This course serves as the nucleus of the First Year Experience and offers a global, comprehensive and personalized approach to student success through textbook, stimulating lectures, action research, leadership development, library initiatives, and service learning.

This course is designed to assist adult learners in maximizing their potential to achieve academic success by providing a general orientation to the functions and resources of the University. The course is designed to help each student establish personal and professional goals and assess barriers to personal, academic, and career goals. In addition, the course is designed to provide students with positive learning experiences utilizing instructional methods of lectures, demonstrations, small and large group discussions, consultants and technology. The course will provide students with information on how to apply skills needed to take notes, communicate effectively, and develop good study skills to be successful college students. Students will have the opportunity to engage students in action research, leadership skills, library initiatives, and enrichment workshops/seminars activities relative to their academic, social, and professional success.