First-year Seminar Student Learning Objectives

The First-year Seminar is an interactive experience led by faculty facilitators and peer mentors focused on stimulating incoming students’ intellectual curiosity and social responsibility, and providing them with knowledge and insights necessary for fulfillment and success in college and in their subsequent careers.

As such, the Student Learning Goals of the course are as follows:

• To increase awareness about the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and to benefit from its programs, services and resources, students will:
1. Comprehend the philosophy, function and value of the General Education curriculum.
2. Identify available student services and locations of support units offering academic assistance, health care, financial aid, arts and multicultural programming, career planning, and technology resources.
• To comprehend the purpose and structure of higher education and to enable student assimilation, progress and success, students will:
3. Know and apply time management techniques and effective learning strategies.
4. Select, locate and evaluate information resources held in Dupre Library and in digital formats.
5. Define academic integrity and delineate the forms, harm and consequences of academically-dishonest behavior.
• To create opportunities to build social, support and professional networks, student will:
6. Realize the advantages of student engagement and become involved in campus life.
7. Describe responsible social networking and effective communication etiquette.
8. Recognize emotionally-intelligent approaches to conflict resolution.
• To start building the foundation for fulfillment and success in and beyond college, students will:
9. Determine occupational interests, and research and evaluate information about career paths.
10. Apply a logical and rational problem-solving model to address a relevant challenge.
11. Understand wellness, health maintenance and injury and illness prevention practices.
12. Demonstrate techniques for establishing and maintaining a balanced budget.
13. Translate their service learning experience into a plan of meaningful civic participation.
14. Analyze their own worldview in relation to those of other cultures, demographics, and aspects of human diversity.