Spring 2024 First-Year Experience Learning Communities

How to register:

  1. Meet with your academic advisor to choose your FYE.
  2. 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: 

  1. 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. 
  2. All FYE Learning Communities have a capacity limit; therefore, some options may not be available at the time you register.

FYE Learning Community descriptions & connected courses

Great athletes, actors, musicians, and public speakers can control anxiety, minimize stress, utilize imagery, and use relaxation to control their performance. This learning community combines both techniques of public speaking, movement, and psychology of sport to examine how both the body and mind influence performance.

  • UNIV 110 First-Year Seminar 2 SH (RC, PSR2) TTh 8:00-9:15 am, Beth Odahlen
  • KIN 126 Group Exercise 1 SH (PSR 3) TTH  12:00 - 12:50 pm, Terry Eckmann

(Intended for online-only students)

Can one person change the world?  How does change take place?  What causes community action? This First-Year Experience course will examine how individuals determine their belief system, how that belief system impacts their decision making and behaviors, and how those behaviors lead to change in their community.  Students will examine why civic engagement and community service is an integral component of education and our society, as well as the differences between volunteering, civic engagement, and community problem solving.  Are you ready to see how one person, maybe even you, can create change which impacts a community, city, state, country, or the world?

  • UNIV 110 First-Year Seminar 2 SH (RC, PSR2) online- asynchronous, Christine Borden-King Jones

Being a college student can feel like you have to manage a million tasks at once. In this learning community, you will learn how to leverage technology to help you become the most effective college student you can be. 

  • UNIV 110 First-Year Seminar 2 SH (RC, PSR2) TTh 2:00-2:50 pm, Sophia Rammell
  • BIT 123 Technology Personal Development 3 SH (PSR3) MWF 12:00-12:50 pm, Jan Repnow

In this FYE 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 - 11:50 pm, KateLynn Albers
  • FIN 251 Personal Finance  3 SH (PSR 3) TTH 9:30 - 10:45am, David Frantsvog