First-Year Experience
The First-Year Experience at Cal Lutheran facilitates the transition of new students into the university life of independent learning and independent living, the transition into campus life that fosters academic excellence, and the transition to adulthood. The first year initiates the student's journey of integrating into their own life the intellectual, cultural, and social climates of the university.
The First-Year Experience has two objectives:
- Help students successfully transition to university life, including reflecting on their vocations and building skills that aid college success.
- Help students build relationships and community at Cal Lutheran, including connecting as a seminar group and to other groups on campus.
First-Year Seminar
When you get your schedule of classes for your first semester at Cal Lutheran, you'll notice that you are enrolled in a course called "UNIV 101 - The First-Year Seminar." This is a semester-long course that is required for all first-year students and is taught by a faculty instructor and your Peer Advisor.
You will be assigned to this class with about 20 other first-year students. Additionally, you will spend a good portion of the four-day New Student Orientation program with this same small group of your peers.