What is First-Year Seminar?
First-Year Seminar, the first course in Belmont’s General Education program (the BELL Core), introduces you to the intellectual skills you will need to be a successful college student and an educated citizen after you leave Belmont. The course hinges on the bedrock issues of lifelong learning: What is Knowledge? Are there multiple ways of knowing and understanding the world around us? How do we apply knowledge gained in the classroom to the world around us? Each First-Year Seminar is organized around a theme, or set of questions, to help you in your journey toward becoming a critical and deep thinker, an effective communicator, and, most importantly, a responsible and engaged citizen. First-Year Seminar, by design, is a small class where you will have the opportunity to get to know your fellow classmates as well as your professor. Expect this course to be challenging! Your professors will push you to stretch your thinking and engage in meaningful conversation, read a wide variety of bo
