The “Social/Wellness Module:” Providing Space for Wellbeing and Social Learning for Incoming UT Students

My project addresses the lack of built-in social/wellness-oriented interactions in introductory courses for
incoming UT students. While teaching my UGS 303 Signature Courses, I have observed that students need more organized ways to interact with each other and learn skills and techniques that would ensure their success at UT and beyond. Among those techniques, meditation- and mindfulness-based tools seem to offer the greatest benefits for personal and professional wellbeing and growth. While UT has started many excellent initiatives to address these issues, I plan to integrate them into a module that could become part of Signature Courses as a scalable, replicable offering suitable for a variety of disciplines.