We are once again offering 1-credit summer seminars to support our incoming first-year and transfer students during summer session II (July 5–August 5, 2022).
Our incoming class will be invited to take a 1-credit course for free and up to two additional 1-credit courses at a highly discounted rate. These courses are optional for students.
The aim is to cultivate connection, encourage engagement, stimulate success, and establish and maintain a point of contact as our new cohort ready themselves for the lifechanging leap of joining us as IC students.
Two 1-credit foundation courses––'College' and 'Community'––work in tandem to encourage students to reflect on their transition to college and to engage with the intellectual communities of IC. To support instructors in the delivery of these courses, course templates (pre-prepared Canvas site, syllabus, weekly readings, discussion prompts, etc.) are provided as a starting point:
College: Learning to Learn
Interrogate your assumptions about education, conduct experiments on your own learning habits, and apply the science of success to your transformation from high school to college student.
Community: Exploring the People and Places of IC
Meet new students from every corner of IC and work together to explore what it means to be a part of a community––on campus and beyond.
As a showcase of the incredible knowledge across campus, students will also be able to choose from a variety of focused topics designed to foster the passion and skills for learning that come from a 'deep dive' into a subject, issue, or debate. Instructors are invited to develop their own 'Deep Dive' in an area of interest and expertise:
Deep Dive
Rotating special topics invite you to delve into the pleasures of learning and explore new subjects and ideas.
All of the summer seminars will be: interdisciplinary and open to students from across the campus; graded pass/fail; approx. 20 students per section; online synchronous via Zoom (150 minutes per week); coordinated with common course descriptions and SLOs but multiple ways to deliver; built on instructor expertise and innovative pedagogies; universally designed for instruction and accessibility.
Instructors who teach these courses will be compensated at the rate of $1,776.50 per section.
To express your interest in teaching one or more sections of the 'College' and 'Community' courses, please respond to a short survey by Tuesday February 22.
To express your interest in offering a 'Deep Dive' in the list of available topics, please email Eric Machan Howd (ehowd@ithaca.edu) directly by Tuesday February 22.
We do hope you will consider joining us in this dynamic cross-campus collaboration,
Elizabeth Bleicher (Interim Director of Student Success and Retention)
Eric Machan Howd (Director of the Office of Extended Studies)
Andrew Utterson (Coordinator of the Ithaca Seminars)