I am writing to invite faculty participation in the Freshman Seminar Program for the academic year 2000-2001. As many of you know, the program is designed to give first-year students the opportunity to study with a faculty member in more informal, small group settings on topics of mutual interest. They typically meet for a total of 20 hours during the first eight weeks of the quarter and they are letter-graded.
Enrollment is limited to fifteen students per class.
In the past, many of the seminars have been held in the TRC conference room and a number of others have been hosted in the instructor's home or some other mutually convenient location. From the program's inception, faculty members have offered Freshman Seminars as an add-on to their normal departmental teaching assignments. All proposals are reviewed by a faculty program committee. I hope you will consider participating in this unique opportunity to work with our first-year students. The UC Davis Freshman Seminar Program, in operation since 1988, gives first-year students the opportunity to study with faculty members in small groups, meeting in settings more informal that the ordinary classroom.