Welcome to the Afternoon Instructional Team site, a part of Guttman Community College’s First Year Experience (FYE).
About Guttman’s FYE
The First-Year Experience (FYE) at Guttman Community College is a comprehensive model for academic access and future success fully aligned with the inclusive, equitable mission of the College. In their courses, students examine current world issues and use New York City as a living text and laboratory, thus connecting information and concepts across multiple disciplines, contexts, and perspectives. This immersive approach equips Guttman scholars with the foundation of knowledge and skills essential to their intellectual, social, civic, and professional endeavors in and beyond the classroom. Coursework is integrated with academic advising and an array of support services. In addition, students develop constructive, self-directed academic and social relationships by participating in a diverse learning community of faculty, advisors, and peers.
The First-Year Experience (FYE) at Guttman Community College is the springboard for our students’ future success in higher education and the professions, leveraging the social, emotional, and cognitive dimensions of learning to promote the development of the whole student. Embracing cutting-edge best practices and a robust, integrative curriculum, the FYE program establishes an inclusive, rigorous model for Guttman students to become confident owners and authors of their educational, professional, and life paths.
To promote career readiness within the curriculum, the FYE implements course design and experiences that promote and incorporate the National Association of College and Employers (NACE) Career Competencies:
- Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
- Oral/Written Communication
- Teamwork/Collaboration
- Digital Technology
- Leadership
- Professionalism/Work Ethic
- Career Management
- Global/Intercultural Fluency
Upon completion of all FYE requirements, students will:
- Engage in critical thinking and reflective learning, showing the ability to make informed choices and persist academically
- Develop and demonstrate responsibility for independent and collaborative learning
- Approach personal development as a lifelong, self-directed process, involving goal-setting, planning, time management, and self-motivation
- Gain proficiency in the practices of information literacy – to locate, evaluate, and use relevant and needed information effectively
- Construct new knowledge in various capacities, including numerical, verbal, technological, digital, and creative
- Integrate and apply knowledge and skills from different disciplines and multiple, diverse perspectives in intentional and deliberate ways
- Identify and use specific skills, resources, and strategies proactively and purposefully
- Communicate clearly and effectively in written and oral forms, in person and digitally, including to articulate personal and social values
- Explore how social identities (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, class) intersect with identity as a student at Guttman
