First-year seminars are designed to engage students in exploring an intriguing topic or question in depth, and get excited about college-level learning. They provide experience in learning across disciplines, collaborating with peers, and communicating what you're thinking and what you've discovered.

Some recent examples:

• Born to Run (Anthropology)
• Cancer: Causes and Treatments (Biology)
• Whose Song is it Anyway? (Music)
• Exploring your Social Network (Communication Studies)
• The Natural History of Food (Biology)
• Religion, Ethics, and Animal Welfare (Religion)
• Exploring Alternative Medicine (Health)
• Tweets, Leaks, and Hacks: Governance in the Digital Age (Political Science)
• Kaboom! Explosions in Science (Chemistry)
• What Tolkien Read (English)
• Global Climate Change: Science and Society (Environmental Studies)
• Life Inside: Sociology of Prisons (Sociology)
• "Free at Last:" Global Anti-Apartheid Movements (Africana Studies/History)
• Big Questions (Philosophy)

Course Highlights