The Right Start Focused on Success from the Beginning

The Wildcat Seminar in Leadership (WSL 100) at Culver-Stockton College provides all first-year students with intellectual, academic, and social transition to higher education. In addition to developing academic success skills, making connections campus-wide, and adjusting to collegiate expectations, WSL students begin working with Culver-Stockton College's distinctive experiential education curriculum and begin building leadership skills that will serve them well as they get involved on campus and in their professional lives beyond graduation. 

Connecting the Classroom to the Real World

This list of goals is a short list of objectives obtained during their WSL course, which takes place their first semester on campus. 

  • Gaining familiarity with C-SC services, electronic resources, and student involvement opportunities.
  • Building skills for academic success -- studying, note taking, and test taking.
  • Strengthening fundamental life skills -- critical thinking, stress and time management, and self-discipline.
  • Becoming acquainted with Canton and the C-SC community.
  • Learning about C-SC's experiential education approach, which emphasizes connection between classroom learning and real-world application.
  • Reflecting on their leadership skills, priorities, and goals.