All incoming first-year students will have multiple sources of good advice about Colorado College. In addition to your faculty advisor and your First Course instructor (advisor and instructor may be the same person, by the way), you'll have access to the insights of an experienced Colorado College student in our FYE Mentor Program.
First-Year Experience mentors are selected by the faculty teaching in the first-year program and are associated with the particular courses in the FYE schedule. It is an honor to be selected as a FYE mentor, and our students take the honor very seriously. FYE mentors will not replace the important formal advising system, but may supplement it with practical, first-hand, 'on-the-ground' advice about courses, campus organizations and informal groups, and the local Colorado Springs area. Please take the initiative in speaking with your FYE mentor, getting to know him or her, and taking advantage of the perspective she or he brings to the experience of student life at Colorado College!
Your FYE Mentor may:
- work with you as appropriate in review for your course assignments, discuss the readings and participate in course-related group projects and accompany you on course-related excursions and events.
- offer a number of informal ‘first-year’ introduction-to-college sessions;
- introduce you to the block plan and offer advice about prioritizing academic commitments, college community responsibilities, and social life;
- introduce you to campus activities and student committees;
- arrange occasional social events and informal discussion sessions for you and your fellow First Course classmates throughout the year; introduce you to the Colorado Springs community and region;
- provide informal advice about courses and the general design of the first-year academic schedule in block two prior to preregistration for blocks 3-8;
- offer pragmatic information (from a student's perspective!) about the point system and course selection before all-college preregistration in block 7.
The following is a list of FYE courses with corresponding faculty and mentor email links. Feel free to contact them with questions you may have.
FYE Course : AN102/WS239 Cultural Anthropology: Women, Men and Others
Professor: Sarah Hautzinger
Mentor: Cassy Cooper
Year: Junior
Major: Anthropology
Hobbies: Soccer, fly fishing and backpacking
FYE Course: JA/PA250 Interpreting Asian Cultures/Contemporary Asian Cultures
Professor: Joan Ericson
Mentor: Drew Foster
Year: Sophomore
Major: Sociology and Asian Studies
Hobbies: Snowboarding, video games, law and movies
FYE Course: BY101 Biology of Microbes
Professor: Phoebe Lostroh
Mentor: Jeff Carson
Year: Senior
Major: Biology
Hobbies: Head Resident and CC Chamber Orchestra
FYE Course: BY100/CH100 Criminalistics: Forensic Biology in Lab and Fiction
Professors: Nate Bower and Lamont Anderson
Mentor: Everett Moding
Year: Sophomore
Major: Biochemistry
Hobbies: Baseball and basketball
FYE Course: CH107/EV120 General Chemistry I/Chemistry of Sustainable Agriculture
Professors: Sally Meyer and Mark Morgenstern
Mentor: Simon Cataldo
Year: Junior
Major: Environmental Science
Hobbies: Outdoors activities, politics, lacrosse, and yoga
FYE Course: CN101/250 Chinese Language and Culture
Professor: Hong Jiang
Mentor: Anne Roller
Year: Senior
Major: Biology and Asian Studies
Hobbies: Swing dancing
FYE Course: CL130/HY130 The Reinvention of the Greeks, Identity, Empire, and Diaspora
Professors: Owen Cramer, Patricia Fitzgibbon and David Mason
Mentor: Ari Stiller-Shulman
Year: Senior
Major: Comparative Literature/International Affairs
Hobbies: Swimming
Mentor: Laura Morgan
Year: Senior
Major: Classics/History/Politics
Hobbies: snowboarding, driving across country, wearing flannel
FYE Course : CO100 Introduction to Comparative Literature: Literary Metamorphoses
Professors: Corinne Scheiner and Lisa Hughes
Mentor: Chet Lisiecki
Year: Junior
Major: Comparative Literature/German; Minor: Theory into Practice with Music and Literature
Hobbies: Writing Center Consultant, sing in various choirs, play viola in the orchestra, love running, playing tennis, playing hockey, lifting weights, reading, writing
FYE Course: GS234/GS234 Introduction to African Literature/Introduction to African Arts
Professors: Lilian Osaki and John Watkins
Mentor: Courtney Gibbons
Year: Senior
Major: Mathematics
Hobbies: Jazz, veganism, Homelessness Awareness, and religious freedom
FYE Course: DR100 Theatre Past and Present
Professor: Tom Lindblade and Andrew Manley
Mentor: Renzo Ampuero
Year: Junior
Potential Majors: Drama/History/Political Science
Hobbies: Movies, cooking and theater
FYE Course: EC 106/110 Principles of Financial Accounting/The Economic Novel
Professor: Mentor: Judy Laux
Mentor: Abdou N’Dir
Year: Senior
Major: Economics
Hobbies: Soccer, golf, skiing and music
FYE Course: EN203 Tradition and Change in Literature
Professor: Dan Peddie
Mentor: Robert Guthrie
Year: Sophomore
Major: History
Hobbies: Movies, writing, and frisbee
FYE: GS 101 Freedom and Authority
Professor: Pam Riley/Gresham Riley and Bill Hochman/Sam Williams
Mentor: Micah Dolcort-Silver
Year: Senior
Major: History/Political Science
Hobbies: Outdoor recreation and playing Army
Mentor: Jacob Reuter
Year: Sophomore
Major: Undecided
Hobbies: Music, yoga, and swimming
FYE Course: GS 101 Freedom and Authority
Professors: Tonja Olive, Barry Sarchett and Lisa Hughes
Mentor: Helen Lynn
Year: Junior
Major: Geology
Hobbies: Rugby , pottery and skiing
FYE Course: GS 101 Freedom and Authority
Professor: Dennis McEnnerney
Mentor: Michael Fowler
Year: Senior
Major: Philosophy/Sociology
Hobbies: Beach volleyball, snowboarding and movies
FYE Course: GS204 Spirit and Nature: Religion and Science
Professor: Keith Kester
Mentor: Hannah Underdahl
Year: Sophomore
Major: Biology
Hobbies: Lacrosse, SCUBA diving, and skiing
FYE Course: GY140/150 Physical Geology and Environmental Geology
Professors: Christine Siddoway and Henry Fricke
Mentor: Karri Sicard
Year: Junior
Major: Geology
Hobbies: Hiking, reading, and travel
FYE Course: HY104 Culture, Society and History: Global Foundations of Education
Professor: Mark Johnson
Mentor: Eliot Estrin
Year: Senior
Major: History/Political Science
Hobbies: Sustainable living
FYE Course: HY 104 Civilization of the West
Professor: Carol Neel
Mentor: Robin Dunn
Year: Senior
Major: Religion
Hobbies: Hiking, cycling, reading, and swimming
FYE Course: HY 105 Civilization of the West
Professor: Tip Ragan
Mentor: Jared Barnard
Year: Junior
Major: Biology
Hobbies: Snowboarding, soccer, and music
FYE Course: MA110/127 Mathematical Explorations/Calculus 1 & 2 Review
Professors: Jane McDougall and Marlow Anderson
Mentor: Rachel Feder
Year: Junior
Major: Math/Comparative Literature
Hobbies: Horseback riding, hiking and creative writing
FYE Course: MU104 World Music
Professor: Vicki Levine
Mentor: Andrew Yarbrough
Year: Senior
Major: International Political Economy
Hobbies: Spain , reading fiction, and watching sports
FYE Course: MU202 American Music: From Plymouth Rock to Rock
Professors: Michael Grace and Nila Bhattacharjya
Mentor: Charlie Kenyon
Year: Sophomore
Major: Undecided
Hobbies: Soccer and music
FYE Course: PH203 Modernity & Postmodernity in Philosophy & Arts
Professor: Alberto Hernandez-Lemus
Mentor: Katie Schulze
Year: Sophomore
Major: Undecided
Hobbies: skiing
FYE Course: PC123/124 Revolutions in Physics
Professors: Stephanie DiCenzo and Barbara Whitten
Mentor: Chris Kempes
Year: Junior
Major: Physics
FYE Course: PS103 The Western Political Tradition in a Global Context
Professors: Juan Lindau and Timothy Fuller
Mentor: Rosalie Bouck
Year: Senior
Major: Political Science
Hobbies: Music, travel and philosophy
FYE Course: PS203/HY200 The Search for Islamic Order: Yesterday and Today
Professor: Robert Lee
Mentor: Lindsay Trzaska
Year: Senior
Major: Political Science
Hobbies: Tennis, running and backgammon
FYE Course: PY101 Introduction to Psychology: Enduing Ideas and Present Principles
Professors: John Horner and Kristi Erdal
Mentor: Mandi Medeiros
Year: Junior
Major: Psychology
FYE Course: RE200 Religious Responses to the Challenge of Suffering
Professors: David Gardiner and Dan Shaw
Mentor: Katie Cox
Year: Senior
Major: Religion
Hobbies: Skiing, camping
FYE Course: RU101/RS200 Russian Language, Literature and Film
Professor: Alexei Pavlenko
Mentor: Coleman Hoyt
Year: Senior
Hobbies: Hiking, skiing, and foosball
Major: Geology
FYE Course: SO100/235 Family and Social Change
Professor: Gail Murphy-Geiss
Mentor: Katherine Coverdale
Year: Sophomore
Major: Sociology
Hobbies: Church, ice skating and hiking
FYE Course: HS120 Renaissance Culture- Session I
Professors: Re Evitt, Rebecca Tucker, Dick Hilt and Esther Redmount
Mentor: JT Poirier
Year: Junior
Major: Political Science
Hobbies: Golf, skiing, and politics
FYE Course: WS/HS118 Introduction to Women’s Studies/Gender & Communication: Sex & Power
Professors: Eileen Bresnahan and Tonja Olive
Mentor: Balin Anderson
Year: Senior
Major: Comparative Literature
Hobbies: Feminism and reading
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