Freshman Studies Courses

Campus Orientation serves as a foundation for college success. The experience is designed to assist students, parents, and other family members in making the transition to college life. Orientation provides the student an opportunity to explore the learning environment for a college career. Campus Orientation is a required component of the Foundation Seminar course.

The primary focus of Falcon Seminar is to create a holistic experience that connects the student to the college and community.

This course is for students who want to develop greater proficiency in the college-level study and critical thinking strategies that are essential for academic achievement. With an emphasis on becoming more efficient learner, the course is suitable for both beginning and experienced college students.

This course will provide a foundational understanding for making informed personal finance decisions. Personal Finance is a course that enables students to analyze their personal financial decisions, evaluate the costs and benefits of their decisions, recognize their rights and responsibilities as consumers, and apply the knowledge learned in college to financial situations encountered in their lives.

This course will cover an introduction to the library and its resources, explore different sources and types of information, evaluating sources and information for credibility, research strategies, appropriate/ethical use of Artificial Intelligence tools, and annotated bibliographies.

This course will allow students to learn how to ensure they are working towards a healthy approach to life both physically and mentally. This course enables students to deal more effectively with health problems faced during the college
experience, and subsequently throughout life. These issues may include: stress, nutrition, weight management, mental health, illnesses, drug and alcohol usage, sexuality, diseases, and injuries.

This course explores the nature of stress and the physiological/psychological effects upon the health of the body due to prolonged stress responses. Short and long term somatic and behavioral techniques for applied stress control (i.e. exercise, nutrition, relaxation, visualization, meditation, goal setting and time management) will be examined. Techniques for management of stress will be discussed and practiced.

This course is designed to help students document, compare, and synthesize their accomplishments as a college student and prepare them for a successful transition to a four-year institution or to the workforce. Student will integrate academic knowledge and skills and connect their college experience to future plans. All students will complete a minimum of four writing projects, which my include resumes, personal statements for admissions essays, and self-reflections on past writing projects.