HRT-102 First Year Experience in Horticulture
HRT 102 introduces first-year students within the Horticulture program to the foundational ideas, resources, and strategies upon which students can build their academic successes. Students will explore and practice essential skills such as critical and creative thinking, metacognition, resource literacy, self-advocacy and reflection, and study strategies. HRT 102 is also intended to acquaint students with classroom expectations within the Horticulture program and the social, financial, and emotional challenges students often face across their college experience. Students will examine learning and professional resources at FLCC - including information and technology, applied learning and internships, and mental and physical health - while time and space will be provided for students to develop interpersonal skills and positive relationships within their peer group. The course will also establish program-level classroom expectations and examine the social, financial, and emotional challenges students often will face across their experience at FLCC. Upon completion, students will have crafted a multi-year academic and professional plan.
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Course Outline
Department
Environmental Conservation and Horticulture
Course Description
HRT 102 introduces first-year students within the Horticulture program to the foundational ideas, resources, and strategies upon which students can build their academic successes. Students will explore and practice essential skills such as critical and creative thinking, metacognition, resource literacy, self-advocacy and reflection, and study strategies. HRT 102 is also intended to acquaint students with classroom expectations within the Horticulture program and the social, financial, and emotional challenges students often face across their college experience. Students will examine learning and professional resources at FLCC - including information and technology, applied learning and internships, and mental and physical health - while time and space will be provided for students to develop interpersonal skills and positive relationships within their peer group. The course will also establish program-level classroom expectations and examine the social, financial, and emotional challenges students often will face across their experience at FLCC. Upon completion, students will have crafted a multi-year academic and professional plan.Credit Hours
1Semester(s) Course Will Be Offered
Fall
First Year Experience Course
Yes
Topic Outline
- 1. Student introductions, course overview, and FYE and its value to students
- 2. Introduction to campus resources
- a. Academic Success and Access Programs
- b. Applied Learning Program
- c. Charles J. Meder Library
- d. Community Standards and Counseling
- e. OneStop
- f. The Write Place
- g. Student Corporation: clubs and extracurricular activities
- 3. Classroom strategies
- a. Establishing productive relationships with instructors
- b. Listening, note taking, and participation
- c. Reading with purpose
- d. Study groups: peer-to-peer learning and teaching
- 4. Time management and study strategies
- 5. Metacognition: how do you learn and think?
- 6. Exploring short- and long-term goals within and beyond the Horticulture program
- a. Course scheduling and degree planning
- i. Areas of interest and strength, as well as areas for improvement
- b. Undergraduate employment and research opportunities
- c. Postgraduate continuing education and career opportunities
- 7. Financial management
- 8. Information technology and science literacy
- a. Researching scholarly topics
- b. Practicing principles of science writing
- c. Practicing common modes of communicating science
- i. Oral presentations (individual and team-based)
- ii. Brief reports and summaries