Online Resources for Faculty
In addition to organizing programs devoted to teaching development and providing individual support for Vassar’s faculty, the Learning and Teaching Center is gathering and beginning to make available course materials and other pedagogical resources online. The Center will add to this new collection regularly.
Resources for Faculty Working with Students with Individualized Needs
Rick Lavoie's Universal Design Presentation, April 2007
Sample Syllabuses from Freshman Courses:
The Criminal and the Carceral, created by Tyrone Simpson, English
Writing Lives, created by Kristin S. Carter, English
Vampires, Lunatics, and Cyborgs: Exploring the Uncanny Recesses of the Romantic Consciousness, created by Elliott Schreiber, German Studies
Writing Medicine, created by Leslie Dunn, English
Documents from Freshman Course Workshop May 2005
Sequencing Your Writing Assignments (Handout One, Handout Two); Sample Writing Assignment
Online Resources for Students
The Learning and Teaching Center has compiled this list of links as a courtesy to the Vassar College community to supplement the services provided by our professional staff. Inclusion on this list does not, however, constitute an endorsement by the LTC. On a given site, some features may be of more use than others. Please email us if you come across other sites that should be included on the list.
Study Skills:
Resources for improving time management, listening, notetaking, reading comprehension, memory, and test taking skills.
Fastfax
Study skills strategies from Learning Commons at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.
Learning Strategies Guides
Everything from managing test anxiety to improving your memory, from Dartmouth.
Study Skills
Virginia Tech's variation on a theme.
NoteTaking
The Colgate system for taking notes.
Study Skills
Concentrating, listening, and notetaking a la University of Waterloo.
Mathematics
Mathematics: Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway
Math links.
Mathematics Archives WWW Server
Very extensive and useful collection of math links, organized by topic.
Math Tables
...just like fast food, only free.
Reading
Reading Tips from the Learning Center at the University of Texas at Austin_Materials cover topics from developing critical reading skills to annotating your texts and building your vocabulary.
Writing
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue
Extensive advice on everything from academic writing and citation to overcoming writer’s bloc and “patterning” in poetry writing.
Princeton University Writing Center’s Resources Page
Includes advice on academic writing, tips on mechanics, and writing strategies for multilingual students.
International Writing Centers Association’s Resources for Writers
From getting started to idioms in English, critiquing your peers’ work, citation, and style—a clearinghouse of links.
Harvard University’s Writing Center Handouts
A guide to each step in the writing process.
Evaluating Web Pages
Tips for evaluating online sources from UC Berkeley.
Writing Personal Statements
Tips and samples from Colorado College.
Scientific Writing Guidelines from Michigan State University (pdf)
Chicago/Turabian Documentation
Graduate School Entrance Examination Preparation
Graduate Record Examination
Information and sample test questions from the Educational Testing Service.
GRE Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you always wanted to know about the GRE from Cornell Career Services.
GRE Preparation
Advice from the Learning Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Law School Admission Council
LSAT information and registration.
Disabilities Support Services
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Department of Justice's informative page on ADA legislation.