The First-Year Experience (FYE) involves an interdisciplinary core course from the general education program and a residential program. All students, in either the fall or the spring semester of their first year, enroll in the interdisciplinary core course “”Athens to New York”", which is taught in residence hall classrooms. During the course students are involved in a ten-hour service learning experience that reflects on the themes of the course.
FYE explores four thematic questions: What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be a member of a community? What does it mean to be moral, ethical, or just? How do individuals and communities repsond to difference of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and the like? All classes explore these questions, begining in ancient Greece with the works of Sophocles and Plato. They travel throughout the world looking at various cultures and periods of time, including at least one non-western culture. All classes end in modern New York with a major work on the African American experience and another on at least one other ethnic group. Classes study the art, literature, history and philosophy of the cultures they are exploring, as well as their business, government, and science.
Students volunteer in soup kitchens, assisted-living complexes and other similar agencies to study the effects of race and other policy issues.

http://www.tcnj.edu/~gened/fye.htm