- Understand the purpose of COR 101 and get to know your COR 101 classmates.
- Icebreakers
- Review syllabus
- Have students complete and turn in the Student Information Sheet
- Ask students to write down or discuss the purpose of COR 101
- Ask students what they want to get out of this seminar
- Ask what they expect of their instructor and TA
- Biographical Poem (PDF)
- Lifelines activity (PDF): a get to know you activity that gets students to think about the people in their life
- Sentence Game (PDF): a lighthearted activity to learn more about your students
- Icebreaker links (PDF): see additional activities to help get to know your students
- Learn the layout of campus
- Have student complete a Cortland Geography Quiz
- Arrange a Scavenger Hunt (PDF) on campus for photos of various campus offices and facilities. Break into teams and send them off!
- Ask students to draw a map of SUNY Cortland and how they perceive the campus.
- Introduce students to the library through the Jumble and Crossword activity (answer key to Jumble and Crossword puzzles) and/or a Self-Guided Tour with assignment (answer key is attached). You are also welcome to print the Library Guide for your students.
- If you would like to schedule an instructional class on databases, the catalog, or any other library-related topic, OR schedule a tour of the library, contact Sara Quimby, Reference and Instruction Librarian, via email at sara.quimby@cortland.edu or by phone at 607-753-4043.
- Demonstrate ability to navigate the Cortland website and myRedDragon
- Review critical policies and procedures and where to obtain information on these policies
- Have students identify all the campus sources of information
- Have each student identify important resources related to their major and goals
- Review Code of Conduct
- Have students visit Student Conduct website and critique the Code of Conduct
- Discuss norms, standards, and rules in class
- Ask your Teaching Assistant to come up with typical "scenarios" or case studies. Have students reflect in groups about what they would/would not do in situations.
- Ask Judicial Affairs to visit your class and lead a discussion.
- Begin to identify opportunities for involvementand how students would like to become involved on campus
- Have students share what they were involved with in high school and what they want to be involved in at Cortland
- Have each student investigate their interests and interview a student or faculty member involved with that interest
- Provide students with a list of clubs/organizations. Have students attend one meeting and report back to the class
- Activity Sheet (PDF): a tool for students to keep track of and reflect on their (on and off) campus activities
- Guidelines and Evaluation for Reflective Papers (PDF): is a resource to assist students when they write a reflective paper regarding their campus activities (created by Ellen Newman)
- Encourage student to utilize the Writing Recource Center website (create by English Department faculty)
- Spend some time discussing Academic Integrity by utilizing resoucres on the Academic Integrity website. Don't forget to assign activities like "You Quote It, You Note It!" or classroom activities from "Types of Plagiarism" or the Cite it? game to get all the students engaged with the topic.
- Writing guide with APA format (created by Ellen Jampole)
- Help students identify the culture of Cortland
- Encourage students to explore some aspect of the City of Cortland - a landmark, a festival, some history
- Ask students to participate in a SUNY Cortland tradition. Discuss what makes a tradition? How will they leave their mark at SUNY Cortland?
- Have the class create a collage of ideas, pictures, words that define Cortland. This can be done individually, in small groups, or as a large class project
- Have small groups create posters that capture an element of SUNY Cortland. Ask students to choose a theme and create a poster that captures that theme
- Encourage students to read The Dragon Chronicle, and discuss its contents.
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