First Year Experience

Catalog description

Provides graduate students with the support and opportunities to adjust to the academic, social, and cultural life at UConn. Students learn from peers and faculty to be healthy, happy, successful, and graduate on time. Provides an open forum for discussion about graduate school transitions from college/work to being a student again, issues and concerns, and promotes all around greater self-awareness, growth, and understanding of the student as a scholar, leader, individual, and global citizen. Over the course of the semester, students will review components of graduate school holistically and through various activities to aid students in developing the following essential skills: self-advocacy, overall well-being, as well as information, technology, and resources available for graduate students; preparing them for success in their personal, academic, and professional lives at UConn and beyond.