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University Foundations Topics, Textbook Chapters, and Assignment/Activities Suggestions

Writing Assignments/Rubrics
Presentation Assignments/Rubrics

E-mail Assignments

Powerpoint/Turning Point Presentations

Ice Breakers/Team Building

Career Exploration
Diversity

Critical Thinking/Goal Setting

Study Skills, Learning Styles, Test Taking, Note Taking

Time Management

Safety & Wellness

Values/Ethics

EIU History & EIU Reads

Misc. Topics including Panel Discussion

Writing Assignments/Rubrics

• Personal Narrative - Writing assignment - how you were made to feel different, in the minority or discriminated against
• Then & Now - Writing assignment - compare college now vs 25 years ago
• Career Planning - Writing assignment - your life in 5 to 10 yrs
• College Goals & Expectations - Writing assignment - educational/career goals/expectations
• Majors/Careers  - Writing assignment - career/major choice using CSI results, Discover or Foundation Day activity
• Exploring Careers - Writing assignment - interview a professional in a career of your choosing
• College Pressures - Writing assignment - pressures felt as a freshman, college student, or person in 21st century
• "I am EIU"/Personal Mapping - Writing assignment
• Reflection on UF/Letter to President - Writing assignment
• Academic Foundation Day Assignment - Writing assignment - sample assignment
• Citizenship Project - Writing assignment - examine the experiences/what learned while completing project
• Campus Activity Report - Writing assignment - sample assignment
• End of Semester "Thank You" - Writing assignment
• Writing Assignment Grading Rubric
• Writing Assignment Evaluation Rubric
  
  

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Presentation Assignments/Rubrics

• Case Study Grading Rubric
• Case Analysis Worksheet
• Case Study Group Presentation - instructions
• Case Study Member Evaluation
• Case Study Group Evaluation
• Facebook - including case studies - power point
• RSO Presentation - Speaking assignment



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E-mail Assignments

• Facebook Assignment - email assignment - review facebook settings
• High School vs College - email assignment
• Critical Thinking - email assignment - Write about a time you made a critical decision
• Study Skills/Study Habits - email assignment - reflect on study habits
• Discrimination - email assignment - based on Blue Eyed/Brown Eyed experiment



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Powerpoint/Turning Point Presentations

• The Inside Scoop: What College Students Need to Know About Their Professors - Power Point

• Bloom's Taxonomy - Power Point - practice quiz
• Goal Setting: The Key to Managing Your Life - Power Point
• Goal Setting - Power Point
• Test Taking - Turning point - diagnostic inventory
• Taking Organized & Effective Notes & Reading to Remember - Power Point
• Note Taking -Power Point
• Time Management - Ideas for Managing Today, Tomorrow & Your Future. - Power Point

• Facebook - including case studies - Power Point
• Tolerance - Values & Ethics - Turning Point

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Ice Breakers/Team Building

• Misc. ice breakers
• Getting to Know ME
• Misc. team building exercises
• More team building & ice breaker exercises
• Are You Equal to the Task
• Connections
• Student-to-Student Interviews
• Bingo
• Icebreakers and Name Games
• Social Barometer Exercise
  • Web Sites:
  • http://www.oncourseworkshop.comStudent%20Success%20Strategies.htm
    
    

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Career Exploration

• Exploring Careers - Writing assignment - interview a professional in a career of your choosing
• It's My Life - researching an occupation of choice
• Majors/Careers - Writing Assignment - career/major choice using CSI results, Discover or Foundation Day activity
• College Goals & Expectations - Writing Assignment - educational/career goals/expectations
• Career Planning - Writing assignment - your life in 5 to 10 yrs
  
  

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Diversity

• Crossing the Line
• Diversity Continuum
• Loaded Words
• Stereotype Showdown
• Diversity: Rules/Definitions
• Personal Narrative Writing Assignment - how you were made to feel different, in the minority or discriminated against
  
  

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Critical Thinking/Goal Setting

• Are You Equal to the Task?
• Critical Thinking: Case Analysis Worksheet
• Bloom's Taxonomy
• Bloom's (Pt 2!)
• Bloom's Taxonomy - Power Point - practice quiz
• Goal Setting: The Key to Managing Your Life - Power Point
• Goal Setting - What is Goal Setting?
• Goal Setting the SMART/C way
  
  

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Study Skills, Test Taking, Note Taking, and Reading

• Calculate Your GPA
• How to Survey a Chapter
• SQ3R Reading Method
• Cornell Note Organization Format

• Taking Organized & Effective Notes & Reading to Remember - Power Point
• Note Taking -Power Point

• Test Taking - Power Point/turning point - diagnostic inventory
• Test Taking - same as above only paper version
• Setting the Time and Place for Studying
• Web Sites:
• http://www.howtostudy.org/
• http://www.sarc.sdes.ucf.edu/studyhandouts.php
• http://www3.delta.edu/tlc/TLCStudySupport/learninglinks.htm
• http://www.eiu.edu/~success/studytips.php
• http://www.eiu.edu/~success/testtaking.php
  
  

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Time Management

• Time Journals: Weekly Semester
• Time Management - Ideas for Managing Today, Tomorrow & Your Future. - Power Point
• Where Does the Time Go! - worksheet
• Time Exercise - worksheet
• Setting Priorities - worksheet
• Web Sites:
• http://www.eiu.edu/~success/time.php
  
  

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Safety & Wellness

• Missing Home - tips for when missing home
• Problem Roommates
• Campus Safety 
• Facebook Assignment - email assignment - review facebook settings

• Facebook - including case studies - power point

• Problems with Roommates
• College Pressures - Writing Assignment - pressures felt as a freshman, college student, or person in 21st century
  
  

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Values/Ethics

• Ethics & Values Clarification
• Ethics Questions
• Tolerance - Values & Ethics - Turning Point
• Life Boat
• Whom to Leave Behind
• Academic Honesty - from Baruch College - consequences of cheating and plagiarism
• Academic Honesty - What is the policy at EIU?
• Values Auction: Info Sheet   Auction Sheets
  
  

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EIU: History & Other

• EIU Jeopardy - power point
• EIU History - using turning point
• EIU/Charleston History (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire style) - turning point
• EIU Reads related assignment ideas
• EIU Reads - Youtube video
  
  

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Misc. Including panel discussion topics

• I Wish I Had Known: Concept Assignment - panel discussion
• Transitions - Transitional issues
• Transition to college & communicating with faculty - NY Times article
• How to Succeed in EIU 1111
• The Inside Scoop: What College Students Need to Know About Their Professors - Power Point
• Peer Leader Advice to Freshmen
• Relay for Life Citizenship Activity
• Class Project
  
  

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