First Year Program
Program Objectives
The primary goals of the program are:
- to encourage faculty to teach first-year seminars from their passions in areas of developing or experimental interests and/or established expertise (i.e. to remove the necessity of teaching material with which they are not comfortable or familiar).
- to incorporate instruction in critical reasoning competency into an introductory liberal arts academic experience
- to provide intensive instruction in the mechanics of college-level writing
- to provide a liberal arts intellectual context within which the writing instruction can function
Program Structure
A year-long First-year Program sequence comprised in Fall and Spring semesters of:
- FYP 1001/1002: First-Year Seminar I/II(2 credits; two 50-minute meetings per week).
- FYP 1003/1004: First-Year Writing I/II (2 credits; two 50-minute meetings per week). Taught by an instructor in co-ordination with faculty teaching the related First-Year Seminar (unless the First-Year Seminar instructor opts to teach his/her own related section of First-Year Writing).
Note: Distinct course grades are awarded for First-Year Seminar and First-Year Writing.
First Year Program Details