First Year Seminar

The First Year Seminar (FYS) is a discipline-specific course designed to support freshmen and transfer students in their transition to LaGuardia. Taught by faculty in Natural Science, Business and Technology, Liberal Arts: Social Science & Humanities, Health Sciences, Liberal Arts: Math & Science, Engineering & Computer Science, Psychology, and Criminal Justice, students are introduced to key concepts in their major, learn skills essential to academic success, receive advising support, and learn how to tap into the College’s many resources and co- curricular opportunities. FYS students receive additional support in an attached studio hour, where they learn about the digital tools that LaGuardia offers to facilitate educational and career planning. Students at LaGuardia must successfully complete the First Year Seminar to graduate. Transfer credit will not be awarded for another school’s first-year seminar course.