Explanations, Descriptions, Definitions, etc.

Academic Neighborhoods--

These are usually theme-based, smaller communities on campus designed to provide students with a cohort of like-minded individuals with whom they can study, take courses, and sometimes live. Examples of academic neighborhoods include Residential Academic Programs (RAPs) such as Baker (Science), Ethnic Living and Learning Community (in the Chancellor's Leadership RAP), Farrand (Service Learning and Humanities), Libby (Arts) and Kittredge Honors Program, or programs or scholarship groups such as Norlin Scholars, President's Leadership Class, Women in Engineering, or Minority Arts and Sciences Program (MASP). There are many academic neighborhoods on campus, essentially making what is a large, sprawling campus feel like a smaller college. Students can be in more than one academic neighborhood; if you're uncertain how this might work for you, ask program directors.

NRLN2000--Constructions of Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in the Academy and Beyond

A course for incoming first-year students, Constructions of Knowledge asks students to interrogate what their natural learning tendencies are, how they know what they know, and how to cultivate other ways of knowing beyond the intellectual. Students work individually and collaboratively analyzing how knowledge is created, discovered, and interpreted. They'll explore such questions as: What human faculties are involved in learning, seeing, understanding and knowing? What conditions are present when revolutions in human knowledge arise? What is the relationship between knowledge and power? What is wisdom? Discussion and assignments encourage students to draw on many different ways of expressing knowledge, including the intellect, spirituality, intuition, and others. The class fulfills an Ideals and Values core requirement.

Pre-Professor (Pre-prof) Program

Pre-prof is an extraordinary collaboration between the Norlin Scholars Program and nationally acclaimed Graduate Teacher Program (GTP). Designed to address the needs of the many Norlin Scholars who plan to eventually earn Ph.D.s with the intent to teach at the college level, Pre-prof provides panel discussions and workshops to help prepare students for graduate school and the life of a professor. Participants have the option of earning the GTP's Professional Development Certificate, which ordinarily is available only to graduate students at CU. Two or three Norlin Scholars are chosen as Pre-prof "leads," for two-year stints, awarded extra scholarship money as compensation, and trained by the GTP. Students are encouraged to work on their professional credentials, develop pedagogical skills and, most importantly, learn how the university as a workplace operates. Participants and lead facilitators alike will gain an edge over other undergraduates when applying to graduate schools and tenure-track positions.

SUEP Student Advisory Board

The Student Advisory Board (SAB) exists to promote, support and advance the mission of the enrichment programs. Students on the board will act as SUEP leaders and ambassadors by recruiting students into the programs, assisting with the new student orientation, fundraising, and planning and facilitating recruitment and information sessions as well as academic events. SAB members must be committed to attending several meetings a semester and working independently on various projects.

Undergraduate Academy Monthly Forum

Because Norlin Scholars participate heavily in scholarly enrichment activities we provide a forum in which they can share their research interests. These events, what we call the UA Monthly Forum, allows students to do presentations on independent research projects or honors theses, or to facilitate discussions around provocative or controversial issues within their chosen fields. Other Norlin Scholars attend and lively conversation ensues! The benefits of the sessions are two-fold: First, students can prepare for the inevitable honors thesis defense or other required formal presentations in a friendly and stimulating environment; and, second, they help to create and sustain the academic activity which is the foundation for our intellectual community.

For general information
email: ua@colorado.edu
phone: 303-735-6802