I attended an Academic Enrichment workshop for freshmen at the Center for Academic Advisement and it was held on Sept. 17th from 12:30-2:30pm. This particular workshop was modeled specifically for freshmen, and its main goal was to keep students on track with the classes they still had to take depending on the degree they are working toward. The people responsible for keeping the workshop running were very kind and helpful. I received a couple of informative handouts. One of the handouts provided the web address to degree works, a helpful site which you can go on to see the amount of credits you have, what courses you’ve taken, and what courses still need to be taken for your degree. Another handout was a printout of a degree works audit for my intended major, which I could have easily accessed on my own through the site they provided on the first handout.
I chose this workshop because it was the first available workshop so far and I was curious about how workshops operated. The workshop didn’t take me out of my comfort zone because the people working there were helpful and well mannered and I didn’t have to do anything out of the ordinary. It met most of my expectations, but unfortunately they ran out of some handouts I would have liked to receive that day. Overall, the workshop was pretty ordinary and helpful, but I didn’t really learn anything new there since the information I received was already given to me a while back at freshmen orientation. My recommendation is for people to go to this workshop to get a quick overview and to pick up some handout sheets.