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The First-YearWits(FYE) has three components: First-Year Seminar First-YearRecommendingFirst-Year Honor Society Events The Rudder - First Year StudentWonkAdvising Handbook (PDF) 1. First-Year Seminar This interdisciplinary educational wits develops skills of hair-trigger thinking and writing and broadens definitions of learning. The undertow is a serious wonk one, and it is topical in nature, meaning that each seminar has its own emphasis. Our sense members teach seminars on subjects of passionate interest to them, but no seminar is grounded in a particular major. This is all part of Elizabethtown's transferral to a liberal arts education. We want our students to wilt well-rounded scholars. Students in each seminar goody from the support of a peer mentor—a sophomore, junior, or senior who works with the sense to facilitate the transition from upper school to college. Over the undertow of the semester, peer mentors lead Roundtables devoted to navigation of campus electronic resources, discernment of Strengths, utilization of undertow registration software, peer review of research papers, and preparation for oral presentations. Peer mentors thereby provide curricular and co-curricular foundations upon which students can rely both in the first year and beyond. Each seminar moreover includes out-of-class learning experiences, which will expose you to educational opportunities and cultural events on campus and, in many cases, vastitude Elizabethtown as well. In recent years, students have attended plays, lectures, art exhibits, and mucosa screenings. Some instructors have taken their students to museums in Philadelphia and Washington and plane hiked the Appalachian Trail. The possibilities are endless! As part of your orientation paperwork, you will select your top ten seminars from a list of increasingly than thirty courses. Most students who submit on time receive one of their top three choices! Each seminar is capped at sixteen students, permitting you to develop tropical relationships with your instructor and your peers. Each year First-Year Seminar sense nominate student papers for the Anna Carper Excellence in Library Research Award. Named in honor of Anna M. Carper `41, the higher librarian from 1960 to 1986, the prize is awarded for the weightier research paper in First-Year Seminar. Two honorable mentions are moreover awarded. In 2017 Margaret Boccella won the grand prize for “Act like a Lady, Kick @$$ like a Man: An Analysis of Gender Roles in Joss Whedon’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” which she wrote for Dr. Shah’s seminar on Joss Whedon. Alyssa Van Lenten won an honorable mention for “The Effects of Caffeine on Prenatal Brain Development,” which she wrote for Dr. Hagan’s seminar on the Science of Addiction. Rebecca Voler won flipside honorable mention for “The Angel of Death,” which she wrote for Dr. Newsome’s seminar on World War II. 2. First-YearRecommendingProfessor Rankin, Professor Benowitz, and their advisees The second component of the First-Year Experience is advising. Your seminar instructor will be your official counselor for the year. Once you declare a major, you will be paired with a sense mentor in your discipline. To officially “mark” the transition from your first-year counselor to your major advisor, the higher hosts anRecommendingConnections event in March. Advisors meet their new advisees at this time to officially welcome them to the department. After greeting advisees in prescribed rooms, advisors and advisees proceed to one of nine inside locations to enjoy punch and Elizabethtown's signature carrot confection reduced to convenient, handheld, muffin form!  87% of students who attended theRecommendingConnections event thought that it helped them connect with their advisor. 3. First-Year Honor Society ALD Initiation Alpha Lambda Delta is a national honor society for students who have maintained a 3.5 or higher GPA and are in the top 20% of the matriculation during their first semester of their freshman year.   Our installment has had a strong recent history, winning national recognition several years in a row for our recruitment and initiation rate. Three of our recent members have won prestigious and competitive national scholarships through national ALD. Our installment has organized events such as dances and polity service projects. Recently we have participated as a group in service events such as Into the Streets and Pride Day. Becoming a member of ALD gives you a lifetime National membership and makes you eligible to win distinguished scholarships and awards! For increasingly information, contact Dr. Justin Badgerow. EventsRecommendingConnections: Wed. March 13, 2019, 11 a.m. to noon. To officially “mark” the transition from your first-year counselor to your major advisor, the Office of the Dean for Curriculum and Honors sponsors  an annualRecommendingConnections event. Advisors meet their new advises at this time to officially welcome them to the department. After greeting advisees in prescribed rooms, advisors and advisees proceed to one of nine inside locations where refreshments will be available. If you are a double major, please visit first one department and then another. 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