MUSE - Faculty Resources: Workshop Ideas
Workshop Ideas
This is not intended to be an exhaustive list. It is provided just
to give you an idea of possibilities. While the list may seem long,
it really isn't because we hope to have 1 - 2 workshops per week in
Fall and Spring that would be available to all new students, not just
students enrolled in MUSE courses. MUSE students will be required
to attend probably 2 - 3 workshops during Fall. Generally, the workshops
should be 30 - 60 minutes in length.
Ideas for faculty and departments and service areas
- How to read a syllabus.
- Are you getting enough out of your course catalog and schedule
of classes?
- Did you pick the right major?
- How do you select a major?
- Stress management.
- Time management.
- Financial management and staying out of credit card debt.
- Reading, attending class, taking notes - how does it all fit
together?
- Tips for dealing with test anxiety.
- Left brain, right brain - who cares?
- Secrets to success in the library
- What is your course plan for the next three semesters - should
you plan that far ahead?
- How to get to know a professor and why would you ever want to
do that?
- What are my rights (and responsibilities) as a student at SJSU?
- How college is different from high school and how to benefit
from the differences.
- Tips on using the SJSU catalog.
- How do professors put courses together - it there some plan or
rationale and how can that information benefit me?
- 5 tips for effectively using the WWW for your class work
- 5 secrets of effective writing
- How to get started in community service work
- What does Coach Hill (or any other coach) tell his or her players
(designed to get students to meet some of our coaches to give them
a different perspective on the sports).
- Will college help me get a good job (why am I here)?
- Will what I eat affect my grades?
- Cultural Competency
- Dealing Intelligently with Gender Issues
- Tips for Staying Healthy
- The exciting history of SJSU (including a field trip).
- Picking GE courses - making it more meaningful.
- Completing your degree at SJSU in less than 7 years!! (planning
towards graduation - how to do it)
- How to prepare for finals.
- Would you want to become a professor?
- Meet students in your major (it would be great for professors
to put this together for any particular major - that is, find the
students and help them make the presentation + a Q&A).
- Introduction to campus resources (we will need short workshops
by the various resources that new students might need - health services,
counseling, peer advising, etc.)
- Walking tours of campus and surrounding areas.
- Visit to local museums.
- Celebrate the Steinbeck Centennial at the SJSU Steinbeck Center
- College of _____ Welcome Day for Frosh (an opportunity for colleges
to inform students of the different types of majors and programs
in the college)
Ideas for Student Life
- What is Greek life?
- How can I find a student club to join?
- What is a Spartan?
- How and why to get involved in student government.
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