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Quest I and First-Year Experience

The first year on campus is critical for our students, but what will make it inspiring, welcoming and intellectually fulfilling is YOU. What you do matters.

"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." - A. Bartlett Giamatti

Goals

  • Create a new way of teaching first-year students
  • Introduce the general idea of a Liberal Education and specifically of a UW Oshkosh liberal education
  • Support the academic transition from high school to college
  • Foster a sense of community (for them and for us); it’s about relationships
  • Assess our students and our program to help develop both

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will be able to describe the value of a Liberal Education.
  2. Students will become familiar with the expectations of a college-level education, the UW Oshkosh Essential Learning Outcomes, and the University Studies Program.
  3. Students will begin their acculturation to life at this university, developing familiarity with the academic resources and community engagement opportunities at UW Oshkosh.
  4. Students will engage in learning communities to enhance their connections to the class, the university, and one another.
  5. Students will participate in campus and community life through co-curricular activities.
  6. Students will begin to take personal responsibility for their intellectual development by archiving learning artifacts in the ePortfolio.

Quest I Co-Curricular Activity Suggestions

Are you looking for co-curricular activities to put on your syllabus or suggest to your Peer Mentor?  We're compiling (and continually updating) a Google Calendar list with these events as we receive them.  To find that calendar, search for "Quest I Activities" in Google Calendar, and your personal calendar will populate with events from Reeve, Theatre, etc. A link to the fall 2013 events list in PDF format is provided below, along with a link to the UW Oshkosh Athletic Events calendar.

Quest I Co-Curricular Activities - Google calendar

Quest I Co-Curricular Activities - PDF List

Athletic Events - Near bottom of the page, click on "Athletic Calendar"

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