Supportive and Success-Focused
Our unique Freshman experience provides an integrated, pre-planned course schedule in which faculty work across courses to integrate assignments and concepts:
- Connect with peers and faculty through small classes and cohort learning groups.
- Access support through Learning Coaches to refine your performance.
- Discover yourself as you explore your calling and ignite your passion.
- Identify your core values and expand your worldview.
Standard college-level liberal arts courses have been redesigned into this accelerated, integrated model. Earn a full year of university credit (31 semester hours/46 quarter hours) of liberal arts requirements (GUR's or GEN Ed's) to transfer into TWU’s Langley campus programs or further your studies elsewhere. Courses selected for this program consist of topics from the following disciplines: English, writing, geography, psychology, sociology, communications, religious studies, human kinetics, introduction to university studies, history, fine arts, and/or philosophy.
PURE LEARNING
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, students study one subject intensely from 9-noon. This study is completed in a month, and the study of a new subject starts. This results in one full college course being completed each month.
This intensive, focused study results in deeper learning and understanding of the subject matter.
By eliminating the time wasted when switching between multiple classrooms throughout the day, your time is spent on learning. Pure learning.
TEAM TEACHING
Throughout the school year, students study writing one morning each week. This course links to the liberal arts subject being studied at that time.
For example, the papers assigned in a psychology course are the same assignment in the writing course. In this way, students learn to write for the discipline being studied, which prepares them to write across disciplines when they continue their studies in a bachelor program of their choice. Faculty work together as a team to align courses.
REAL AND RELEVANT
Making college studies relevant requires internal and external work. The internal work is performed as students complete a religious studies course in the Fall semester leading them to examine their beliefs and values. Continuing into the Spring semester, students take on the external work in a Human Services sociology course, investigating how to live out their beliefs in the community. All of this in just one morning each week.
THE RESULT
Intensive study five mornings per week developing the whole person.
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