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Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Curriculum Changes in First Year Composition Classes: An Opportunity
for Faculty Partnerships
METRO Outreach and Advocacy SIG MeetingThursday May 26, 2016METRO Training Center
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Library Workshops for First Year Composition Courses
•Targeted to First Year College Composition Courses•45 minutes•Lesson Plan• How to find books• How to find articles• Access databases from home• Understand plagiarism• Library Web Site as “virtual” space
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Library Workshops for First Year Composition Courses
•Workshop also used to promote library services and resources•Held During CLUB Hours•Students self register:• Attend workshop w/o teacher• Register via Google forms• Select a workshop via Google Calendar•Assessment built in (quiz on Google forms)•Students receive certificate of attendance at the end
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Spring 2016: oh oh, a curriculum change!
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
First Year Composition Classes will only focus on writing, not research
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Sever Ties?
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Burn Bridges?
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
……or Develop New Partnership?
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Pilot “Conceptual” Workshops
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
….we discussed…
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Workshop Focusing on Concepts,
not Library Research ?
….more discussions…
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
•Some librarians in the department were uncomfortable teaching a new workshop that omitted “research”
•Some felt it could be a way to “part ways” with the English department
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Collaborated on Pilot Lesson Plan
•Collaborated with the English Department•Develop new lesson plan• Thesis Question & Statement• How information is affected by bias, audience,
author, context, politics, and genre• Evaluation of sources• Primary, Secondary, & Tertiary Sources
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Anxiety Happens….(avoid discussing library research?)
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
After the Classes Librarians visited 3 out of 4 classes
No discussion of assignment
Students were very engaged
Classroom faculty appreciated the conversation
It was challenging to keep the conversation going
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
The Future of Our Workshops?If library research is removed from First Year Composition Classes, then college catalogue description must change.
The “change” in curriculum must be approved by The College’s Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Mark Aaron Polger | First Year Experience Librarian | College of Staten Island, CUNY | MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
Conclusion/Lessons Learned
•Library services keep changing and improving
•Collaborating is always positive
•Whether the curriculum change gets approved or not, we tried something new.