Faculty First Year Seminars 197NRSG2 - You, the Torchbearer! Honing

Cultivate your capacity to be a leader! In this interactive course, we will identify and build individual strengths to empower positive stress management and increase your resilience. Everyone manages stress, whether with health promoting behaviors of exercise or health threatening behaviors of substance abuse. Evidence indicates that building on positive stress management strategies is far more effective than focusing on problems. Using mindfulness and focused writing will help make us aware of our own emotional responses to life?s challenges. We will analyze the importance of fortifying our social connections with peers, role models and mentors. This course is designed to assist students from all walks of life. We will develop individually designed strategies to facilitate your unique leadership ability, thereby promoting success both in college and in pursuit of your life goals. Required reading, focused journaling and in-class active participation will be the basis for grades.

Freshmen Only