ERAL1100 · Education

First Year Experience, Reflection, and Action

Lynch School of Education & Human Development

First Year Experience, Reflection, and Action (ERA) is a full-year program whereby students develop attention to the needs of others, respect for context, and an appreciation for their own individual gifts and insights. Through key content material, speakers, design-thinking workshops, applied action projects, presentations, small group discussions, and community engagement work, the year-long LSEHD ERA program facilitates students growth across developmental domains. The ERA program connects first-year LSEHD students directly to mentors, including faculty, graduate students, other junior and senior undergraduates, and their undergraduate dean. ERAs model ensures information about opportunities at BC, as well as, externally, fairly reaches all students, while also providing a sound underpinning of student formation, robust academics, and the occasion for explorations of future and possible selves.