FITV 1111: Anime Goes to College Syllabus

As universities and colleges face the impending "enrollment cliff" of 2025, many institutions are implementing high-impact practices (HIPs), such as first-year seminars, learning communities, intrusive advising, and co-curricular experiences to attract students. One key feature of first-ye...

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Main Author: Emilie Waggoner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2024-12-01
Series:Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
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Online Access:https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/article/view/1804
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description As universities and colleges face the impending "enrollment cliff" of 2025, many institutions are implementing high-impact practices (HIPs), such as first-year seminars, learning communities, intrusive advising, and co-curricular experiences to attract students. One key feature of first-year seminars tends to be the special topic focus of the courses, which tend to mix current pop culture or sociocultural events into subject matter areas such as psychology, philosophy, music, and science. This paper provides an example syllabus and course set-up for a popular first-year seminar course at the University of Colorado Denver called FITV 1111: Anime Goes to College. By incorporating anime as the main subject matter, students in the course apply student development theory to various anime shows and movies to analyze the characters and understand how their own development in college is impacted by their environment and the media they consume. At the end of the course, students walk away with an understanding of how fictional worlds and fandom spaces can be places for fans to explore their own identities through the characters in the shows.
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spelling doaj-art-7c85abd16a40455b9f309342fa2bc32b2024-12-17T22:33:50ZengUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignJournal of Anime and Manga Studies2689-25962024-12-015263280https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v5.1804FITV 1111: Anime Goes to College Syllabus Emilie Waggoner0University of Colorado Denver As universities and colleges face the impending "enrollment cliff" of 2025, many institutions are implementing high-impact practices (HIPs), such as first-year seminars, learning communities, intrusive advising, and co-curricular experiences to attract students. One key feature of first-year seminars tends to be the special topic focus of the courses, which tend to mix current pop culture or sociocultural events into subject matter areas such as psychology, philosophy, music, and science. This paper provides an example syllabus and course set-up for a popular first-year seminar course at the University of Colorado Denver called FITV 1111: Anime Goes to College. By incorporating anime as the main subject matter, students in the course apply student development theory to various anime shows and movies to analyze the characters and understand how their own development in college is impacted by their environment and the media they consume. At the end of the course, students walk away with an understanding of how fictional worlds and fandom spaces can be places for fans to explore their own identities through the characters in the shows. https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/article/view/1804animeanime studiesfirst year experiencestudent supportstudent development theorystudent success
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FITV 1111: Anime Goes to College Syllabus
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
anime
anime studies
first year experience
student support
student development theory
student success
title FITV 1111: Anime Goes to College Syllabus
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title_full_unstemmed FITV 1111: Anime Goes to College Syllabus
title_short FITV 1111: Anime Goes to College Syllabus
title_sort fitv 1111 anime goes to college syllabus
topic anime
anime studies
first year experience
student support
student development theory
student success
url https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/article/view/1804
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