First Year Experiences

First-Year Summer Experiences (FSE) are programs designed to help incoming students feel confident and prepared as they enroll at Elon.  The FSE programs embrace the university's commitment to experiential learning, and use this guiding philosophy to help students develop self-awareness, enhance relationships, and define community in preparation for their Elon experience. 

Quest:        July 17th-23rd, 2013

Quest is a First-Year Summer Experience focused on interfaith exploration, dialogue, and engagement.  Students will stay on Elon's campus and visit diverse places of worship in Burlington and the surrounding communities.  The group will learn the history, practices, and beliefs of several world religions and participate in worship and service opportunities.  Quest participants will gain a deeper understanding of diverse religious traditions and become familiar with the wealth of resources on Elon's campus and the surrounding community for interfaith exploration. 

Cost: $325

Location: You needn't travel hundreds of miles to experience the richness of religious and cultural diversity.  Central North Carolina provides an immense assortment of authentic worshipping communities from a vast array of faith traditions.

Sample Itinerary:

• Complete the Elon Challenge ropes course
• Meet religiously diverse members of Elon's faculty and Religious Life staff
• Tour the city of Burlington and its houses of worship
• Visit a mosque for Jummah prayers
• Visit the North Carolina Zen Center and participate in meditation
• Visit a Sikh Temple
• Visit a synagogue for Shabbat service
• Visit a Hindu Temple
• Visit a Greek Orthodox Church
• Visit the International Civil Rigths Museum in Greensboro
• Attend a Greensboro Grasshoppers Game

Quest Facilitators for Summer 2013

Have a question about Quest? Want to know more about what the transition into college life is like? The Quest facilitators are here to be resources for you as you prepare to start this exciting new adventure.  Please feel free to get in touch with them at the email addresses listed below. 

	Shelby Lewis Class 2016 slewis8@elon.edu
	Kim Lilienthal Class of 2014 klilienthal@elon.edu

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