UNIVERSITY 101 - VIDEO RESOURCES

Following is a list of video resources available through the University 101 office and/or Thomas Cooper Library. If you wish to check out a copy of a video for use in your University 101 class, please contact Jennifer Latino (777-8869) in the University 101 office.

Academic and Personal Success
Your College Experience: Strategies for Success
Format: Videotape - Full Production
Length: 84 minutes
Availability: U101 Office
This award-winning video series, produced in collaboration with South Carolina Educational Television, is comprised of twelve five to seven minute programs. Program topics include time management, learning styles, textbook reading, academic advising, relationships, using the library career planning, and health issues. The video is based on the 1993 text of the same name, edited by A. Jerome Jewler and John Gardner and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Career Resources
Career Decisions for College Students: Pathways to Success
Format: Videotape - Full Production
Length: 30 minutes
Availability: U101 Office
This tape is a valuable resource to help students see the "big picture." It helps college students answer fundamental questions about themselves, their talents and their goals -- what kind of person am I? What kinds of careers interest me? What skills am I acquiring in college? How do I begin in the career I want? The video and its accompanying print guide provide a place for students, especially first-year students, to begin thinking about these very important issues. They can begin to see their education and their careers in terms of a unified whole. Presentation of practical skills such as building a resume, preparing for an interview, and using available resources will get students thinking about their career choices as a series of concrete, attainable steps. The result is an enhanced outlook on college and academic success.

Business Tapes for First-Year Students: A Review of Various Fields of Study
Format: Videotape - Lecture with Slides
Length: Various, see below
Availability: U101 Office.

Communication and Teamwork
Length: 31 minutes
Shirley Kuiper and Martha Thomas

Economics
Length: 40 minutes
Jim Bradley - Economics Introduction
Janice Breuer - Economics Issues; Exchange Rates
Glenn Harrison - Economics Issues; Damages and Benefits
Ron Wilder - Department Review and Careers

Accounting
Length: 26 minutes
Rob Rolfe - Accounting Introduction
Todd Dazoort - Auditing
Jimmy Burkett - Accountancy and Taxation
Rob Rolfe - Accounting Close

Management Science
Length: 39 minutes
Stan Fryer - Mangement Science Introduction
Jim Sweigart - Quantitative Management
Varun Grover - Information Systems
Stan Fryer - Management Science Close

Mangement
Length: 34 minutes
Bruce McGlino - Management Introduction
Hoyt Wheeler - Human Resources
Richar Robinson – Entrepreneurship

Finance
Length: 36 minutes
Rodney Roenfeld - Finance Intro
Steve Mann - Investments
Tim Koch - Banking and Financial Institutions
Helen Doerpinghaus - Risk Management
Ron Rogers - Real Estate

Environmental Issues
The Power of One: College Students and Sustainability
Format: Videotape - Full Production
Length: 30 minutes
Availability: Thomas Cooper Library Reserve Room and the U101 Office
Produced in collaboration with the South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative, The Power of One explores the issues related to sustainable development, commerce, and community and challenges students to live in harmony with the natural world. The 30-minute video is accompanied by a comprehensive resource guide that provides background information on today’s most pressing environmental issues. In addition, the resource guide offers questions for discussion and classroom activities designed to appeal to a wide range of introductory courses, including business, science and engineering, sociology, political science, ethics, and first-year seminars.

Sexual Health & Violence Prevention
Campus Rape
Format: Video Tape
Length: 21 minutes
Released: 1990
Produced by: R. T. Ctr.
Availability: Thomas Cooper Library Reserve Room

Campus rape and its impact are explored through interviews with four college students. The film provides information for the college community: facts about stranger and acquaintance rape, how and where these crimes are likely to occur, the impact of sexual assaults, the role of alcohol and drugs in sexual attacks, and techniques students can use to prevent campus rape. This video is hosted by LA Law's Susan Dey and Corbin Bernsen.

Choices: Sexual Health Issues for College Students
Format: Videotape - Full Production
Length: 30 minutes
Availability: U101 Office.

Choices addresses an extremely important survival skill for entering college students-sexual health decision-making. It provides a broad and sometimes graphic, overview of sexual health issues and is designed for use in a variety of educational settings, especially first-year seminars.

Sexual Harassment: Building Awareness on Campus
Format: Video Tape - Documentary
Length: 23 minutes
Released: 1995
Produced by: Kilbourne
Availability: Thomas Cooper Library

In the post Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas world all educational institutions have to deal openly with the issue of sexual harassment. This video educates both men and women with specific reference to campus relations.

Race and Diversity Issues
Black and White America
Format: Video Tape
Length: 26 minutes
Released: 1987
Produced by: WNET
Availability: Thomas Cooper Library

This program shows how five students negotiate their lives based on their feelings about their own race and that of others, and how they perceive others feel about their race.

Frontline
Format: Video Tape: PBS documentary
Length: 58 minutes
Released: 1988
Availability: Thomas Cooper Library

Incidents of heated confrontations between African American and White students at colleges across the country have signalled an increase of racism and violence on America campuses. The list of campuses that have been marred by racial unrest in recent years reads like a higher education honor roll: Columbia, Smith, Swarthmore, Purdue, Dartmouth, and Harvard are among the troubled institutions.

School Daze
Format: Videotape of a Feature Film
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes
Released: 1988
Produced by: S. Lee
Availability: Thomas Cooper Library
An off-beat contemporary comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life, including gala coronations, football, fraternities, parades, and parties.

Skin Deep
Format: Video Tape - Documentary
Length: 53 minutes
Released: 1995
Produced by: F. Reid
Availability: Thomas Cooper Library

This video chronicles the provocative journey of a diverse group of college students as they examine their deeply-seated attitudes and feelings about race and explore the barriers that stand in the way of building a society that truly respects all races. Their stories weave a compelling tale of the journey through the complexities of race relations in America today.

Additional Teaching Resources
Frosh: Student Identity on a Changing Campus
Format: Videotape - Full Production
Length: Part I: Freshman (Dis)orientation, 62 minutes
Length: Part II: Making a Home, 36 minutes
Released: 1993
Produced by: Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller
Availability: Thomas Cooper Library

In Frosh, tomorrow's adults confront the questions of who they are, how they'll relate to each other, and what values they'll bring to the society of the future. In a sense, they form a microcosm of the uncertainties and opportunities all Americans face in their searches for new identities and communities.

College
Format: Videotape - Black and white Silent Movie
Length: 66 minutes. (Shorter segments may be chosen as outtakes)
Released: 1927
Availability: Thomas Cooper Library

This is a look at comedian Buster Keaton as a college freshman trying to capture the attention of a young lady on campus. An instructor has suggested this film for sparking good discussion in the University 101 classrooms.