective. These programs give students special insights into global politics, international economics, and planetary environmental preservation efforts, which can help shape the future. CSN, UNLV, and UNR all offer these programs and allow for students to fund their expenses through financial aid.
What is study abroad?
These descriptions in resumes should contain specific descriptors about your previous work meant to be fact-based rather than flowery or exaggerated, also meant to express not impress.
What are resume experiences?
This city is home to BYU and is the fourth largest city in Utah where a couple of our seniors will be living very soon!
What is Provo, Utah?
This allows a student to study aspects of a particular concentration that interests them and is focused on providing them general information about the field that they can use in their future career. (Hint: Requires less classes).
What is a minor?
What are common graduate school/med school/law school requirements?
The following are all examples of ______:
Lied, School of Medicine, Architecture Studies, Music, Teacher Development & Resources, Special Collections & Archive, Law
What are UNLV Libraries/library branches/locations?
In resumes, these are some examples of____:
What are common resume mistakes?
One of our seniors is attending this liberal arts college in Oregon which is also famously the college Steve Jobs briefly attended for a year
What is Reed College?