FYS 101. First-Year Seminar.3 Credits.
A Quinnipiac University education is directed towards forming a mindset of life-time learning, establishing an inclusive, excellence-driven community, nurturing local and global communities, and fostering lifelong connections and success. The first-year seminar initiates such an education as the starting point of the University Curriculum. Each student enrolls in a faculty-designed seminar constructed to help examine a complex problem, an enduring question, or new ideas from multiple perspectives. This seminar is designed to accomplish three essential goals that help prepare students for 21st-century careers and citizenship. First, it introduces students to the concept of inquiry as a process that utilizes multiple approaches and perspectives to investigate problems, questions, or ideas systematically. Students learn that the process of inquiry includes the collection, analysis, and evaluation of various types of evidence. Second, the seminar enables students to practice inquiry through an investigation of a problem, question, or idea that faculty select from their areas of expertise. Finally, students begin to develop complex thinking skills that they will deepen throughout their undergraduate experience in the University Curriculum.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every year, Fall and Spring
UC: Breadth Elective
FYS 101H. Honors First-Year Seminar.3 Credits.
The Honors First-Year Seminar introduces students to the concept of inquiry as a process that utilizes multiple and diverse perspectives to systematically examine questions or problems. Students learn about inquiry through readings from various disciplines and the investigation of a guiding/enduring question drawn from the instructor's area of expertise. By the end of the course, students begin to develop a question that they wish to explore throughout their undergraduate educational experience utilizing the skills and knowledge that they acquired throughout this course.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every year, All
FYS 150. First-Year Seminar Modules.0-1 Credits.
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Every year, Fall and Spring