Pre-First Year Program in WRIT/MATH/BIOL

Catalog description

In this course, students will participate in a month-long academic program that covers Writing, Math, and Biology. The Writing course focuses mainly on writing about literature, students will learn general principles and strategies for good writing in various disciplines and genres. “Place and Belonging” will introduce students to a range of writing about the ways our social and geographical locations shape our sense of self and our personal feelings of connection or alienation. Students will read a short novel, stories, essays, and poems by authors from the U.S. and abroad. All these works are attempts to give written form to the relationships between people and the places they inhabit. The Math course will be based on a diagnostic exam and will either: cover Sets, Logic, Number Theory for students with little math experience or interest; Intense Algebra and Pre-Calc Review, Introduction to Limits for students who are may or may not be confident in their math preparation and could benefit from a review of Algebra and PreCalculus; Covers a quick Pre-Calc review, Limits, Derivatives for students who have taken AB Calculus and are confident in their performance; or Derivatives, Applications, Integrals for students who have taken BC Calculus and are confident in their performance. The Biology course will include cellular respiration, genetics, and molecular biology. This course will use lectures, class discussion of current topics, group work, practice questions, quizzes, and lab to help students understand important concepts and develop skills needed to succeed in college-level biology courses.