The First Year Seminar(FYS) is designed to help you become a successful member of the SLU community. Over the course of the semester, we will be completing several assignments meant to help you cultivate good academic habits, such as reflective reading and writing, effective study skills, and productive communication. This course is meant to help you build a personalized education and career plan and instill a sense of personal responsibility for your experience here at SLU.

Course Goals

  • Students should gain an understanding of their own intellectual and personal development as well as a commitment to lifelong learning.
  • Students should emerge from the First Year Seminar with a respect for the diversity of students, faculty, and staff of the SLU Community.
  • Students should strengthen their communication, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Students should strengthen their literacy skills in both reading and writing
  • Students should be prepared to critically engage texts in the context of classroom discussion, library research and composition.
  • Students should develop reflective writing skills they will learn to put into practice in an academic context.

FYS Workshops

CUNY SLU offers FYS Literacy and FYS Numeracy workshops designed to introduce incoming students to concepts and practices of college-level literacy and numeracy in preparation for SLU courses. The literacy modules should be completed by all students enrolled to take Writing I, while the numeracy modules should be completed prior to taking Statistics for Social Change. While these workshops work best in combination with the First Year Seminar: The City, Labor and Social Justice course they can also be taken independently.

Department Contact

Dr. Steven London
Department Chair

Marie Romani
Administrative Specialist
marie.romani@slu.cuny.edu
(646) 313 – 8480

Office Hours
Mon. – Thur.: 10:00am – 6:00pm
Fri.: 9:00am – 5:00pm