Information About First Year Experience Programs

Updated on 1/5/11 Information about First Year Experience Programs At California State Universities

Campus & FYE Contact Program/Course GE Area/ Units Grading Mandatory Text Number of FYE Program Retention Learning Person Elective and Freshman Students Infrastructure Data Communit FYE Website Served available? y Pogram? (2009-10) Bakersfield Orientation to GE 3 CSUB Emerson Case Resources; http://www.csub.ed [email protected] Roadrunner u/rush-a/index.shtml First-Year Resources for Undergraduate Success & High- Achievement Channel Islands University Experience Marie Francois [email protected] Chico University Life, GE Section E 3 Letter No College: We Make First Year Grade the Road by Thia Wolfe Experience Walking (Watts) [email protected] note: textbook changes as needed http://www.csuchic o.edu/fye/ Dominguez Hills Personal, Social GE Section E 3 Letter No Master Student 777 – Includes Summer FYE Director – 5 Not yet, but Yes – each None and Intellectual Grade (Mandatory (Ellis) 2007, Fall 2007 and WTU’s Fall and Spring it will be. FYE course Dev. for FTF Fall 12th edition Spring 2008 and 3 WTU’s Summer is linked Univ 101 2009) 2007 with a GE Freshman Experience East Bay General GE section G 24 total GE Letter Yes GE Activities Text: Education LCs include units Grade for Are You Game Sally Murphy Activities GE areas A1 GE Enough? (custom [email protected] Mandatory year- & A2; B or C Activities version of Learning long, or D; GE & Info Success: Being thematically Activities and Lit/ Your Best in Updated on 1/5/11 integrated GE an Info Lit CR/NC College and Life freshman course (both optional (Thompson learning Area G) for other Learning) communities (of classes in http://www20.csuea which the the stbay.edu/library/sc Activities course learning aa/first%20year is a part). communit %20students.html FYE includes y social and academic events and activities specifically designed for freshmen and specially funded; SCAA Fresno University 1, Elective 3 Letter No Your College Introduction to Grade Experience Dennis Nef the University, (Gardner) [email protected] Mentoring http://www.csufresn Institute o.edu/university1/ http://www.csufresn o.edu/mentoringinst itute/ Fullerton University 100, Elective 3. Some Letter No Your College Exp 516 students Joint Academic Affairs Yes Yes University sections are 3 Grade (Gardner) Ranges 10-12% of and Student Affairs Offer 6 LC Nancy Page Fernandez Studies units fall, and http://www.fullerto freshman class initiative. FT Director choices: 3 [email protected] others are n.edu/freshmanpro (MPP), FT Coordinator general stretched 1 grams/index.htm. (SSPII), FT Office and 3 unit Fall/2 New text to be Manager (ASAII) subject units Spring selected for 2009- 30hr/wk Asst matter 10 Coordinator(SSPI), 3 based Grad Assistants who serve as advisors Fullerton University 100, Elective 3 Letter No Master Student University Grade (Ellis) or Your Studies, College Exp Freshman (Gardner) Programs http://www.fullerton .edu/freshmanprogr ams/ Humboldt Freshman Interest FIGs are Seminar is 1 Credit/NC No No (although we Updated on 1/5/11 Groups (FIGs Elective – 2 units; have implemented a Student Life Department include anywhere typically 1 choice of two books [email protected] from 2 – 5 unit as a ‘common book’ classes and – The Tortilla typically have a Curtain (T.C. 1-unit Seminar Boyle) and Grand attached); First Avenue (Greg Year Connections Sarris) http://www.humbol dt.edu/firstyear/ Long Beach University 100 Grad 1 Credit/NC Yes University & Your 3969 UNIV 100 Director: Yes Yes ------requirement Future .4 Faculty Position 12 learning Lynn Mahoney ------2 Letter Yes (homegrown) comm. with [email protected] University ---- Grade Admin Support: total of 78 100/CLA 195 Grad FT position UNIV 100 Introduction to requirement sections the Learning Academic Affairs and attached Community Requirement Auxiliary Services of GE funding Foundation courses (University 100, Written English, Oral Communicati on, Critical Thinking, and Mathematics) Los Angeles Intro to Higher Grad 2 A,B,C/NC Yes Your College Education (for requirement Experience: Alfredo Gonzalez Frosh) Strategies for [email protected] success (Garnder) 2 A,B,C/NC Yes Transition to Cal Grad Learning Success, State L.A. (for requirement 3rd Ed. (Wahlstrom) Transfers) http://www.calstatel a.edu/academic/pals PALS Peer / Mentoring Program Maritime Academy Training Ship http://www.csum.ed Golden Bear u/MarinePrograms/t Updated on 1/5/11 Julie Chisholm sgb.asp [email protected]

Monterey Bay First Year Grad 4 Letter Yes Single course-wide Seminar 100 requirement Grade reading that changes Pamela Motoike each year. [email protected] http://catalog.csumb .edu/undergrad- education/nondegre e-programs/firstyear-seminar Northridge University 100: New GE Plan 3 Letter No College Portfolio 993 students (including 12 month faculty Yes, from Yes: six The Freshman R: Lifelong Grade for Success: Cal 290 in Summer Bridge director: 9 units Institutional large Cheryl Spector Seminar. Learning (S4) State Northridge 2007) reassigned time fall and Research: communities [email protected] edition spring plus summer full including 16 Old GE Plan time. 6 units AY http://www. of our 38 fall C: section E University 100: reassigned time for csun.edu/~i sections; Applied Arts College “special faculty nstrsch/inde Summer & Sciences Conversations assistants” to director x.html Bridge also Reader is its own One half position staff separate support EOP http://www.csun.edu learning /univ100/ Some student assistants community (work study) http://www.csun.edu /afye/ Pomona Courses being GE Area E 4 Letter Yes Each college is developed by Grade selecting their text. Claudia Pinter-Lucke individual http://www.csupom [email protected] colleges – ona.edu/~academic/ undergoing fye/index.shtml Senate review. Courses piloted in fall 2007; First Year Experience Sacramento Freshman GE Section E Freshman Letter No, strongly Custom publication 1231 (50%) enrolled in FYE Director =50% Yes Yes Seminar, First for Seminar Seminar 3 Grade recommended (Thomson) Freshman Seminar Faculty Position 33 Lynn Tashiro Year Experience units http://www.csus.edu communities [email protected] & Freshman GE A-E for /acaf/ge/fye/ 654 (26%) enrolled in Admin Support = 50% 22 contain Programs Learning Learning http://www.csus.edu Learning Communities clerical position Freshman Communities Communities /acaf/ge/freshmanPr Seminar 6-10 units Academic Affairs, ASI, Updated on 1/5/11 ograms/index.stm 2469 Freshman in 2007 and IRA funding. Some private grants

San Bernardino USTD 100 Elective 2 A,B,C,NC No. However, YOUR GUIDE TO Freshman Required for SUCCESS at CSU Milton Clark Seminar Undeclared San Bernardino [email protected] Students (Santrock) http://housing.csusb. edu/llc_firstyear.ht ml

San Diego Thomas B. Day Elective 1 CR/NC No Use the current Freshman year's Summer Maureen Kelley Success Reading Program [email protected] Programs choice http://tbdprogram.sd su.edu/ San Francisco First Year Elective 1-3 CR/NC or No Varies Experience ABC/NC Helen Goldsmith [email protected] San José MUSE Seminars GE Area B1, 3 Letter No Each seminar has its (university wide B2, C1, C2, Grade own book Undergraduate Studies offerings; open to D1, or E (determined by [email protected] all frosh faculty) students); First MUSE- Year Experience http://www.sjsu.edu /muse/ FYE- http://www.sjsu.edu /ugs/students/firstye ar/ San José ENG 8 (college Elective 1 CR/NC No No specific) San José ENG 10 (college Grad 3 Letter No Required text specific) Requirement Grade San José SCI 2 (college Elective for 3 A, B or F No A Primate’s specific) some; Memoir required for EO665 science Updated on 1/5/11 majors San José Humanities GE Areas A1, 24 Letter No Several books over Honors Program A2, A3, C1, Grade four semester (university wide) C2, D2, D3, learning community F1, F2 (6 earned units per semester San José ASPIRE Program Elective http://www.sjsu.edu /aspire/

San José BUS 10 (college Elective 3 Letter Elective (but No specific) Grade nearly all incoming business students take it.)

San Luis Obispo (Cal First Year Elective 2 CR/NC No http://firstyear.calpo Poly) Experience ly.edu/

Cornel Morton [email protected] San Marcos GEL 101 -The GE Area E 3 Letter No, about Varies: Instructors Student, The Grade %50 of our select from a variety David Barsky University, The first-years of college success [email protected] Community take this texts and readings (Taught primarily course http://www.csusm.e as a “stand alone” du/admissions/whyc college success susm/firstYear.html course. We are also beginning to link this course with other lower- division GE courses to form learning communities.); First Year Experience Sonoma University 102, Elective 3 CR/NC No Have our own Freshman reader Katharyn Crabbe Interest Groups http://www.sonoma. [email protected] edu/sas/reslife/fig/ Updated on 1/5/11 Stanislaus Seminar in First- Format #1: 2 2 Letter No Your College 07/08: 07-08: 13 Year Experience GEs w/ 1 FYE Grade or Experience 281 students (242 in LCs were Susan Marshall (linked to ENGL seminar (3 CR/NC (Gardner & Jewler) Learning communities) offered [email protected] 1000) GEs) http://www.csustan. & 39 in special FYE for edu/GE/Pages/First liberal arts majors) Format #2: 1 YrExperienceProg.h GE w/ FYE tml Sem (2 GEs)