Course Description
This course provides first-year Scholars opportunities to practice skills regarding motivation, academic, and career exploration; develop academic and professional skills; and, prepare for academic success at UGA. A cohort-based approach, the class builds a sustainable community during students' entry to the University.
Athena Title
Intro Seminar for Scholars
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
•Students will be able to articulate their educational goals and future academic goals •Students will be able to develop and sustain a strategic academic plan using requisite coaching and advising resources (e.g., Academic Coaching, Academic Advising, DegreeWorks, Exploratory Center, Mentors, and Career Center) •Students will be able to utilize learning strategies to maintain high levels of active cognitive engagement within varied academic environments, and with complex scholarly content to sustain necessary academic momentum and progress •Students will be able to regulate their productive, growth mindset when confronted with ideas, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that are different from their own •Students will be able to practice behaviors conducive to achieving high levels of academic performance (i.e., productive mindsets regarding impulse control, and anxiety and stress management) •Students will be able to practice appropriate and effective formal and informal interpersonal communicative professional skills and etiquette as they apply to academic settings. •Students will be able to apply understandings of motivational and attitudinal concepts as they relate to academic work and endeavors including, but not limited to: self-determination, motivation, mindsets, tenacity, grit, resilience, and perseverance
Topical Outline
•Goal setting •Mindset •Grit •Achievement behaviors •Professional communication skills •Motivation
Syllabus