Opportunities for your first year at Augustana

The PACE Mentorship Program is an optional program open to all first-year and transfer students, designed to promote cultural understanding and a sense of belonging.

Augie Peer Mentors are students supporting students—fellow Vikings who’ve been in your shoes and are here to help you navigate your Augustana journey.

This page will give you a general idea of what to expect in your first semester of classes.

Your class choices will depend heavily upon your interests, experiences and ambitions. But almost certainly it will combine parts of the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum with some exploratory steps towards a major. 

Augustana College invites students into a leadership series aimed at engaging and uplifting future leaders from Illinois. 

Welcome Week is designed to support first-year and new transfer students in their transition into the Augustana community.

Emerge is Augustana's national award-winning premier leadership development experience for first-year and new students.

All-Gender Communities are supportive living environments for students who identify outside of the traditional gender binary.

TRIO programs are designed to identify and provide services for eligible first-generation students and students with disabilities.

Nearly 200 student organizations, interest groups, club sports, ensembles, honor societies, fraternities and sororities, and other groups are based on campus.

Are you interested in the environmental and geological sciences? Do you love a challenge? If so, join us for GEOL 105 Physical and Environmental Geology in the Grand Canyon, our environmental geology field course and motorized raft trip!

The Austin E. Knowlton Honors Program is a special academic opportunity for high-achieving students.