FYS Faculty: Home

This is a Guidebook intended to assist faculty who teach a First-Year Seminar. It is updated annually in July.

This document is a PDF listing the questions asked of all FYS students in the Supplemental Student Opinion Form. (These questions were last updated in Oct. 2020).

This is a downloadable version of the PowerPoint presentation made by Mike Seaman (with additional slides prepared by Prof. Harry Brown) at the FYS Workshop held in Wallace-Stewart on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2923.

This is a suggested Agenda for a FYS faculty member's first meeting with the seminar class, which will take place at 3:30 on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024, immediately following the Class of 2028 Welcome Convocation.

This document has suggested agendas for a FYS faculty member's second group meeting with the seminar class, which will take place at 9:00 AM on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, and for the individual meetings with students later that day.

This spreadsheet lists each First-Year Seminar title, the professor's name, the librarian and mentor(s) affiliated with the class, and the meeting rooms to be used for the two group meetings held during Orientation (on Sat. at 3:30 PM and on Mon. at 9:00 AM).

This is a listing of the CLA graduation requirements summarized on one page (last updated Aug. 2024)

This is a document, prepared by science and math faculty, intended to assist faculty advising science and math courses to majors and non-majors in the sciences (last updated July 2020).

Rebecca Schindler, Classical Studies - 2016

Dana Dudle, Biology - 2016

Bob Dewey, History - 2016

Kent Menzel, Communication & Theatre - 2016

Tamara Pollack, Modern Languages, 2016

Gigi Jennewein, Communication & Theatre - 2016

Sharon Crary, Chemistry & Biochemistry - 2015

Harry Brown, English - 2016

Jeff Kenney, Religious Studies - 2015

Julia Bruggemann, History - 2016

Pascal Lafontant, Biology - 2015

Jinyu Liu, Classical Studies - 2016

Gloria Townsend, Computer Science - 2015

Derek Ford, Education Studies - 2016

Melissa Petreaca, Biology, 2016

Harry Brown, English, 2016

Melanie Finney - Contemporary Irish American Identity / Jim Mills - Earthquake Science / Dana Dudle - Crops, Cures, and Capital: Plants in Human Cultures / Ophelia Goma - Women in the Third World / Marnie McInnes - Science Writing / Kelley Hall - Brutes and Babes: Gender and Sexuality in Comics / Jeff Kenney - Osama bin Laden

Nahyan Fancy, History, 2016

Jinyu Liu, Classical Studies, 2016

Gloria Townsend, Computer Science, 2016

Deepa Prakash, Political Science, 2016

Anne Harris, Art & Art History

Rebecca Schindler, Classical Studies

Joe Heithaus, English