2025-2026 Reading List 

The topics listed below are a general guideline of what will be covered and can change/evolve as we are currently developing the 2025-2026 curriculum. If you have specific questions, please reach out to the First-Year Seminar Program Directors at [email protected]

 

General, used in Units 1-4:

University Studies. US101US First-Year Seminar: Place and Identity. (2025-2026). Hayden-McNeill, 2025.

 

Unit 1 Topics Include:

Why College?

Becoming a Learner

Setting Goals and Self-Advocating

Motivation

Responding to Critical Feedback and Learning from Mistakes

Resiliency

Imposter Syndrome

Utilizing Campus Resources

Normalizing Help Seeking

Self-Management/Time-Management

Using Generative AI Ethically

 

Unit 2 Topics Include:

Having Diverse Conversations- Talking Across the Divide

Echo Chambers

The Power of Language and Open Dialogues

Freedom of Speech

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons

Choose Your Own Adventure!

 

Unit 3 Topics Include:

How to conduct college-level research

How to utilize the MSU library

 

Unit 4 Topics Include:

Revisiting what it means to Become a Learner

Revisiting Campus Resources that can help with finals

End of semester self-reflection

 

US101US treats video as "texts" and discusses them in full alongside additional readings and outside sources that are determined and chosen by class discussion leaders (instructors and students) that will not appear here. Additional readings TBD and subject to change.