Each Seminar invites first-year students to engage with a set of issues, questions, or ideas which can be illuminated by the disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives of the liberal arts. The Seminars are designed to enhance the intellectual skills essential for liberal learning and for successful participation in the College's academic program. Each Seminar, with 12 to 15 students, is designed and taught by a faculty member who also serves as the academic adviser to the students in that Seminar. A letter-grading system only is used in the Seminars. Special emphasis on diverse cultural contexts, global interdependence, and consequences of leadership.
Apprenticeship is required as a component of the course.
Teaching ApprenticeshipAn apprenticeship in teaching in which a student, under the supervision of a faculty member, examines critically a specific process of education and learns through practice to impart the basic concepts of a course. May be taken only twice toward graduation and only by invitation of the instructor with the approval of the appropriate chairperson or the Dean of the Faculty. With permission, may be taken departmentally. Does not count in major or distribution. Interdepartmental Courses in Science Geol.