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WAYNESBURG EXPERIENCE WAYNESBURG EXPERIENCE COURSE OFFERINGS
2012-2013
Waynesburg Experience
WBE 097. Academic Mentoring 1 credit This is a one credit course designed specifically for students who are on Academic Alert, Academic Warning, or Academic Probation, and who have already successfully completed WBE 106, Strategies for Academic Success, and WBE 107, Academic Mentoring. Students meet individually each week with an academic mentor, with whom they create a specific plan to improve their academic standing. Mentors coach the students in building needed skill areas, and maintain regular contact with students’ professors to determine strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations. Though it can be repeated multiple times, this course does not count towards baccalaureate graduation requirements and is graded pass/fail. Prerequisites: WBE 106 and 107. WBE 105. Career and Life Planning 1 credit This class is designed to help students decide on a major course of study. Grounded in vocational counseling theory, students will reach an understanding of their skills, values, and personalities by means of self-evaluation; investigate career and major opportunities; and formulate a career plan. First-year students or permission of the instructor. WBE 106. Strategies for Academic Success 1 credit This course is designed to help students make a smooth transition into the academics of college. Specific research-based skills are taught which improve the effectiveness of reading, note-taking, memory, and other cognitive abilities. Students become familiar with the liberal arts philosophy as they learn academic requirements, University resources, and interpersonal skills that enhance their potential to be well-rounded and academically successful. WBE 107. Academic Mentoring 1 credit This is a one credit course designed specifically for students who are on Academic Alert, Academic Warning, or Academic Probation, and who have already successfully completed WBE 106, Strategies for Academic Success. Students meet individually each week with an academic mentor, with whom they create a specific plan to improve their academic standing. Mentors coach the students in building needed skill areas, and maintain regular contact with students’ professors to determine strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations. A student can only receive a maximum of one credit of WBE 107 towards graduation requirements. As such, a student requiring further mentoring beyond WBE 107 will be placed into the WBE 097 course. WBE 107 is graded pass/fail. Prerequisite: WBE 106. WBE 108. Fiat Lux 1 credit An introduction to Waynesburg University and the life of the mind. Students will examine and discuss the structure and goals of the curriculum and the values which guide the University and the academic enterprise and will experience cultural events collectively. Required of all first year students irrespective of college credit earned during high school. Transfer students who have accumulated 12 or more college credits after high school are exempt. Fall WBE 109. Fiat Lux Student Mentorship 1 credit This is a one credit class designed for those students selected to act as mentors for the Fiat Lux program. Student serve as mentors for freshmen enrolled in WBE 108, Fiat Lux. Mentors assist the Fiat Lux instructor in presenting topics chosen by the instructor to individual Fiat Lux sections. Participation in the annual freshman trip is desired but not required. Only those students who have complete a minimum of 25 semester hours at Waynesburg University with an overall grade point average of 3.0