1st Year Experience Booklet

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EXPERIENCE BE Y ON D TH E CL AS SR OO M

It’s not your average freshman year.

Expecting to sit anonymously in a 200-person lecture hall? That’s not our style. Your first courses as a Regis student will be experiential.

They are a platform for service and an opportunity to engage in meaningful research with faculty. From tutoring in Denver schools to operating a virtual small business, your first classes at Regis will be anything but boring.

First Step: Review the fall semester RCC 200 Writing Analytically and spring semester Communication Intensive course combination.

This is big!

These paired courses are seminar-styled and focus on critical reading and communication – both written and presentation skills. Your chosen pair will also serve as an orientation to college life, with an added

thought-provoking Jesuit twist. And, when you progress into your spring semester course, it will be with the same classmates from the fall!

Intrigued? You should be. These aren’t your average freshman composition and core classes. We won’t ask you to be right, but rather to think critically, express your ideas, listen to the ideas of others, and ask introspective questions. The best part of the First Year Experience? You choose the topic.

Second step: Choose your top 3 preferred Writing Analytically Courses (with its already paired spring semester Communication Intensive course). We’ll register you for one of your top 3, pending the course availability. Go to Regis.edu/Advising and fill out the form with your preferences.

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1 Deposit (Already done that? Move to step 2.)

2 Choose your top three preferred Writing

Analytically and Communication Intensive course pairings. (We’ll register you for one, pending course availability. Go to Regis.edu/Advising* and fill out the form with your preferences. This will help us plan your schedule. Once we receive the form, we’ll send you an email with more details.)

3 Housing Reminder: The Residence Life registration portal will be open April 1 – May 22. Keep your eyes open for your Residence Life brochure. If it hasn’t already landed in your mailbox, it will soon.

Attend an In-person Advising Session * At Regis.edu/advising, you can select a date to meet with an advisor in person. If you cannot attend on campus, don’t worry, we’ll reach out to you with additional options.

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4 Set up your Regis.net account 1. Go to webadvisor.regis.edu 2. Click Change My Password 3. Under Set Up Your Password, log in with your RegisNet ID 4. Create a new password 5. Once logged in, access webadvisor.regis.edu to view your info. To access your Regis email, go to email.regis.edu.

6. Your Regis email will be the vehicle of communication for official Regis business, so check it frequently!

7. Consider adding it to your smartphone. Set up varies by device, but here are the important details: server: email.regis.edu, domain: regisnet, and you’ll use your RegisNET username and password.

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Writing Analytically: Writing for Social Justice (En/Route) Known as one of Regis College’s most transformative classes, these sections of Writing Analytically focus on social observation, analysis and advocacy.

We will approach this theme in two ways. First, by means of weekly fieldwork at a Denver program or agency seeking to address basic human needs and to promote justice. And second, by means of reading, reflection, discussion, and writing at Regis University. Our goal in taking a double approach is to trace the connections between academic life at Regis and life beyond the city of Denver.

Additional course expectations: In the spirit of true Jesuit education, this is a writing class with a service-influenced purpose, aimed at addressing social justice issues and providing you a voice in combating those issues.

In addition to its disciplinary focus, and as a complement to the focus on writing in the fall, this class emphasizes various kinds of oral

communication. En/Route sections help new students become working members of a learning community by exploring how three basic aspects of human life – speaking, doing and thinking – fruitfully relate to one another.

Fall Semester – Writing Analytically

RCC 200 RU01 – Writing for Social Justice (3 semester hours), RCC 200 RU02 – Writing for Social Justice (3 semester hours), -ORRCC 200 RU03 – Life Stories (3 semester hours) -ANDPC 231A – Service/Community-Based Learning (1 semester hour) Spring Semester – Communication Intensive

PL 270 Philosophical Explorations -ANDPC 231B Service/Community-Based Learning (1 semester hour)

What students are saying about En/Route…

“Best decision I made my freshman year. It’s a chance to step outside of yourself for others.”

“It is only through personal relationships and compassion that I have truly been able to understand and explore social issues. En/ Route provides the opportunity to begin creating relationships that will challenge and deepen our understanding of the world and social issues.”

“En/Route will be exactly what you choose to make of it. It can send you on the rest of the path of your college education with great experiences in your toolbox to continue questioning, wondering, learning and experiencing — if you allow it to.”

“En/Route changed the course of my four years at Regis in the best ways possible; will you let it change yours, too?”

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FALL SEMESTER: WRITING ANALYTICALLY

SPRING SEMESTER: COMMUNICATION INTENSIVE

RCC 200 RU04 DISSENT WITH MODIFICATION: THE IMPACT OF THE SCIENCE OF GENETICS ON SOCIETY

NS*260C INTRODUCTION TO BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

RCC 200 RU05 CHINESE FOOD CULTURE IN AMERICA

HS*224C THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.

Introduces the scientific study of how the brain relates to behavior. Explores how brain structure and function are involved in sensorimotor functions, motivation This course will consider the social impact the field of genetics has had on society. and emotion, cognition, and neurological disorders. This course carries a Through course readings, we will explore how genetics has been both a force communication focus in the course activities and assignments. Students choosing for good and also how it has been co-opted by movements to reinforce racial this option will also be registered for a neuroscience lab class. and ethic agendas, not always with humanity’s best interests in mind. We will ask what are the responsibilities of researchers when pushing the boundaries of science? What happens when scientists do not speak up against misuse of science? What are the responsibilities of scientists in conveying their discoveries?

How has society’s conceptions of genetics changed as we have become more aware of what makes humans human? The course will begin with Darwin, examine the roll of eugenics in the rise of Nazi Germany and finish with the potential dawning of an age of human genomic manipulation.

NOTE: During the spring semester students will also be registered for a lab with this neuroscience class.

This course focuses on the role that Chinese cuisine has played in the development of society, culture, and identity in the United States over the past 150 years. It examines the history of Chinese cuisine, as well as foreign encounters with Chinese cuisine in China from the perspectives of both Europeans and Chinese-Americans.

Studies the evolution of modern industrial United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. This course carries a communication focus in the course activities and assignments.

RCC 200 RU06 THE CLIMBING LIFE

EN*250C LITERATURE MATTERS

Living in Colorado or near the mountains, we’ve created our own vocabulary such as “bagging a 14er” or “skinning into the backcountry for a hut trip.” This class will read, write and participate in various forms of the climbing life that are inscribed into many facets of mountain life. We will encounter classical and contemporary naturalist literature from the likes of John Muir and Jon Krakauer. We will analyze various documentaries and movies with romantic and tragic views on climbing.

We will also break free of the traditional classroom by going out and hiking in our nearby mountains. In the end, the experiences in this class are designed to equip us to become engaged readers and effective writers within our local Rocky Mountain world. So please come with an engaged mind and sense of adventure.

RCC 200 RU07 WRITING THE AMERICAN PASTIME: BASEBALL AND THE ART OF STORYTELLING Since February 2, 1876 one of the few constants in American life has been the promise of baseball in the spring. The crack of the bat, the spinning red seams on the ball, and the sound of peanut and beer vendors circling the park. As a game, baseball has survived two world wars, multiple economic collapses, racism and classism, a changing American economy, and other historical factors that have shackled many other proud institutions. This class is both a reflection on the beautiful game, but more importantly the role that the stories of the game have played in shaping American society.

RCC 200 RU08 THE FUTURE OF ENERGY Our increasingly technology-dependent world requires a constant supply of fuel.

Worldwide demand for energy is projected to grow by almost forty percent over the next twenty years, even as production levels of oil, coal, and natural gas may approach their peaks and even begin to decline. To fill the resulting gap, a largescale deployment of renewable and nuclear energy sources is almost inevitable.

We will read about, discuss, and write about the scientific, technological, economic, and social consequences of these changes in the energy landscape.”

Introduces the literary genres of poetry, fiction, and drama. Students will write a series of analytical essays, including at least one research essay. This course emphasizes communication intensive strategies in course activities and assignments.

COM*250C SPEAKING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE This course develops engaged, competent, confident communicators, preparing speakers to connect with small and large, live and remote audiences. Encourages critical listening, writing, rehearsing, revising and speaking skills relevant to everyday, civic, professional and family/social life.

COM*250C SPEAKING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE This course develops engaged, competent, confident communicators, preparing speakers to connect with small and large, live and remote audiences. Encourages critical listening, writing, rehearsing, revising and speaking skills relevant to everyday, civic, professional and family/social life.

S SEMESTER: WRITING ANALYTICALLY

RCC 200 RU09 LET YOUR LIFE SPEAK What are your talents, interests, and passions? How do you feel called to serve the world around you? And how might Jesuit education contribute to your sense of calling? This seminar will explore the idea of “vocation” as a calling to use your talents and passions in service of others. We will also learn about distinctively Jesuit ways of discerning vocation within the context of core education at Regis.

RCC 200 RU10 FOOD FIGHTS Kentucky farmer and author Wendell Berry has said, “Eating is an agricultural act.” This course will consider the many implications of our individual and collective food choices—the political, ethical, economic, and environmental results of what and how we feed ourselves. We will analyze cultural practices and contemporary controversies in the production and consumption of food, and we will reflect upon our own agricultural acts as expressions of how we ought to live.

RCC 200 RU11 THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF Fear, either tangible or surreal, has been used as a political and social weapon since the dawn of human societies. Fear plays an important biological role teaching our bodies to respond to and minimize harm, but what harm comes from living in a society driven by the publication of fear? What are the modern “predators” we face in our daily lives and how does our fear response contribute to our safety, and in some cases greater harm, in light of these “predators”? How does fear control our decision making processes individually, as a society and as a nation in the world?

How is fear exploited by governments, media, and Wall Street? How ought we to live with our natural response to fear in our modern society?

RCC 200 RU12 ART WILL SAVE US

SPRING SEMESTER: COMMUNICATION INTENSIVE

AN*204C INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Introduces the methods and theory of cultural anthropology through a theoretical and comparative examination of the role of human life. Includes the study of cultural practices such as language, myth, gender, marriage, and sexuality, and economic and political practices in different cultures of the world. This course uses communication-intensive techniques in activities and assignments.

MT*272C STATISTICS FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES Presents introductory statistics emphasizing applications in biology, psychology, neuroscience, and kinesiology. Includes descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, regression, t-tests, Chisquare, and ANOVA with particular emphasis to analysis using p-scores. This course carries a communication focus in the course assignments.

RT*201C RELIGION & THE HUMAN QUEST Considering human existence in relation to “the sacred” and drawing on Eastern and Western religious traditions, this course uses communication-intensive strategies to explore religious perspectives on human question about life, suffering, goodness, and ultimacy.

FAC*254C AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER

The course title sounds sure, but the course will be more provisional, experimental, and analytical. By “art” do we mean painting, drawing, music, dance, sculpture, poetry or theatre? We will consider all of these arts--and more. By “us” do we mean you and your friends, your family, your town or your country? And what about “them”? And what would it mean to be “saved”? You don’t have to be an artist to be in this course, but you should love the arts. Plan to attend some performances, visit museums, try out some sidewalk art, and attempt a bit of busking.

Offers a survey of the American musical through general musical concepts while developing a working vocabulary of the elements of music. Utilizing communication-intensive techniques, this course examines the historical and social context of musical theater in the United States, from its earliest developments in the mid-nineteenth century to present day, and explores its major developments and influence in American culture.

RCC 200 RU13 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATES & THE WORLD

HS232 WORLD HISTORY

This course explores the lives and writings of some of the most important leaders of peace in recent history. The prestigious, and controversial, prize has been given to those who have “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations . . . and for the holding and promotion of peace.” We will examine the factors that enabled them to envision and then struggle for peace in their countries and the wider world. In the process we will learn about the historical contexts of these individuals as well as attempt to draw from their experiences in order to gain insights for our own lives and “how ought we to live.”

An introduction that focuses on how millennia-old, multi-cultural, land-based empires became colonies of newly created national trans-oceanic empires. This course carries a communication focus in course activities and assignments.

RCC 200 RU14 THE URBAN JUNGLE: THE SEARCH FOR WILDERNESS IN CITIES

EC*200C INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN ECONOMY

Environmentalists typically describe wilderness as an ideal natural state beyond the reaches of human encroachment and control. Others argue that this concept of wilderness privileges some parts of nature at the expense of more ordinary places just as deserving of our consideration. In this course we will explore the idea of wilderness in cities, arguably the most human dominated areas on the planet. Through urban exploration, field observations, and course readings we will attempt to unify these seemingly opposite ideas. We will aim to define “urban wilderness” and describe the relationship between nature and Denver residents.

Through communication-intensive techniques, this course examines the history and development of the market economy and the effectiveness of relatively free markets in allocating society’s scarce resources to their best uses. Discusses other economic systems and the role of government in correcting shortcomings of the market system including externalities, cyclical instability, and income distribution.

FALL SEMESTER: WRITING ANALYTICALLY

RCC 200 RU15 MUSIC AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS This course will be framed within the topic of significant musical moments in popular, world, and classical musics and how creativity plays an important role in each of these moments. We will learn how to listen, analyze, and appreciate specific musical pieces and their histories by experiencing and discussing live and recorded performances, as well as historical accounts and current criticisms of music and the creative process.

RCC 200 RU16 TRAVEL WRITING

SPRING SEMESTER: COMMUNICATION INTENSIVE

FAC*255C MUSIC OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A survey of classical music in the Western world in the twentieth century. Covers trends such as modality, atonality, serialism, neoclassicism, experimental music, and electronic and computer music and the social contexts surrounding these movements. This course carries a communication focus in the course assignments.

RT*201C RELIGION & THE HUMAN QUEST

This course explores the genre of travel writing. Why are tales of traveling so tantalizing? What goes into the making of a good travel narrative? How do such stories shape us and inspire us? Through course readings and excursions around Denver, we will contemplate what it means to be a traveler and develop the skills needed to write about these experiences. Lastly, we will consider the ethics of travel and of writing about our journeys. What does it mean to be a tourist in the world today? What impact does travel have on local communities? Why do travel writers often exoticize the places and peoples about whom they write? What does this exoticizing do to authors, and what does it do to those about whom authors write?

Considering human existence in relation to “the sacred” and drawing on Eastern and Western religious traditions, this course uses communication-intensive strategies to explore religious perspectives on human questions about life, suffering, goodness, and ultimacy.

RCC 200 RU17 COMMUNICATION, PRISON, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

COM*250C SPEAKING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

In an effort to understand the prison population expansion over the last forty years, this course examines the impact of the war on drugs, the schools-to-prison pipelines, the militarization of law enforcement, and the representation of crime and criminality in popular culture on the criminal justice system at-large. One of the many problems this course hopes to address is the fact that 96% of these prisoners will be released back into our communities without having been offered many—and in some cases any—rehabilitative services. It is our charge to examine how these issues impact our communities.

RCC 200 RU18 OUR WORDS, WOMEN WRITING THEMSELVES

This course develops engaged, competent and confident communicators, preparing speakers to connect with small and large, live and remote audiences.

Encourages critical listening, writing, rehearsing, revising and speaking skills relevant to everyday, civic, professional and family/social life.

RT*201C RELIGION & THE HUMAN QUEST

Considering human existence in relation to “the sacred” and drawing on Eastern This Writing Analytically course will explore women’s narratives in modern and Western religious traditions, this course uses communication-intensive America. We will closely analyze literature, film, music and popular culture to strategies to explore religious perspectives on human question about life, suffering, examine the portrayal of female characters. What does it mean to be a woman goodness, and ultimacy. in the 21st Century? How are women’s stories told? Who is doing the telling? We will examine these questions and discuss how women’s narratives are shaped in today’s changing society.

NOTE: Enrollment in this section limited to students in the Magis Program.

RCC 200 RU19 CAN WE BE KIND TO STRANGERS?

EN*250C LITERATURE MATTERS

This deceptively simple question implies an equally simple answer: Yes, of course Introduces the literary genres of poetry, fiction, and drama. Students will we can--and we should. Religious texts, folklore, and philosophy from around write a series of analytical essays, including at least one research essay. This the world and from different time periods all encourage us to show kindness course emphasizes communication-intensive strategies in course activities to strangers. But we seldom need stories that encourage us to do what we are and assignments. already doing; thus the stories also remind us to be kind to strangers, even when we might rather pass by. Thus the question--can we be kind to strangers--gives rise not to a simple answer but to challenging secondary questions. First, is it in fact possible to be kind to strangers? Is there a biological basis for helping others? Is kindness to strangers altruistic or self-interested reciprocity? Next, in today’s global, internet-connected world, what do we mean by stranger? Finally, should we be kind to strangers? What are the consequences and implications for the recipient and for the giver? The course will begin with a foundation in the religious and philosophical foundation for kindness to strangers and will then be organized around different responses: religious, scientific, and social; individual, societal, and global.

NOTE: This section is not recommended for athletes due to practice conflicts.

FALL SEMESTER: WRITING ANALYTICALLY

RCC 200 RU20 SUPERHEROES

SPRING SEMESTER: COMMUNICATION INTENSIVE

PL*270C PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATIONS

The oldest story in history stars a superhero named Gilgamesh. Today, three of Through the use of communication-intensive teaching methods, this introductory the top five highest-grossing films of all time have featured heroes with special course in philosophy acquaints students with the range of questions and issues powers. Why do superheroes fascinate us? What can we learn by examining them raised in both the philosophical tradition and contemporary thought and engages through psychological, philosophical, and literary lenses? In this course, we will students in a critical analysis and evaluation of different philosophical positions, analyze superheroes from Achilles and Batman to Xena and Zelda, as represented including their own. in literature, films, comics, and video games. Topics of discussion will include gender, social justice, and spirituality, as well as how heroes reflect and challenge their historical contexts.

NOTE: This section is not recommended for science/pre-health majors due to lab conflicts.

RCC 200 RU21 DIGITAL STORIES

COM*250C SPEAKING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

This course will explore the possibilities and limitations of sharing our stories through digital media. In writing for both the page and screen, students will gain skills analyzing arguments, generating thoughtful positions, and considering how to craft a text that will persuade and energize audiences.

This course develops engaged, competent, confident communicators, preparing speakers to connect with small and large, live and remote audiences. Encourages critical listening, writing, rehearsing, revising and speaking skills relevant to everyday, civic, professional and family/social life.

NOTE: This section is not recommended for science/pre-health majors due to lab conflicts.

RCC 200 RU22 READ THE WORLD: FICTION, FILM, AND CULTURE

EN*250C LITERATURE MATTERS

Introduces the literary genres of poetry, fiction, and drama. Students will write How do our stories create the world, and how do they create what we become? a series of analytical essays, including at least one research essay. This course How can the techniques of reading literature help us to read the world around us? emphasizes communication-intensive strategies in course activities and From Mark Twain tales to Tarantino tragedies to trash TV, our fictions, films, and assignments. cultures define us in obvious ways and in ways we might not always understand.

This course explores the flexible form of the essay as a way to understand yourself and the world around you by seeing ourselves and our stories in context.

NOTE: This section is not recommended for athletes due to practice conflicts, and for science/pre-health majors due to lab conflicts.

RCC 200 RU23 SELECT TOPICS FOR WRITERS This course engages contemporary issues of diversity, the environment, justice, or personal meaning as prompts for student writing. Students read, research and write about these issues in the context of the question, “How ought we to live?”

RCC 200 RU24 LANGUAGE GAMES

COM*250C SPEAKING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE This course develops engaged, competent, confident communicators, preparing speakers to connect with small and large, live and remote audiences. Encourages critical listening, writing, rehearsing, revising and speaking skills relevant to everyday, civic, professional and family/social life.

EN*250C LITERATURE MATTERS

Less than 1% of the total number of words in any language accounts for 60% Introduces the literary genres of poetry, fiction, and drama. Students will write of the language we use. And the smallest of these words tell the stories of our a series of analytical essays, including at least one research essay. This course lives—who we believe ourselves to be, what we desire and what we fear. These emphasizes communication-intensive strategies in course activities words are an invisible script in which we write our identities. In this class, we will and assignments. explore what our words say about us. What are the stories they tell? What do they reveal or conceal? In what way is language a game we play in order to make sense of our experience? How might we write new stories for ourselves by playing the game differently?

NOTE: This section is not recommended for athletes due to practice conflicts, and for science/pre-health majors due to lab conflicts.

RCC 200 RU25 DETECTIVES FROM SHERLOCK HOLMES TO JESSICA JONES This course follows detectives of page and screen as they bring to light the shadowy underbellies of reality and fiction. You will become a gumshoe and use analytical writing as your method to investigate cultural mysteries that interest you. Your observations, critical thinking, and logical reasoning skills will be crucial as you collect evidence and build case files of reading notes and academic research to see what hidden truths you can uncover.

RT*201C RELIGION & THE HUMAN QUEST Considering human existence in relation to “the sacred” and drawing on Eastern and Western religious traditions, this course uses communication-intensive strategies to explore religious perspectives on human question about life, suffering, goodness, and ultimacy.

NOTE: This section is not recommended for athletes due to practice conflicts, and for science/pre-health majors due to lab conflicts.

FALL SEMESTER: WRITING ANALYTICALLY

SPRING SEMESTER: COMMUNICATION INTENSIVE

HONORS WRITING ANALYTICALLY All honors students will be enrolled in one of the following sections.

RCC*300H HONORS SEMINAR TRADITION & INNOVATION

RCC 200H RU01, RU02, HONORS WRITING SEMINAR: THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY Our seminar has three related goals. First, by writing in and out of class, in a variety of forms, you will grow as a college writer. Second, through historical and creative study of ways and places of knowing, we invite you to envision a place—your place—in the vast and ever-changing academy of knowledge known as the university. Third, by treating that study as a practice of conversation and collaboration, we mean to promote a “community-of-learners” approach to academic inquiry that will enrich your experience in the Honors Program and throughout your Regis College career.

As the second course in a five seminar series, Tradition and Innovation is rooted in questions regarding the creative tension between our formative relationships to the past and the ways in which we seek to create novel futures, between tradition and innovation. It involves an integrative blend of literature, philosophy, history, religion, film, art, and music.

NOTE: Honors students only

COMMITMENT WRITING ANALYTICALLY All Commitment Students will be registered for one of the following sections.

RCC 200A RU01, RU02 HOW WE LIVE

PJ*200C INTRODUCTION TO PEACE & JUSTICE

Through the use of communication-intensive teaching methods, this introductory In this course, we will seek to explore who we are and the worlds we inhabit. Our course introduces students to themes within the academic discipline of peace medium for exploration will be the essay, one of the most versatile forms of writing. and justice studies. Discussion is focused on nonviolence in theory and practice, Through reading and writing essays on topics ranging from identity and immigration, and includes interdisciplinary threads from history, philosophy, literature, religion, to love and language, to science and sports, to pop culture and haute couture, we will economics, and social analysis. discover and define what it means to live in America today and begin to answer the essential question of the Regis mission, “How ought we to live?”

NOTE: First Year Commitment Students only. RCC 200A sections require a year-long Strategies for Success class, for which students will receive an additional credit hour.

RCC 200A RU03 HOW WE LIVE

RT*201C RELIGION & THE HUMAN QUEST

In this course, we will seek to explore who we are and the worlds we inhabit. Our Considering human existence in relation to “the sacred” and drawing on Eastern medium for exploration will be the essay, one of the most versatile forms of writing. and Western religious traditions, this course uses communication-intensive Through reading and writing essays on topics ranging from identity and immigration, strategies to explore religious perspectives on human question about life, to love and language, to science and sports, to pop culture and haute couture, we will suffering, goodness, and ultimacy. discover and define what it means to live in America today and begin to answer the essential question of the Regis mission, “How ought we to live?”

NOTE: First Year Commitment Students only. RCC 200A sections require a year-long Strategies for Success class, for which students will receive an additional credit hour.

RCC 200A RU04 HOW WE LIVE In this course, we will seek to explore who we are and the worlds we inhabit. Our medium for exploration will be the essay, one of the most versatile forms of writing.

Through reading and writing essays on topics ranging from identity and immigration, to love and language, to science and sports, to pop culture and haute couture, we will discover and define what it means to live in America today and begin to answer the essential question of the Regis mission, “How ought we to live?”

EN*250C LITERATURE MATTERS Introduces the literary genres of poetry, fiction, and drama. Students will write a series of analytical essays, including at least one research essay. This course emphasizes communication-intensive strategies in course activities and assignments.

NOTE: First Year Commitment Students only. RCC 200A sections require a year-long Strategies for Success class, for which students will receive an additional credit hour.

Student Support Student Disability Services & University Testing To be successful in college it is important for you to be proactive, particularly if you have disabilities. This means if you have a disability that may affect your academic performance, you need to prepare for accommodations now. As you are considering your first year registration, we’re here to help.

If you have a disability, we encourage you to fill out the online Application for Services form. This form can be found on our website, regis.edu/disability or at www.regis.edu/Academics/SDS-UT/Disability-Services/Services/Application-Form.aspx.

By submitting this form to Student Disability Services & University Testing (SDS/UT), you begin the process of activating your status within our department. SDS/UT staff will be glad to meet with you in person, talk on the phone, or communicate by email to review your documentation and assess your academic needs. The documentation requirements can also be found on our website.

Please be aware accommodations work differently in college than high school. You may need your documentation updated, your accommodations must be arranged through SDS/UT and not your teaching professors, and they are not retroactive. It is important to apply for services through SDS/UT before the start of your first semester. This will help us to work with you to get your accommodations in place as quickly as possible.

For more information about Student Disability Services & University Testing, please call 1.800.388.2366, ext. 4941, or if you reside locally call 303-458-4941. You may also visit our website: www.regis.edu/disability or email us at disability@regis.edu.

Counseling and Personal Development College is a time of transition. You may be away from home for the first time, academics become more rigorous and there are new financial pressures and extra-curricular activities for you to experience. Your newfound independence, coupled with a robust college lifestyle, can be overwhelming at times. As a result, stress, depression and other associated disorders, such as eating disorders, substance abuse and anxiety disorders, may appear. You may struggle with decision-making, relationships, or time management. But, there are steps you can take to advocate for yourself when you need support.

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Call the Office of Counseling and Personal Development at Regis University (303-458-3507) to ask about services available. If possible, visit the center to meet our counselors in person.

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Normalize the process of seeking counseling services. You are not alone. Services are in place for you as a college student.

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I f you are already diagnosed with a mental health condition and need on-going treatment (medication and/or therapy), proactively coordinate this care with our providers. It is important for you to receive continuity of care, and it is important to us that we provide that care to you while you are a member of our Regis community (Cura Personalis: care of the whole person – we mean it).

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