First-Year Seminar College of Information Sciences and Technology

Catalog description

Facilitate student's adjustment to the high expectations, demanding workload, increased academic liberties, and other aspects of the transition to college life. PSU 017 First-Year Seminar College of Information Sciences and Technology (1) This course will help students be successful in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Penn State University. It involves two elements: how to be a successful learner in general; and how to explore the academic challenges of the information sciences and related technologies. Through lectures, class discussions, assignments, and guest presentations students learn what it takes to be successful in college. Through a group project they learn what IST is about, the majors in the College, the learning formats that they will encounter, and what is expected of them as students and citizens in the College. More broadly, this course is centered on learning: learning about learning and learning about what it means to be a student in IST.