MIDS 100:
“The University Experience: Transitions within an International Context”

The First-Year Experience Program has been established to help achieve the goal of beginning student success through several avenues, including offering the MIDS 100: The University Experience: Transitions within an International Context course for all beginning students.

MIDS 100:  The University Experience: Transitions within an International Context
(Fall, Spring) 3 hrs. cr., Required for degree-seeking students who have completed fewer than 30 credit hours. This course will satisfy the Core Curriculum Area 5A International Cultural Studies requirement.

MIDS 100: The University Experience is a fundamentals course designed to assist first-year students in successfully defining themselves both as active participants in the MSSU community and as citizens of a twenty-first century global community.

The course offers information on university personnel, facilities, services, policies and study skills, and emphasizes student participation in MSSU’s international mission and international study opportunities. Student participation in co-curricular activities is required. The course is taught by a faculty or staff member with the assistance of a peer mentor. The peer mentor serves as an example and a resource for the first-year students.

In MIDS 100, students acquire and exercise academic skills while studying an international themed semester country. They attend a wide range of events and are introduced to international programs and study-abroad opportunities offered by the University.

• MSSU Blackboard Site
• Lionet Portal Site
• Lion Guide Lion Pride