Pathways Learning Community

We invite you to take part in a dynamic Learning Community as part of your first-year experience.  You will be part of an enterprising group of new students who choose to learn together, study together, and explore options together. The students who are selected for Pathways will have the opportunity to actively engage with the Webster University community. Pathways is an ideal community for students interested in exploring potential degree programs and career possibilities. Additionally, this community will challenge your critical thinking and communication skills through interdisciplinary teaching methods.

Students in the Pathways LC will learn:

• how to utilize campus resources and engage with the campus community

•  how to explore options for their degree program and subsequent career possibilities

• how to evaluate personal aspirations and challenges regarding the college experience

Pathways LC Courses:

Student in each learning community must take all of the courses in a cohort.

Great Thinkers Seminars
(students will be placed in one based on application)

FRSH 1200 The Single Theory to Explain Everything

This seminar is a bit of a magical mystery tour, leaving some of the topic of the class up to the students. We will start with one or two “secrets to explain everything” picked by the instructor. After that, it’s up to the students to pick fundamental ideas to explore, be they safe or wacky. If you are a student with diverse interests, who likes to get to the bottom of things, this is your place.

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FRSH 1200 The City: More Than Just a Nightlife

This seminar focuses on the city as a space for human organization and community. Cities embody our hopes, dreams and aspirations for a better more orderly world. Human beings all over the world share the organizing influence of the city in common. The creation of a city is as common to us as language, music, art and markets. Considering the emergence of modern information technologies, do we still need cities? Can we get all the services we need in a more organized way without the limitations of the city?

General Education Courses
(students will be placed in one based on application)

SPCM 1040 Public Speaking

Students learn the organization, development, and delivery of a variety of formal public speeches. The course includes public speaking and a variety of other speaking exercises to help students adapt to audiences and contexts, solve delivery problems, and build confidence.

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PHIL 2320 Contemporary Moral Problems

This course will examine various philosophical positions on contemporary moral problems, with a special focus on human rights issues, such as death penalty, euthanasia, reproduction, consumption, hunger, poverty, and forms of violence and discrimination based on gender, race, and sexuality. This course counts toward programs in Practical and Interdisciplinary Ethics and International Human Rights. It also fulfills either the Critical Thinking or Values general education requirement.

University Transition Courses

INDZ 1500 University 101- Fall 1

University 101 is an innovative course dedicated to helping new students succeed. This course will help students obtain the essential knowledge and skills needed to make a smooth transition into college life. Course topics include campus involvement, self-understanding, adaptation strategies, utilizing campus resources, goal setting, values clarification, time management, money management, and stress management skills.

INDZ 1500 Major Exploration and Career Development- Fall 2

This class is designed to provide students with the opportunity to explore major and career interests. Students will take several self-evaluation assessments that will allow them to understand their values, interests, personality characteristics, and skills in relation to a variety of majors. Students will also learn resources for obtaining accurate major and career related information.