Stetson University has renewed its emphasis on guiding Discovery Students through the process of exploring a major. In our efforts to have a more intentional process of discovery for these students and to encourage the development of a ‘home’ in the Discovery major, we have launched a pilot Discovery cohort project in Fall 2017 comprising three important components:
Small Discovery Student Cohorts
Five first year seminars have been designated as Discovery FSEMs. Discovery students will be encouraged to register for one of these seminars:
- The Search for Wisdom (Queen-Sutherland)
- Hero’s Journey (Distler)
- Water, Peace & Prosperity (de Bodisco)
- Writing for the Health of It (Radley)
- Medicines, Drugs and Toxins (York)
Linked Courses
Registered students will be automatically enrolled in one other specific course whose content aligns well with the FSEM and is a common course taken by students in their first semester.
- SOCI 101S – Understanding Society: An Introduction to Sociology (Auyong)
- Every Hero Has a Story
- BIOL 142P – Introductory Biology: Animal and Plant Physiology (Work)
- Medicines, Drugs, and Toxins
- PSYC 101S – Introduction to Psychology (King)
- The Search for Wisdom
- ECON 103S – Essentials of Economics (Sanders)
- Water, Peace, and Prosperity
- BIOL 142P – Introductory Biology: Animal and Plant Physiology (May)
- Writing for the Health of It
Professional Advising
Each discovery students will be assigned a professional, secondary advisor. Miguel Ortiz Burgos, coordinator of First-Year Academic Advising, is the secondary advisor to all first year students in the Discovery program. A faculty member will continue to function as the primary advisor, and the FSEM instructor will continue to provide the mentoring component associated with the seminar.