Your College Experience : Strategies for Success - Part 1 : Foundations - Chapter 1 : Welcome to Your College Experience

Collaborative Assignment

A learning activity in which you work and solve problems with your classmates (A high-impact practice).

Capstone Courses and Project

A course or experience taken during the senior year that requires students to reflect on what they learned in all their courses and create a project of some sort that integrates and applies that knowledge (A high-impact practice).

Campus-wide Common Intellectual Experience

A program in which students take required "common-core" courses, participate in a required learning community, or engage in other shared experiences such as a "common reading" (A high-impact practice).

First-year Seminars

The course in which you find yourself now, designed to prepare you for your college experience (A high-impact practice).

Global Learning or Diversity Experiences

Courses and programs in which you explore cultures, life experiences, and worldviews different from your own (A high-impact practice).

Internships

Direct experience in a work setting often related to your career interests.

Learning Communities

A program in which students take two or more "linked" courses with a group of other students, allowing them to work closely with each other and with instructors (A high-impact practice).

Service-learning

Unpaid volunteer service that is embedded in courses across the curriculum (A high-impact practice).

Undergraduate Research

A program that gives you the opportunity to participate in systematic investigation and research working one-on-one with a faculty member.

Writing-intensive courses

Courses across the curriculum that engage students in multiple forms of writing for different audiences. This textbook offers various writing-intensive course (A high-impact practice).