2007-08 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705
Chairperson: Carmy Carranza
Faculty: Hamer, Hrabovsky, Jenkins, Johnson, Lipsky, Stephenson, Wang, Winstead
Website:
www.iup.edu/devstudies
The Department of Developmental Studies is committed to helping underprepared students prepare, prepared students advance, and advanced students excel. With this motto as its mission, the department provides various academic support services to all IUP students.
The Department of Developmental Studies offers a package of freshman seminar courses designed to prepare first-year students with the skills and knowledge important to college success. These three 1-credit courses count toward graduation and include DVST 150 Introduction to Higher Education, DVST 160 Learning Strategies, and DVST 170 Career Exploration.
The department also offers a pre-college experience to all incoming first-year students called CUSP: The Early Entrance Experience. This program starts one week prior to fall classes and includes the course DVST 150 plus activities, workshops, and seminars designed to orient students to the higher education experience, to IUP in particular, and to the factors in student success.
In addition, the department offers courses which develop learning skills to enhance academic success. Courses in three levels of developmental mathematics (DVST 091, 092, 093) and two courses in reading (DVST 070, 075) are offered for institutional credit. Institutional credit counts in determining full-time enrollment status but not in determining credits applicable for degree eligibility at graduation. DVST 110 Critical Reading and Thinking is a 2-credit course often linked with another content course.
All students matriculating through the Department of Developmental Studies as department advisees receive a program of freshman-year courses, developmental advisement, and academic support services.
The department office is located in 202 Pratt Hall. Further information about the Department of Developmental Studies and the Act 101 Program can be obtained by calling 724-357-2729 or through the web at www.iup.edu/devstudies.
Act 101 Program
Students identified as eligible for Act 101 support receive the Department of Developmental Studies complete freshman program. The Act 101 Program, created as a result of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Equal Opportunity Act 101 in 1971 by the legislature of the commonwealth, focuses on servicing IUP students in order to make the ideal of equal educational opportunity a reality for all qualified students.
The Center for Learning Enhancement
The department provides noncredit educational support services in the areas of reading, writing, mathematics, biological and physical sciences, foreign languages, social sciences, study skills, and related areas. These services are provided by both professional and undergraduate paraprofessional staff. Students are encouraged to participate in a broad array of program services including one-to-one and group tutorials, workshops, and Supplemental Instruction sessions provided by a trained staff of undergraduate peer educators. These services focus on historically difficult academic courses and majors.
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