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=== Priority 3: Redesigning the First-Year Experience=== | === Priority 3: Redesigning the First-Year Experience=== | ||
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| + | Design Your "Y" Class | ||
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| + | '''Project Lead:''' Rachel Merrill | ||
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| + | '''BYU Project Supporters:''' | ||
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| + | Phillip D. Rash ''"First-Year Mentoring and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education at BYU"'' | ||
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| + | Matt Duerden ''"Assistant Professor of Experience Design and Management"'' | ||
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| + | '''Project Idea:''' A mentored class for first-year students focused on helping students find personally applicable resources--resources that tie to their personal motivations for being at BYU. A class that uses design thinking to help students prototype their experience at BYU and their impact in the world. A class that helps achieve the BYU aim "Enter to learn--go forth to serve". | ||
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| + | '''Key Tactics:''' | ||
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| + | *Work with Matt and other a few other faculty members to create and experiential curriculum for the class. | ||
| + | *Through the Office of the First-Year Experience enlist Y-group leaders to be mentors in these courses. | ||
| + | *Work with the office of General Education to have this course recognized at BYU. | ||
| + | *Prototype small versions of this class with groups of Freshman students. | ||
| + | *Work with the Career Center to find effective surveys to use for grouping students. | ||
=== Priority 4: Finding purpose in General Education === | === Priority 4: Finding purpose in General Education === | ||
Revision as of 01:36, 5 October 2018
Contents
Fall 2018 Cohort
Priority 1: Increasing Interdisciplinary Space
Interdisciplinary Offices
Priority 2: Increasing Interdisciplinary Empathy
The BYU VR Experience
Priority 3: Redesigning the First-Year Experience
Design Your "Y" Class
Project Lead: Rachel Merrill
BYU Project Supporters:
Phillip D. Rash "First-Year Mentoring and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education at BYU"
Matt Duerden "Assistant Professor of Experience Design and Management"
Project Idea: A mentored class for first-year students focused on helping students find personally applicable resources--resources that tie to their personal motivations for being at BYU. A class that uses design thinking to help students prototype their experience at BYU and their impact in the world. A class that helps achieve the BYU aim "Enter to learn--go forth to serve".
Key Tactics:
- Work with Matt and other a few other faculty members to create and experiential curriculum for the class.
- Through the Office of the First-Year Experience enlist Y-group leaders to be mentors in these courses.
- Work with the office of General Education to have this course recognized at BYU.
- Prototype small versions of this class with groups of Freshman students.
- Work with the Career Center to find effective surveys to use for grouping students.
Priority 4: Finding purpose in General Education
General Education App
General Education Think Tank
Additional Resources
BYU Landscape Canvas
Brigham Young University
Written by: Dallas Anderson, Rachel Merrill, Ashley Paget, Gabe Walker
