First-Year Launch
Admitted Students

KDUR is a volunteer-powered campus-community radio station that will work with first-year students to connect them to campus and community resources, while incorporating real work skills in audio editing, interviewing, podcasting, and media. Students in the course will also learn about new music, new programming, and being a Skyhawk!

Join a community of other English, JMMS, and Writing Majors to discuss six short stories. With selected readings from Jhumpa Lahiri, Lindsay Wong, Octavia Butler, and more, the course will explore how to craft a compelling narrative in a concise form. You’ll also have the opportunity to get to know other Majors and learn more about opportunities available to you in your discipline.

In this FYL course, you'll explore the science of habit formation and learn practical strategies for designing positive habits. You'll gain foundational knowledge about how habits work and how they can change through behavioral science principles. Apply what you learn to create habits that set you up for success in college and beyond.

Course description: Love stories and the worlds opened by books? Join us in reading Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi, discussing alternate viewpoints and finding common ground in an atmosphere of a few new friends. Explore the community connections that reading fosters. The book will be provided to you.

If you are a chemistry or biochemistry major, you want a short break from the routine of lab or lecture. Give yourself a break to think of chemistry happening outdoors and get a chance to learn about your new community through place-based recreation and connection, community gatherings, and service learning.

Concert Choir is an open enrollment mixed choir made up of both music majors and non-majors. This ensemble will provide singers with the opportunity to prepare and present varied music composed for the mixed choir from the major stylistic periods with the intent of serving composers, performers and listeners by performing choral music of the highest possible quality. It will include the study and performance of diverse musical expressions that represent a variety of historical and cultural perspectives. A simple audition is required to begin singing with Concert Choir.

Take a journey through your senses into the natural world around you. This course focuses on key works in nature writing and environmentalism. We will spend time outside observing the natural world and reflecting on our relationship to our environment. We will use our experiences to create works of creative writing.

The chemistry lab has been broken into and a TA assaulted! Assist the campus police by collecting and analyzing the evidence left behind to help solve the crime. This will be a lab-based experience for students that are interested in forensic science.

Join an instructor who is Disney enthusiast, nutrition professor, and avid cheerleader of FLC students to combine food and pop culture to learn about college culture.  Utilizing a little bit of animation, a lot of personality, and a few spices to come up with a recipe for success for college. We will tackle time management, campus resources, stress, and much more while having a roller coaster of fun.

This class will focus on supporting you as you identify and define who you wish to be in your new academic setting, meeting new friends and community members, developing a sense of place, connecting with established FLC communities, and cultivating agency needed to help shape the place and communities around them. The class will be divided into four modules: self, place, community, and intersection. We hope that by targeting these four areas, the you will learn to identify your selfhood and values as individuals, within place broadly, and between one another.