4. Course Overview: Welcome! This class is designed for come ining pupils who plan to major in biological science at IUPUI. The overall end is to ease your entry into IUPUI. and assist you win in college. We will be constructing on academic accomplishments you already have and presenting you to the many resources available at IUPUI. During the summer. you will be portion of the Summer Bridge. and will take part in activities with other groups of pupils. During the autumn. we will be a subdivision of Windows on Science ( Science learning community. subdivision 10316 ) which is a one recognition class.

The last meeting of the Windows on Science will be October 25. when we register for Spring 2013 categories. As portion of the IUPUI span plan. we will concentrate on presenting you to the campus and preparing you for college-level coursework. This category will utilize Oncourse ( oncourse. iu. edu ) to post classs. do proclamations. etc. During the summer and autumn you will run into several people in the School of Science. including at least one of the professors learning one of your autumn categories. These meetings will be rather informal and let you to larn more about scientific discipline. and about the classs they teach and what it takes to win in them.

It will besides do it easier to travel to them for aid if you need it subsequently. 5. Research Projects: Most of you know that scientific discipline is based on tonss of accrued cognition. but you may non recognize it besides requires the ability to conceive of what comes following. and/or advanced ways to utilize and convey that cognition to others. During the summer and autumn you will work independently on three undertakings designed to present you to the civilization and creativeness of scientific discipline. and the value of both imaginativeness and cognition.

Two of the undertakings will be done as persons working on topics of their ain choosing. and the 3rd will be the whole category working on a individual subject. To help you with these undertakings you will be introduced to the university’s library system. the authorship centre ( college-level authorship ) . and the communicating section ( college-level unwritten presentations ) . These will assist you non merely with the span undertakings but subsequently with Eng-W 131 and Comm-R 110. the composing and communicating classs required for about every major at IUPUI.

Both of the single undertakings will stop with an unwritten presentation that will besides include power point slides – if you need assist with power point merely inquire either the wise man or Dr. Ulbright for aid. The first single research undertaking ( Imagination ) will concentrate on the function of imaginativeness in scientific work. For this research undertaking you will choose a job affecting society or your community and come up with a fresh thought of how you could utilize scientific discipline to work out it. This job can be economic. societal. ecological. wellness or any other class – the pick is yours.

The solution can be as real-world or every bit inventive as you wish but it must be at least partially based on some existent scientific discipline. This will climax on August 15 or 16 with a short ( 3 -5 proceedingss long ) unwritten presentation and a short ( 250 word ) paper. In both the presentation and the paper you should • explicate what the job is • explain why you chose it • depict your solution with relevant inside informations • suggest what should be considered in planing the solution ( s ) • note any new job ( s ) that you think your solution might do.

The 2nd single research undertaking ( Knowledge ) will allow you go an expert in one country where scientific discipline has a covert or open community impact. You will briefly discourse how and what countries of scientific discipline are involved. and likely will desire to take a subject you can associate to your proposed major and/or calling. On August 23 or 30 you will give a five-minute talk about your subject. including at least 6 PowerPoint slides. On August 23 you will manus in a 250 word summary/essayg ; ER. g’Erglo on it. As portion of this undertaking you will larn how to utilize the electronic library resources for college-level research and literature hunts.

During span you will be introduced to the IUPUI library resources and as portion of this undertaking you will happen two ( 2 ) pertinent research articles and one non-peer-reviewed but believable beginning covering with your topic. You may non utilize Wikipedia. or any dictionary or encyclopaedia. The 3rd. whole-class undertaking ( Service ) will hold two parts – both will utilize your media and engineering accomplishments. plus your cognition of biological science.

The category will make up one’s mind on the two undertakings they will make. For the first undertaking. which will be done during Bridge. there is a pick of working with 2nd class or high school topics. For both. the thought is to make an exercising covering a needed scientific discipline subject and doing scientific discipline interesting. Besides media accomplishments. this will pull on your imaginativeness. and your thoughts of what pupils like. We have lists of subjects for both class degrees. The 2nd undertaking. which we will make one time the semester starts. is to make tutorial presentations to assist high school pupils master some of the tougher constructs in biological science – for illustration. the biochemistry of photosynthesis. miosis. etc.

This undertaking will besides assist many of our span pupils because these topics are covered in K101. We will seek to complete both undertakings by September 29 ( depends on when the selected subjects are covered in K101 ) . For excess recognition. members of the Bridge category will see the 2nd class schoolroom. 6. Bridge Scrapbook – during the autumn semester the category will choose images from the Bridge and autumn semester images. and make a power point “scrapbook” . Students will work in the squads they had for their scavenger Hunt. This is due Oct 18. 7. Goals: The ends of this Bridge/Window class include:

• To assist you develop the accomplishments for success in college. Should you hold any concerns about physical. academic or other challenges you may confront as you start college. we will assist you larn about solutions and aid available to you at IUPUI and do every attempt to help you in doing your Bridge and first twelvemonth experience successful. • To develop a group of friends who will be in some of your categories • To portion information on campus resources. • To supply a context for measuring involvements. values. and abilities so you can do the most of your clip at the university.

• To supply a topographic point for pupils to set up a support web at the University. including module. staff. bibliothecs. and pupils. • To present pupils to the IUPUI Principles of Undergraduate Learning. • To heighten understanding and regard for values and patterns of the academic community. including regard for diverseness. the unfastened exchange of thoughts. collegiality. and academic and scientific unity. 8. Course Requirements: • Attend category on a regular basis. be on clip. and actively take part in category treatments and activities. including fieldtrips.

If you must be absent. advise the teacher ( Ulbright ) before category. • Complete the four undertakings. For the Imagination and Knowledge undertakings. show your work as an unwritten presentation that includes PowerPoint. For the cognition undertaking – submit a 250 essay sum uping what you learned. For the two Service “Teaching Science” undertakings. work with the category to finish and subject your portion by the due day of the months. • Learn how to utilize engineerings such as Oncourse and information resources. • Complete assignments and subject them by the due day of the month. • Submit day-to-day diaries and other assignments via Oncourse.

• Meet with the module member at least one time before October 1. • Meet the pupil wise man outside of category before October 1. • Meet with the adviser and finish your preliminary academic program by October 11. 2012. Submit your proposed agenda ( OneStart shopping cart ) by October 18. • Register for spring 2013 on October 25. 2012. • Attend two campus activities/events. • Shadow or interview person working in a occupation you are sing as your calling or that is similar ( we may make this during one of our category periods ) • There is NO FINAL EXAM in Windows – Yay! 9. Classs:

Assignments. attending. diaries and exercisings during Bridge will be portion of your Windows class. Graded constituents will include: • Imagination Project – 40 points • Knowledge Project – 100 points • Service Project – 100 points • Meeting with adviser to be after spring agenda prior to Oct 11 – 25 points • Meeting with pupil wise man during September – 20 points • Meeting with module wise man before Oct. 1 – 20 points • Journals – 10 points each • Attendance – 10 points per category meeting ( including Bridge ) • Registration – 20 points • Career Shadowing – 20 points.

• Campus events/activities – 10 points each ( you may make extra 1s for excess recognition ) • Career Assignment – 20 points • Time Management – 10 points • Scrapbook – 15 points • Other assignments will be announced Grade Scale: A = 90 % and above of possible points B = 80 % C = 70 % D = 60 % F = less than 60 % 10. Basic Policies Attendance: As you begin your college calling at IUPUI. go toing your classs on a regular basis and on clip will be critical to going a successful pupil. You have made a important committedness to yourself. your college. your schoolmates. and your professors to be involved in the categories for which you have enrolled.

Students who are present and participate are best able to larn ; those who on a regular basis attend category. come prepared and on clip. and participate are besides in the best place to show what they have learned. Since your college calling begins with the Summer Bridge. we encourage you to do attending and arrival times a precedence. Admission in the Summer Academy is a privilege ; hence. we expect perfect attending. We besides expect you to get to your categories on clip and remain for the full twenty-four hours.

If you are non willing to perpetrate to hone attending and geting to category on clip. so we would wish to offer your place in the plan to person who is committed. Merely documented absences for echt exigencies will be excusable. and there will be grade punishments for uncomplete engagement and tardiness. With traffic. parking. etc. you might hold problem acquiring to category on clip. so being 15 proceedingss late one time will be overlooked. After the first late reaching. each clip you arrive late or leave early you will lose the points for that category meeting.

For each unexcused absence during the autumn semester your class will be lowered by 1/3 ( for illustration. from an A to an A- ) . In add-on. if you miss more than two category meetings during the first four hebdomads of the autumn semester without a valid alibi you will be administratively withdrawn from the autumn portion of the category ( Windows on Science ) . Administrative backdown may hold academic. fiscal assistance. and fiscal deductions. Since it occurs after the refund period has ended you will non be eligible for a refund. and it will be hard to add a category to replace the recognition hr.

If you have inquiries about the administrative backdown or attending policies at any point in the semester. delight reach me ( Dr. Ulbright ) . Please maintain in close touch with me if you are unable to go to category or finish an assignment on clip – together we can normally happen a solution. Civility and Conduct: Both Bridge and Windows should supply pupils the chance to understand and pattern behaviours which support their acquisition and that of others within an ambiance of common regard.

This should include outlooks related to esteem for the rights of others. credence of one’s duties as a member of a community of scholars. and the pattern of academic unity. such as the following from the IUPUI Code of Student Rights. Responsibilities. and Conduct [ hypertext transfer protocol: //www. iupui. edu/code ] : The University has certain outlooks as to the civility of our campus community. Among those values is furthering a clime of civility and common regard regardless of race. gender. age. or position in the establishment. IUPUI has achieved much of its promise as an urban university because we work together toward common terminals.

Because the university is so complex and diverse. nevertheless. we will non ever agree with one another. When we disagree it must be done with civility. We encourage everyone to talk and move judiciously and with regard for one another. Besides among our values are academic freedom and an unfastened exchange of thoughts and sentiments. However. when there are messages displayed that promote divisiveness in our academic community we have an duty to reprobate those messages as being antithetical to our university ideals and sense of shared duty for each other’s public assistance.

If we are to be true to our committedness to diverseness and be welcoming to all. everyone must make his or her portion. We know the awful bequest of unopposed statements of racial divisiveness and fulmination. If we don’t deter such statements. they become perniciously acceptable and poison the clime of trust and regard we strive to keep. When apathy leads us to allow favoritism or torment because we ourselves are non objects of such behaviour. we have failed our community. No set of regulations or policies can entirely regulate human behavior.

Civility is a delicate concept that each of us must care for and continue. Academic Integrity and Plagiarism: IUPUI has high outlooks of its pupils. Academic and personal misconduct by pupils is defined and will be dealt with harmonizing to the processs specified in the IUPUI Code of Student Rights. Responsibilities. and Conduct [ hypertext transfer protocol: //www. iupui. edu/code ] . There are five cardinal values that this academic community expects: honestness. equity. regard. duty and trust.

It is of import for pupils to be cognizant of the outlooks of IUPUI sing single class work. including Oncourse assignments and scrutinies. Students should be cognizant of the regulations which govern their behaviour. both on and off campus. and cognizant of the effects of doing hapless picks. Teachers have tools available through Oncourse which enable monitoring of their activity within the practical schoolroom and plans such as Turnitin to observe plagiarism. and these tools can be used as grounds of academic misconduct.

Please see that keeping yourself to high criterions of academic unity in your college work will probably be of import to you in some manner in your hereafter. Academic dishonesty bounds the sum of existent acquisition you can carry through – non larning stuff good in a one category means you are ill prepared for the following category and may later consequence your occupation public presentation in the hereafter – regardless of whether you are “caught” or non. We hope the individual ciphering the dose of radiation you will have truly did gain that “A” in Physics.

Class Etiquette: The freshman seminar class is structured to be a clip for larning within a civil model. Inappropriate speaking. eating. texting or working on other coursework during the category session should be avoided. Inappropriate pupil behaviour non contributing to the proper operation of the category will be identified and dealt with instantly. Probationary Fall Agenda 2012 Windows ( Bridge ) Section 10316 Room BS 3012 Thursdays 3:00 – 4:50pm August 23 IUPUI resources ( on-line and on-campus ) . clip to work on Service undertaking. First set of Knowledge Orals.

August 30 Rest of Knowledge Orals September 6 Medical Museum September 13 Service Project and Advising September 20 TBA September 27 Role of Science in American Culture. Ethical motives and Science October 4 Principles of Undergraduate Education. Professional and Graduate Programs October 11 Eiteljorg Museum ; Career Assignment due October 18 Study abroad. Following semester’s profs. Scrapbook and Schedules with subdivisions due October 25 Registration. Pizza. Last Class.