First-Year Forum
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The Liberal Arts Core Guidebook offers this general description: The First Year Forum is a required one-credit seminar designed to orient students to the
university and to studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. A Forum is led by a regular member of
the faculty who has volunteered to lead a seminar of 15 students. Frequently the faculty member is also
the studentŐs academic advisor. Faculty members meet with their Forum once a week for the first 8 to 9
weeks of the semester for discussions that range from important intellectual issues to significant
problems of adjustment to the university. The content of each Forum varies from section to section and
is determined by each Forum Leader, who may involve the students in some of the choices of topics and
activities. There are, however, common elements across the Forum seminars. Forum Leaders take their
students to dinner and together they attend some local cultural event -- the symphony, a play, a museum
exhibit. Forum sections will attend the First Year Lecture together and incorporate discussion of it in
their seminar meetings. Among the major purposes of the Forum is to make sure students get to know a
faculty member personally and in some context other than that of an academically specialized course.
Another major purpose is to see that faculty members are getting to know first year students in a deeper
way than is usually possible in regular courses. All first year students in the College are required to
participate in a First Year Forum
This section of CAS 101 will focus on time management, critical listening skills, writing from sources, and whatever additional issues the class members find compelling in their adjustments to college-level work and college life.
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CAS 101
First-Year Forum
Fall 2006
Syracuse University
Time: Tuesdays 12:30-1:50 p.m.
Place: Physics 126B
Rebecca Moore Howard
Office: 237 HB Crouse
Office hours
Phone 315-443-1620
rehoward@syr.edu
FAX: 315-691-9821
AIM: ProfBfromWV
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