First Year Seminar has seven learning outcomes to give you a solid foundation for your university learning:

1. Students relate the CSUMB Vision Statement, Core Values and Academic Goals to their own educational and personal goals.

2. Students develop an academic plan that incorporates exploration of major and career pathways.

3. Students demonstrate teamwork skills through collaboration with others, applying communication, interpersonal and reflective skills.

4. Students demonstrate the ability to engage and understand a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, identities and ideas.

5. Students integrate academic learning with engagement in campus, community, social, recreational and cultural activities.

6. Students demonstrate the ability to convey information and ideas through appropriate written, oral and electronic means of communication.

7.  Students develop an appropriate, focused research topic, choose relevant databases and combine keywords and synonyms to develop search strategies in order to retrieve relevant resources.