Topics include all areas from the College of Arts and Letters including history, social sciences, fine arts, etc. These courses satisfy both the seminar requirement and the discipline requirement from the department offering the class. Most will go in the Soph. or Junior years. Students are assigned to residence halls on a random basis. Housing assignments are mailed in late July.
Most students learn of their roommates through a later mailing from their residence hall.
It is usually easier to switch from Engineering or Science to Arts and Letters or Business. How hard is it to switch out of the architecture program into say, the business school. Moderator One of the advantages of the First Year of Studies is that all students take a set of core courses with the possibility of taking courses in one or two other areas. One of these could be a course in architecture. At the end of the first year students make the choice of a particular college.