Academic Advisor
Most likely a member of the faculty, this person works with students to develop individual learning plans, helps select learning experiences, courses, and classes, and is the person students can go to when questions arise about academic life. This person is usually the student's ProSeminar (ProSem) or Major ProSem faculty instructor.
AHCCT
The Arts, Human Communication and Creative Technologies; one of CSUMB's five academic centers.
Assessment
A manner of determining what you know; the act or process of determining if a student has developed the knowledge, skills, and abilities prescribed by a learning requirement. You graduate once you complete, or pass, or assess out of a bunch of learning requirements (see ULRs and MLOs).
Course-Based Assessment: Assessment which is conducted by an instructor within the context of a course, special project, or some other formally sponsored learning experience.
Independent Assessment: Assessment which is conducted by a special committee or panel outside of the context of a formally sponsored learning experience.
Assessment Portfolio: Maintained by certain CSUMB centers, this is a permanent record of student performance in an "assessment portfolio" which is the equivalent of a "transcript" listing grades at other institutions of higher learning. It is both a qualitative and quantitative record of the student's achievement toward attaining the required competencies. At CSUMB, this portfolio is digitized on a secured file server and accessible via the campus network. It is the property of both the student and the University; however, changes to the portfolio (deletions or insertions) can occur only with the approval of the student's advisor.
Black Box Cabaret
Located on Third Street next to Building 80, the Black Box Cabaret will be a coffee house, and a classroom for teledramatic arts and technology (TAT). With its cool interiors and continuous student-generated entertainment, it will certainly be the place to hang and do the latté thing.
Capstone
This is a project, or a paper, or a presentation, or an event, or an exhibit, or it's pretty much whatever you and your advisor together decide will be the final "thing" you have to complete, usually in your senior year, before you can graduate from CSUMB. Whatever you decide to do, it must be something that demonstrates in an integrated way all the stuff you've learned at CSUMB, your ULRs, your MLOs, everything...not too scary, huh?
Career Room
This is a mini-career center and is located in Building 23 (one of the orange buildings in the Pumpkin Patch).
CIR-Continuity Infrastructure Research
A division in the president's office where the staff is focused on the development of the accreditation process, institute research, and process of continuous renewal, which means they make sure we don't get stalled, that we continuously renew, create, invent, define, improve, evolve, and refresh (or something).
Competency
A student learning goal specified by the faculty at CSUMB or by a student that is specific to a particular learning experience or module. It is not a grade; it is an ability that a student has achieved. You need to demonstrate a "competency," or prove you know something, to "assess out" of one of your "university learning requirements" or URLs. Ahhhh!
Core Competency
A competency that is specified by the faculty of CSUMB that is required by all students to graduate. It is not a grade, it is an ability that all students must achieve as part of their graduation requirements.
Equivalency
The faculty of CSUMB recognize the need that some students have to "translate" their learning experiences at CSUMB into a format more acceptable to some employers or educational institutions. Such translations will be provided at the student's request.
FirstClass
The electronic mail or email system set up specifically for students to use to communicate with other students and faculty. Many faculty and staff members are also linked to the FirstClass system, but will generally communicate with each other on a separate QuickMail system.
FOAA
Fort Ord Alumni Association
HCOM-Human Communication
A bachelor's degree program or major at CSUMB. HCOM is pronounced "H" "com", rhymes with Tom.
ICCS-Institute for Community Collaborative Studies
This is one of CSUMB's 22 (with the number changing daily) institutes, with this one "housed" within the Residential Learning, Wellness, and Student Services Center. ICCS promotes integrated human service delivery systems. The Institute studies and applies strategies to help communities break out of existing boundaries to deliver human services more collaboratively. This institute works in partnership with members of the CSUMB community as well as groups and individuals throughout the surrounding communities. They are located in the Campus Health Center in Building 99.
IMIE
Institute for Managment and International Entrepreneurship.
Intern-Net
A World Wide Web-based database that makes students' resumes available to businesses which subscribe to this service. To find out more, call the COD (there you go; your opportunity to work with a fish).
Learning Experiences
Mainly used as another name for classes and courses, but it is also just an experience in which you learn. Could be a faculty-taught class, a service learning project, a self-directed independent study, an activity in which you are involved the possibilities are limited only by your creativity-and your advisor.
Learning Outcomes or Goals
The prescribed knowledge, skills, and abilities which students must develop and demonstrate to earn a degree, certificate, and/or credential at CSUMB. There are seven learning goals at CSUMB.
Major ProSeminar
Also known as Major ProSem. All juniors take this course (or learning experience) which focuses on issues directly related to a student's major.
MBCA
Monterey Bay Center for the Arts.
MLC-Media Learning Complex
Building 18 on the CSUMB campus where computer labs and some other really cool technology equipment is located. You'll be spending a lot of time here no matter what your major is.
MLML-Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Located in Moss Landing, students enrolled in CSUMB's academic programs of earth systems science and policy, and marine science (which is a master's level program) will take some of their classes at the MLML, about 20 minutes away from the CSUMB campus.
MLOs-Major Learning Outcomes
What you are required to know to obtain an academic degree (a bachelor's of science or art, a B.S. or B.A., degree) in your major. There are also certificate and credential requirements.
Modules
Modules are forms of learning experiences that are specialized and narrow in terms of information content. Learning experience modules are necessary for providing "technical" abilities to CSUMB students to give them the capability of functioning in a more generalized or multidisciplinary learning experience. A module can be conceptualized as a "class" or "course" at a traditional institution that is specific to a particular discipline. An example of this might be a course in word processing, computer programming, statistics, or chemistry.
MPOE
Main Point of Entry, where the Internet first comes into the CSUMB campus (pronounced "em-poe").
Outcome-Based Education
The type of education program being developed at CSUMB in which students progress toward eligibility for graduation, and majors are determined by mastery of prescribed learning outcomes rather than by successful completion of courses and credits.
Pathway
The configuration of learning experiences which charts a particular student's learning route from program entry to program exit. There are many different ways to learn. As such, there are different ways to attain the required competencies in CSUMB's five academic centers. These ways are referred to as pathways.
Pedagogy
The art, science, or profession of teaching.
Pluralism
In social and political thought, the autonomy enjoyed by disparate groups within a society--such groups as religious groups, trade unions, professional organizations, or ethnic minorities.
POM-Presidio of Monterey
The POM is the location at which one will find all of the U.S. Army's local assets. The Defense Language Institute (DLI) and the Foreign Language Center (FLC) are located at the POM in the city of Monterey. The POM Annex, which includes a PX, gas station, and fire station, is adjacent to the CSUMB campus on North-South Road. (And, no, the gas station and PX cannot be used by civilians. But the Burger King across from gas station is open to the public.)
Portfolio
See assessment portfolio.
ProSeminar
Also called ProSem. You're going to have to experience it to grok it completely, but suffice it to say that it is the class, excuse me, learning experience where you will develop a "student learning plan" and real-world skills and abilities needed to participate successfully in the 21st century. No pressure.
Pumpkin Patch & Pumpkin Seeds
No, not a vegetable garden. Drive along First Street and you'll see four pumpkin-colored, bright orange with green trim, buildings (Buildings 15, 17, 21, and 23). These buildings are lovingly known as the Pumpkin Patch. The buildings being renovated and waiting to "sprout up" around First Street are currently known as the Pumpkin Seeds. Once they are completed, they'll grow into full-fledged Pumpkin Patch buildings. The Great Pumpkin lives!
Proficiency or Mastery
The level of knowledge, skills, or competencies a student has developed relative to a prescribed learning outcome.
QuickMail
The Faculty and Staff e-mail system used at CSUMB.
Residential Life Coordinators
Professional housing staff who oversee the student housing staff (i.e., the peer educators, FSSRs, and the student managers).
RLFO-Residential Learning, Facilities, & Operations
Essentially, this is the department that deals with all things housing and dining.
SBSC
The Social and Behavioral Sciences Center, one of CSUMB's five academic centers.
Seal
Seal is CSUMB's main UNIX server. It is a Silicon Graphics Challenge M. Seal also has the Internet address www.monterey.edu and serves as CSUMB's main web server (in fact, that's where this page is located). Additionally, Seal is accessible over AppleTalk for students, faculty, and staff to store their files.Service Learning
Located in the Service Learning Institute (yes, you guessed it-the Service Learning Institute is also known as the SLI), service learning is a participatory approach to learning which supports students' academic studies and helps to develop the skills, citizenship, and values of individual students. At CSUMB, the university learning requirement of service learning is called CP, or community participation. Uh huh. In real life, a service learning experience is similar to a community service job or internship in an area related to the student's academic studies. To qualify as a service learning experience, the student must work with people from different cultures and backgrounds, and is not paid. For example, a student studying sign language might volunteer to work with a school for deaf children. Service Learning is more thoroughly defined in other areas of this catalog.
SIVA
Spatial Information, Visualization, and Analysis.
SGI
Silicon Graphics Incorporated
SLI
Service Learning Institute.
Steinbeck Room
The room to the east side of the Dining Commons. The west room of the Dining Commons is currently called the Monterey Bay Room, but both of these names could change. Meetings and lunch-dos are often held there.
SIC-Student Information Center
The Student Information Center is CSUMB's "one-stop shop" to meet a variety of student service needs such as admissions and records information, maps, tours, financial aid forms, and change of address. These SIC folks (sorry, couldn't resist the pun) help students answer all kinds of questions (and, yes, they might even give you an answer to "the meaning of life, the universe and everything?" Well, life and everything at CSUMB, that is.).
Student Learning Goal
This refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilities CSUMB students need to acquire and develop to graduate. These goals will direct the development and delivery of an education designed to meet the students' specific learning needs.
Student Learning Plan
This document is one that you build which identifies the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to meet your personal, social, and professional goals. It also will help define how you intend to satisfy your required competencies-both the ULRs and the MLOs. It is a document that evolves as you hone in on what you want to learn. It is written by you with the support of a faculty advisor and becomes part of your electronic portfolio.
Student Managers
Students who work with residential life coordinators and deal with the health, wellness, and multicultural services among residents.
Student Voice
Finally an easy one to explain. The Student Voice is the student government. There is more information on the Student Voice, including their entire constitution, in the student handbook Life at CSUMB.
TAT-Teledramatic Arts & Technology
A CSUMB bachelor's of arts degree program or major. It is commonly referred to as TAT, which rhymes with "hat."
ULRs-University Learning Requirements
What you'll need to prove you know or are able to do before you can graduate from CSUMB. Currently there are 15 ULRs, but that number does change. An example of a ULR is ENGCOM, where you will prove you can communicate effectively in English.
Vibrant-Vibrant or Vibrancy
One of the ULRs (see above). To assess out of the VIBRANT ULR, each student must demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationship among intellectual, psychological, spiritual, aesthetic, and physical health as it applies to the student's own life. You know, the who that you are, self development, knowledge of you, your values, your spiritual self, your physical self, and your intellectual self. OMMMMM.
Visitor Parking
Parking for VISITORS only. (Yes, you will get a ticket.)
WAC-Wellness Activity Center
A three-letter acronym for GYM.
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