In Honors First Year Launch, we’ll build our Honors community, discuss practices to help you manage your time and engage in self-compassion. We’ll also learn more about what life is like at FLC and in Durango and learn bridging skills. Our course is focused on exploring place and creating community to care for others and for ourselves.

The two-credit Engineering First Year Launch (FYL) course is designed for incoming general engineering students. This course introduces students to engineering as a discipline, the engineering program at FLC, and the people, places, and practices that shape our departmental community. Through interactive presentations, hands-on mini-projects, department events, structured reflection, and engagement with campus resources, you will gain early exposure to engineering pathways while building the academic and social foundations needed to thrive at FLC.

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 various environments. We will use our experiences to create works of creative writing.

In this course, students will dive into their creative skills by making collages: an art form made by combining various forms of media (photos, paper cut-outs, stickers, tape, etc.), adding their own identity and experiences to create something beautiful and meaningful. In addition to creating collages, students will explore campus, make connections with peers, and share their first year journey in collage form.

The proposed course description: Our lives are more meaningful when we find ways to serve others. In this course, students will plan, engage in, and reflect on community service projects. Scaffolding and support will be provided to help students find ways to serve their communities that align with their own values and interests.