WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Tucson
Summer 2016
Wayland Mission Statement: Wayland Baptist University exists to educate students in an
academically challenging, learning-focused and distinctively Christian environment for
professional success and service to God and humankind.
Course Name: UNIV 1101 Foundations of University Life
Term: Summer 2016
First and last name of instructor: Jeff Ebbing
Office phone and email: 520-459-1610/jeff.ebbing@wbu.edu
Office hours, building, and location: By appointment
Class meeting time and location: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM June 4th June 11th WBU Tucson Campus
Catalog description: Designed to assist students in developing skills and habits necessary to be
successful in the university; course includes study skills, effective listening and note-taking
skills, time management techniques, technology skills, library research skills, and techniques
addressing the preparation for and taking of exams, emotional/physical health and wellness, as
well as the customs, traditions, policies, and procedures unique to WBU. The course is
specifically designed for WBU’s external campus students, many of whom are adult learners
who are transferring in college transfer credits, military credits, work experience, and assessed
credits.
Prerequisites: All external students must take UNIV 1101 in their first term.
Required Resources Materials: A computer with Internet access. Wayland e-mail account.
Wayland Blackboard account.
If you have a laptop computer with wireless internet access, please consider bringing it to
class. It’s sometimes better for you to work on a computer you are familiar with, and we only
have enough school computers for 8 students.
Optional textbook and resource materials: New Beginnings, Linda Simon, 4th Edition,
ISBN: 978-0-13-715230-8
Additional optional materials: None required
Course outcome competencies: Upon conclusion of this course, students should:
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Accept responsibility for your own education through the resources and opportunities
available to you
Develop a sense of community among fellow students and Faculty/Staff/Administration
at Wayland
Achieve spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth on an individual level
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Utilize academic skills such as note taking, study strategies, and library research
techniques that facilitate success in college level courses
Effectively navigate WBU’s technology, including Blackboard, Self Service, the online
Library, and WBU email
Utilize all systems within Blackboard, such as assignment submission, examinations,
discussion board, and navigation
Cope with personal and social issues, such as time management, stress, good health, and
meaningful relationships
Achieve a working knowledge of the University’s general academic requirements, the
academic advising system, and policies and procedures of WBU’s various degree
programs
Follow and implement the completion of a degree plan, using the WBU catalog and other
materials provided
Attendance requirements: Students must attend all sessions to complete course requirements
unless other arrangements are made with the instructor.
Statement on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty:
Writing is a collaborative art. Working out ideas for your paper with an instructor, writing tutor,
classmate, family member, or friend is encouraged not only for this class, but also for other
classes that involve writing. Discussion and collaborative brainstorming are good. However,
passing off another’s writing or ideas as your own is plagiarism. It is unethical, it constitutes
Academic Dishonesty (cheating), and it is sufficient grounds both for failure of a course and
suspension from the university.
Common examples of plagiarism or academic dishonesty include the following:
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Copying any amount of text directly from an internet website, book, or other
document without appropriate citation and synthesis into one’s own discussion.
Paraphrasing the ideas presented in any source or oral discussion without appropriate
citation.
Using the evidence and conclusions of any source as the controlling framework for
one’s own paper.
Recycling work from a previous or current course, whether your own work or another
student’s work.
Purchasing or otherwise downloading a paper from an internet website.
In some writing assignments, you will be expected to incorporate scholarly sources into your
document. ALL OF THE FOLLOWING must be met to constitute appropriate citation of any
source:
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Including MLA, Chicago, or APA parenthetical or note-style citation format as
required by the instructor.
 Placing borrowed text directly from another source within “quotation marks.”
 Introducing clearly another author’s voice into the document by means of a signal
phrase (an introduction of that author).
 Offering, in short, a clear distinction between one’s own voice or ideas and those of
any outside authors brought into the discussion.
Wayland Baptist University observes a ZERO TOLERANCE policy regarding Academic
Dishonesty.
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Any suspected instance of academic dishonesty, including plagiarism, will first be
evaluated by the instructor and discussed individually with the student.
 If the instructor determines that a student’s actions constitute Academic Dishonesty,
the case will be filed with the school dean (as determined by course prefix) and
reported to the university executive vice president/provost, as per university policy.
ALL CASES OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY WILL RE REPORTED.
 Per university policy as described in the Wayland Academic Catalog, second offenses
WILL RESULT IN SUSPENSION FROM THE UNIVERSITY.
 In this course, the first instance of Academic Dishonesty may also result in a zero on
the assignment.
Disability statement: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), it
is the policy of Wayland Baptist University that no otherwise qualified person with a disability
be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under
any educational program or activity in the university. The Coordinator of Counseling Services
serves as the coordinator of students with a disability and should be contacted concerning
accommodation requests at (806) 291-3765. Documentation of a disability must accompany any
request for accommodations.
Course requirements and grading criteria: Students are responsible for reading,
understanding, obeying, and respecting all academic policies, with added emphasis being placed
upon academic progress policies, appearing in the Wayland Baptist University Academic
Catalog applicable to their curriculum and/or program of study.
Grading: This course is a Credit/No Credit course. Attendance at both sessions and satisfactory
completion of follow up readings/assignments will assure you of a passing grade.
There are a total of 100 points for this course. You must score 70 points to pass this class.
Email Instructor
Administration Exam
Discussion Boards
New Student Test
Financial Items Exam
Academic Items Exam
Bibliography
Grammar Exam
Attendance
5 Points
10 Points
20 Points
10 Points
10 Points
10 Points
10 Points
10 Points
15 Points
Tentative Course schedule:
Please note half of the class is face to face and half is online
Date
Class outline
Location
Homework
May 28th
Welcome to WBU slides
WBU
*Take
Administration
Items Exam
Student introductions
Syllabus Review
*Set up all
student accounts
Finance Slides
*Email instructor
using your WBU
email
Degree Plans – Course Numbering – Gen Ed
Equivalents
Administrative Materials slides
Basic Blackboard and Student Services functions
Jeff’s tutorial for buying books
Set up student accounts (Student Services,
Blackboard, email, My portfolio)
Student ID Photos
June 4th
WBU
Week #2 Power Point
*Discussion
Board
Evaluating your
Learning Style
How to succeed as a student
-Types of Learners
-Strategies for Managing Time and Stress
-How Do We Learn
*Discussion
Board “How we
learn”
WBU Library/Writing Center
- Bibliography Exercise
June 11th
Go through the Orientation PowerPoint
Put your goals and aspirations in writing! Write a
150 word post on why you are pursuing your
Degree and what you plan on doing with your
degree on our Blackboard Discussion Board
*Create a
Bibliography of
sources found in
the WBU library
Virtual
Campus
*Discussion
Board
“Motivation”
*New student
Orientation Test
Please review the PowerPoints under Financial
Services (10 Commandments, Financial)
*Take Financial
Items Exam
*Take Academic
Items Exam
June 18th
Grammar Brush-up Powerpoints
View course rotations for VC and your campus,
talk with your Advisor, and develop a course plan
Virtual
Campus
*Complete
Grammar
Brushup exam
*Extra Credit
All Assignments are due by
June 25th
All Assignments
are due by June
25th
Please know the instructor has the right to edit or change anything on this syllabus at any
time.
Extra Credit Assignment:
There is a chance for you to obtain Extra Credit in this class. To do this, create a course plan for
the upcoming academic year. In the course plan please list each term and the courses you plan on
taking (include the course descriptions). When you are doing this please refer to the course
rotations. Next take your course plan to your Academic Advisor for approval. The last part you
will need to do is list the cost of each term, and your method of paying for classes each term.
Once you have completed this please email me your finished product for credit by the 5th week
of the term.