UNC 180 FIG Leadership Seminar

Each year departments and programs from across campus nominate their distinguished upper-division students to lead/teach the FIG Seminars. (Also, faculty members frequently teach seminars in "Faculty FIGs.") During spring semester, the student seminar leaders complete a mandatory FIG Leader Training Seminar to prepare them to teach the following fall. As seminar instructors, they embrace the opportunity to apply their leadership skills. They plan, organize and present a weekly class, design and execute a class project, facilitate small group discussions, and evaluate their students. They effectively articulate an understanding of the curriculum and procedures that freshmen need to learn for a healthy academic life. The FIG leaders expand their own educational background by teaching in a college classroom during their senior year.