【Introduction】
This seminar course aims to guide the freshmen to successfully be a real university student from senior high school student in mind, altitude, method, responsibility, etc. Specifically, the goals may include (not limited):

• Adapt to living and study in USTC;
• Realize the responsibility in Science and Society;
• Learn to thinking independently, investigating actively, cooperating effectively;
• Enter the world of Science and Technology;
• Grasp some fundamental skills: survey, writing, presentation, etc.

The two main components of the course are keynotes (from heroes in different area) and group seminar (directed by USTC teacher). For the former, please refer to USTC teaching homepage. And this page is mainly used as the guide to complete the second part, i.e., group seminar.

【Reference Slides】
The following slides are provided for the reference, which are produced by by Prof. Wang for his seminar group.

• Be an excellent student in USTC
• Guide to choosing topic and doing research
• Guide to writing
• Guide to presentation
• About examination

【Planned Progress】
The group seminar lasts about one year. For the class under Prof. Wang, the progress is planned as follows:

• Present a guide and group members into several teams, 2013.10
• Discuss and determin the topic for each team, 2013.11
• Check the problems, and guide the writing and presentation, 2014.01
• Submit reports for all teams and do revision, 2014.03
• Make representation and defense, 2014.05
• Conclude and discuss, 2014.06

Notice:

1. Must complete the above terms by the deadline;
2. Each team has a leader;
3. Each member in a team must have a concrete task for the final goal;
4. Refer to the slides for the detailed guide.

【Resources】