First-Year Seminar (FYS 101)

Through First-Year Seminar, first-year students are introduced to the nature of a liberal arts education and to the academic skills required for success at Rockford University. Small groups of students work with professors to examine significant works and to explore their relationship to the various academic disciplines and their implications for our society. Class assignments will help students develop and strengthen academic skills in expository writing, public speaking and critical thinking, hallmarks of the liberally educated person.

The First-Year Seminar is worth three credits and is required of all students entering with fewer than 20 credits.