Engage 100 Experience Application: Submission #13

First Name: Benjamin
Last Name: Oliver
Department: CRE
Title: Associate Director
Email: boliver@fsu.edu
Phone: (850)508-5681
Title of the Proposed Engage 100 Experience: Using your Gap Year to Make the Most of Your Undergraduate Experience (Fall only)
Description of Experience (for Students):
''Using Your Gap Year to Make the Most of Your Undergraduate Experience'' is a class crafted specifically for matriculating first-year, undergraduate students after completing a Gap Year experience before coming to Florida State University. The class itself is designed to give you the opportunity to reflect on your Gap Year Experience, provide you a set of experiences that will introduce you to the academic culture at the Florida State University, and combine this knowledge to make a plan to get the most out of your undergraduate experience. The objectives for this course are as follows: 
-Allow students to reflect on their Gap Year Experience from the past 12 month 
-Allow students to reflect on their in-class and out-of-class experiences during their first semester  
-Focus on facilitating student matriculation:  
     -Students discover different ways to become socially engaged on FSU’s campus 
     -Students discover different ways to become academically engaged on FSU’s campus  
-Allow students to use their reflections on their Gap Year and first semester to set goals and plan for the remainder of undergraduate experience

To enroll, contact Warren Oliver at boliver@fsu.edu

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Experience Contact (for Students): Warren Oliver 
Experience Contact Email (for Students): boliver@fsu.edu
Experience Link (for Students): Gap Year to College Tips (from National Gap Year Association): https://www.gapyearassociation.org/ga
Who is the primary leader of the proposed Engage 100 experience? : Faculty
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How many anticipated meetings per semester?: 14
Proposed Engage 100 Experience is an existing FSU course: No
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Please indicate which of the Engage 100 objectives your proposed experience meets: Students will know where to find engagement activities well beyond their first term of enrollment and intentionally select engagement activities that aligns with their interests, Students will join a formal community and form meaningful peer relationships, Students will gain skills to find new communities as their identities develop, Students will develop personal, social and professional awareness, Students will be able to assess how their engagement activity aligns with their academic and personal goals
Please outline how your experience will meet your selected objectives?:
1.  Coming off of their Gap Year, students will have a set of interests which they have pursued extracurricularly for the previous 6-12 months. We will discuss these interests and use them to look for the best engagement opportunities that meet students' pre-matriculation interests.
2.  The central focus of this class is to facilitate the matriculation of FSU first-year students who have completed a Gap Year before coming to FSU. Thus, by creating a cohort and allowing students to use a shared experience to prepare them for academic and social engagement on campus, this course encourages students to form peer relationships and seek out engagement activities with the wider campus community.
3. By focusing on matriculation, students will be taught about the resources for possible engagement on campus. Students will be required to then use these resources to find engagement opportunities (both academic and social) and report on such experiences. In this way, students are prompted to seek out new communities to ''find their people''.
4. Students will be pushed to learn how to contextualize and frame their Gap Year Experience, both socially and professionally. This will involve developing a CV as well as exploring different types of engagement (Global, Academic, Professional, ect). In this way, they will learn how to relate their interests and experiences to best evaluate how they can get the most from their undergraduate experience.
5. The end result of this class is to develop an academic and engagement plans for the rest of the semester. These particular plans are derived from their Gap Year experience (an expression of their extra-curricular interests), and thus are intended to link student interest with their opportunities as an FSU student academically and socially. Thus, this experience will teach them not only how to succeed in classes, but how to identify relevant course work to their interests.

How will your program/college/department evaluate the effectiveness of this Engage 100 initiative?: Evaluations, Retention, Other
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In which semester(s) will this course be offered?: Fall