A Rowan College Requirement Questions and Answers for Students Interested faculty should read the faculty version of this page. Rowan Seminar courses are special sections of General Education courses. Many of these courses are popular with new college students and are reserved for first-year students only.
Students participate in a regular for-credit course.
These courses are designed to introduce students to the classroom skills and expectations needed to succeed academically at Rowan. These course are designated in the course schedule with an RS after the title. Rowan Seminar is required because college is not high school. Extensive research on the first-year experience of thousands of students provides compelling evidence that the high school learning environment is poor preparation for what new college students experience. Our own research at Rowan suggests that although entering first-year students think they already know what will be expected of them academically, for the most part they do not actually know.