First and foremost, we want to welcome you to BCC. We have tremendous choice by coming here.
There's a lot of great opportunities for me, along the great faculty a great staff to help you along your way.
What today really is about is you getting
giving you a basic rundown what to expect that first semester with that
I'm going to ask how many have recently graduated high school within the past couple months here?
all right most of you.
all right, so this is going to be a new experience for you. The rest of you, how many you that are students has it been a
Year, or more since you've been in
high school or college?
All right
that's pretty much what our average
classroom looks like there's a lot of people that are
directly out of high school it may be a year or two and then we have a lot of people that are
half our students over 25 years old or older so we have a nice mix within our classroom.
So if you look around that's what your classroom
Classrooms are going to look like what today really is about is getting you comfortable with what to expect that first semester
And by doing that we're going to spend about an hour here with Christina, and I presenting some information to you
and the other piece will actually bring you over to K, the K building
we'll sit in the computer lab, and we'll actually build your schedule so when you leave today
you're actually going to have your schedule at hand
you're going to know where your classes are you'll have something to go to the bookstore with
and does anyone here still need a BCC ID card?
All right, we'll make sure you get your BCC ID card. Last thing is everyone taking classes here in Fall River?
All right great how about in New Bedford?
great . Attleboro? We got one
Well alright and anybody going to Taunton?
Okay, so we got people here going to all our campuses
and you can go to any of our campuses or you can go to a multiple any multiple campuses if you want. You
can take a class in Fall River in Bedford, that's fine, too. Just make sure you can physically get from point A to point B
before the class starts.
The one thing I did want to point out about New Bedford with parking there
Is that we now have free parking on the campus
so you can actually go to either the Zeiterion garage or the Elm Street Garage
with your ID in your schedule and you can actually get free parking
at one of those garages
so you no longer have to feed the meter and
dodging the meter maid, so the first thing I'd like to get started with is a welcome and also a list of some helpful
helpful
tips from our recent graduates from the college.
My advice to you would be to take advantage of everything that Bristol has to offer. There's so many opportunities to get involved in the community, to get
involved in service, to get involved with other students and build friendships that can last you the rest of your life.
Ask questions. Do not be afraid to ask questions
They, there's no
dumb questions. They all have answers, so
ask questions. Make education a priority. I know being in college
other obligations, priorities but if you work hard
put effort in, you can literally do whatever you dream.
Don't be late for class that's rule number one, number two
make sure you come to class. Never doubt yourself.
You can do whatever you set your mind to there's many examples around you here the campus itself, but never forget do not be afraid to ask questions.
The underlying theme of today is
don't be afraid to ask questions make sure you ask those questions
you want to ask it in a group like this I bet you one or two other people have that same
dare I say question you're brave enough to ask, but if you meet ask us privately or if it's a personal matter
please there's going to be plenty of us available for you today to speak up and get that question the answered.
We can answer a lot of things one things, one thing
We don't really answer on is financial aid because if there's 40 people in this room right now. There's 40 different financial aid
possibilities out there, so we will send you to financial aid. Hopefully they can give you the best possible answer
Available so in the beginning
we're just going to review a couple things everybody here has applied to the college and the next question becomes your
Financial aid if you have not started your financial aid the classes start a week from tomorrow
and I would just want you to know that your financial aid would not be completely
or within a week so with that said you need to not find an alternative way of
making sure that you're going to pay for your classes.
On everybody's
transcript here's a list we must it up
where your financial aid is at this point in time so if it says FA in a checkmark next to it
It means that you've done what you're supposed to do and you're financial
aid is complete. If it has
financial aid in a laundry list of things to do what you need to do is actually get those things completed before you leave
campus today or come back and do them tomorrow. Why? Because you remove from your classes for non behavior. We'll go over that
concept again in a minute and the last thing if it says financial aid or I'm sorry if it says no FAFSA
It means you have not started your financial aid
If that's the case then most likely you will need to find an alternative way of paying for classes.
Everyone here has taken four placement tests a reading test, written English test, a math test and an algebra test.
We actually use those scores to place you in your classes today
So if you had a bad day the day you tested
and those scores really don't represent who you are. You are allowed to test one more time just
understanding that we start classes in about a week and there aren't that many
opportunities for you to retest so you get a very limited window to get that done.
We also require that you give us a copy of your immunization records
that's your shot records from when you're a little baby right on up until now
your immunization records most likely when you left high school they handed you a pile of papers its probably right in the middle of those
Partners in G200 would require you to give her a copy of those and with that basically
It's not something you have to do today
but we'd like it done within let's say by by the end of October if you don't do that
It'll make it a hold will be placed on your account and you can no longer sign up for your spring classes
so it'll put you behind in April but
for the most part we want you to get make sure you get us your immunization records by let's say Halloween.
and lastly on that one's first side here do we have anybody using veterans benefits to pay for the classes?
If you do have any veterans whether it's your own, VA
Benefits or your parents you need to visit our veterans benefits officers
they are in G220 to get the ball rolling there. Have you started to do that yep?
perfect
Okay up here it now says don't forget to do we pay your bill by August tenth
that was obviously a couple weeks ago
so we are looking for payment as soon as you sign up for classes
So this is where if you haven't completed your financial aid you might have to take action
and there's ways for you to pay us we'll never sent you a bill in the mail
the only way we will send you a bill It's it's on your access BCC link.
When you go to your access BCC
link it'll show you how much you owe and you and you can pay directly there with credit card or check
you can sign up for a payment plan which breaks down your
payment into a couple different lumps sums
that you pay rather than paying all upfront
Or you could actually go to the student accounts and pay in person on campus if you'd like to that.
We are looking for payment as soon as you sign up for classes
Any questions on that? Alright
Also says here for students that are taking nine credits or more we need you to waive your health insurance the state requires that you
each student has
health insurance, if you don't have health insurance the state requires that we will
give it to you. If you do have health insurance whether through your parents, through work, through another family member
you need to go to your access BCC account and waive your health insurance.
It's not the simplest easy thing to do, but we're going to show you in the next section
How do you get that done and make sure you do that because it'll save you seventeen hundred and twelve dollars.
It'll take you about 15 minutes to do. It saves you $1700. It's usually a pretty good deal to get that done.
The bookstore is available and early and open at this point in time
so you can get your books obviously you cannot going to be too early
if
If you have any questions about your books your best place to go is to emailing your instructor
If you're questioning whether you can get the book cheaper elsewhere, you are allowed to
search the web and try to get it just be a little careful where you go and
also what their return return policies are if you do get a book from our bookstore
and if it's wrapped don't unwrap it keep it in it's a shrink wrap until
your instructor says yes, you need the book or you need
that particular book. You
will check with office of disability services in just a little bit.
Some best practices here that we always have to talk about and
failures, withdrawals and incompletes are right on the top of that
Failure I'm sure you all knew somebody in high school failed the class.
What did they have to do? They have to repeat the class
here in college
It's a little different
if your program requires that you need that class you are going to
first of all get the pleasure of paying for that class and then when you
Want to realize that you need that class for your program your going to have to pay for the class again
So we want you want you to take ownership of what you're doing as of today.
If you're signing up for classes
please go to class,
please turn in your homework,
follow your syllabus because you need to take ownership that ownership of that starting day one.
So if you don't meet the criteria of the classroom the instructor has the right to fail you.
A withdrawal is a little bit different
that's something that a student can do and you can withdraw yourself up to the tenth week of classes.
Withdrawal means that something changed in your life or and you just want to remove yourself from the class
If you fail the class it affects your GPA if you withdraw from the class it doesn't affect your GPA
but it does show up on your permanent record as a withdrawal.
Having one or two of them in here in your time here at BCC isn't a horrible thing
but you want to try not to have a lot of them
Because it does affect your academic standing at some point in time.
Last thing up there which is unique to college is an incomplete.
What an incomplete is it simply means I see you in class every week you show up,
you turned it on your assignments, passed all your tests and maybe she disappears the last couple of weeks of school
maybe she has a family emergency or she you know broke her leg up in a car accident
all of a sudden she stopped showing up to class
The ability of an incomplete is something that the instructor has and can allow the student to
complete the course the following semester, so it gives you as a student another semester to complete that course
so it's really of a benefit to you.
Nice thing about an incomplete is
you won't get charged for the to take you you won't have to pay for the class for a second time.
You don't start at the beginning with me you start right where we left off so if you only a final and a final project
you get those to me
I get your final letter grade to you and really it's up to you to really take advantage of that
so it's something you can ask the instructor usually for that's something the instructor will
recognizing in you that you've done to work up into a certain point and then all of a sudden
maybe you've have had a tough spot in your life or something going on, so that's what an incomplete is.
First two weeks of any semester is what we call the add/drop period
that's sort of like a shake out period that means that you can add or drop a class during that period
you may have signed yourself up for five classes today
and all of a sudden you realize that might be too much because you're working a bunch of hours and so on
so you may want to drop a class that first week or two
well, you might say hey
I can handle another class so you can add a class,
so the first two weeks of classes are designated as add/drop period and by doing that you simply can add or drop a class.
Now just don't assume that everything is going to be perfect when you do that
make sure you're working with financial aid if you are receiving financial aid where students account and make sure you don't owe
additional money or if you have money coming back
how to get that money back so make sure you're not just
leaving it alone. You need to talk to somebody and most likely in G building in the enrollment center.
So what's the benefit of a drop versus a withdrawal? A drop simply mean doesn't show up on your record ever
It means that you have complied to the college's rules within the first few weeks
and if it doesn't show up on the record if you would draw it does show up on your record and you're going to be
charged a larger portion of the total cost of that class
so save you money by dropping class reason for withdrawal.
We work on a 4.0 GPA requirement
you need at least a 2.0 to graduate 2.0 is a C average
I want you all to aim much higher than that especially if you want to transfer to a four-year school
they're going to be looking for a higher GPA than that. Any questions there?
You guys are good, alright college etiquette and you guys are all being quiet and attentive. Your being very um
well paying attention, its just a great thing about college etiquette, but I know this is going to wear off real soon, so
what a couple of things here that we mentioned in that first video be on time and
that's really one of the key key things about college be on time be here
just don't be here physically be here in spirit so be able to
do a couple of those things that are listed there such as participate and show up to class prepared
and there's a rule of thumb with college
when you're in high school you probably went there from 7:30 in the morning to three o'clock in the afternoon
You are they are 35 to 40 hours a week is that right?
Yeah, okay do either a large amount of time if you're a full-time student here taking 12 credits
which is four classes you're going to be here about 12 to 13 hours a week in class
so it's a completely different dichotomy of how learning gets done. It's completely different the whole thing
that's flipped on you, so instead of being in class and learning everything from what's in the book and what definitions
are you're going to be expected to do things on your own so the rule of thumb is for every hour
you're in class you're going to spend two to three hours outside of class
study, doing homework, going to the library, writing papers
preparing for a lab, all these things
so even though I told you are going to be a class 12 or 13 hours a week
you're going to have another 24 to 30 hours of work outside of the classroom, you add that together being a full-time student
being a full time student is like having a full-time job
It's 40 plus hours of work.
Yeah, some weeks you'll get away with a little less
but at some point in time it's going to catch up to you
So be cognizant of that. We're going to expect that you show up to class prepared
meaning you've read the assignment so that we can have a conversation in class
and it's just so when we're in class the things I'm saying isn't the first time you're hearing it.
you could be a little more immersed in the subject matter. You can ask me better questions
we can have a conversation rather than me downloadng the information to you.
The second item up there is your cellphones we all got em we all love em
please follow your instructors lead in the class
they will tell you if they want to see them or not
If you have an emergency you really need to keep it up on your desk make sure your let your instructor know
some instructors don't want to see them other instructors will have you used them within the classroom.
Any questions there thus far?
Okay
We going to expect you to check your email and check it often you're going to get a unique BCC email address here
and you can do that by checking either downloading the app and checking your email there
or you can also check it by going to your access BCC.
When you go to your access BCC all your information is going to be there.
I'm going to tell you to check your email at least once a day if
your benefit to check it even more that is really the only way the college and your instructors have
to communicate with you, so
if I'm gonna cancel class for tomorrow, and I'm going to email my class that I'm not going to be there I
can click a couple buttons in my access BCC and get that information out to you
I'm not going to check what your personal emails are I'm not going to check how you emailed me last time we spoke
I'm going to send it a general email to my students, and if they get that information
they're going to be very thankful that they didn't have to get up at 6 a.m.. to be here for an 8 a.m.. class
So use this to your benefit in most cases instructors will not answer your private email
Inquiries so if you're asking them
what's due for next week? I might not want to answer an AOL or a gmail account, but if you email me through
access BCC I know it's a student
and I don't know it's
I'm doing this basically to protect the privacy of your account
because we don't want to give up any information to anybody else that isn't the student so we're doing it as an act of active of privacy.
Any questions on that?
That last piece there is syllabus and the syllabus is was required by every
Is required by every instructor in every class to have that it's college requirement.
What a syllabus is and some of you might have got them in high school
essentially it's a list of all the rules of the class
I'm going to play a really quick video, and it's going to do a very good job of explaining that syllabus
Then we'll talk a little bit more.
At the start of every semester each professor will give you a syllabus some like to keep them short, others make them ten pages
but no matter what the size it tells you what's going on with the course.
It tells you how the course is structured and what the professor plans on teaching you. It tells you which books to buy,
when assignments are due, and when to have certain chapters read. It includes how much each test or assignment is worth.
but more importantly it tells you exactly what the professor is looking for in each assignment or test. Use your syllabi to plan your semester.
Once you have all of your information together you can figure out when to study for tests, when to have assignments finished,
and when you can fit in that trip back home.
University isn't in high school.
You're expected to keep track of your own deadlines, your own duties, and your own responsibilities the best way to do that is with the syllabus.
Alrigjht, so the whole idea of
learning changes between high school and college and that's one of the big differences there things are going to be plopped in your lap
and you're going to have if your in four or five classes you're gonna have four or five syllabi to sort of try to figure out
what's going on with your life for the next three months.
Now if you notice the other little kitty cat calendar he sort of plotted out when things were due
and it's not going to be as easy and as pretty as his is. You're gonna have five tests one week,
you're going to have five tests, three papers due within
seven school days, how do you get that done?
By using your time management skills which is something you gonna learn in your CSS classes. That's what's going to get you through
and by using the resources at the school and learning the best
The best methods of how to study for a particular class that's how you get through these things
so you need to really use the resources of the school. One last thing
I want to point out on this slide here its absences from class when you're in high school
if you took a day off because you have got a doctor's you might have left school at about 11 o'clock went to lunch and
then went to the doctor's office, and you called it a day.
As I mentioned earlier earlier you're only gonna see your instructor for a particular class about two and a half hours
That's a that's a very limited face time you have with your instructor
It's valuable time so I want you really to go to class so you have a doctor's appointment, dentist's appointment,
you have a job interview, or you are working
schedule those things around your class time. If you can't do that now you're really going to put yourself behind the eight ball.
Every syllabus is going to have a maximum number of classes you miss
after you missed that maximum number of classes even if you're doing really well in that class the instructor can flunk you so keep that in mind
Questions on that? Alright.
ODS Office of Disability Service if you had a 501 plan an IEP or
accommodations in high school that information does not follow you from high school to here
you must advocate for yourself and visit the very nice people in L building on this campus
and get your accommodations in place for
your classes. What are accommodations? Accommodations could be a little more time
that you're allowed for taking a test,might mean you need a quiet area to take a test,
or it could be that you need a note-taker to help you in the classroom
none of these things are ever these are all
private matters and is kept between you, ODS
and the instructor, but ODS needs time to get these things for you
so if you do need these services go see them today or tomorrow make sure that these
these resources are in place for you within the classroom if you don't do that you're going to find yourself
maybe struggling when you don't need so get involved with them
there's information your backpacks about ODS so make sure you see them as soon as possible.
We have a number of resources at the school
Christina and I are academic advisors we're here to help you get from point A to point B.
I'm just going to briefly touch on a couple of things.
We have a tremendous library wait located in A building.
They have a number of resources on the back of your ID card is your library
card you're going to have to get that activated when that's activated, they'll give you access to about the 70 or 80
different
Websites
academic websites and journals that we have available for you online
When you use those websites essentially it's private information you think you can get a lot of information on google but a lot of its
maybe not be what your instructors looking for quite often
they're looking for what they call peer reviewed or edited articles which are reviewed by a group of editors or
experts in the field so that they know that the information you're reading is pert it's not just someone's idea
that's probably that they came
The top of your head, which isn't based in fact or reality.
The other piece there is the Learning Commons, the Learning Commons is made up about the Writing Center
and the Tutoring Center they're located in B building on this campus, but all these resources are located on all campuses.
What's great about the Tutoring Center and other Learning Commons is that you can go there and get tutoring for free in any subject matter.
Struggling in a particular class you can get help here. Please think about our Learning Commons
Is that most of the students that go there are A and B students trying to maintain those A and B
We also have a lot of students that go there who are C and D students that are trying to
maybe maybe trying to get that C up to a B or get that D feel a little bit better about the knowledge of learning
It's a way for you to just have a one-on-one session with someone else these are free of charge
services they're available to you on campus
starting day one make sure you use it and
they're also there to help you with any term papers you have any great assignment you have
and also the libraries there to help you with researching
any topics there
and the last one here before I kick it over to Christina is coming up this Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.
we have bcc day one which is a brand new event here
It's really an opportunity for you to get to meet some of your instructors,
advisors, and fellow students.
So we're gonna have about 300 students here already
We'd like that a few more, so why don't you um there's information your backpacks about this
but make sure you sign up for this so we know you're coming and we can have some food available for you
and also nice thing is we're going to raffle off a couple of
Laptops the president will be speaking so it's a really nice day where we think you'll enjoy it.
All right everyone my name is Christina as John mentioned. I'm another advisor here on campus
We're going to switch topics just a little bit and talk a little bit more about the advising and registration
components of orientation.
This is my plug to tell you too that you should be meeting with an advisor every semester what we do today is something that
should carry with you and every semester while you're at college so that you're planning
appropriate coursework taking classes that applied to your major and making sure that you're taking classes that fit within your schedule.
So one of the first questions that I ask a student whenever I meet with them for course selection is do you need to be
full-time?
Some students come in and right off the rip, and they know yes, I'm a full-time student. This is my plan
This is all I'm doing this coming to class great, then I'll make sure that you're registered for at least 12 or more credits.
So full-time enrollment just to reiterate is 12 or more credits most of our courses are worth 3 credits
We have a handful that are worth 1, some that are worth 4
but the majority of our classes are three credits so to be full-time that's at least 12 credits or more.
If you don't know if you need to be a full-time student, or if you want to be a full-time student
there are some instances where you have to be full-time.
If I have anyone in the room interested in participating in one of our athletic teams
you absolutely have to be a full-time student in order to be eligible to play that means 12 or more credits
specifically for student athletes we need to get you in morning classes that end before one two o'clock so that you're able to make it
to games and practices. The
next part the financial aid part as John mentioned financial aid is really the world in and of itself
so we encourage you to touch base with financial aid
especially when you look on a paperwork if you do see a list of to-do items for financial aid
there's no general
statement in here that I could say that everyone has to be full-time in order if your financial aid to be applied so
this is more just more or less a reminder for you to check in with the office
not that we're going to be able to answer all those questions, but again
please make sure you touch base so that your classes are able to be paid for John did mention on your paperwork
there is a laundry list of things that you might need to do if not
then talk to us to see if you need to set up a payment plan they're gonna drop students tomorrow for non-payment
so if you've registered for classes today and no payment is made they're just gonna erase your classes tomorrow.
That doesn't mean that you can't come back in tomorrow and re pick those classes out, but if you've somehow snagged a
seat in a Monday , Wednesday at 9:30
and there's another student over here that really wants it chances
are they're gonna see that and grab it before you're able to reregister
so that's just the reason why we want to make sure that you guys check in with financial aid and or student accounts to make
sure you can secure the classes that you select today.
That last piece there are the two-year plan a lot of students come into a community college, and they say great
it's a two-year school I'm in and out in two years, I can transfer I can go out into the work field
Yes, and no you can absolutely complete your associate's degree in two years
but in order to do that you have to know how many credits your program is worth,
so at a minimum all of our associate degrees will be worth sixty credits.
In order to complete those sixty credits in two years under a traditional academic year meaning the fall semester and spring semester
two years four semesters sixty credits divided by four semesters is 15
So in order to get your 60 credit degree program done in two years you want to be registered for 15 credits per semester
so if two years is your plan then yup you want to be full time
and you want to crank it up a bit to 15 credits versus 12.
Now I'm about to show you a couple of visuals just to sort of get the wheels turning
just so you guys have an idea of how long do I want to be here for, how many classes do I want to take?,
and what that sort of path look like for me?
So these timeframe for degree completion this isn't something that you guys have to follow to a t again
it's just a visual but this first one you see here is very much a full-time schedule
so you're looking at the traditional two-year plan four semesters
and you've got 15 credits at least per semester so again very much a full-time schedule here
take the student about two years to complete their degree this way.
What this example and the next two examples do not take into consideration is any developmental coursework you may need
So a developmental class as a result of your placement exam the English reading or math and essentially what a developmental course is a pre
college-level course based on one of those topics
that really have to make sure that we get you guys sort of like get that foundational skills like
put together and make sure that your skills in math are concrete before we throw you into a college-level math
so for some students they might not be able to start with math 119 in their first semester because that's their college-level math
they need some developmental course work ahead of time
maybe arithmetic, maybe algebra so if you're not able to start with that college level work in your first semester
then we need to prioritize those developmental courses and get those done as soon as possible
so that we don't delay your college-level work too far.
This is just another instance where I would say please make sure you're meeting with an advisor be it a faculty advisor or a professional advisor
to make sure that you are staying on track get those developmental courses done ASAP so that it doesn't delay your college level work and so
It doesn't delay how long you want to be here for, so again very much a full-time example
you're looking at five to six classes per semester a
lot of our students gravitate towards a part-time schedule, so you're looking at maybe three to four two classes each semester
anything under twelve credits is considered part-time so even if it's 11. That's a part-time 3/4 time schedule.
You will notice in this example that a student is taking advantage of our summer session
we do offer a handful of classes over the summer
but something to note about the summer is it's an accelerated session versus our traditional fall and spring
so your fall and spring semesters are 15 weeks in length fall and spring
the summer is going to be taking essentially a 15 week class and putting it into either 11 weeks or 7 weeks
depending on the schedule of the summer session.
The summer is a nice way to kind of keep the ball rolling stay in them in the mentality of going to school
but it will be a quicker pace semester versus a fall and the spring
the other thing is to make sure you check with financial aid because
there is a vast majority of students that aren't able to have their summer classes
covered by financial aid and that usually results in an out-of-pocket expense so again just make sure you're checking with your financial aid status.
This right here a part-time schedule is going to take a person about three years to complete
So not too far off from that two year mark.
This final example might be a little dramatic. It's one class at a time super dedicated student
it's gonna take them about seven years to complete their associates degree go in one class at a time
now all these examples are meant to do again is just to get you thinking
we're not saying one way is right, and the other way is wrong
but at the end of the day make sure you're taking the coursework the amount of classes the types of classes that's conducive to your
personal life as well. We know that a good majority of you probably work, maybe have family obligations
maybe your commute is like an hour hour and a half
take all those things into consideration when you think about how many classes you want to register for this isn't a rat race
it might take you a little bit longer than two years, but if you're here, and you're doing it successfully
and this is a positive experience for you, then that's really what you should be focusing on.
Questions on time frame for degree completion?
Again make that decision is yours and we're going to help guide you through that.
All right, so I had mentioned that those examples don't take into consideration those developmental courses
so what we're gonna
do is talk a little bit more about your developmental course options, now when everyone's checked in you guys all got some paperwork
so if you don't have it in front of you, this is a good time to take it out
we're going to go over the results of your placement exam.
I'll give everyone a second to shuffle through that so now I know there are some students
In the room that might have just did their placements or maybe you just did it yesterday so
we may not have those final scores in this moment, but when we go next door to register for classes
we will make sure that we have all those scores and help direct you into what classes you should be looking for.
So on our paperwork, and if I can maybe steal somebody's, thank you mam
So everyone got their transcript it has your name, your major, your placement scores
what we've done is we've interpreted those placement scores
so you don't have to worry about what a 39 on the arithmetic means we're going to go through those for you
so on the back you should have a sheet that looks like this and we did a little bit of pre advising
and what I mean by that is we've interpreted your English, reading and math scores, and we've made recommendations based on those scores
on your sheet if you see anything that starts with a zero, that's
Indicating developmental course work is needed and as I mentioned
please make sure that those courses are priority get those done in your first semester, so it doesn't delay your college level work so on that second row where it says mth that's math
we're going to go over a couple of math options right now.
If you see anything that starts with the one like math 119, 125, 152 you can go ahead and ignore me
but anything that starts with a zero, please make sure you guys understand your options, so
your math options whether you need arithmetic, algebra,
intermediate algebra those first two examples the math 001, 011, 021, 031
The content in those courses are the same so if you need arithmetic 001 is arithmetic 011 is arithmetic
The difference is the way that the course is taught so the method of instruction is different.
001 is a computer-based math course
you'd be in a computer lab on campus doing all of the learning all of the work on a computer.
There's a faculty member in the room to offer assistance, but they're not going to be
lecturing up front because the other thing about the computer based math class is everyone is at different places
so you could be on chapter one while you're on four while you're on seven and there's no real way that a professor can lecture
to that.
That's the other thing about computer based math is some students like the fact that they can go at their own pace
So if you're really good at fractions fractmins I was gonna say decimals and fractions
If you're really good at fractions you can blow through that chapter
maybe in a couple days, but if you need a little time on another subject you can spend that time on that other subject
end of the day you just have to ask yourself am I comfortable doing work on a computer?
The other option if you're like absolutely not I don't want to do work on a computer is the math 011, 021, 031
options, that's going to be your traditional lecture classroom setting so probably a classroom setting most people are used to professors in front of the
board in front of the room lecturing putting notes on the board
everyone's going at the same pace, so week one as fractions week two as decimals so forth and so on
So just to reiterate the content is the same so if you need arithmetic both options are going to get you arithmetic
It's just you have to indicate do you prefer to do it in per excuse me traditional lecture or based on a computer?
So everyone should have a pen in their backpack or hopefully with them maybe make a quick star next to the one that you are
Interested in taking so that we go next door and register you you already have an idea of what's going to be the best
the best fit.
This last example is very student specific and very program specific so it may not apply to everyone in here
but I do you want to go through it math 060
with math 119 or 125 is a combination math course and what it does is it pairs
developmental algebra with the college-level math required by the students program
So again, it's very program specific and dependent on where you place near placement results
the combination course pairs those two together
Thereby allowing the student essentially to get all their math requirements done in one semester
Doesn't delay that College of the work
So the o6o is the developmental algebra piece
And then the 119 or 125 is the college level piece required by a program. Question?
Absolutely so great point to mention Math 001, 011, 021, 031
Those the credits for that class do not apply to your degree any developmental course work does not go towards your program
What it will go towards us to you're enrollment so if you're taking four classes this semester
And one of them is that math class the math 001, and the other three are college. Level courses. You're considered full-time
You're in 12 credits, but at the end of the semester when you pass all four classes
You're only gonna earn credit for the three college-level
So it's really like you're only earning credit for three classes versus four.
Now that math 060 and 119, 125 is a five credit option
Two credits worth of developmental work and three credits worth of college level work
So at the end of the semester if you take 060 and 119 you do earn three credits towards your program
Because of that college level piece that's incorporated.
Does that answer your question?Does that make sense? Alright great. Any questions on math?
Like math class questions not actual math problem questions, cause I'm not
that math person.
Everyone knows what kind of math they're gonna take? If not there's advisors over there. We're going to help you. The
next piece is your English so if you can go to that top line where it says Eng - RDG
That's your English and writing in English and reading scores
Next up students may have placed right into English 101 or 102
That's fantastic you guys place into college level work you can sort of ignore me
But if anyone sees again that zero that zero coursework here are some integrated English options.
Now for some students that might have placed both into English 090 and reading 090 those are two separate courses
developmental reading and writing
But what the English department has done is they offer this combined course called English
091 and what's nice about the 091 is that you take your reading and writing
And you push them together so instead of having two separate courses
two different instructors, to sets of assignments, two sets of books
You now have one of each one instructor, one set of assignments, one textbook.
Essentially you're writing about what you're reading about which if you think about it makes a lot of sense. Now again, this is very
specific to piece on your placement test, and if it does apply to you it is written on your paperwork
I would encourage anyone that places into 091 or 092 to try your best to fit it onto your schedule
it really just makes a lot of sense for you guys to take these courses and again get you through the
developmental course work in an efficient way so that again you don't delay that college-level work too much.
English 092 is for my students that need English 090 so you needed a little bit of work on the English placement test
but it pairs English 101 with it so it's very similar to that last math option
It pairs developmental writing with college level writing so again two classes that normally were separate combined into one
Both of these options 091 and 092 are six credits each
So please keep that in mind as schedule on your courses that these will be six credits versus three.
Questions on English?
All righty
As John mentioned if you guys aren't very satisfied with your placement results you do have the option to retake it one time.
If you've taken it twice that's it, but if you've only taken it once we obviously encourage some preparation so that you guys can retest.
For today's purposes we have to put you in classes based on whatever your current scores are but if you have a
retest scheduled for tomorrow, then you would just meet with an advisor after that retest to make adjustments.
From an advisors point of view we've helped build schedules on a daily basis
So just put together a couple tips that we talk to students about every day.
When you're building your schedule this might be your first time at putting together your own academic
schedule as John mentioned a lot of people coming from high school
You are in class 7:30 to 3 know if, ands or buts but here in college
you're really in the driver's seat as far as when you take classes, where you take classes, how many classes
see that first one right there?
How many classes let us know how many you want to take?
Let us know how many you need to, take want to take are comfortable with taking.
Please utilize that add/drop period again in the first two weeks of every semester
so if you register for a ton of classes today
And then it doesn't seem like it's going to be the most successful semester take advantage of the last opportunity to make adjustments.
Whenever you're scheduling classes you need to check prerequisites
A prerequisite is something that has to be done before you take whatever class you're looking at
So if you're interested in child development because you really want to take psychology the prerequisite to child development is psych 101
Meaning you can't take psych 252 without doing psych 101 first.
We're going to show you in the next room how to find prerequisites, but please just keep an eye on that
because you might run into that in terms of scheduling.
For my full-time students
I am encouraging you to spread your schedule out to over the course of the week four or five days
Whatever is conducive again to your personal schedule
One of the main reasons why we want you to spread it out if you're taking four or five classes
Is think about midterms and finals if you've got five classes on Monday, Wednesday?
There's a really good percent chance that on Wednesday
You're going to have five midterms or five finals and that is quite overwhelming to think about right?
You have your finals when there are five tests on one day
So we really want you to spread it out the best that you possibly can
Class options. When you're searching the schedule classes meet once a week for two hours and forty minutes
Or twice a week for an hour and fifteen. So essentially you are in the classroom for the same amount of time
But it's up to you
Do you want to get it done one day once a week two hours and forty minutes?
Or do you want to split it up twice a week, an hour and fifteen each?
And we're going to show you how to search that schedule.
We have a handful of evening courses that start at 4 p.m.. And 7 p.m.. We also have some weekend classes depending on again
What works for your schedule. And then we also have something called a fully online or hybrid course. A fully online class
What does that mean? You do not come to campus. You do all of the work, all the learning anywhere you have internet access.
Right? So you can do it from home at 2 a.m., if that's what works best for you.
Please don't confuse a fully online class of being easier than an in-person class.
I say to students, if you want to take online classes
Please make sure your time management skills are like way up here, and that your motivation is way up here.
It's super easy to fall behind in an online course because you don't have that person in front of you reminding you and clarifying
There's still a faculty member attached to an online course
but again. If you're kind of easily distracted, or maybe you procrastinate a lot, an online class might not be the best option.
A hybrid is an interesting way though to sort of get your feet wet with online work.
So a hybrid course has an in person component. It also has an online component
It's kind of like the best of both worlds. So if you're thinking about online a hybrid might be a good place to start
Because at least you still have that in-person meeting once or twice a week.
Questions concerns comments will go to the order. No? Yes, ma'am?
I'll talk to you in two seconds. Okay, cool. All right, so what we're gonna do actually Oh. I'm jumping ahead of myself
I apologize. I don't think we have any culinary arts and hospitality
People in here if we do you think kind of talk to me in one second
But one of the last things we want you to know is we want students to be
informed every step of the way through college, and one way to do that is they're taking advantage of the fact that
Everybody has a cell phone so
Everyone's been great. I don't think I've seen a cell phone at the entire time
But now will be a great chance to actually take them out play with them a little bit
What we've done is we've created a couple text info-
locations for you guys to go to
So it's a free service standard text messaging rates do apply, but hopefully everyone has unlimited packages at this point
But one way to stay in the know is to know your academic
requirements. So if you want to be reminded of deadlines like the add/drop period, when advising
Starts, that you can get a perfect schedule for the spring when the last day to withdraw is, then you can text
"BCC info" to that number right up there, which is six seven two eight three.
By texting to this, you are opting in to get that email- Excuse me, that text message
notification, that "Hey, tomorrow's the last day to drop your classes"
Or "Advising starts next week make an appointment with your advisor now". We're not going to spam you
It's really just to keep you in the know with some of these important dates and deadlines
Right underneath that you're going to see- Yes, sir?
I would do it together, yup.
The other one though right underneath that is BeNotified, and it's the same number, six seven two eight three
If you don't sign up for all of them at least sign up for this one. BeNotified is going to alert you when the
Campus is closed maybe to a weather-related emergency,
Or god forbid an actual emergency on campus.
You don't want to be driving to school only to find out that we were closed because the water main burst.
And that happens. So I have a text be notified to that number as well. Yes Ma'am?
Oh great. All right, so anyone else is getting any sort of error messages-
I will find out from communications because they put this together. I'm just the messenger
Anybody else- Is anyone getting an actual confirmation though by text? Okay, so some people got confirmations
I'm not going to say that it's just to you, but we will touch base to make sure that not just you
I'm gonna leave this up for a second
What we're gonna do though in this next portion is- I'm gonna split you guys up a bit. There's just a big group.
We don't want to cram you into one computer lab. What we're gonna do is
Go into the next computer room and make sure that you guys understand your program requirements.
So a big thing you guys, when it comes to registering for classes is knowing what classes you need to take right?
So we're going to show you your program requirements
Then we're going to show you a course search so you guys know how to we find the courses you need to take
Before you leave the next room you're going to check out with an advisor to make sure that your classes are good to go
And then we'll send you on your way for any housekeeping items such as getting an ID, checking with financial aid so forth and so on
All right, so I need
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