First Year Seminar

First Year Seminar (FYS) focuses on academic engagement and skill building using a wellness centered approach that includes cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal development. Students will pursue truth through critical, independent, and creative thinking and collaborate effectively in groups in an inclusive and respectful manner. Each course includes an essential, enduring question based on at least one dimension of wellness (social, physical, emotional, occupational, intellectual, environmental, spiritual, or financial) that sparks imagination and creativity. In addition to the content of the course related to the essential question, students have a classroom student mentor, take an inventory of their personal strengths and weakness, meet with their instructor 1:1 to review the College Student Inventory, and experience a variety of student success modules led by Academic Success or their course instructor. All students complete a group project showcased at a campus event at the end of the semester.

All students who either enter as first time students or transfer with fewer than 30 earned credits will take the First Year Experience seminar course.

Students in the Honors Program will take FYS 110: Honors First Year Seminar.