Nov 9, 2020

Fall 2021 Course Offerings

Oct 20, 2015

Sabrina Robertson, FYI instructor, creates BIT resource for students

Sabrina Robertson will be teaching BIT 100 as an FYI course in the spring. She and Carlos Goller have created the BIT OER project, http://biotech.ncsu.edu/projects , a student-driven, biotechnology open educational resource (OER). The BIT OER is a dynamic online educational platform for all things biotechnology-related and will help students locate free or cost-effective learning… 

Oct 20, 2015

Forthcoming Interactive History Lab

For his spring 2016 FYI course, HI 216, Latin America since 1826, Prof. Rich Slatta has created a new student resource, Latin America: An Interactive History Lab. Spring FYI students in HI 216 will beta test the approach, providing valuable feedback for the final product. The lab includes hundreds of historical documents, historical and contemporary… 

Oct 15, 2015

Recent books by FYI instructors

Congratulations to our FYI colleagues who recently published books. Nicholas A. Robins (HI 215) has published Of Love and LoathingMarital Life, Strife, and Intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750–1825. Nick is a teaching associate professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He is the author of several books, including Mercury, Mining,… 

Sep 12, 2015

Welcome from the FYI Director!

    Welcome to First Year Inquiry (FYI)! This message comes from Rich Slatta, Professor of History and FYI Director. Our program offers you small classes (size under 20 students) that promote critical and creative thinking skills essential to academic and career success and lifelong satisfaction. The small class size means lots of discussions and close student-student…