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.

Credits

2

Hours Weekly

2 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. 1. Demonstrate significant progress in their transition as independent learners to initiate and sustain
   relevant campus connections and use of resources.
2. 2. Identify individual learning styles and analyze their impact on academic success.
   
3. 3. Analyze their own values and set short, mid- and long-term value-related goals.
   
4. 4. Assess their own interests and values towards exploration of related career options.
5. 5. Apply techniques for memory enhancement, time management, effective reading, note-taking, and testtaking
   to college-level texts and material.
   
6. 6. Demonstrate enhanced financial literacy.
7. 7. Apply creative and critical thinking techniques in problem solving and decision making.
   
8. 8. Apply principles of academic integrity and civility to express ideas effectively both orally and in
   writing.
   
9. 9. Demonstrate enhanced global awareness, appreciation for diversity, and understanding of self as civic
   and global citizens.
10. 10. Demonstrate enhanced awareness of the connection between physical and emotional wellness and
    academic success.
11. 11. Demonstrate enhanced understanding of effective interpersonal and intercultural communication.
    

Course Objectives

1. 1. Demonstrate significant progress in their transition as independent learners to initiate and sustain
   relevant campus connections and use of resources.
2. 2. Identify individual learning styles and analyze their impact on academic success.
   
3. 3. Analyze their own values and set short, mid- and long-term value-related goals.
   
4. 4. Assess their own interests and values towards exploration of related career options.
5. 5. Apply techniques for memory enhancement, time management, effective reading, note-taking, and testtaking
   to college-level texts and material.
   
6. 6. Demonstrate enhanced financial literacy.
7. 7. Apply creative and critical thinking techniques in problem solving and decision making.
   
8. 8. Apply principles of academic integrity and civility to express ideas effectively both orally and in
   writing.
   
9. 9. Demonstrate enhanced global awareness, appreciation for diversity, and understanding of self as civic
   and global citizens.
10. 10. Demonstrate enhanced awareness of the connection between physical and emotional wellness and
    academic success.
11. 11. Demonstrate enhanced understanding of effective interpersonal and intercultural communication.