Elizabethtown College Academic Advising: From Celebration to Graduation Elizabethtown College Academic Advising: From Celebration to Graduation

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First-Year Advising
Each first-year student is assigned an advisor to help with the transition to college life. Typically, your first-year advisor will be your First-Year Seminar instructor unaffiliated with your intended major. Major advisors are assigned when students officially declare their majors, starting in their second semester.

The First-Year Seminar is a topical, academically focused experience designed to assist students both intellectually and socially in the first year of college. Seminars are intended to:
  • Introduce students to collegiate academic expectations.
  • Develop communication skills and critical analysis/synthesis skills.
  • Familiarize students with college-level research.
Peer Mentors
Each seminar group has two specially selected and trained upperclass students who support the advisors and work during orientation and beyond to assist first-year students in getting established and acquainted.

Updated 8/25/09