FYEX-100 First Year Experience
This course provides a highly interactive, critical thinking experience to help students understand themselves as independent learners, successful workers, and civic/global citizens. Through self-assessment, reading, writing, and reflection, students will develop habits of mind necessary to engage in academic inquiry, creative and critical thinking, and scholarly discourse with integrity and civility; develop the ability to articulate long-term goals as related to beliefs and values; and strengthen the capacity to appreciate diversity and effective intercultural and interpersonal communication.
Hours Weekly
2 hours weekly
Course Objectives
- 1. Demonstrate significant progress in their transition as independent learners to initiate and sustain
relevant campus connections and use of resources. - 2. Identify individual learning styles and analyze their impact on academic success.
- 3. Analyze their own values and set short, mid- and long-term value-related goals.
- 4. Assess their own interests and values towards exploration of related career options.
- 5. Apply techniques for memory enhancement, time management, effective reading, note-taking, and testtaking
to college-level texts and material.
- 6. Demonstrate enhanced financial literacy.
- 7. Apply creative and critical thinking techniques in problem solving and decision making.
- 8. Apply principles of academic integrity and civility to express ideas effectively both orally and in
writing.
- 9. Demonstrate enhanced global awareness, appreciation for diversity, and understanding of self as civic
and global citizens. - 10. Demonstrate enhanced awareness of the connection between physical and emotional wellness and
academic success. - 11. Demonstrate enhanced understanding of effective interpersonal and intercultural communication.
Course Objectives
- 1. Demonstrate significant progress in their transition as independent learners to initiate and sustain
relevant campus connections and use of resources. - 2. Identify individual learning styles and analyze their impact on academic success.
- 3. Analyze their own values and set short, mid- and long-term value-related goals.
- 4. Assess their own interests and values towards exploration of related career options.
- 5. Apply techniques for memory enhancement, time management, effective reading, note-taking, and testtaking
to college-level texts and material.
- 6. Demonstrate enhanced financial literacy.
- 7. Apply creative and critical thinking techniques in problem solving and decision making.
- 8. Apply principles of academic integrity and civility to express ideas effectively both orally and in
writing.
- 9. Demonstrate enhanced global awareness, appreciation for diversity, and understanding of self as civic
and global citizens. - 10. Demonstrate enhanced awareness of the connection between physical and emotional wellness and
academic success. - 11. Demonstrate enhanced understanding of effective interpersonal and intercultural communication.