Course Enrolment

LAUNCH

Through interactive weekly sessions, you will have the opportunity to learn from an academically successful upper-year student mentor about the many aspects of being a UTM student. You will build academic skills, discover UTM resources, and even have the opportunity to meet with your mentor one-on-one, all while building meaningful friendships with students in your area of study. Successful completers will receive a notation on your Co-Curricular Record.

• UTM101H5 LAUNCH Business, Commerce and Management
• UTM102H5 LAUNCH Science, Mathematics and Psychology
• UTM103H5 LAUNCH Humanities and Social Science 

Visit the LAUNCH web page for more information and enrol in your LAUNCH stream through ACORN on your enrolment date.

utmONE First-Year Transition Courses

utmONE First-Year Foundations courses support students to develop fundamental learning strategies, and sharpen their academic skills so that they can be successful in their university studies.  The small-size of these classes provide a supportive classroom environment where students can build connections with their peers, professor and teaching assistant. 

These courses are for-credit and can count toward students' distribution requirements.  Depending on the course students can use the 0.5 credit toward their Humanities (HUM), Social Science (SSc), or Science (SCI) distribution credits. 

Each utmONE First-Year Foundations course is taught around a theme that allows students to strengthen their academic skills while exploring an interesting topic as part of a scholarly community. 

utmONE First-Year Foundations courses offered in the 2022-2023 Academic Year: 

• UTM108: Critical Thinking for STEM Learning (SSc, SCI) 

• UTM110: Rhetorics of Resistance (SSc, HUM) 

• UTM111: Tools of the Trade (SSc, SCI) 

• UTM115: Communication Among Cultures (SSc, HUM) 

• UTM118: The Science of Learning (SSc, SCI) 

Visit the utmONE web page for more information, student testimonials and enroll in a utmONE course through ACORN on your enrolment date.

ISP100 Writing for University and Beyond

All writers can improve their writing! 

ISP100 Writing for University and Beyond is a for-credit course that teaches writing- and reading-related skills that are necessary for success in university. You will build on your writing skills and develop a writing portfolio that will help you to investigate your own relationship with writing, explore how knowledge is produced through writing, and learn strategies for writing purposefully and effectively. ISP100 is delivered from the perspective that all writers can improve their writing, so that all students will benefit by taking it.  

ISP100 is a for-credit course taught in a seminar style, with a maximum of 30 students per section. The course is interdisciplinary, and it will benefit students studying in any discipline.  

ISP130 Numeracy for University and Beyond

Whatever you may read, be it a news article about the Covid-19 pandemic or a scholarly paper for your undergraduate course in Political Science, numbers are there and unavoidable. They reveal important information and tell a story -- sometimes more powerful than words! ISP130 Numeracy for University and Beyond is a for-credit course designed to develop your confidence in engaging with numbers in a given context, as you will encounter in your courses at UTM and in everyday life so that you become informed and knowledgeable in making educated decisions about particular situations. 

Visit the ISP130 Numeracy for University and Beyond web page for more information about the course and how to enroll.