College of Arts and Sciences NSE Presentation

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Learn about degrees, opportunities, advising and support in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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[00:00:01.830]Hello everyone,
[00:00:02.663]and welcome to our College
[00:00:03.900]of Arts and Sciences presentation.
[00:00:06.090]My name is Tony Lazarowicz,
[00:00:07.560]and I am the Director for Academic Advising
[00:00:09.750]for the College of Arts and Sciences here at UNL.
[00:00:13.320]And my name is Megan Savage,
[00:00:14.520]and I'm the Assistant Director for Career Development
[00:00:16.620]here in the college.
[00:00:18.659]We're looking forward to
[00:00:19.860]spending some time with you here today
[00:00:21.330]to talk a little bit about what you can anticipate
[00:00:23.550]as you get ready to start your college journey
[00:00:25.530]here with us this upcoming semester.
[00:00:27.660]One of the things that we really strive
[00:00:29.460]and pride ourselves in with our college degree
[00:00:32.010]is that truly when you graduate
[00:00:34.260]you're set up where you can do anything.
[00:00:36.030]Now that can be daunting, it can be exciting,
[00:00:38.190]but we really are excited about the opportunity to help you
[00:00:41.940]in your journey along the way so that you can go out
[00:00:44.580]and do anything that you set your mind to.
[00:00:46.980]So we're gonna help you by making sure that you are
[00:00:49.950]studying what you are interested in,
[00:00:51.630]what excites you,
[00:00:52.740]and connecting you to opportunities
[00:00:54.450]to delve deeper into those areas of interest.
[00:00:57.450]We're gonna help ensure that you can graduate in four years,
[00:00:59.910]and each one of you is gonna have
[00:01:01.320]your own customized degree
[00:01:02.760]and your customized plan based off of your interests
[00:01:05.970]and your abilities and what you wanna study.
[00:01:08.010]We're gonna help explore also what are your values,
[00:01:10.500]and how do all of those, the interests,
[00:01:12.360]your abilities and your values,
[00:01:13.800]shape and influence the kind of career options
[00:01:15.900]that you might look towards once you graduate.
[00:01:19.200]Along the way you're gonna gain lots of skills
[00:01:21.390]through your classroom
[00:01:22.223]and outside the classroom experience,
[00:01:24.390]and you're going to gain experience in a variety of ways
[00:01:27.120]that are gonna help you be more comfortable
[00:01:29.550]with where you're going to pursue
[00:01:31.260]for your career pursuits after you graduate.
[00:01:35.550]So the rest of this presentation
[00:01:37.110]is going to include a few things
[00:01:39.420]related to degree planning,
[00:01:40.740]and kind of understanding what are the degree requirements
[00:01:42.960]for the college and for the university.
[00:01:44.940]I'm gonna talk about academic advising,
[00:01:47.070]and kind of who your academic advisor is,
[00:01:49.710]what you can expect from your academic advisor,
[00:01:51.870]and how to utilize them.
[00:01:53.190]Megan's going to talk about career coaching
[00:01:55.110]and how to gain experience outside of the classroom,
[00:01:57.780]and we'll finish up by talking a little bit
[00:01:59.490]about success planning,
[00:02:00.600]and who are the people
[00:02:01.433]and the resources across campus that will help you
[00:02:04.110]be successful while you're here.
[00:02:09.510]So to tell you a little bit more
[00:02:10.680]about the College of Arts and Sciences,
[00:02:12.360]we are the largest, broadest,
[00:02:14.070]and most academically diverse college at the university,
[00:02:16.860]and we take a lot of pride in that.
[00:02:18.720]We have 30 majors, more than 50 minors.
[00:02:22.503]Everything that you can imagine from biology to English,
[00:02:26.880]physics, philosophy, so many different
[00:02:29.490]types of subjects live in the College of Arts and Sciences.
[00:02:32.130]And even though they all
[00:02:33.300]seem really different from one another,
[00:02:35.190]the thing that connects all of us
[00:02:37.110]is the concept of curiosity.
[00:02:39.060]Students really choose our majors and minors
[00:02:41.100]because they're genuinely curious about these subject areas,
[00:02:44.220]they wanna learn as much as they can, dive deep,
[00:02:46.740]and really start to become young experts in those fields.
[00:02:49.737]The University and the College of Arts and Sciences
[00:02:52.413]offers countless opportunities
[00:02:54.600]for you to explore what you're curious about,
[00:02:58.470]and it's our hope that you let that curiosity move you
[00:03:00.930]to try new things and see where it can take you.
[00:03:08.970]One of the foundational messages in our college
[00:03:11.730]is this concept right here on the screen,
[00:03:13.800]your formula for success,
[00:03:15.060]academics plus experience equals opportunities.
[00:03:18.690]In my working career development
[00:03:20.130]I talk to employers frequently
[00:03:22.500]who tell me what they're looking for in college students
[00:03:24.720]and new college grads are the ones
[00:03:27.150]who perform well academically,
[00:03:28.950]keep that GPA nice and high,
[00:03:30.810]but also who participate in high quality,
[00:03:33.480]meaningful outside the classroom experience as well,
[00:03:36.840]because it's truly a combination of those things
[00:03:39.120]that's going to lead to meaningful
[00:03:40.350]and exciting opportunities after you graduate.
[00:03:43.138]And so when we talk about that experience,
[00:03:45.540]we'll dive into that a little bit more later,
[00:03:47.940]but we really want to give you an opportunity
[00:03:50.168]to apply the skills that you're learning
[00:03:52.380]in the classroom in a wide variety of contexts,
[00:03:55.650]through research, internships, education abroad experiences,
[00:04:00.580]community service and campus involvement.
[00:04:03.690]All of those things help you really apply
[00:04:06.150]what you're learning in the classroom,
[00:04:08.010]and create a really well-rounded experience for you.
[00:04:14.940]The degrees in the College of Arts and Sciences
[00:04:17.486]are characterized by two things, focus and range.
[00:04:19.920]So your degree is really focused in that, again,
[00:04:22.530]you're gonna have that opportunity to dive deep,
[00:04:24.630]get your hands dirty,
[00:04:25.500]and learn as much as you can
[00:04:26.700]in those major and minor areas that you're studying.
[00:04:30.000]And you'll have the opportunity
[00:04:31.380]to take a variety of other courses
[00:04:33.432]throughout lots of other subjects.
[00:04:35.910]And the reason why that matters is that the focus
[00:04:38.220]and the range really work together to create a broad,
[00:04:41.250]well-rounded education that provides essential skills
[00:04:45.000]for your long-term success,
[00:04:46.470]both personally and professionally.
[00:04:48.570]So we're talking about skills like
[00:04:50.070]your ability to communicate with a variety of audiences,
[00:04:53.580]your ability to work with other people,
[00:04:57.210]and examine complex real world problems
[00:05:00.870]that need some really serious solutions.
[00:05:03.660]So all of that and more is really built into the nature
[00:05:06.960]of the degree that you're earning
[00:05:08.250]in the College of Arts and Sciences,
[00:05:09.750]and that's really what we consider to be
[00:05:11.884]the value of the degree that you're earning here.
[00:05:13.830]We have several majors that we offer
[00:05:15.900]that are broken down into a few different groups.
[00:05:18.330]The first is the humanities.
[00:05:20.100]The humanities majors really like thinking about
[00:05:22.636]who we are as humans, how do we tell our story?
[00:05:25.590]How do we keep our records of memory and imagination?
[00:05:30.013]So some of our more popular majors there include
[00:05:32.910]English history and our foreign languages.
[00:05:36.360]Our social and behavioral sciences majors
[00:05:38.820]really like to examine why we are the way we are as humans.
[00:05:42.450]So why do we think, act and behave the way that we do?
[00:05:46.230]Some of our more popular majors here are psychology,
[00:05:48.960]sociology and political science.
[00:05:52.410]We also have our national mathematical sciences majors,
[00:05:55.200]and these are students who really like to
[00:05:57.030]apply the scientific method to solving problems,
[00:05:59.670]figure out how things work, break them down,
[00:06:02.490]build them back up again,
[00:06:03.510]and that sort of thing.
[00:06:04.620]Some of our more popular majors there include
[00:06:06.870]biology, chemistry and math.
[00:06:09.570]We actually also have a fourth category
[00:06:11.490]called interdisciplinary majors,
[00:06:13.140]and it's exactly what it sounds like.
[00:06:14.580]It combines subjects from a variety of other categories.
[00:06:18.780]And so you can examine a particular topic
[00:06:21.180]or subject area from a variety of perspectives,
[00:06:24.120]which is really exciting.
[00:06:25.650]Some of our more popular majors in that area
[00:06:28.140]are global studies and environmental studies.
[00:06:33.990]So one of the things
[00:06:35.040]that brings an equation of academics
[00:06:36.780]and experience together is this idea of degree planning,
[00:06:39.837]and the importance of degree planning in fact.
[00:06:41.981]It really does allow you to incorporate
[00:06:45.600]what is the coursework of the academic components
[00:06:47.820]along with how are you going to gain experience,
[00:06:50.040]when are you going to gain experience,
[00:06:51.930]and starting to map that out for the time that you're here.
[00:06:55.080]So it's not just looking semester by semester,
[00:06:57.960]but it's actually looking at the bigger picture.
[00:07:00.240]So it's going to engage both your academic advisor
[00:07:02.910]and your career coaches along the way here.
[00:07:05.517]And the important thing about this is that
[00:07:07.410]it's not a one-time developer plan and I'm set,
[00:07:10.230]but rather an iterative process
[00:07:12.060]where you'll work with your advisor
[00:07:13.410]and your career coaches
[00:07:14.400]throughout the course of your time here
[00:07:15.900]to review and revise your degree plan.
[00:07:18.714]As you gain more experience,
[00:07:20.370]you have new experience in the classroom,
[00:07:22.050]you learn new materials,
[00:07:23.190]things about yourself, that's going to shape kind of
[00:07:26.100]maybe your own new interests
[00:07:27.480]or some of the new goals that you might have for yourself.
[00:07:29.520]So it's important that you meet with us regularly
[00:07:31.710]to update that degree plan
[00:07:33.390]so that we can keep you on track
[00:07:35.610]while adjusting for your emerging kind of interests.
[00:07:40.380]So now we're gonna spend some time
[00:07:41.670]on the first part of this equation,
[00:07:42.990]which is the academics component.
[00:07:44.730]And one of the key people
[00:07:46.500]that are going to be important in your academic journey
[00:07:48.660]is your academic advisor.
[00:07:50.340]Your advisor is a professional staff member
[00:07:52.350]who works with you based off of your assigned,
[00:07:55.110]your major of choice.
[00:07:56.910]And what they're going to do is
[00:07:58.260]really help you think broadly
[00:07:59.760]about your overall time that you're here.
[00:08:01.560]And so they're focused overall on your academic success,
[00:08:04.350]but it is much more than just academic course planning
[00:08:07.050]and helping you register for classes.
[00:08:08.940]They really value getting to know you,
[00:08:11.130]and developing a strong relationship.
[00:08:13.140]They're certainly invested in your academic journey,
[00:08:15.480]but they wanna know you personally,
[00:08:16.770]they wanna know about your professional goals.
[00:08:18.570]What do you hope to do when you're done?
[00:08:20.730]What are you involved with on campus?
[00:08:22.470]Where do you work?
[00:08:23.303]And all of those kind of things
[00:08:24.300]are important to your advisor
[00:08:25.500]as they develop that relationship with you.
[00:08:27.960]Now, they are gonna help facilitate
[00:08:29.520]that long-term degree plan,
[00:08:30.960]and they are very knowledgeable about your curriculum,
[00:08:33.180]making sure that you're taking all the right steps
[00:08:35.850]and enrolled in the right courses to stay on track,
[00:08:38.430]but it's much more than that.
[00:08:40.170]They're also very much connected
[00:08:42.000]to the faculty in your department,
[00:08:43.440]so as you go along your journey,
[00:08:44.970]and you start to think about what's an area of research
[00:08:48.335]that you're interested in,
[00:08:49.168]or is there a particular sub-topic
[00:08:50.490]within your major that you're really interested
[00:08:52.080]in exploring further,
[00:08:53.340]your advisor's going to know which faculty members
[00:08:55.860]you should be connecting with to really
[00:08:57.960]gain that kind of experience that you're looking for
[00:09:00.450]in your major in the curriculum.
[00:09:02.700]They're also gonna communicate regularly with you.
[00:09:04.980]This is going to happen through newsletters
[00:09:06.720]that often are put out either once a week or biweekly.
[00:09:10.590]There is a lot of good material, upcoming events,
[00:09:13.290]symposia, opportunities for internships,
[00:09:16.470]specific courses that may be only offered
[00:09:18.450]in the upcoming term,
[00:09:19.410]so there's a lot of important information.
[00:09:21.420]So please make sure to check
[00:09:22.620]your huskers.unl.edu email regularly
[00:09:25.830]for that kind of information
[00:09:27.270]so that you don't miss out on a really unique
[00:09:29.100]and powerful opportunity while you're here.
[00:09:33.150]We're gonna talk about the curriculum a little bit,
[00:09:34.740]and on this screen you can see
[00:09:36.030]the overall degree requirements.
[00:09:37.770]And so the first one that we'll talk about is
[00:09:39.990]how many credit hours do you need
[00:09:41.550]in order to earn your degree?
[00:09:43.440]120 credit hours is the number of credits you must earn.
[00:09:46.920]And so one credit hour is equivalent to
[00:09:49.170]about one hour a week in a lecture or a lab,
[00:09:52.230]so on average students will be taking
[00:09:54.720]14 to 16 credits per semester,
[00:09:57.270]which will keep you on track for that four year graduation.
[00:10:00.450]We offer two degrees in the College of Arts and Sciences,
[00:10:02.820]a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science.
[00:10:05.220]The biggest difference between the two
[00:10:06.930]is pursuing the bachelor of science
[00:10:09.300]half of your degree is going to make up of
[00:10:11.580]scientific methods and mathematical coursework.
[00:10:14.940]Most of our majors,
[00:10:15.773]you can choose either of those two options,
[00:10:17.700]so as you're visiting with your advisor
[00:10:19.080]you're able to determine which of those two degrees
[00:10:21.480]makes the most sense for you.
[00:10:23.700]We talked earlier about a lot of the majors that we've got.
[00:10:26.160]We'll spend a little bit of time here
[00:10:27.260]in just a moment on our two general education requirements.
[00:10:30.240]We've also got a number of minors
[00:10:31.650]that are really complimentary to your overall program,
[00:10:34.290]and can often help fill in spaces
[00:10:36.180]to really capture all of your interests along the way.
[00:10:40.800]So our two general education requirements that we have,
[00:10:43.230]one is university requirements
[00:10:44.760]and one are college requirements.
[00:10:46.140]We'll start with the university requirements,
[00:10:48.000]they're known as ACE, or achievement centered education.
[00:10:51.480]The important thing about our general education requirements
[00:10:53.940]is that we really looked at
[00:10:55.740]what are the skills
[00:10:56.850]and the knowledge that students are going to need
[00:10:58.980]when they graduate.
[00:11:00.030]And we actually worked really closely with employers
[00:11:02.550]when we began to develop this curriculum.
[00:11:04.680]And what I like about this curriculum is
[00:11:06.110]it is flexible so that you get a chance
[00:11:08.010]to choose which of the courses
[00:11:09.660]is gonna be best for you
[00:11:10.763]to meet each of these different outcomes.
[00:11:13.320]The first three outcomes are what we call the skills,
[00:11:15.810]so that's writing, communication skills, math, statistics,
[00:11:18.611]and formal reasoning.
[00:11:20.820]The next four are knowledge areas,
[00:11:22.530]so that's scientific methods, humanities, social science,
[00:11:25.800]and visual and performing arts.
[00:11:27.990]The next two are responsibilities to society.
[00:11:30.540]So that's ethics, civics, and stewardship,
[00:11:33.210]as well as global awareness and diversity.
[00:11:35.880]The final general education requirement
[00:11:37.710]is known as the creative or scholarly product,
[00:11:39.840]sometimes called a senior capstone,
[00:11:42.000]often in your junior or senior year
[00:11:44.340]to really help you show
[00:11:45.990]and demonstrate that you've gained a lot of the skills
[00:11:48.330]and the knowledge not just within the general education,
[00:11:50.670]but specifically within your major
[00:11:52.560]so that you're ready for,
[00:11:54.733]prepared for that next step
[00:11:55.770]in your own career journeys.
[00:11:57.570]For college of arts and students,
[00:11:59.217]art and sciences students,
[00:12:00.900]we talk about that focus and range,
[00:12:03.540]and so we wanna ensure that you've had some exposure
[00:12:05.610]to all of the disciplines in our college.
[00:12:07.560]And so college distribution requirements
[00:12:09.570]are specific to our college.
[00:12:11.220]They included additional writing,
[00:12:12.990]science and math with lab, humanities, social science,
[00:12:16.890]world language, as well as diversity in U.S. communities.
[00:12:21.100]Often we get questions about the last two,
[00:12:22.200]so we spend just a moment to say for students
[00:12:24.690]if you had four years
[00:12:25.830]of the same foreign language in high school
[00:12:27.480]where you graduated from an international institution
[00:12:30.070]in English as your second language,
[00:12:32.250]you are exempt from that requirement.
[00:12:34.200]Everyone else would need to complete
[00:12:35.490]through the fourth semester proficiency of a language.
[00:12:38.010]Now we do encourage all of our students
[00:12:40.020]to really think about pursuing a second
[00:12:41.772]or even third language in some cases
[00:12:44.430]because the world is such a global place
[00:12:46.410]where we think about kind of the world of work
[00:12:48.690]and where you might be situating yourself
[00:12:51.450]for a study abroad experience
[00:12:52.830]or the kind of industry you might be working in.
[00:12:54.870]Having knowledge of a second language is really
[00:12:56.940]a valuable skill that you can bring to your employer.
[00:13:00.930]Additionally, the diversity in U.S. communities
[00:13:05.044]is a slightly different requirement than say the ACE nine,
[00:13:06.630]which is global awareness and diversity.
[00:13:08.640]The difference here is that we're focusing on courses
[00:13:11.100]that really focus on the United States in context.
[00:13:13.890]And so that was one difference that you'll see
[00:13:16.440]between those two types of classes.
[00:13:18.990]And all students at the university
[00:13:20.910]will now, by the time they graduate,
[00:13:22.560]have a meaningful experiential learning opportunity.
[00:13:25.890]Megan will talk about some of the ways
[00:13:28.518]you might gain experiential learning,
[00:13:29.988]but every student, by the time you graduate,
[00:13:31.170]will have participated in at least one,
[00:13:33.000]and often more courses that will
[00:13:36.060]meet this experiential learning requirement
[00:13:37.950]that really allow you to apply what you're learning
[00:13:40.380]in a hands-on way, often that might include
[00:13:43.110]some kind of work outside of the classroom as well.
[00:13:46.560]So as we go back to this overall view,
[00:13:48.480]you'll notice we talked about
[00:13:49.590]all these different requirements kind of in their own,
[00:13:52.530]but you'll notice that some of them do overlap.
[00:13:54.750]And so what we'll really talk about is
[00:13:56.790]the fact that when you're strategically planning your degree
[00:13:59.250]and you think about what are your interests,
[00:14:00.750]many of you may have multiple interests,
[00:14:02.741]so many students in our college will often have
[00:14:05.310]a major with multiple minors,
[00:14:07.200]or multiple majors.
[00:14:08.430]And if you're thinking strategically
[00:14:10.140]you can often overlap some of these requirements
[00:14:12.330]in a way that will still allow you
[00:14:13.980]to take advantage of all your interests,
[00:14:15.600]and all of your skills
[00:14:16.530]that you wanna develop while you're here
[00:14:18.300]without taking any additional time to graduate.
[00:14:24.000]Great, thanks Tony.
[00:14:25.170]So I wanna talk a little bit more now
[00:14:26.670]about the experience side of that equation.
[00:14:29.760]And just like you have academic advisors
[00:14:31.830]to help support you with the academic portion,
[00:14:34.110]that coursework planning part
[00:14:36.390]of the the degree planning process,
[00:14:39.030]you have a team of career coaches here
[00:14:41.190]to help you think about
[00:14:42.120]how do you gain that experience
[00:14:43.500]outside the classroom as well.
[00:14:45.690]So I bet, I like to say that the best way
[00:14:47.940]to use career coaching is early and often.
[00:14:51.060]A lot of students might assume that
[00:14:52.438]April before I graduate I'll come see you,
[00:14:55.860]and we'll get a job and that kind of thing,
[00:14:58.320]I'd be happy to meet with you at any time,
[00:15:00.210]but the best way to use career coaching
[00:15:01.650]really is early and often.
[00:15:02.880]We wanna start meeting with you
[00:15:04.680]when you arrive,
[00:15:05.670]and sometime in that first semester just to check in,
[00:15:08.760]see what you really like about your major,
[00:15:10.680]what you maybe don't like,
[00:15:12.270]what are some activities
[00:15:13.260]that you maybe enjoyed in high school,
[00:15:14.970]and how can we help get you connected
[00:15:17.550]to things that are exciting to you at the university?
[00:15:20.730]Whether that's student groups or part-time jobs,
[00:15:23.550]or starting to think about maybe research
[00:15:25.590]or anything that might be a really good fit for you,
[00:15:28.830]because we do have a lot of options,
[00:15:30.450]we just wanna help you narrow it down,
[00:15:32.370]just like we wanna help you narrow down
[00:15:34.020]your long-term career plans as well.
[00:15:36.330]Our degrees are very, very broad
[00:15:38.250]here in the College of Arts and Sciences,
[00:15:40.080]which means they have lots of potential applications
[00:15:42.780]in the world of work,
[00:15:44.280]and that's really exciting,
[00:15:45.720]but what we wanna do is make sure
[00:15:47.160]that you can identify the options
[00:15:49.170]that are gonna be the best fit for you
[00:15:51.090]based on your interests and your skills and your values.
[00:15:54.000]So that is the value, I think,
[00:15:55.710]of working with career coaching throughout your time
[00:15:58.830]because you might change your mind here or there,
[00:16:00.630]you might discover something new,
[00:16:01.950]you might just learn something new about yourself,
[00:16:04.380]and we're really here to help guide you
[00:16:06.110]in all of that decision making and exploration.
[00:16:11.700]So I wanna talk more specifically
[00:16:13.500]about the types of experience
[00:16:14.880]that we most commonly encourage for students,
[00:16:17.550]the first is undergraduate research.
[00:16:19.650]This is such a unique opportunity
[00:16:21.240]for our undergraduate students
[00:16:22.680]to partner with faculty to create new knowledge
[00:16:25.560]in those subject areas.
[00:16:28.080]I know you might assume that science,
[00:16:30.210]or that research only happens in science,
[00:16:32.289]with the lab coats and the beakers,
[00:16:34.020]and that whole thing,
[00:16:34.853]but the University of Nebraska is an R1,
[00:16:37.440]research one institution,
[00:16:39.810]and that means every single department here
[00:16:42.990]is working on producing new research,
[00:16:44.610]and you have the opportunity
[00:16:45.810]to help faculty with that process, which is really exciting.
[00:16:49.890]Internships, this one is my favorite.
[00:16:51.870]As a career coach I work with students often to help them
[00:16:54.750]identify meaningful internships.
[00:16:56.250]And internships are great short-term work experiences,
[00:17:01.110]typically done off campus,
[00:17:02.790]to help you get a sense of
[00:17:04.740]what types of work you enjoy
[00:17:06.780]or maybe not enjoy, different types of work settings,
[00:17:09.750]all of this to help you decide
[00:17:11.940]what you might like after you graduate,
[00:17:13.620]and start to feel more confident
[00:17:15.120]in that decision making.
[00:17:16.320]So we encourage at least one, if not two,
[00:17:18.840]or even three internships before you graduate.
[00:17:22.890]Education abroad.
[00:17:24.270]That is a huge interest area
[00:17:26.280]for students at our college especially.
[00:17:28.140]And it goes back to that concept of curiosity
[00:17:30.300]like I was talking about earlier.
[00:17:32.190]Our students are really curious
[00:17:33.600]about the world around them,
[00:17:35.370]different people, languages, cultures
[00:17:37.140]and that kind of thing,
[00:17:38.250]and now that we have more education abroad options
[00:17:41.010]open to us in the last couple of years,
[00:17:42.840]it's a really exciting time
[00:17:44.310]to go somewhere new
[00:17:45.840]and have a brand new experience.
[00:17:49.290]Service.
[00:17:50.400]I know a lot of high school students
[00:17:51.870]have to do a community service require,
[00:17:54.510]a certain number of hours
[00:17:55.710]of community service before they graduate,
[00:17:57.840]that's not required here at the university,
[00:17:59.820]but it's still something we really encourage
[00:18:01.830]that you continue to be involved with.
[00:18:03.713]Many students in our college, regardless of their major,
[00:18:06.690]tell me over and over again they just wanna help people.
[00:18:10.620]And the best way to get started
[00:18:11.970]gaining experience doing that is through service.
[00:18:14.640]So who is it that you wanna help,
[00:18:16.530]or what do you wanna help them with?
[00:18:18.030]Let's find organizations
[00:18:19.860]and professionals who are doing that work
[00:18:21.780]and get you connected through volunteerism
[00:18:24.030]so you can start building some of those skills.
[00:18:27.930]And, finally, we have leadership,
[00:18:29.250]a lot of wonderful ways to grow as leaders on campus,
[00:18:31.620]whether that's through any number of
[00:18:34.140]our five to 600 student groups that we have active,
[00:18:37.638]or through student leadership positions
[00:18:41.701]like our student government
[00:18:42.534]or being a resident assistant in the residence halls,
[00:18:45.300]or an orientation leader.
[00:18:49.075]Lots of really great high level leadership opportunities
[00:18:51.614]to just grow that skillset.
[00:18:57.030]And I know we've spent a lot of time talking about
[00:18:59.010]the importance of working with your academic advisors
[00:19:01.410]and your career coaches,
[00:19:02.820]but we are just two people in a really big network
[00:19:06.930]of success professionals here that you have access to.
[00:19:10.650]And you can see you are, as a CAS student,
[00:19:12.630]you're right in the middle
[00:19:14.604]of all of these great folks really committed
[00:19:16.851]to your long-term success.
[00:19:17.684]So I just wanna point out a couple additional CAST,
[00:19:21.234]The Center of Academic Success and Transition, really can
[00:19:24.259]help you focus on the academic skills
[00:19:25.980]you need to be successful at the university.
[00:19:28.230]Explore Center, absolute experts in everything
[00:19:31.170]about applying to health programs
[00:19:33.986]or law schools.
[00:19:35.640]If you're thinking about those areas,
[00:19:37.995]we partner closely with them.
[00:19:38.828]And of course your faculty,
[00:19:39.810]they're wonderful people who are experts in their field,
[00:19:43.080]who just wanna see you succeed.
[00:19:44.340]So you have lots of different people
[00:19:46.020]that you could connect with while you're here.
[00:19:50.220]So thinking about all those resources,
[00:19:51.900]one of our newest resources that we've added this last year
[00:19:54.660]are known as our academic navigators.
[00:19:56.670]And so it may be overwhelming to think about that web
[00:19:59.520]of who are all the people,
[00:20:00.570]and where are all the places,
[00:20:01.770]and how do I begin to know who does what.
[00:20:05.422]And that's really where the value
[00:20:06.255]of an academic navigator comes in.
[00:20:07.410]They can help you navigate all the complexities
[00:20:09.930]that there is within a university system.
[00:20:12.240]They're very proactive,
[00:20:14.013]they're gonna connect with you early and often.
[00:20:16.080]They're gonna probably reach out
[00:20:17.130]and kind of just try to check in
[00:20:18.360]and see how things are going each semester.
[00:20:20.610]They're really good at listening.
[00:20:21.810]So if you're needing somebody that just
[00:20:24.540]you're trying to identify the best ways
[00:20:26.730]for success for you in this particular semester
[00:20:28.950]given what you're going through in that moment in time,
[00:20:31.530]they're gonna be really helpful
[00:20:32.640]and supportive just to sit down with you
[00:20:34.890]and really understand where you're coming from,
[00:20:36.630]and kind of help navigate a collaborative plan, if you will,
[00:20:40.650]to how you can be successful,
[00:20:42.360]and who you wanna make sure you're connecting with
[00:20:44.040]while you are here.
[00:20:47.820]We talked earlier about how we have a flexible degree
[00:20:50.100]and that no one student's plan is gonna look identical.
[00:20:52.680]The one thing that all of our new students
[00:20:54.690]will experience together though is
[00:20:56.970]our CASCO50 Start Smart Course.
[00:20:59.760]It's free, it's a zero credit pass, no pass course.
[00:21:02.490]It actually begins before the semester even fully starts.
[00:21:05.910]So in late July you can expect
[00:21:07.470]to receive an email from the instructor
[00:21:09.362]telling you about the course opening up.
[00:21:12.120]It's in our learning management system CANVAS,
[00:21:14.070]so it is online.
[00:21:15.030]It takes a few hours to navigate
[00:21:16.650]through a number of the modules.
[00:21:18.330]And really what it's designed to do
[00:21:19.860]is to give you a headstart to success
[00:21:21.780]when you get back here this upcoming semester.
[00:21:24.240]We wanna ensure that you're successful,
[00:21:25.770]that you remember what the resources are,
[00:21:27.570]who are the people,
[00:21:28.470]how do you use the systems that we have?
[00:21:30.780]What are the important kind of things
[00:21:32.430]and the milestones that you need to navigate through
[00:21:34.770]while you're here.
[00:21:35.603]So it's really a tool that's designed
[00:21:37.590]to just reiterate the things
[00:21:39.420]that you've learned along the way
[00:21:40.650]throughout the course of your time preparing for college,
[00:21:43.320]and how you're gonna be successful once you're here.
[00:21:48.090]We love to highlight our students
[00:21:49.557]and our staff and our faculty stories,
[00:21:51.660]and I think one of the valuable things that you can do
[00:21:54.060]as a student and as a family member
[00:21:57.060]is to connect with us on our social media pages.
[00:22:00.240]So we use Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
[00:22:04.200]We always the same handle of U-N-L-C-A-S,
[00:22:07.110]but the value there for you is it's supposed to inspire you.
[00:22:10.500]Check out the stories from some of our students,
[00:22:12.300]the faculty and staff, the research,
[00:22:13.890]the experience that people are having
[00:22:15.780]both in and outside of the classroom.
[00:22:17.610]We hope that by reading
[00:22:18.690]and learning more about your peers
[00:22:20.520]that it inspires you to also think about ways
[00:22:22.860]that you are gonna be able to get involved
[00:22:24.690]while you're here with us during the your time.
[00:22:27.600]So as we start to wrap up here
[00:22:28.710]I wanna leave you with a final thought,
[00:22:30.630]that it's really okay
[00:22:32.070]if you don't know what you want long-term
[00:22:33.960]after you graduate college,
[00:22:35.370]you haven't even started yet,
[00:22:36.540]and that's okay.
[00:22:37.680]So what we like to talk about is that we have alum
[00:22:42.180]five, 10, 15 years out of graduation
[00:22:45.390]who end up in interesting careers
[00:22:47.220]that they never could have predicted before,
[00:22:49.166]or even in jobs that didn't even exist,
[00:22:51.900]because that's how fast our world is changing.
[00:22:54.360]If you think about social media coordinators,
[00:22:56.970]everyone needs a social media coordinator now,
[00:22:58.950]but that wasn't the case 15 years ago.
[00:23:00.960]And now Wendy's is on, the queen of Twitter,
[00:23:04.470]and the Pope has a social media coordinator.
[00:23:06.942]That's just one example of jobs that never existed before,
[00:23:11.160]but now is a really great career path.
[00:23:13.380]So the most important thing to think about,
[00:23:15.810]it's just how you plan to get started.
[00:23:18.090]When you get here, let's take a step, try something new,
[00:23:20.940]a class that you hadn't thought about before,
[00:23:23.160]joining a student group,
[00:23:24.512]attending a particular event,
[00:23:26.537]and meeting with the people that you have around you.
[00:23:28.950]You're not in this alone,
[00:23:31.169]you have lots of folks at the university here
[00:23:32.100]to help guide you in that journey.
[00:23:33.690]And if you discover something that you
[00:23:36.188]like, "Wow, I don't like that the way I thought I would,"
[00:23:37.620]that's okay, that's what we're here for.
[00:23:39.060]We'll easily get you redirected
[00:23:40.950]so that we can keep you moving forward
[00:23:42.630]and feeling really confident about what comes next.
[00:23:48.870]What you're seeing on the screen is Old Father Hall,
[00:23:51.300]it's the tallest building on campus.
[00:23:52.980]It's also where our academic
[00:23:54.570]and career advising center is located,
[00:23:56.430]which we would call the hub
[00:23:57.510]for our College of Arts and Sciences students.
[00:24:00.000]If you are ever in a position where you have a question,
[00:24:02.430]and you don't know where to go,
[00:24:03.510]or you just need pointed in the right place,
[00:24:05.400]or you've got a form that needs signed,
[00:24:07.260]stop by Old Father 107, on the first floor
[00:24:10.620]is where our office is located,
[00:24:11.910]and we're gonna be happy to help you,
[00:24:13.320]and get you pointed in the right direction.
[00:24:15.210]Our email on the screen, CASadvising@unl.edu,
[00:24:19.650]and our phone number, 402-472-4190,
[00:24:23.820]are great ways to get connected with us.
[00:24:25.470]And certainly if you've got questions now
[00:24:27.173]throughout the course of the summer,
[00:24:29.040]or even as you get started here this upcoming semester,
[00:24:31.920]please do reach out, we're happy to answer those questions
[00:24:34.380]at any time to make sure that we can help you
[00:24:37.710]get connected to wherever you need to.
[00:24:40.200]So with that, that's gonna end our presentation.
[00:24:41.880]Thanks for taking time with us this today,
[00:24:44.370]and we look forward to welcoming you back here
[00:24:46.260]this upcoming semester when you arrive on campus.
[00:24:48.720]But for now thanks for watching,
[00:24:50.460]and go Big Red.

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