The Freshman Seminar program encourages the development of each student's potential for becoming a more literate person who thinks, reads, writes, and speaks with competence and discrimination. While each Freshman Seminar has a different instructor, topic, and body of reading, the common focus is on getting the most out of one's reading, developing one's thoughts, and articulating those thoughts clearly in discussion and writing. Freshman Seminars are writing intensive courses and are designed to fulfill the Written Expression educational objective of the College.
Enrollment is required of all freshmen in the fall semester.
Each seminar is limited to 16 Pitzer students. All in the Family. The focus of the class is on differences in child-rearing ideas and practices across cultures and over time. We will explore the notion of how child rearing is embedded in a larger sociopolitical context through the use of literature and readings in psychology, sociology, and anthropology. We will explore literature and film produced in the U.S. during the 1960s, a decade of dramatic cultural change.