For Notes on special conditions, see the Maryville College Catalog. Topics and activities include college policies, campus life, Maryville College history and traditions, wellness issues, and Mountain Challenge experiences. Course activities are scheduled during an orientation period prior to the beginning of fall classes and are completed no later than the end of the fourth week of the fall semester. Required of all transfer students. Four-week orientation to Maryville College, including academic and student development programs.
All students take an exam on research methods.
A seven-week extension of the course is required of those who fail the exam. Sense of identity, vocation, spirituality, and wellness philosophy are topics covered. Analytical reading, critical thinking, and communication skills are emphasized. An experiential, interdisciplinary course that engages students in a broad study of the nature of their environment and addresses the basic question of what it means to be a steward of the environment. In classroom and field settings, students explore how human beings have changed and adapted the local environment of the Southern Appalachians and how human beings have used environmental resources in the development of their culture.