Quest for Success: The First-Year Experience Course
The first-year course, titled "Quest for Success," is required of incoming freshmen who have enrolled in a degree program. Project-based, it combines a structured academic experience with a service-learning component, and therefore serves as a bridge experience between high school and college-level learning opportunities, expectations and challenges. "Quest for Success" has received national recognition from the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience at the University of South Carolina for its creative approach to enhancing the academic and social success of first-year students.
"Quest for Success" involves students in planning, implementing and assessing a project in the community, and through that experience, gaining skills in teamwork, organization, problem-solving, decision-making and budgeting. Because these skills are transportable, they will enable students to navigate the workplace of the future and become effective leaders in their fields. Learn more about service learning at SVC.
