R’Excellence: How Bold Hearts and Brilliant Minds are Made is a uniquely conceptualized course designed to be delivered to an in-person and online UCR student population (synchronously). The vision for this course is to introduce our students to UCR’s dynamic faculty, their areas of expertise and research, and to demonstrate that pursuing a degree at an R1 institution means to actively engage in a vibrant research community with world-class experts and cutting-edge research.

 In part, the goals of the course are to:

1. Expose students across UCR to a notable and interdisciplinary group of UCR faculty members.
2. Provide opportunities for students to reflect upon their learning experiences in the course in order to explore what it means to become an expert.
3. Develop a community of engaged learners who recognize themselves as emerging student-scholars in a Research intensive university.