Almost all incoming freshmen at GSU join an FLC. These cohorts of 25 students take all of their classes together during the first semester. EPIC uses this model that has been successful with student success measures of improved retention and time to graduation to build a structured curriculum for students as they enter the university that intentionally promotes: 1.) Understanding ideas across classes; 2.) Applying knowledge and skills from core courses to the major; 3.) Learning by doing with in-class curriculum enhanced through games, outside speakers, and activities; 4.) Exploring course concepts on walking tours, at museums, and through events; and 5.) Visualizing the “big picture” of a college education. Our pilot FLCs are built around pairings, like American Government and American History, courses taken by large numbers of students as a part of their core and specifically chosen based on intersecting content, skills, and objectives. These pairings will anchor the pilot FLCs, providing a theme for other courses in the FLC, like English Composition or Intro to Statistics. After the first semester, students will be encouraged to take other intentional course pairings, like Intro Biology and Intro to Psychology, to help them better understand and benefit from their required core courses instead of feeling as if they are taking a random assortment of classes. Students participating in this pilot will also join a Project Lab.