While each section has its own unique topic, there are shared goals for SJNY100.

Course Objectives and Goals
This course will offer a laboratory experience of careful and critical reading, writing to learn, research skills, cooperative classroom activities.  Our SJNY100 goals are:

• Acquire and/or continue to develop intellectual curiosity and the learning skills needed to promote and satisfy that curiosity.  While each section will have a unique topic, all SJNY 100 sections will focus on pivotal learning skills necessary for all students regardless of their major, particularly reading, writing, discussion and critical thinking.
• Introduce students to the missions and goals of the university(integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, service and global awareness) as operationalized in our academic programs through the specific course topic of that section.
• Form an active community of inquiry with and through a shared focus on a disciplinary or interdisciplinary problem or topic, thereby engaging the students in a community experience which supports rigorous and accessible active learning
• Facilitate the transition from the dependency in the high school learning experience to the relatively independent college learning experience.

In short, each section will work to help you develop important skills needed in every discipline and career such as:

Library Skills: engaging in independent research and finding authenticated sources
Critical reading skills: reading challenging texts for meaning
Study Skills: support in independent learning, time management and preparing for exams and other forms of assessment so as to master material and  succeed
Assessments: learning how to take a range of exams and assessments at the college level
Dialogic skills: becoming active in class discussions, sharing ideas, listening to diverse viewpoints and learning how to negotiate across differences
Technology skills: becoming adept at using technology to facilitate attaining  your academic goals