CALS QUICKSTART: FOUNDATIONS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate your strengths and reflect on how they manifest across different aspects of your academic, personal, and professional experience Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand core campus values and the purpose of a liberal education and relate these concepts to real-life examples Audience: Undergraduate 3. Gain a baseline understanding of social identity and ways to expand your perspective/develop empathy for identities outside your own Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explore the CALS Priority Themes and understand how many academic and career pathways can converge around a singular theme Audience: Undergraduate 5. Develop strategies to anticipate and successfully navigate any college transition-related challenges you may face Audience: Undergraduate 6. Apply knowledge of campus resources and opportunities to set attainable goals for your first-year and beyond Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate your strengths and reflect on how they manifest across different aspects of your academic, personal, and professional experience Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand core campus values and the purpose of a liberal education and relate these concepts to real-life examples Audience: Undergraduate 3. Gain a baseline understanding of social identity and ways to expand your perspective/develop empathy for identities outside your own Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explore the CALS Priority Themes and understand how many academic and career pathways can converge around a singular theme Audience: Undergraduate 5. Develop strategies to anticipate and successfully navigate any college transition-related challenges you may face Audience: Undergraduate 6. Apply knowledge of campus resources and opportunities to set attainable goals for your first-year and beyond Audience: Undergraduate