Spring 2025 First-Year Experience Learning Communities
How to register:
- Meet with your academic advisor to choose your FYE.
- When registration opens, register for your FYE in Campus Connection using the MiSU eForm Tile>>Registrar's Office Folder>>First-Year Experience. You will be added to the FYE Learning Community within 24 business hours of submitting the form.
Other registration considerations:
- Plan your other courses around the times of the FYE classes. You will not be added to FYE classes if there is a scheduling conflict.
- All FYE Learning Communities have a capacity limit; therefore, some options may not be available at the time you register.
- Please wait until registration opens to submit your request for your FYE.
FYE Learning Community descriptions & connected courses
- UNIV 110 First-Year Seminar, 2 SH (RC, PSR2) online asynchronous, Mitchell Gresham
- CJ 201 Intro to Criminal Justice, 3 SH (CCS2) online asynchronous, Wojciech Cebulak
This group of courses will explore the connections between classroom practices and the processes of learning. Why do some students remember pictures and others remember words? Is it useful to label students? Why are some students motivated and others not so much? Does development affect learning? How can educators help students be successful? We will explore these questions through coursework that looks at the complicated decisions that adults and kids in schools make every day and then visit elementary, middle and high schools to apply the information.
- UNIV 110 First-Year Seminar, 2 SH (RC, PSR2) T 1:00 - 2:50pm, Kathy Hintz
- ED 260 Educational Psychology, 2 SH (CCS1, CCS6) TH 1:00 - 2:50pm, Laura Zucca
- ED 260L, 0 SH, by arrangement, Lisa Borden-King
- UNIV 110 First-Year Seminar, 2 SH (RC, PSR2) TTH 8:00–8:50am, Beth Odahlen
- KIN 126 Yoga, 1 SH (PSR3) TTH 12:00–12:50pm, Terry Eckmann
Students often come to college having learned how to study and pass exams and courses focused on memorization of terms and definitions. Higher education courses, even at the 100 level, require students to also understand processes (scientific often), larger ideas/concepts (entire historical events and ideas), and theoretical frameworks to succeed. This fundamental shift must happen nearly immediately, but often students are never given explicit instruction and strategies to navigate this epistemological and behavioral shift. The goal of this UNIV110 course would be to give students explicit instruction in strategies to succeed in difficult courses by focusing on building the above-mentioned skills and how they apply to the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
- UNIV 110 First-Year Seminar, 2 SH (RC, PSR2) online asynchronous, Elyzia Powers
In this first-year learning community, you will explore what your personal goals are for life and success, and how to meet them financially and personally. Students will learn about how to identify and set goals, how to make difficult decisions, and balance personal and financial wellbeing. Come and explore who you are, what you want, and how to get it!
- UNIV 110 First-Year Seminar, 2 SH (RC, PSR2) MW 11:00-11:50am, Katelynn Albers
- FIN 251 Personal Finance, 3 SH (PSR3) TTH 9:30-10:45am, David Frantsvog
