University College

University College offers curricular and co-curricular initiatives to challenge and support students from their first day on campus through commencement. Composed of the Department of First-Year and Transition Studies and the Department of University Studies, University College is also the home of the Honors Program and the Dual Enrollment Honors Program. It is the academic home of the Center for Student Leadership. University College promotes innovative interdisciplinary teaching and learning through first-year seminars, learning communities, Senior-Year Experience, the Leadership Studies certificate program, and the Integrative Studies degree program. It provides all learning support courses, and it houses numerous academic support programs such as Supplemental Instruction, the Math Lab, and the ESL Study Center.

Programs of Study

The Department of University Studies within University College offers students a degree program in Integrative Studies.

This Integrative Studies degree program directly reflects and advances several aspects of the institutional mission at the baccalaureate level. Given the collaborative and integrative nature of this degree, it both broadens and deepens the current degree offerings, while at the same time ensures a focused, deliberate custom-designed degree program for students.

The unique characteristic of this degree is that it requires students enrolled in the program to have two intentional academic concentrations. The degree in Integrative Studies is a thoughtful, planned, substantive schedule of coursework reflecting the integration of two disciplines, culminating in an applied or professionally oriented experience with consistent oversight by an interdisciplinary panel of faculty.

Institutionally, by encouraging cross-disciplinary connections, this degree facilitates, increases, and enhances linkages between and among existing departments. Additionally it provides students with a broad spectrum of institutional options.

** Information about Honors and DEHP should now appear here rather than under University Studies **