2007 Fresh Focus Application
Section Choices
History of Fresh Focus
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Oglethorpe University’s faculty and student
affairs staff work together to coordinate academic offerings
and student services in order to create a first-year
experience that is welcoming, supportive, and challenging.
This integrated program is committed to encouraging
first-year students to succeed. Major features of this
first-year experience include the course Fresh Focus, the
freshman advising program, a two-semester core course in
humanities, programs in the residence halls, the tutoring
services of the Academic Resource Center, disability
services in the Learning Resource Center, and a coordinated
intervention process for assisting students in trouble.
The following programs are offered in Fresh Focus:
| FOC 101. Fresh Focus |
1 hour |
This class, required for all
entering first-year students, is a group-oriented course
involving upper-class students and faculty. Students select a
class from among numerous topics with experiential and
interactive as well as academic features. The faculty instructor
serves as the student’s academic advisor during his or her first
semester. The first meeting of each group of students is during
fall orientation, and continues thereafter twice weekly for the
first half of the semester to pursue their chosen topic and
share related experiences. During the same period new students
will also attend occasional workshops on aspects of leadership,
health and wellness, careers, skills for academic success, and
open houses in the academic divisions. Graded on a
satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
See a list of Section Choices
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| FOC 201. Team Teaching for Critical
Thinking |
1 hour |
| Upper-class student
mentors assist faculty instructors in planning and teaching the
special topics sessions of Fresh Focus or other freshman-level
courses. They participate in training meetings prior to the
beginning of the course, communicate with entering freshmen over
the summer, attend all classes in their Fresh Focus section, and
assist with the advising of freshmen throughout their first
year. Graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. |
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