BAC - Baccalaureate Experience

BAC 100 (Baccalaureate Digital Skills) is an on-line class for incoming students.  The course covers basic digital proficiency in Microsoft Office programs – Word, Excel and PowerPoint.  These skills are needed for future course work.  It is offered during two seven-week sessions each fall and spring semester and once during the summer.  Graded on a Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory basis.

First-Year Seminar I is a required course for all incoming first-year students. Students learn about Spartan Ready® skills designed to make them feel confident and prepared for a successful transition to college life. This course recognizes the importance of out-of-class experiences, and experiential learning in order to build relationships, and connect students to the UT community. Grades in the first-year seminar courses are awarded under the A-F graded system.

First-Year Seminar II is a required course for all second-semester first-year students. Building on the skills learned in BAC 101, this course emphasizes major and career research and exploration, and general preparation for life after college. Grades in the first-year seminar courses are awarded under the A-F graded system.

Transfer Students Seminar is an elective course for all first-semester transfer students regardless of age or previous college-level coursework. Building on the Spartan Ready® Skills, the fundamental goal of this course is to help transfer students (1) make a successful transition from another institution of higher learning to UT, (2) make the transition more meaningful and successful and (3) integrate the student into the UT community of learners. Grades in this seminar course are awarded under the A-F graded system.

Military Veterans Seminar is a required course for all first-semester undergraduate military veterans regardless of age or previous college-level coursework. The fundamental goal of this course is to help make the transition from being a military veteran to college student more meaningful and successful, as well as to integrate students into the UT community. Students learn Spartan Ready® skills for successful transition to college life at UT, including course planning and student organization involvement, as well as career and major decision-making. Grades in this seminar course are awarded under the A-F graded system.

This course substitutes the required BAC 101/102 or HON 101/102 sequence for first-year students in the Spartans Abroad program only. Students learn the necessary skills for college transition, time management, and critical thinking. This course also prepares students for a semester abroad introducing them to the culture and customs of the host country. Grades in this seminar are awarded under the A-F grading system.

This course is designed for students interested in obtaining peer leadership roles and is open to any student with an interest in leadership. Over the course of the semester, Spartan Ready® components will be infused with peer leadership. Students completing this course will receive the level I College of Reading and Learning: International Mentor Training Program Certification. This course fulfills an elective credit toward the leadership minor. This course is graded Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory (S/U.)

The University of Tampa Applied Learning Experience internship program pairs multidisciplinary teams of UT students with local companies to solve real-world problems. Local organizations provide problems or projects that can benefit from a multidisciplinary, inquiry-based approach. Teams of three to four students from different academic majors then collaborate to produce a deliverable for the organization within a 14-week timeframe and students benefit from supervision by a faculty committee composed of members with subject-are expertise. Can be taken for 1 - 4 credit hours depending on the project.