This webpage was updated on June 13, 2025.
First Year Immersions & Excursions are opportunities for first year students to engage early with SCU faculty, staff, classmates, and upperclassmen through a series of on-campus immersion experiences and off-campus excursions prior to the start of and during the early half of the fall quarter of their first year of college.
Overview
First Year Immersions & Excursions allow first year students to form a cohort with a subset of classmates that participate together in deeply engaging experiences on and off campus led by faculty, staff, and upperclassmen. Each opportunity includes conversation and contemplation components to introduce first year students to a hallmark of a Jesuit education, i.e. reflective discernment.
Each opportunity is linked to faculty, staff, and student organizations who are considered leaders in the associated topic or content area. As such, these faculty, staff, and student leaders develop and lead the activities that comprise the opportunity which would include facilitated discussions and reflection exercises.
Programs
The following programs are scheduled for September 2025 prior to the start of New Student Move-In and Welcome Weekend:
- Bay Area Immersion (September 14-18, 2025)
- Adventure Trips (September 15-18, 2025)
- Note: The program dates are inclusive of the day for early move-in for students approved to participate.
Any students approved to participate in any of the above programs will be eligible to move in early into the residence halls, typically the day before the program begins.
Other dates to keep in mind:
- New Student Move-In is September 19.
- This move-in day is for students not participating in the above programs.
- There will be a required Residence Hall (RLC) meeting in the evening but otherwise the day includes a variety of social activities (not required).
- Welcome Weekend is September 20-21.
- Fall classes begin on September 22.