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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index.
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.
Summary
"This beloved guidebook for first-year students offers insight and inspiration to help undergraduates make the most of their university years." -- Provided by publisher.
