First-Year Seminar integrates opportunities to develop students’ academic engagement skills with opportunities to connect to the Virginia Wesleyan community. While Tuesday seminars focus on inquiry and critical thinking, Thursday sessions and special events provide opportunities for academic and personal workshops, co-curricular lectures and performances, and social events.
Every student will benefit from engagement in a variety of these activities, but not every student has the very same needs. Hence, rather than require students to participate in one common set of events, the program supports individualized Community Engagement Contracts, requiring certain shared events and then allowing students, in consultation with their instructor, to choose additional events for a total of twelve.
More Information
Designing a contract
Learn the general criteria for designing your own Community Engagement
Contract.
» See, Designing a community engagement contract
Credit for Completing Events
Learn how to earn credit for completing your contract events, how to track
completion of your contract, and how your work will be graded.
» See, Credit for completing community engagement
contract events
Pre-selected First Year Experience events
This is not a comprehensive listing
of appropriate events, but it will point to selected events
that may be of particular interest.
» See, Event
eligibility for the community engagement contract
» See, Academic skills and support workshops
» See, First Year Experience events calendar