May 20, 2024  
BVU Academic Catalog 23-24 
  
BVU Academic Catalog 23-24
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0BVU 100 - University Seminar


3 Credit(s)

University seminar is a small section course that emphasizes the development and exercise of academic skills essential for success in college. This course enhances critical thinking skills while improving students’ abilities to write, speak, listen, and conduct research. University Seminar is also intended to assist students in the transition to life in a learning community, and to facilitate understanding of the privileges, responsibilities, and expectations that accompany membership in such a community. Registration in this course in the first semester of enrollment is required of all new BVU students who have completed fewer than 30 credit-hours at the time of matriculation.

May not be repeated.
Course Frequency: F, S

Grading Method: Letter grade.

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Students will identify and, as needed, access University resources offered to support a successful transition to college.
  2. Students will assemble a proposed, four-year schedule of courses comprising a complete baccalaureate degree program.
  3. Students will apply effective learning strategies (as defined by NSSE) in encounters with new ideas, principles, facts, theories, or methods (as appropriate to the substantive emphasis of the OBVU 100 section in which they are registered).
  4. Students will demonstrate effectiveness in written communication as defined by BVU Signature Skill #3: Effective Writing.



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