First-Year Seminars
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 facilitates bi-weekly Community of Practice (CoP) meetings and provides optional class observations and feedback.
Please contact the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning with any questions.