New Student Experience Seminars
2022-2023

New Student Experience Seminars are offered fall, winter & spring quarters. Unlike FIGs, which are several courses grouped together, NSESs are stand-alone courses. Like FIGs, NSESs are smaller courses, which limit enrollment to 25 students. NSESs are special topics courses or community-engaged learning experiences that change quarterly. They're often only 1 or 2 credits, which makes them easy to fit into your schedule on top of 3 or 4 other classes. And they're taught by faculty who love working with first year students and make up our core first year faculty team. So, you could take a NSES multiple quarters in a row and work with the same faculty member. Or you could take a NSES just once if you're looking for more connection and sense of community with everything else that's part of your schedule. Or you could take a FIG in the fall, then enroll in a NSES winter and/or spring. Often students who take FIGs together like continuing on as a group, and taking a NSES is a great way to stick with your community from the fall.