{"id":3397,"date":"2025-11-06T14:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:35:58","slug":"first-gen-experience-course-for-spring-2026-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/first-gen-experience-course-for-spring-2026-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Gen Experience Course for Spring 2026 Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Are you a first-gen student in your freshman year at OWU? Register for our new First-Gen Experience course in the spring semester! Here are details for the course:<\/p>\n<p><strong>UC 130: The First-Generation Student Experience (.25 unit course)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tuesdays at 12:10-1 p.m. (Spring 2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Course Description: This course explores how being a first-generation student shapes college and career experiences, and is designed for students in their first year at OWU. First-gen college students are those for whom no parent\/guardian has completed a four-year (Bachelor\u2019s) degree. The course is divided into 3 sections: (1) how class differences affect family, educational, and college experiences; (2) how being a first-gen student shapes life at OWU; and (3) how being a first-gen college graduate shapes career experiences. This course is designed for first-gen students and is taught by a first-gen faculty member from a working-class background. OWU Units: 0.25. Prerequisite(s): First-year status, Instructor Permission. Request permission to register for this course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To register:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search self-service for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/campus.owu.edu\/selfserv\/Search\/Section?&amp;eventId=uc%20130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/campus.owu.edu\/selfserv\/Search\/Section?%26eventId%3Duc%2520130&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762313831886000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3Z97zFayDYN2mBn3R4kp7Z\">UC 130<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the UC 130 course code<\/li>\n<li>Click \u201cPermission Request\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In the pop-up window, please indicate that you are a first-gen, first-year student.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For questions, email the instructor, Paul Dean (<a href=\"mailto:psdean@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">psdean@owu.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a first-gen student in your freshman year at OWU? Register for our new First-Gen Experience course in the spring semester! Here are details for the course: UC 130: The First-Generation Student Experience (.25 unit course) Tuesdays at 12:10-1 p.m. (Spring 2026) Course Description: This course explores how being a first-generation student shapes college [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passport-milestones"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3398,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions\/3398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}