TUT 195-01 - Special Topic: The First Year Experience

1/2 credits (Fall)

Beginning in the Fall 2019 semester, all entering first-year and transfer students will be automatically enrolled in the half-credit First-Year Experience course. The First Year Experience course reinforces and builds on the cultural values sessions that are part of New Student Orientation. This course supports the mission of the college in its assertion that the pursuit of knowledge for “the intellectual, moral, and physical well-being of individuals and society at large” is an important endeavor. In preparing to utilize their “knowledge and their abilities to serve the common good,” this course guarantees that every incoming first-year student will be exposed to holistic community and individual wellness, as well as diversity and inclusion, in intentional ways that are critical for understanding how to ethically serve “the common good.” In the First-Year Experience, we continue to provide opportunities to encourage students’ abilities to be their whole, authentic selves while learning and practicing how to appreciate and respect others’ ability to do the same. Content will include self-care, coping, mental health, harm reduction, sexual respect, consent, healthy relationships, active bystanderism, identity, diversity, social justice, and mentorship. The First-Year Experience is graded only on an “S/D/F” basis. Any student earning a grade of “D” or “F” in the First-Year Experience may repeat the course during their next semester at Grinnell. Grades of “D” and “F’” in the First-Year Experience are calculated into the student’s term and cumulative grade point averages. Upon successful completion of the course, previously earned “D” and “F” grades are no longer calculated into the student’s grade point averages, though they do remain on the student’s transcript. Grades of “S” have no impact on the student’s grade point averages.

Co-requisite: TUT-100.
Prerequisite: None.
S/D/F only
Instructor: Staff