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FYS 101 · Core Interdisciplinary Courses

Alkimi Foundations: Inquiries in Science & Society

First-year seminar introducing collegiate inquiry, evidence-based discourse, library research, and critical thinking across emerging scientific and societal issues.

How to enroll Where it fits Catalog Entry

Catalog overview

Course Essentials

Credits
3
semester credit hours
Level
100
Lower division
Typically offered
Fall
Fall semester only
Subject
Core Interdisciplinary Courses
2 courses in the catalog

Prerequisites

First-semester undergraduate standing.

100-level courses: introductory, lower-division courses primarily for first-year students. Details: Undergraduate Catalog §9.13.

Generative AI in this course

Every syllabus must state one of three levels: Level 1 (AI not permitted for graded work), Level 2 (AI permitted with disclosure for specified tasks), Level 3 (AI permitted broadly with disclosure). Check your section's syllabus in Canvas. Unless it says otherwise, the university default applies: generative AI tools may be used for brainstorming, studying, and feedback on your own drafts, but not to produce work you submit for a grade.

Details: Student Handbook §5.7 and Student Handbook §5.8. See what each AI level allows.

Offered by

Academic Advising Center

Office
Lovell Hall 101
Phone
(555) 555-0158
Email
advising@university.alkimi.ai

Degree planning

Where FYS 101 fits

What to take first, what this course opens up, and the requirements it can satisfy, from the Undergraduate Catalog.

Take first

No catalog course is required first.

Catalog wording: First-semester undergraduate standing.

This course

FYS 101

Alkimi Foundations: Inquiries in Science & Society

3 credits · 100-level · Fall

Leads to

No other catalog course lists FYS 101 as a prerequisite.

Counts toward

Every course also counts toward the 120 credits needed for a bachelor's degree. Confirm your plan with your advisor or the Academic Advising Center.

AP credit

No AP exam awards credit for FYS 101. See the full AP equivalency table (Undergraduate Catalog §3.11).

2026–27 Instructors

Who teaches FYS 101

Portrait of Dr. Brendan Walsh

Dr. Brendan Walsh

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Course coordinator for all FYS 101 sections, 2026–27

Office
Lovell Hall 240
Email
bwalsh@university.alkimi.ai

FYS 101 is a multi-section course: many faculty teach sections of it every semester, and the course coordinator works with them on the shared course requirements. Your section's instructor, meeting time, and room are listed in AlkimiHub when you register.

Department chairs make teaching assignments each year (Faculty Handbook §5.1), and every instructor posts the syllabus in Canvas by the first day of classes (Faculty Handbook §5.2).

Registration

How to enroll in FYS 101

  1. Check the prerequisites

    First-semester undergraduate standing.

  2. Add it in AlkimiHub

    FYS 101 is typically offered in the fall semester. Register through AlkimiHub self-service registration, which opens by credit standing. Until the add deadline, you don't need instructor permission as long as seats remain and you've met the prerequisites. Details: Student Handbook §3.3.

  3. If the section is full, join the waitlist

    When a seat opens, AlkimiHub offers it to the first student on the waitlist and emails you. You have 24 hours to claim it before it goes to the next student. Details: Student Handbook §3.10.

Fall 2026 add deadline

Last day to add a course or change sections (11:59 p.m.).

Fall 2027 registration opens

By credit standing, in AlkimiHub.

All dates: academic calendar. Registration help: Office of the Registrar.

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