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Discover Chicago
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Common Hour Learning Objectives
The Chicago Quarter Common Hour is intentionally designed
to support students through issues of transition revolving around the
following themes: Academic Success Skills, Understanding Diversity and
Culture, Sense of Belonging and Community, Educational/Career Planning,
Financial Planning, and Health & Wellness. The Common Hour is part
of all Discover Chicago and Explore Chicago courses. The curriculum is
designed to discuss issues relevant to students' personal and intellectual
transition to university life. All Common Hour sections will include the
following curricular components:
- Students will be able to articulate their rights and responsibilities
as presented in the student handbook.
- Students will be able to identify, locate and reference the services
and resources provided by curricular, co-curricular and transactional
offices and departments.
- Students will be able to access and utilize online systems including
Campus Connection, Blackboard, Choices Planner, and Library Tutorial.
- Students will be able to articulate the Catholic, Urban and Vincentian
mission of DePaul University.
- Students will be able to describe how their values and beliefs influence
their relationships within the DePaul community and beyond.
- Students will be able to describe the benefits associated with co-curricular
engagement at DePaul University
- Students will be able to utilize the financial planning process for
personal and educational expenses
- Students will be able to define educational planning and career development
and engage in the foundational stages of the process.
- Students will be able to assess personal strengths, challenges, motivations
and goals and utilize this knowledge to connect with available DePaul
majors and career paths
- Students will be able to identify strategies for maintaining a healthy
lifestyle, understanding the balance necessary for maintaining academic,
personal, social, mental, spiritual and physical wellness
- Students will be able to identify aspects of diversity and the value
they bring to DePaul University, the Chicago community and society.
- Students will be able to define academic citizenship behavior and
apply the concept both in and out of the classroom.
Faculty selected to teach in Discover Chicago and Explore
Chicago courses do so with a commitment to the goals of the First Year
Program. Both Discover Chicago and Explore Chicago faculty agree to support
the goals of the Common Hour curriculum and the staff professionals and
student mentors that are paired with them. Faculty members are encouraged
to contribute to the success of the overall program by working to create
a seamless environment between the academic component and the Common Hour.
Some specific strategies may include team-teaching, an integrated syllabus,
presence and participation in the Common Hour activities. Faculty members
teaching in the First Year Program assume other responsibilities, which
include advising and mentoring students during their transition to the
university.
Staff professionals are expected to develop a curriculum
that addresses the components listed above. They will do so with the goal
of facilitating the students' connectedness to the university and their
academic success. Staff will work directly with their assigned faculty
and student mentor as a team for Discover Chicago courses. Explore Chicago
staff will work closely, and meet regularly, with the faculty and student
team, but will be responsible for training the student mentor to deliver
the Common Hour curriculum in the classroom. In both models, the staff
professional can serve as a resource and/or mentor for first-year students.
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