First-Year Experience
Welcome to Ole Miss and the First-Year Experience
First Year Experience: EDHE 105 and EDHE 305
As part of the First Year Experience, EDHE 105 and 305 are designed to help our freshman and transfer students make a positive transition from high school to college.
- In order to excel at college courses, freshman and transfer students will learn to develop a better understanding of the learning process, enhance their academic skills, acquire essential life skills to ensure their success, and begin their exploration of the career and major that are best for them.
- During the semester you will be introduced to the mission, values, and constituencies of the University of Mississippi and the ethical and social concerns that you may face as a member of our community.
One of our former students describes the Freshman Year Experience as “a wonderful way to become familiar with Ole Miss, acquire effective study skills, learn how to manage your time, and to discover just who you are. It gave me a lot of connections and I learned about so many helpful services I was actually able to use!”
- EDHE 105 and 305 are not eligible to be repeated for forgiveness credit, however they can be utilized for exclusion. Learn more about our forgiveness policies.
More about EDHE!
The multi-faceted purpose of this course is to introduce our freshman students to a broad overview of the following:
- University life, history and traditions
- Time management skills
- Budgeting and money management skills
- Decision-making skills
- Goal setting techniques
- Learning styles
- Listening and note-taking skills
- Effective writing and speaking skills
- Reading strategies
- Exam and test-taking strategies
- Critical thinking skills
- Healthy relationships
- Salubrious living habits
Additionally this course helps our freshman students:
- Become aware of their individual personality type and their learning style preferences.
- Become socially and academically integrated into our University.
- Become involved in community service with Oxford/University/Lafayette County communities.
- Begin the process of academic major and career selections.
- Understand, value, and honor diversity.
- Develop values and ethics that foster healthy human relationships.
EDHE 105, one of the current academic components of the First-Year Experience Program at Ole Miss, was originally introduced in 1963 as Effective Study, which was a 2 hour course.
- Due to its growing popularity and success, since the fall of 2009, EDHE 105 has been offered as a letter-graded, 3-hour credit course offered to all entering freshmen on the main Ole Miss campus in the fall semester only.
EDHE 105 is an elective course for the majority of its freshman enrollees; however there are some University programs that require their students to enroll in specialized cohorts of this course, including the LuckyDay Scholars, the Provost Scholars, the FastTrack Program and the Ole Miss Opportunity Program.