Below is the comprehensive list of all possible Extra Credit opportunities (more opportunities may be added at a later date):

Attend a Week of Welcome Event: http://newstudent.usf.edu/images/stories/pdfs/2015webPDFs/wow_fa15_bro_web.pdf. Upload a "selfie" at an event as proof of attendance and include the session title and date in the comments section. Note: in order to receive full credit I must be able to determine your location by the photo and you must also be visible.
Attend either the Pre-Health Student Org Fair or the Health Professions Info Fair. Mrs. A will be at both of these events so you will need to check in with me in order to receive credit.
Any of the Common Reading Experience Events: http://www.lib.usf.edu/common-read/events/ and write a 250 word paper reflecting on your experience and what you learned. New Upcoming Persepolis Events:

Sept. 17^th - Persepolis for Historians, 12:30PM – 2PM, SOC 255Historical and cultural experts and history students discuss the places, memory, history, culture, art, and contexts of Satrapi’s book. Featuring: Dr. Nadia Jones-Gailani, Dr. Darcie Fontaine, and Dr. Julia Irwin.
Sept. 24^th – Why We Tell Our Stories – An Evening with Iranian Auther Firoozeh Dumas, 6pm, MSC Oval Theater. For the past eleven years, Firoozeh Dumas has traveled the U.S. reminding audiences, through storytelling and humor, of our shared humanity. This September, she visits USF to provide insight on being an Iranian immigrant in America. Her talk, “Why We Tell Our Stories,”supports this year’s Common Reading Experience, The Complete Persepolis, a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi.

Attend a cultural event or pre-determined University event (see below) and write a 250 word paper reflecting on your experience and what you learned**. Note: all cultural events must be approved by Mrs. Albaum PRIOR to attendance. USF Event Calendar: http://webcal.forest.usf.edu/cal/main/showMainEnd.rdo Reminder: All cultural events must be approved by Mrs. Albaum.
New: Attend the Hispanic Heritage Celebration 2015 (Tues, Sept. 29th from 12 - 2pm in the Marshall Center Ballroom). After attending write and upload a 250 word paper reflecting on your experience and what you learned** :
NEW: Attend Movie Screening and Panel: The Hunting Ground, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM, MSC Oval Theater. This film exposes the reality of sexual assault on U.S. campuses - http://www.thehuntinggroundfilm.com/. After attending write and upload a 250 word paper reflecting on your experience and what you learned**.
NEW: Watch one of the following documentaries. After watching, write and upload a 250 word paper reflecting on what you learned**.

Doctor Diaries: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/doctors-diaries.html
The Waiting Room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9-bkUMOs1s
Living in Emergency: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/living-emergency (requires a Netflix login)

Declare your Pre-Health Intent and begin initial Pre-Health Research. After you submit your information at the declaration link, you will receive an email confirmation. To receive extra credit points for this assignment, you must do the following:
1. attach a copy of that pre-health declaration confirmation email and
2. attach the following document completely filled out: Pre-Health Research.docx. Note: the schools you research must be different than those you indicated in your Pre-Health Admissions/Program Research Paper.
Interview a professional in your dream career. An informational interview is an informal conversation with someone working in an area of interest to you who will give you information and advice. It is an effective research tool in addition to reading books, exploring the Internet and examining job descriptions. It is not a job interview, and the objective is not to find job openings. To receive points for this assignment you will interview a professional and write down their responses to the Information Interview Questions and upload the completed document. You cannot interview the individual you shadowed for your shadowing assignment.
Volunteer or Shadow for at least 10 hours with a health professional in a field you are interested in pursuing (i.e. shadowing a physician or volunteering in a clinic). To earn credit, have the office manager, volunteer coordinator or professional themselves provide you with documentation confirming your experience. Note: this experience must be directly health-care related. Your documentation must include: 1) The total number of hours you volunteered or shadowed, 2) the specific location where you volunteered, 3) a contact name and phone number. If shadowing at the same place that you shadowed for the Assignment: Getting Started Shadowing, you cannot include the 2 hours used for the assignment for this extra credit assignment.
Students can attend a workshop offered by the Division of Health Professions Advising . You can view the available workshops here: http://cas.usf.edu/healthprofessions/workshops/. To receive full credit for the extra credit assignment, students must attend the entire session and answer the following prompt in a minimum of 200 words:I learned the following three things at the First Year Pre-Health Workshop. Uploads should be in the form of a word document and follow all paper submission guidelines.
You can write a two page position paper on the issue of medical marijuana. Make sure to cite at least 5 sources. You can use the resources presented in class (Medical Marijuana Case Study.pdf) but remember to properly cite your information (Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism). Watch the following 30-minute documentary titled "Colorado's Cold War" on the legacy of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant: http://video.rmpbs.org/video/2365349893/. After watching, write a 2 page paper reflecting on the information you learned from the video.
Attend an Homecoming Event. For more information on available events see the Office of Multicultural Affairs here: http://homecoming.usf.edu/. After attending, you will need to include a minimum 1 page reflection paper that must include at least 1 direct quote from a speaker. (Reminder: Be sure to correctly cite this quote in your paper- Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism).

**Remember: as this is a college level course, all assignments must be well-written and thoughtful with limited spelling and grammatical errors. Assignments should follow the How to get an A guidelines. Any extra credit assignments that do not meet these standards will receive zero (0) points.

You can submit your three selected extra credit assignments to be reviewed here (DUE 12/9):

Submit Extra Credit Assignment #1 here
Submit Extra Credit Assignment #2 here
Submit Extra Credit Assignment #3 here