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UNI 201: Transfer Seminar Curriculum

About UNI 201: Transfer Seminar

UNI 201: Transfer Seminar helps transfer and military students in their first semester make a successful academic, social, and personal transition to UNCW. It’s designed to support you through your campus switch and optimize your UNCW learning experience.

Set up for success

The course emphasizes critical thinking, information literacy skills, discussion and group collaboration as students focus on issues critical to transfer student success and college success in general. Transfer Seminar partially satisfies University Studies III: Building Competencies/Information Literacy and University Studies IV: Explorations Beyond the Classroom.

Select Topics in UNI 201

  • Academic and career planning
  • Resume and cover letter
  • Academic strategies and skills
  • Time management
  • UNCW resources and support services
  • Health and wellness
  • Library and research skills
  • Motivation and goal setting
  • Academic advising information
  • Diversity and the college experience

What You’ll Take Away from UNI 201

  • Demonstrating skills in critical thinking, study skills, time management, and project management.
  • Recognizing, locating, and using university support services and resources necessary for a successful higher educational experience.
  • Communicating and building relationships with faculty and staff.
  • Describing student development theory related to transfer student transitions.
  • Valuating their personal, academic, and social transitions to UNCW and the factors that shape their experience.
  • Creating a comprehensive academic plan using personal goals, UNCW major and minor requirements, and professional objectives.
  • Researching careers and developing a career plan.
  • Determining the nature and extent of information needed to answer research questions, explore majors and careers, and conduct a literature review.
  • Locating and using information from a variety of sources, including online tools and UNCW technologies to produce effective and efficient research.
  • Critically evaluating and selecting credible sources of information to strengthen their knowledge base and research papers.
  • Accessing, evaluating, and utilizing online academic, curricular and career resources to evaluate and develop an effective academic and career plan.
  • Understanding many of the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the access and use of information and using information ethically and legally.
  • Using evidence to generalize, explain, critically write about, and interpret content related to student development theory, academic exploration, and career development.
  • Consulting with and receiving feedback from the writing center, professors, and classmates in order to improve written work during the writing process (brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and revising).
  • Accurately documenting research using the citation style most commonly used in their major.
  • Evaluating claims, arguments, and theories presented in course materials.
  • Demonstrating an awareness of and a greater willingness to consider a wide range of ideas, attitudes, biases, and behaviors regarding cultural, racial, ethnic, and global diversity.
  • Formulating knowledge of and respect for offices and student organizations that cater to various diverse groups on campus.
  • Evaluating personal wellness and identifying the health risks that are relevant for college students.
  • Understanding financial challenges that are relevant for college students and utilizing financial literacy strategies.

Common Course Components

Faculty have flexibility in how they approach the Transfer Seminar curriculum, but each section includes these components.

  • Common syllabus
  • Common instructor resources
  • Information literacy instructional session with a UNCW librarian
  • UNI 201 peer mentor
  • Major and career exploration session with Career Services
  • Participation in events beyond the classroom
  • Journals and reflections
  • Transfer portfolio
  • Adult transitional theory/W-curve session with peer mentor

Contact Center for Academic Advising

UNCW Center for Academic Advising

Phone: (910) 962-3245
Fax: (910) 962-4290

caa@uncw.edu

Hoggard Hall, Room 172
601 S. College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403

Schedule an appointment online