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FYE Goals and Outcomes

• To connect you to the resources that promote belonging, wellness, personal development, and success in the first year.

  Outcomes:

  • You will encounter resources that promote academic success and personal development.
  • You will establish a productive relationship with a peer mentor and your course instructor.

  You could achieve this goal and outcomes through:

  • Becoming familiar with offices, programs, and individuals who provide information and services related to academic success and personal wellness.
  • Investigating different student organizations, social events and involvement opportunities.
  • Investigating a major, a minor and other possible fields of study.
  • Clarifying your educational and professional goals.
  • Investigating the Five Cardinal Experiences.
  • Reflecting on your Leadership strengths and cooperative style.

  
  

• To inspire intellectual curiosity and to introduce you to the richness and rigor of an Otterbein education.

  Outcomes:

  • You will develop skills essential to academic success and lifelong learning.
  • You will be introduced to the concepts of integrative learning and the mission and goals of the Integrative Studies Program.

  You could achieve this goal and outcomes through:

  • Engaging with intellectually challenging issues and questions.
  • Understanding the principles and practice of academic integrity.
  • Developing your e-Portfolio.
  • Reading the Common Book and attending supporting events as a part of a learning community.
  • Reading closely and critically.
  • Gathering, interpreting, evaluating and integrating information.
  • Identifying, analyzing, and synthesizing distinct concepts and ideas.
  • Communicating ideas in writing and speaking.
  • Drawing upon evidence to make an argument.
  • Reflecting on your learning style, study and time management skills and your academic progress.

• To explore diverse communities and identities and consider what it means to be a global citizen.

  Outcomes:

  • You will consider what it means to be an Otterbein student, with reference to the history, culture and values of the institution.
  • You will consider what it means to be a citizen of the Otterbein community, the Westerville community, and beyond.
  • You will encounter a variety of worldviews that arise from differences of culture and circumstance. Such difference include but are not limited to race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, religion, abilities/disabilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and geographic region.

  You could achieve this goal and outcomes through:

  • Exploring your own identity and its similarities and differences to the identities of those around you.
  • Learning about the history of Otterbein, as well as our general education programs.
  • Participating in co-curricular activities geared towards diversity and inclusion.
  • Reading the Common Book and attending supporting events as a part of a learning community.
  • Building relationships with peers and campus community members.