The First-Year Experience at Southeast Missouri State University offers many programs and services to assist you during your first-year at Southeast.

Through the First STEP Orientation Program, your UI100 First-Year Seminar Course and the entire University Studies Program, we anticipate your transition to Southeast will be a smooth one. 

Let us know how we can assist you.

Orientation (First STEP, Transfer Orientation & Opening Week) - New Student Programs: Learn about academics and out-of-class opportunities, be advised for your first semester, and get your schedule and University ID card, among other things. Meet faculty, staff, and current students and get connected!

University Studies Program:  Our nationally known and award-winning general education program based on nine skill-based objectives that employers seek in their new hires in a program of studies across all four years of the university experience.

First-Year Seminar (UI100): Check out our nationally-known first-year seminar, required of all students with fewer than 24 semester hours. Learn its history, its evolution to its present form, and why Southeast believes all first-year students must take the course.

Learning Assistance Programs and Disability Support Services:  You can get help finding your way around campus, getting a tutor, analyzing and developing your study skills, requesting assistance for special needs students (e.g., a reading disability). Have a question? Start here! (Formerly the Learning Enrichment Center.)

Advising Centers: Trained, experienced, and caring advisers give you assistance in choosing the best courses for your chosen major.  Undecided? See the adviser in the School of University Studies and Academic Information Services.

Honors Program: Take courses and participate in out-of-class activities specifically designed for academically gifted students.

Writing Outcomes Program: We assist students with their writing in at least two way:

Writing Center: Find help with your writing assignments, and learn about the University’s well-known “Writing Across the Curriculum” program.

Writing Assessment: Get help with your placement in the English Department’s composition course sequence and find out how you can meet the University’s writing achievement test requirement.

Southeast Online: Find those courses and degree programs which can be completed online, including instruction, assignments, class discussions – all facets of a high quality class are a part of our online courses.

Testing Services: Find out about entry-level admission test requirements (e.g, American College Testing [ACT]), a schedule of their dates as well as how to register for them. Ditto professional school entrance exams (e.g., the Law School Admissions Test[LSAT]) as well as other program testing requirements including placement into proper course sequence for you in:

• English composition – which English composition course is best for you?
• Mathematics – where should you continue (or start) your studies of math?
• Foreign Languages – how can you use your high school background (or skills learned outside of school) to earn additional credits in German, French, or Spanish?
• Music – which ensembles do you qualify for? Which piano course is best for you?

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