FYE - First Year Experience

This seminar course is the first part of the first-year experience linked course sequence. Seminars are taught on a variety of interdisciplinary topics and focus on cultivating skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, oral presentations, and information literacy. Students complete a variety of activities to support engagement with campus resources and college success.

 

This course is designed to support students' transition to college while cultivating skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, oral presentations, and information literacy. The seminar-style classes focus on a variety of interdisciplinary topics. FYE courses are linked to a spring course to deepen learning and community. In the spring, students will enroll in the linked course associated with their FYE.

This seminar course is the second part of the first-year experience linked course sequence. Topics vary by section. Students will continue refining critical reading, academic writing, research, and information literacy skills. All students will engage in a required service-learning experience.

Linked with FYE 101H: A colloquium on a selected topic each year in which students explore one or more specific issues arising from the general theme introduced in the first semester colloquium. Emphasis is on collaborative, as well as independent, learning and examination of works from the humanities, sciences and social sciences. 

Prerequisite: By invitation of the supervising FYE faculty. 
Student teaching assistants work under the supervision of FYE faculty and are selected by the faculty. They will attend FYE classes and model good academic behavior, help to facilitate discussion, work closely with FYE faculty in and out of the classroom, and serve as a peer mentor and tutor to FYE students and a liaison between FYE faculty and students. Grading is on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.