This book is [not] required : an emotional and intellectual survival manual for students / Inge Bell, Bernard McGrane, Chapman University, John Gunderson, Chapman University, Terri L. Anderson, University of California, Los Angeles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Inge, author.

McGrane, Bernard, author.

Gunderson, John, author.

Anderson, Terri L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College students--United States.

College students.

Universities and colleges--United States.

Universities and colleges.

College students--United States--Psychology.

Universities and colleges--Social aspects--United States.

College student orientation--United States.

College student orientation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Other Title:

This book is not required

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, California : SAGE, [2014]

Summary:

This edition of an underground classic marks out new territory in college participatory education. Its purpose remains the same: to encourage students to educate themselves by calling their attention to the college experience as a whole: the personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual demands and opportunities presented by college life. In a personable and refreshingly straightforward style, the auhtors' critical discussion of academic life distinguishes between learning the institutional rules of higher education and internalizing those rules, demystifies professors and teaching assistants by discussing their institutional roles and incentives, and invites students to take responsibility for - and make the most of - their educational experiences.

Contents:

Part I. Academics and learning. 1. Welcome to college ; 2. Grades : can you perform without the pressure? ; 3. Technology and learning ; 4. Everybody hates to write

Part II. Navigating the institution. 5. Support your local teacher : or the care and feeding of professors ; 6. An academic question ; 7. Questions of academic integrity ; 8. Wisdom and knowledge ; 9. Pursuing wisdom in the academy ; 10. Adventures in desocialization ; 11. Media me

Part III. Survival strategies. 12. Survival skills ; 13. Love ; 14. Trouble with parents ; 15. The painful avenues of upward mobility ; 16. Graduation : what they forgot to mention ; 17. The career : friend or foe? ; 18. Directing our own development.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781544331119

1544331118

9781483300771

1483300773

9781483321158

1483321150

9781544308593

1544308590

OCLC:

1013943946