The main components of GTS are:
Online academic courses:
- Climate Change and Me – a topic of critical importance integrated with key academic skills. Students receive an official Wits short course certificate on completion.
Online academic support courses:
- Digital abilities – includes Microsoft applications, searching the internet and digital security
- Academic integrity – helps students learn how to adhere to high ethical standards and avoid academic misconduct
- Helping You Learn Online (HYLO) – provides a variety of ever-growing content such as goal setting, reflection, time management and much more
On-campus activities:
- Student wellness, holistic personal development and support, appreciation of diversity, culture, social responsibility, community-building, fun and recreation
- Faculty-specific support and orientation
Online courses will run on ulwazi, Wits’ Learning Management System. To learn how to access ulwazi, click here.
To find out where you need to be each day during GTS and what support and resources are available, go to the FYE ulwazi site.
For more information please visit; Development and Leadership Unit, 1st floor, Matrix (Student Union) Building, University of Witwatersrand
Tel: 011 717 9234 | Email: witsfye.dlu@wits.ac.za
Click here to find out more about the First-Year Experience, a year-long programme designed to help you orientate to university life