Classes

What are FASTrack classes?

FASTrack classes include an EDHE 105: The Freshmen Year Experience (on Tuesdays and Thursdays) and at least one other course chosen from First-Year Writing or Collegiate Writing, African American Studies, Public Speaking, Psychology, Sociology, or U.S. History. EDHE 105 classes are small, limited to 25 students, and students see many of their FASTrack cohort classmates daily in other classes during their first semester. This allows FASTrack students to connect quickly! Often, our students form informal study groups, easily work together on class assignments/projects, and meet their closest college friends in FASTrack.

Each FASTrack cohort has a professional Academic Mentor and a Peer Mentor, a former FASTrack student and upperclassman who assists current FASTrack students individually, guiding them through their first year.

“Having the same people in three classes was great because if I ever needed help or didn’t know an assignment, I always had a classmate to ask.” –FASTrack student

How do my FASTrack courses work?

FASTrack students are placed into cohorts. Each cohort takes two FASTrack specific classes together during the fall semester. The cohorts are comprised of a diverse group, and the core classes cannot be changed. Additionally, FASTrack students will take general education and major course requirements to maintain full time schedules.

FASTrack Fall Semester

1. EDHE 105 (Mandatory): First Year Experience – Designed to help first-year students adjust to the university, develop a better understanding of the learning process, acquire essential survival skills, and begin the major/career exploration process. The course also introduces students to the mission, values, and constituencies of the University of Mississippi, and to ethical and social concerns affecting its functioning.
2. FASTrack students are required to enroll in at least one other FASTrack-only course from the options listed below depending upon major, advanced placement credit, dual enrollment and transfer credit:
   • WRIT 101: First Year Writing I – Prepares students to write in college by focusing on writing as a process for a variety of contexts and audiences. Develops information literacy, awareness of conventions, skills of inquiry, exploration, and argumentation. Includes multimodal writing presented in ePortfolios. *Recommended*
   • WRIT 102: First Year Writing II – Writing processes, skills on inquiry, exploration, and argumentation, with special emphasis on research, information literacy, and writing for a variety of contexts and audiences. Includes multimodal writing presented in ePortfolios. *Recommended*
   • WRIT 205: Writing for College and Exploration – This course will allow students to explore ideas and identities through academic and personal writing. *Recommended*
   • AAS 201: African American Experience I – General overview including focus on race, economy, institutions, and key historical periods.
   • HST 130: Introductory to US History to 1877 – Introduction to political, cultural, social, and economic development of the US to 1877.
   • PSY 201: General Psychology – Introduction to individual development, motivation, emotion, motor function, sensory and neural functions, intelligence, learning, perceiving, thinking, social behavior, and personality.
   • SOC 101: Introductory Sociology – Concepts and methods necessary for studying society.
   • SPCH 102: Fundamentals of Public Speaking – Fundamentals of organizing, preparing, and delivering speeches in a variety of public forums.

FASTrack Spring Courses

WRIT 102 (Required): First-Year Writing II – Writing processes, skills on inquiry, exploration, and argumentation, with special emphasis on research, information literacy, and writing for a variety of contexts and audiences. Includes multimodal writing presented in ePortfolios.