Co-Curricular Guide Fall 2016/2017 Updated 6.21

Highest Impact: Semester Long Co-Curricular Integration The Highest level of integration will require the most work and intentionality. However, this level of co-curricular integration will provide students with a profound learning experience throughout their first semester of college and help them to understand that learning throughout their collegiate experience happens both inside and outside the classroom. Listed below are a series of sample projects that have been used by professors in the past to integrate co-curricular learning into their curriculum. Reflection Assignments/Utilizing the ePDP Connect to Yourself –Introductory Assignment During the first several weeks of the semester, students are getting in touch with why they are in college, who they are, and what they want to accomplish. They are identifying their needs, interests, and goals. As students become more aware of themselves, they create a foundation to begin building networks that will support them.    Students complete the typology assessments such as StrengthsQuest, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or Holland Code to identify strengths, personality, conflict resolution, and career interests. Goal Setting: help students identify SMART (speci fic, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely) goals and begin thinking about what is available at IUPUI to support them. Activity/Assignment/Reflection: Students will be asked to synthesize information they have discovered about themselves; i.e., interests, goals, and services available at IUPUI. Recommend that students write a reflection paper or conduct a brief presentation in class about their strengths, goals, and areas they plan to utilize at IUPUI to help them move forward in their academic and career planning. These are also options to link back to the Electronic Personal Development Plan (ePDP) if your course is utilizing this feature. You may link them under the My Involvement and Impact section of the ePDP. Involvement Expo – Adapted from FYS Professor Jayme Little By attending the Involvement Expo on August 30th and 31st during Weeks of Welcome 2016, students will have an opportunity to explore a variety of organizations both on and off campus. Require your student to join a preprofessional or student leadership organization and/or volunteer with a Community Service Agency. Ask them to write a reflection paper about the student organization or community service agency they chose, how it connects to their future goals and/or interests, and what they hope to contribute as a member or volunteer. Conduct a follow-up with the student mid-semester to see if they have indeed contributed as they had expected. Research the Den – Adapted from FYS Professor Jayme Little This activity is similar to the one above and could be used as an alternate to that activity if it does not fit with your class. This activity would require students to go onto the website The Den (https://theden.iupui.edu/). The Den is a site that includes a list of all of the student organizations on campus. Have students search through the organizations and choose 2-3 that they would be interested in getting involved with. Then, ask them to reflect on why they chose these particular organizations in a post-class writing assignment. 4|Page

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