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Saratoga Springs,
New York, 12866
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Higher Education Opportunity Program/
Academic Opportunity Program
Director: Monica D. Minor
Associate Director: Lewis Rosengarten
The Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) recruits and
admits talented and motivated students from New York State who
otherwise, owing to academic and financial circumstances, would
be unable to attend Skidmore College.
The Academic Opportunity Program (AOP) recruits and admits students
who are HEOP-like in their academic and economic profiles, yet
are not eligible for support from the program because they reside
in states other than New York or have income levels slightly
above the HEOP economic eligibility guidelines.
Holistic in the approach to student development, both programs
provide academic, financial, and counseling services,
beginning with a required, prefreshman, on-campus summer program.
The Summer Academic Institute strengthens students' academic
and study skills and prepares them for an academically and personally
successful college experience.
SUMMER COURSES
HE 100. ACADEMIC
WRITING 3
A course designed for HEOP/AOP
students that includes work on grammar, sentence structure,
paragraph development, and ESL concerns. It will introduce interpretation
and documentation of academic texts from a variety of disciplines.
Students will move from short papers and revisions to a final
analytical five-page paper.
MA 100. QUANTITATIVE
REASONING 3
Study of practical arithmetic
and geometry, data gathering and analysis, introductory probability
and statistics, size and bias in sampling, hypothesis testing,
confidence intervals and their use in statistical analysis,
linear relationships, interpolation and extrapolation, correlation,
linear and exponential growth with practical applications. This
course is primarily intended to fulfill the first part of the
quantitative reasoning requirement.
HPB. BASIC MATHEMATICS
This course addresses quantitative
skills such as: number relations, computations, percents, word
problems, statistics, and the interpretations of graphs. It
is intended to prepare students for MA100.
HPC. LANGUAGE SKILLS
This is a remedial course that includes both basic grammatical skills
and the writing of one- and two-page essays. The instructor
reviews sentence structure, usage, some ESL techniques, and
paragraph development. The student progresses to longer essays
and the creation of a portfolio of his/her best work.
HPE. PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLORATION WORKSHOP
This course uses a discussion/seminar
format to discuss a variety of topics related to the college
experience. Using a problem-solving paradigm, students will
explore the challenges inherent in making the transition from
high school to college.
HPG. PRE-SCRIBNER
SEMINAR/STUDY SKILLS WORKSHOP
This course follows the format of the Human Dilemmas section
of SSP100 Scribner Seminar. Students are introduced to a
variety of classroom settings, including lectures, guest
lectures, discussion meetings, and performances. The study
skills component of this course uses the content of the
pre-Scribner Seminar readings and discussions to help students
improve reading comprehension, time-management, note-taking,
analytical, and library skills.
ACADEMIC YEAR COURSES
HE 100. ACADEMIC
WRITING 3
A course designed for HEOP students
that includes work on grammar, sentence structure, paragraph
development, and ESL concerns. It will introduce interpretation
and documentation of academic texts from a variety of disciplines.
Students will move from short papers and revisions to a final
analytical five-page paper.
HPF. STUDY
SKILLS
This course is offered to first-year
students as a continuation of the study skills workshop offered
during the summer program. The focus of this course remains
the development of time-management, note-taking, test-taking,
and reading-comprehension skills; however, the content of the
course will be based upon first-semester courses.
