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Mountain Lion 1000
As a freshmen, one of your first classes will be the Mountain Lion 1000 program where you’ll learn how to thrive in the Young Harris College community.
Intro Class For All First-Year Students
All freshmen students are required to take our Mountain Lion 1000 (MTLN 1000) program in their first semester. In your MTLN 1000 class, a faculty or staff member and a FYTT Leader (First Year Transition Team Leader) will show you how not just to survive, but rather to thrive in your first year of college.
The mission of the Mountain Lion 1000 program is to support entering first year students in making a successful transition into the scholarly life and social community at Young Harris College by providing opportunities for personal growth through academic planning, decision making, and using support services.
What You'll Learn As A Mountain Lion
Foster Academic Success
- Adapt and apply appropriate academic strategies to their courses and learning experiences.
- Identify and apply strategies to effectively manage time and priorities.
- Identify relevant academic policies, processes, and resources related to their academic success and timely attainment of degree requirements.
Discover and Connect with Young Harris College
- Identify and use appropriate campus resources and engage in opportunities that contribute to their learning within and beyond the classroom.
- Develop positive relationships with peers, staff, and faculty.
- Describe the history, purpose, and traditions of Young Harris College.
Promote personal development, wellbeing, and social responsibility
- Clarify their values and identity and articulate how these shape their perspectives and relationships with people who are similar to and different from themselves.
- Explore the tenets of academic policies and other components of the YHC Catalog.
- Examine and develop strategies that promote wellbeing and explain how wellness impacts their academic and personal success.
- Initiate a process toward the attainment of personal and professional goals and articulate potential pathways to employability.
MTLN 1000 Course
Course Description
MTLN 1000 is designed to help first-year students adjust to YHC, develop a better understanding of the learning process, and acquire essential academic success skills. The course provides a general orientation to the functions and resources of the college and also provides a support group for students transitioning to college by examining problems common to the first-year experience. Attaining an appropriate balance between personal freedom and social responsibility underlies all MTLN 1000 activities.
