First-Year Experience
Truman’s first-year experience provides a rich intellectual community that inspires you to connect your academic interests to the world around you. Your quest for knowledge and your drive for success brought you to Truman. As you embark on a new educational journey, you’re challenged to explore your interests, build your future, and make a difference in your community and beyond.
Designed specifically for first-year students, Truman Week, Truman Symposium, and Self and Society Seminar provide opportunities for you to build relationships with students, faculty, staff, and mentors.
Building Connections
Truman Week
Truman Week is all about welcoming first-year and transfer students before returning students arrive on campus. A schedule of fun activities helps you connect with your new classmates as you get a feel for campus life.
Truman Symposium
Form unique bonds when you engage in shared learning experiences, discover new perspectives, and collaborate on action projects as part of this required course for first-year students.
Self and Society Seminar
Designed for first-year students, this required course encourages you to cultivate your habit of curiosity and discover why a liberal arts and sciences education is so successful at developing versatile thinkers and proactive doers.