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A First-Year Interest Group (FIG) consists of a group of 20 first-year students who live in the same residence hall or "residential neighborhood" and who also enroll in a cluster of three classes together.

Each FIG cluster of courses has a central theme; the central or "synthesizing" course integrates content from the other two classes.

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Engineering, Communication, and Design
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Department & Course # Course Title
Engineering Professional Development 155Basic Communication
Inter-Engineering 160Introduction to Engineering
Math 221Calculus and Analytic Geometry
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