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First-Year Experience (FYE)

Spring 2026 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.
  3. Please wait until registration opens to submit your request for your FYE.

FYE Learning Community descriptions & connected courses

This course was developed to present students in this learning community with the opportunity to critically examine and explore issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion both here on campus and in the general community. While "identity politics," "wokeness," and "Social Justice Warriors" often are treated like social media novelties, the truth is that for the past century and a half, many Americans have identified themselves as members of diverse communities who are fighting to gain recognition and justice. Labor unions, "suffragettes," and the Civil Rights movements, for instance, can all be understood as part of a long and continuing history of people striving to produce social change.

This course gives you the opportunity to examine "communities of justice" in the past and the present and explore your own understanding and engagement with both face-to-face and online communities that seek justice. In this course, you will learn tools and techniques that you and other students will use in the Social Science Media Lab to produce a short podcast about an issue you select. You also will work with your peers to develop activities that promote academic engagement, psychosocial wellbeing, and community engagement.


SOC 110 Introduction to Sociology Mitchell Gresham, TuTh 2:00-2:50 PM
UNIV 110 First-Year Seminar Mark Singer TuTh 11:00-11:50 AM

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, 2SH Tuesday 1-2:50 Kathy Hintz
ED 260 Educational Psychology, 3SH Thursday 1-2:50 Laura Zucca
ED 260L, 0 SH, time arranged Kathy Hintz

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 9:00-9:50 AM, Katelynn Albers
FIN 251 Personal Finance, 3 SH (PSR3) TTH 9:30-10:45 AM, David Frantsvog

(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, Jenna Arnold