Spring 2027

People First Year Seminar

PEOPLE First Year Seminar explores personal, institutional, and community resources to optimize academic success and persistence.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Alex Hopp

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify campus resources to support holistic comfort and growth during their college experience.

  • Identify and grow feelings of belonging within PEOPLE and at UW-Madison through engagement with multiple evidence-based perspectives on challenges and solutions to college success.

  • Identify and engage with resources for targeted career exploration, including tailored support for the growth of concrete competencies needed for career readiness.

  • Describe university requirements, pathways, and other tools for academic excellence, including time management, study strategies, critical thinking, and self-awareness.

  • Reflect on inequities, injustice, and other obstacles to success through discussion of leadership, solidarity, and community engagement opportunities.

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Prerequisites

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COUNPSY 117

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
SEM 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250
SEM 002Classroom Instruction0 / 250
SEM 003Classroom Instruction0 / 250
SEM 004Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Exploration of personal, institutional, and community resources that optimize academic success and persistence. Utilizes didactic and experiential methods to develop higher level learning, skill, and understanding. Analysis of identity factors and impact on experience and belonging in higher education.

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Topics

  • Personal, institutional, and community resources for academic success and persistence.
  • Identity factors and their impact on experience and belonging in higher education.
  • Targeted career exploration and development of concrete competencies for career readiness.
  • Inequities, injustice, and obstacles to success; leadership, solidarity, and community engagement.

Skills

  • Identify personal, institutional, and community resources to optimize academic success and persistence.
  • Analyze identity factors and their impact on experience and belonging in higher education.
  • Describe university requirements, pathways, and tools for academic excellence such as time management, study strategies, critical thinking, and self-awareness.

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COUNPSY 117 · Spring 2027

PEOPLE First Year Seminar

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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