Your Faculty Director: Sandy Petrey
Your College Advisor: Jen Green
Your Quad Director: Judy Jaquez
Name, Instructor
Email: @stonybrook.edu
Phone: 632-
ACH 101.XX
Introduction to Stony Brook
Fall 2007
Name, Instructor
Email: @stonybrook.edu
Phone: 632-
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to enhance your first-year experience at Stony Brook University.
Through academic advisement, learning about campus resources, group discussion, and
collaborative teaching you will be provided with a structured environment to assist you in making
the transition to college. You will be encouraged to use critical thinking skills to set goals and
make responsible decisions regarding academics, major, and career planning, and social
relationships. The course will also explore the purpose of higher education and your role in the
university environment.
DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICES SYLLABUS STATEMENT
If you have a physical, psychological, medical or learning disability that may impact your course
work, please contact Disability Support Services, located in the ECC Building, (631) 632-6748.
They will determine with you what accommodations are necessary and appropriate. All
information and documentation is confidential.
COURSE GOALS
 Increase your understanding of the purpose of higher education and your place in it
 Assist you in understanding your personal development as a Stony Brook
Undergraduate
 Establish a mentoring relationship between you and your First-Year Seminar instructor
 Develop a strong Undergraduate College community
 Increase your understanding of university procedures, computer systems, university
publications, academic advising and the course registration process at Stony Brook
University
 Increase your awareness and utilization of student support services available to you
 Provide opportunities to interact with and learn form peers in your Undergraduate
College
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1. Class Participation: Students are expected to contribute their own ideas and to ask
questions during class.
2.
Class Attendance: Students are expected to attend all of the class sessions for the
First-Year Seminar. More than 2 absences will result in an unsatisfactory grade.
3. Required Events:
a. ACH Convocation: Monday, September 17th, 7:00-8:00 PM, Tabler Center
Performance Space (All ACH 101 classes will be cancelled this week so
students can attend this event).
b. Commons Day: Wednesday, October 17th (All ACH 101 classes will be
cancelled this week so students can attend ONE of several events honoring Billy
Collins, author of the First Year Reader, Sailing Alone Around the Room.
c. ACH Events: In addition to ACH Convocation and Commons Day, students will
be required to attend two Arts, Culture and Humanities events during the
semester. Students will select two events of their choice from a list of preapproved events. The ACH Event List will be posted on Blackboard before the
1st of each month; simply log onto Blackboard and click on “College of Arts,
Culture and Humanities” under My Organizations and then click on “Documents.”
4. Required Reading:
a. Stony Brook University. (2007). Your First Year at Stony Brook: The beginning of
an incredible journey, 2007-2008. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt.
[Available only through the University Bookstore]
b. Collins, B. (2002). Sailing Alone Around the Room: new and selected poems.
New York: Random House
[Provided at summer orientation]
5. Assignments:
a. Three outside-of-class Homework assignments
1. The First Year Reading Creative Expressions Contest
2. Two assignments reflecting on the ACH events attended during the
course of the semester (NOT including Convocation and Commons Day).
Your instructor will give you more detailed guidelines regarding these
assignments.
b. Online 101 course Surveys (survey 1 and survey 2)
c. Online Alcohol Edu course (parts I and II).
6. Computer use: Students are expected to check their IC student account and
Blackboard for information and correspondence with the instructor and Undergraduate
College. To log into Blackboard, just go to https://blackboard.stonybrook.edu/.
EVALUATION AND GRADING PROCEDURES
FYS 101 is a 1-credit course for which you will earn either a Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory. A-C
= Satisfactory. D-F = Unsatisfactory. Missing more than 2 classes or failure to attend required
Undergraduate College events will result in you earning an Unsatisfactory. Both class
participation and assignments will also be factored into the grading for this course.
FRESHMAN SEMINAR SCHEDULE
FALL 2007
Week of
9/3
Topic
Introduction
9/10
10/1
Academic Integrity or
Technology/SINC site Visit
ACH Convocation and ACH
Week
Academic Integrity or
Technology/SINC site Visit
Tier 2
10/8
Tier 2
10/15
UGC Commons - FY
Reading
10/22
Tier 2
10/29
Academic Advising (DEC)
11/5
Academic Advising
11/12
Tier 3
11/19
Tier 3
11/26
Tier 3
12/3
Tier 3
12/10
Tier 3
9/17
9/24
Assignments
1st Alcohol Edu survey
CLASSES CANCELLED, all students
must attend Convocation instead.
Assignment 1 Due: Creative
Expressions
CLASSES CANCELLED, all students
must attend a Commons Day event
instead.
2nd Alcohol Edu survey
Bold faced represents activities that are REQUIRED to be done at the scheduled
time.