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U101: Understanding College and College Life

128 calificaciones

University of Washington

U101: Understanding College and College Life

128 calificaciones

College can be confusing and intimidating, but U101 can help. If you were just admitted to college and are nervous about what the next step in life might look like, this course is for you. If you are the parent of a newly admitted college student and curious about what college life is like, this course is also for you. While your specific college will, no doubt, provide additional orientation material, we wanted to give some basic information about what life might be like at a large American University. You might be years away from college or enrolled right now; either way, U101 has some excellent advice from college students, professors, administrators, and staff. At the conclusion of the course, learners should: 1. Understand the basics of how colleges and universities operate. 2. Identify and describe what faculty are looking for in college-level academic work. 3. List some effective study strategies. 4. Identify some strategies for exploring and selecting a major. 5. Identify the various types of grants and scholarships available and describe the steps involved in applying to these. 6. Discuss the college life, with special attention to the benefits/limitations of living on or off campus. 7. Identify some strategies for getting the most out of campus life activities (investigating student clubs, fraternities, sororities, etc.). The course is divided into 4 weeks/8 lessons, which provide an overview of the different aspects of college life. If you were just watching the videos and looking at some of the links, the whole course would take about 4-5 hours. Week 1 Lesson 1. Welcome to U101! Lesson 2. Understanding the Nature of College Week 2 Lesson 3. Succeeding as a Student Lesson 4. Building Your Major Week 3 Lesson 5. Financing Your Education Lesson 6. Living On and Off Campus Week 4 Lesson 7. Getting Involved in Campus Life Lesson 8. Conclusion Please join us for a short exploration of modern American Colleges. Hopefully, this course can help demystify your upcoming college experience.

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Understanding the Nature of College

Now that we have discussed the basic approach in this course, we can dive into the material. A good place to start would be understanding how the university operates. Modern universities are large, complex organizations employing thousands of different teaching and researching faculty, all of who have slightly different roles. College isn’t simply larger than high school, it is structured differently.

What's college life like?4:53

What do faculty do?5:25

How do colleges work?3:27

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Dr. Matt McGarrity
Principal Lecturer
UW Department of Communication
First Year Programs

Students might think of their professors as just teachers, and

they are teachers, but they do a whole lot else that maybe you don't see.

As we'll hear, professors focus on their teaching, both graduate and

undergraduate teaching, their research and their service.

And all of these work together to make a scholar,

who explores new ideas and concepts.

Brings those findings into the classroom, and

then works to make the university function better.

So we chatted with a few faculty members about their blend of teaching, research,

and service.

>> So as a faculty member at a large university,

I have the best job that I could possibly think of.

Every day, I'm oftentimes doing something that's different.

So there are days when I'm in the classroom

with a group of people that work in companies outside the university.

I'm with a group of students that have come to the university.

It's their second year and

they're just starting to learn about a particular discipline.

I'm in the lab working on some research, or

I'm out in the field collecting data, or I'm doing service in some organization.

And everyday, I might be doing four or five of those things in one day.

So my days are incredibly varied and interesting.

>> My research feeds my teaching.

That is I'm constantly working on research projects.

Which then feed back into my teaching and at the same time, the teaching,

the work in the classroom, it gives me an opportunity to see the object of my

research from a different angle, so they really feed each other.

>> My favorite thing about teaching is that lightbulb moment.

When you're working with students and there's that kind of

quizzical, I'm not quite following you, I don't quite get it look.

And you stop and you think, I'm gonna explain this in another way.

I'm gonna show you what I'm talking about in another way.

And a student will say, oh, I get it.

And beyond that they'll say, that's cool, that's really what I wanna do.

And those moments where you can just feel a student leap ahead in knowledge,

and in enthusiasm and desire for doing something.

That's what I live for as a professor.

>> So one of the research projects that we're working on right now,

is a project that involves students from across the university.

I have a team of 60 students and from 15 different departments, and we're taking

a gasoline powered vehicle, and we're converting it into a plug-in hybrid.

It happens to be a 2016 Camaro.

So we've had the drawings for this car for about nine months now.

We've just completed our initial design.

And by the end of the year, we'll have a brand new hybrid Camaro.

>> So as a faculty member at a university,

a huge part of my job starts with discovery.

So discovery is kind of figuring out what the boundaries are of what we know about

my area, and then expanding those boundaries.

And that's usually with students at all levels that I'm working with,

whether in lab or in field environments.

And then, there are times, when I'm out there taking what we've discovered and

we know how it works into the field working with organizations.

And my work has taken me around the world with some of the people that I

work with here.

Some of the students, and some other faculty.

>> Well the really cool thing about science is, it evolves.

Every single day, we find out something new in science.

So it's very, very hard to teach science from a textbook.

Because the second that it's printed, it's out of date.

And the really great thing about being at a university is, you are surrounded

by people who are discovering new things in science every day.

And they're bringing those discoveries into the classroom.

So you get the newest, freshest science by being a student.

>> So the typical faculty member at the Lodge Research University is involved in

three aspects.

Research, teaching, and service.

Throughout my career, I have focused on the service part and the research as well,

but my service activities have always been focused on serving students.

So, I've been on student committees that helped revise the student conduct code.

We look at making policies and practices at the university that help students.

>> The coolest thing that I do is called citizen science.

And so, I ask really broad scale questions over entire continents or oceans,

and I involve hundreds, even thousands of people in doing my research with me.

So I'm out on the coast, in the coastal environment, all the time, with lots of

people, and we're all collecting data about what's happening with the ocean?

So to me, that's great,

because it takes science out beyond the ivory tower and it gives it to the public.

And in doing that, the public is much more connected to the university.

>> Research, teaching, and service.

This is what a professor does.

This is what a scholar does.

It is how faculty get hired.

It's how they get promoted.

By analyzing that blend of research, teaching, and service.

Hopefully, understanding this can help you understand your professor a little

bit better, and what he or she does.

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