Road to Success: Orientation Seminar

Catalog description

This seminar is an interactive and informative course that is designed to provide students with the foundation necessary to thrive in LIU Global and helps them develop the academic and life skills necessary for success in their first year of college and beyond. This includes introducing students to the program’s theoretical foundations and experiential educational approaches, providing health and safety prevention education and promoting self-care while abroad, developing greater self-awareness in new cultural contexts, fostering the development of intercultural communication skills and competency, and identifying common challenges faced and approaches and resources available to address these. Students collaborate on a week-long group community engagement project with a local organization to have first hand experiences related to the content and issues examined in the seminar, including the consideration of ethical issues in community engagement abroad. The instructor also meets with the students individually to assist students with academic and life planning. This course is offered only on a Pass/Fail basis. In order to register for this course, the student must be an active member of the Global College Student Group.