LOPER 1: First-Year Seminar
FOUNDATIONAL REQUIREMENTS – Skills that every university-educated person needs:
First-Year Seminar1 (minimum 3 hours). Students should be able to employ academic and career strategies. Performance indicators are:
- Apply at least two academic strategies tailored to course assignments or projects
- Identify and use two strategies to manage time and identify academic resources
- Identify relevant academic policies, processes, and procedures related to advising, course planning, and major exploration
- Engage in at least two collaborative activities with peers, staff, or faculty, or utilize campus resources and/or participate in campus activities
- Identify one area of growth in communicating across diverse perspectives
- Apply two well-being practices and document their impact on academic and personal success
Departments cannot require students to take a specific First-Year Seminar.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| LOPR 101 | First Year Seminar | 3 |
| LOPR 126 | First Year Seminar | 3 |
- 1
The First-Year Seminar is waived for:
- students admitted as transfer students with a minimum of 18 hours of General Education coursework
- and students admitted as transfer students with 24 hours of accepted transfer coursework not limited to General Education courses.
Students who transfer in a first-year seminar course from another institution will have an equivalency to LOPER 101 and will not need to complete the LOPER 101 requirement at UNK.
All students, unless noted otherwise, still must fulfill the requirements of a minimum of 30 hours of GE coursework that meets LOPERs 2-10.