Academic Team:

Anna Carroll (acarroll@uoregon.edu) 
First-Year Experience Seminar Instructor

Eryn Mcaninch (erynm@uoregon.edu)
FIG Assistant

9 credits

UGST 109 First-Year Experience Seminar - 1 credit
TYKE 340: W 3 - 3:50 PM
CRN: 16213

WR 121 College Composition I - 4 credits
LIB 322: MWF 10 - 10:50 AM
CRN: 15937

LING 201 Language and Power - 4 credits
Lecture
ALL 221: TR 2 - 3:20 PM
CRN: 12925
Discussion
GER 248: F 12 - 12:50 PM
CRN: 15607

About the FIG:

Gain confidence in using your voice in writing and public speaking to make a difference. Students will develop a personal cluster of core interests and learn how to use those interests to prepare for future college classes and experiences in writing and public speaking. The FIG will also consider mental health and anxiety issues around college performance and connect students to resources to help.

WR 121 develops student understanding of their own voice in relation to campus context through development of critical reading skills and introduction to argument. Enrolling in this FIG provides students additional support and the opportunity to connect closely with classmates enrolled in first year writing. By working with an experienced writing instructor, they’ll gain additional support in connecting their personal goals to the writing class.

By completing LING 201, students will have completed 1/6 of the Writing, Public Speaking, and Critical Reasoning Minor and be set up to sign up for a section of WR 123 tailored to speaking up in community engagement. WR 121 fulfills the first-year writing requirement and counts toward the WSCR minor. The FIG also introduces students to a range of writing and public speaking classes they might plan to take depending on their personal cluster of interests. The FIG is designed to deepen students experience in WR 121 and is taught by an instructor with experience teaching writing, including CMAE classes, and public speaking. Students may opt to take their second writing class from the FIG instructor and/or future public speaking courses offered in the WSCR minor.

WR 121 College Composition I - CoreEd or major satisfying course

A course in written reasoning that presents writing as a means of exploring, developing, confirming, and communicating ideas. The ideas that students write about develop from their understanding of issues encountered in readings and focused discussions, responding to them in writing to represent them fairly and explore available responses. Essays explore the relationship of thesis to structure and audience. The course has a strong focus on the process of revising with regular work on editing.

LING 201 Language and Power - CoreEd or major satisfying course

This course introduces a new way of looking at language and the relations between people who speak different languages or the same language differently. It explores the implications of linguistic and anthropological findings about language and society and looks at the relationship between language variation (such as accents and dialects) and the social power of speakers of these varieties