METR 101 First Year Seminar: Your Academic Journey

This first-year seminar prepares students for, and challenges them with, college-level academic inquiry. Anchored around a book selected by the faculty instructor, this course invites students to explore big questions across disciplines, develop habits of critical inquiry, and engage actively with their local and broader communities. Through reading, writing, discussion, and place-based learning, students will strengthen their analytical thinking, written and oral communication, and collaborative skills. The course integrates place-based learning and community engagement to help students connect theory to practice, personal experience to academic study, and individual goals to larger social contexts

Special information

Note: Students must attend a New Student Orientation before taking this course. Attendance at the first class is required. Bring course text to first class meeting. It is strongly recommended that students registering for Metro 101 also register for section of INFS 115, because the two courses are complementary.