First-Year Experience Curriculum

The First-Year Experience Program aims to assist entering students' successful transition to college life. We do this through varied means, including a Book in Common Program, an interdisciplinary program supporting faculty work with students in the context of student-led public events, and through the offering of courses that take students' transition processes into account.

The courses we offer are: UNIV 101: Introduction to University Life, a course aimed at supporting first-generation college students as they acclimate to college; UNIV 105: Self, Identity and Sustainability, a writing intensive course focused on identity formation processes—including research on identity formation in college--and the concept of "eco-identity"; UNIV 202: Peer Mentor Training, a course that prepares interested students to work as Mentors supporting first-year students in GE courses.