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Program Good Practices

This page includes a sampling of good practices as a resource for FYE planners. Samples are presented here in the following categories: (1) First-Year Seminar Syllabi, (2) Additional programming offered by academic departments, programs, divisions, campuses, colleges, etc., (3) Programming offered by Student Affairs, DUS, Residence Halls, and other University groups, and (4) First-Year Engagement practices at institutions external to Penn State.

First-Year Seminar Syllabi

Comparative Literature 083S, UP, Fall 2008

Additional Programming offered by academic departments, programs, divisions, campuses, colleges, etc.

Berks Common Reading Program

Berks Summer Adventure Learning Communities

Behrend FIGs - Freshman Interest Group

DuBois Passport Program

EMS - Be a Master Student

EMS Totems - Total Orientation to EMS

FYS - Smeal College of Business

FYS - School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Program

Health and Human Development JumpStart Program

Schreyer Honors College - Summer Reading Program

Schreyer Honors College - Summer Reading Group Guidelines

Schreyer Honors College - Summer Reading List

Orion Wilderness Orientation Program

UP - Learning Edge Academic Program (LEAP 2008)

Programming offered by Student Affairs, DUS, Residence Halls, and other University groups

DUS Navigator

Harrisburg Learning Center

Mont Alto PAWS Schedule

Tour of Penn State - Orientation

First-Year Engagement practices and information at institutions external to Penn State

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, College of Arts & Sciences First-Year Seminars

University of South Carolina FYE Courses



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