New Student Experience Seminars
What are New Student Experience Seminars?
New Student Experience Seminars (NSESs) are offered fall, winter & spring quarters. NSESs are stand-alone, smaller courses, which limit enrollment to 25 students.
NSESs are special topics courses or community-engaged learning experiences that change quarterly. They're often only 1 or 2 credits, which makes them easy to fit into your schedule on top of 3 or 4 other classes. And they're taught by faculty who love working with first year students and make up our core first year faculty team. So, you could take a NSES multiple quarters in a row and work with the same faculty member. Or you could take a NSES just once if you're looking for more connection and sense of community with everything else that's part of your schedule.
Academic Year 2026-27
Fall 2026
CRN: 42105
Instructor: Lucas Senger
Time: M 10:00 - 11:50 AM
This seminar is designed to provide students with a practical working knowledge of essential financial concepts and practices. Topics such as resource management/budgeting, career planning including employment basics, investing and what credit scores mean and how they are applicable a student’s financial life. Students will be linked with College, University and personal resource providers that can support the unique challenges that first year students face.
2 Credits
CRN: 42107
Instructor: Shurla Thibou
Time: M 12:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Create a pathway that maps your academic and employment career track upon university entry through graduation. Build resume & cover letter based on individual major, minor, and employment interests. Search for both on-campus and off-campus employment opportunities. Develop and partake in mock employment interview presentations. Search for internships that align with academic majors. Scholarship search.
2 Credits
CRN: 42227
Instructor: Shurla Thibou
Time: W 12:00 -1:50 PM
Create a union between the learning outcomes taken from Carole Dweck’s Growth Mindset and Robert Greenleaf’s Servant Leadership. Evolve your positive mindset to strengthen your servant leadership skills. Engage in scenarios that showcase leadership skills in a variety of roles such as student governance and student government employment. Strengthen your leadership skills by adopting a growth mindset that demonstrates ways to channel setbacks into success.
2 Credits
CRN: 43200
Instructor: Lucas Senger
Time: R 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM
This seminar provides students with knowledge about essential financial concepts and practices. Students learn about resource management/budgeting, career planning, which is inclusive of employment basics, investing, and an understanding of what credit scores mean and how they are applicable to students' financial life. Students will be connected to personal resource providers in higher education who can further support them with common challenges that first-year students may experience.
2 Credits
Winter 2027
CRN: 12003
Instructor: Shurla Thibou
Time: M 10:00 - 11:50 AM
Create a pathway that maps your academic and employment career track upon university entry through graduation. Build resume & cover letter based on individual major, minor, and employment interests. Search for both on-campus and off-campus employment opportunities. Develop and partake in mock employment interview presentations. Search for internships that align with academic majors. Scholarship search.
2 Credits
CRN: 12004
Instructor: Lucas Senger
Time: T 1:00 - 2:50 PM
An examination of the music industry: Past, Present and Future. In the early 2000’s digital technology brought massive change to the music industry. Forever changing how the audience finds, listens to and buys music. It also opened the door to endless opportunities for the artist to build and connect with their audience. In this seminar, we will explore the shifts in the music business over the 100 plus year history of the industry. Students will explore how the music industry is conducted today, and examine how digital technology, including AI, will continue to change the Business of Music.
2 Credits
CRN: 12005
Instructor: Lucas Senger
Time: R 2:00- 3:50 PM
This seminar provides students with knowledge about essential financial concepts and practices. Students learn about resource management/budgeting, career planning, which is inclusive of employment basics, investing, and an understanding of what credit scores mean and how they are applicable to students' financial life. Students will be connected to personal resource providers in higher education who can further support them with common challenges that first-year students may experience.
2 Credits
CRN: 12175
Instructor: Shurla Thibou
Time: W 10:00 - 11:50 AM
Create a union between the learning outcomes taken from Carole Dweck’s Growth Mindset and Robert Greenleaf’s Servant Leadership. Evolve your positive mindset to strengthen your servant leadership skills. Engage in scenarios that showcase leadership skills in a variety of roles such as student governance and student government employment. Strengthen your leadership skills by adopting a growth mindset that demonstrates ways to channel setbacks into success.
2 Credits
Spring 2027
CRN: 121961
Instructor: Shurla Thibou
Time: W 10:00 - 11:50 AM
Create a union between the learning outcomes taken from Carole Dweck’s Growth Mindset and Robert Greenleaf’s Servant Leadership. Evolve your positive mindset to strengthen your servant leadership skills. Engage in scenarios that showcase leadership skills in a variety of roles such as student governance and student government employment. Strengthen your leadership skills by adopting a growth mindset that demonstrates ways to channel setbacks into success.
2 Credits
CRN: 21960
Instructor: Shurla Thibou
Time: M 10:00 -11:50 AM
Create a pathway that maps your academic and employment career track upon university entry through graduation. Build resume & cover letter based on individual major, minor, and employment interests. Search for both on-campus and off-campus employment opportunities. Develop and partake in mock employment interview presentations. Search for internships that align with academic majors. Scholarship search.
2 Credits
CRN: 21962
Instructor: Lucas Senger
Time: T 1:00 - 2:50 p.m.
An examination of the music industry: Past, Present and Future. In the early 2000’s digital technology brought massive change to the music industry. Forever changing how the audience finds, listens to and buys music. It also opened the door to endless opportunities for the artist to build and connect with their audience. In this seminar, we will explore the shifts in the music business over the 100 plus year history of the industry. Students will explore how the music industry is conducted today, and examine how digital technology, including AI, will continue to change the Business of Music.
2 Credits
CRN: 22022
Instructor: Lucas Senger
Time: R 2:00- 3:50 PM
This seminar provides students with knowledge about essential financial concepts and practices. Students learn about resource management/budgeting, career planning, which is inclusive of employment basics, investing, and an understanding of what credit scores mean and how they are applicable to students' financial life. Students will be connected to personal resource providers in higher education who can further support them with common challenges that first-year students may experience.
2 Credits