Spring 2024 UNIV Courses

UNIV 198: Special Topics

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Through structured peer-mentored activities and exploration of topics such as theories of emergent adulthood and strategies for academic success, this course facilitates first-year students' transition from high school into college. The course will explore academic and social opportunities to promote successful completion of each student's educational goals.

UNIV 209: Peer Mentor Training

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This course explores the theory and practice of first-year learning with peer-to-peer mentorship as the focus. Participants explore current research on learning theory, emerging adulthood, communities of practice, and strategies for guiding students in the transition to college. The course is collaborative and interactive. Peer mentors will examine their own self-awareness, develop learning skills and strategies, and explore methods for facilitating such skills in their future mentees. Participants will review empirical research on the first-year experience and the complex transition from high-school to college, as well as reflect on their own experiences in order to develop the most supportive mentor-mentee relationship. 

UNIV 389: Theory & Practice for FYE Interns

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University 389 is an examination of the learning theory and foundational literature guiding our work in First-Year Experience. The internship supports our goal to be a learning organization, where student staff are both employees and learners. The one-unit elective course is a required part of employment in FYE.

UNIV 105W: Self, Identity, & Sustainability

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This course introduces several methods for considering identity formation using students' direct experiences and researched examples of "emerging adult identity" and "eco-identity". Students read, write, discuss, and do case analyses and problem-solving to examine tensions among the idea of a consistent "self", the concept of "identity" as a set of ongoing processes, and the gaps between self-presentation and environmental commitments.