What is the First-Year Seminar Program?
Each entering first-year student must register for a First-Year Seminar. The seminar provides students with an introduction to college and a sense of community by placing them in small classes, 16-18 students, that are for first-year students only. Each seminar, while focusing on a topic unique to that seminar, concentrates on developing the skills of careful reading, critical thinking, group discussion, and writing that are basic to college level study, regardless of one’s area of interest.
A. Each entering first year student must register for a first year seminar. The seminar provides students with an introduction to college and a sense of community by placing them in small classes of 16-18 students that are for first-year students only. Each seminar, while focusing on a topic unique to that seminar, concentrates on developing the skills of careful reading, critical thinking, group discussion, and writing that are basic to college level study, regardless of one’s area of interest.
