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Workshops
Workshops FYE’s 2022 Experiential Learning Workshops These workshops give you hands-on experience in academic fields that may influence your choice of major or career. While working on projects such as creating a podcast or designing a game, you’ll have the opportunity to get to know other new students who share your interests. You’ll also meet […]
FYE Courses
FYE Courses are introductory classes that fulfill credits that all students at QC need to graduate. These classes are reserved for new freshmen to give them an important social network as they acclimate to campus life. If you’re an incoming freshman, choosing your FYE Courses is your first step in planning your schedule. You should […]
First-Year Resources
The First Year Experience program takes a holistic approach to supporting students throughout the first year at Queens College. You can read more about our freshman-only courses here, our experiential workshops here, our peer mentorship program here, and our brand-new series FYE Talks with Faculty here. We’re also building an online archive of resources for first-year students. In 2020-2021, […]
Peer Mentors
FYE Mentors are trained to help new freshmen and transfer students acclimate to life at Queens College. During weekly office hours held throughout the Fall and Spring semesters, they offer one-to-one support in Creating personal time management plans Preparing study materials for midterms and finals Choosing majors and minors Designing schedules for next semester with […]
About Us
FYE’s primary objective is ensuring that new students thrive at Queens College. We curate and develop first-year programming that supports students in successfully developing their academic paths: freshman-only courses for first-semester freshmen a peer mentorship program that serves all freshmen and new transfer students support for experiential and interdisciplinary learning through hands-on workshops and within introductory courses talks on topics important to […]
Faculty & Staff
FYE Faculty & Staff Dr. Megan Paslawski, Director [email protected] Dr. Paslawski’s academic interests include fiction writing, 20th/21st Century American Literature, and LGBTQ life writing. Because she studies work by writers who often were marginalized within the academy, she strongly believes in FYE’s mission to make all new students feel at home in college. When she’s […]
First Year Experience
This is a temporary page for the First Year Experience program at Queens College during the QWriting outage. Drop-in Online Office Hours will resume on Monday, January 31st at 10:00 AM. F0r help before then, please email [email protected]. Join Drop-in Online Office Hours (click here)Monday, Tuesday, Thursday10:00 AM – 4:00 PMWednesday10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
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