1. Transfer Family Welcome Session Fall 2018
Transfer-Year Experience Program Supporting the Academic Transition to UT Austin
Transfer Family Welcome Session
Fall 2018

6. Transfer-Year Experience Program
Transfer year is a focus for the University
TYE focuses on the academic experience of transfer students
Supportive academic and peer networks
Programs and services
Transfer-year Interest Groups (TrIGs)
Signature Courses
Texas Transfer Students

7. Transfer-year Interest Groups
Cohort of no more than 20 fellow transfer students
Reserved seats in 1-3 courses plus a seminar
Peer mentor and staff facilitator
College-specific or interdisciplinary

8. Transfer-year Interest Groups
Economic Statistics
(MWF) 
Intro to Ancient Rome
(TTh Lecture &
F Discussion Section)
TrIG Seminar
(W)
Professor
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Professor & TA
Peer Mentor &
Staff Facilitator
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9. Signature Courses What are Signature Courses? Why are they important?
Registration options

10. What Students Have to Say about Their Transfer Signature Courses
“As an older student with prior college and military experience, this course has been by far the most enriching experience at this institution. This class has been a breath of fresh air.”
“Being able to meet and study with other transfer students made me understand that 1) I was not alone in this, and 2) that if they could overcome it, so could I. In this way, I found a sort of ‘support system.’ Even if my classmates weren’t aware of it, that motivated me to finally see myself as part of the Longhorn family.”

11. Fall 2018 Transfer Signature Course Topics
Love, Mating, and the Brain
Young People and Drugs
When Worlds Collide
The Dr/Patient Relationship
Films and Filmmakers of Italy
Stress Management
How Things Work
Modernity and the Art of the Uncanny
Global Inequalities in Health
Road Movies, Quixotic Journeys
Ideas of the Twentieth Century
US Foreign Policy
Jane Austen on Page and Screen
Sleep: Are We Getting Enough?
Jerusalem
African Americans in Sports
Latin American Environmental History/Sustainability

12. Texas Transfer Students

14. Next Level Academic Resources Transfer Students Need to Know
Longhorn Center for Academic Excellence
One-on-One Tutoring for Transfer Students!
Group Drop-in Tutoring
Express Writing Review
Sanger Learning Center
One-on-One Tutoring for all Longhorns
Study skills support
Public Speaking Center

15. TYE Recap TrIGS Learning Communities
15-20 students enrolled in the same 2-3 courses
Weekly seminars with peer mentor and staff facilitator
Transfer-Student Signature Courses
One course in the core curriculum
UGS 302 & 303 formats
Transfer only options
Introduction to academic rigor
4,000+ seats available for Spring 2018
Texas Transfer Students
Student organization
One-to-one peer mentoring
Academic workshops, study nights, and socials

16. Welcome to the Longhorn Family!
Transfer-Year Experience Program ugs.utexas.edu/tye Jeffrey Mayo