First-Year Seminars in Fall 2020

CETL is looking for UWM faculty and instructional academic staff to teach First-Year Seminars of exceptional quality in Fall 2020.

To most effectively facilitate student success, First-Year Seminars must share a common set of features. Therefore, faculty and instructional academic staff in the First-Year Seminar program must:

• Teach discussion-oriented, seminar-style courses, rather than coverage-oriented, lecture-style courses
• Incorporate elements of UWM’s First-Year Seminar Taxonomy
• Promote equity for all students to achieve success in the First-Year Seminar
• Collaborate with a peer mentor assigned by the Student Success Center
• Require students to present a public demonstration of their learning in class

In order to support First-Year Seminar instructors, CETL will facilitate bi-weekly Community of Practice (CoP) meetings in Fall 2020 and provide optional class observations and feedback.

Please contact Dylan Barth in CETL with any questions about the First-Year Seminar Program.