First-Year Gies Honors Seminar (BUS 115) Introduction to business and an overview of the role of the Gies College of Business and the University of Illinois in providing opportunities for undergraduates to prepare to become business leaders. Introduction to the Gies Honors Program, a leadership program for incoming first-year students in Gies Honors in Gies College of Business. Students will begin to work as a team to use leadership in service to all undergraduates in Gies College of Business.

Sophomore Gies Scholar Seminar (BUS 215) Required for all Gies Scholar sophomores. The course structure is divided into four focused learning modules: Negotiations, Intercultural Communications, Disruption, and Project Management.