The Florham Seminars are especially recommended for students who have not yet declared a major. Beyond the important role they will play in your intellectual advancement, they will introduce you to a group of students with similar interests and to faculty members who will serve as your mentors and advisors. They will assure you a rich connection with the campus and the wider community. Meeting the Challenge of the New Millennium With the advent of a new century and millennium, the ability to access and integrate information and to engage in active participation in learning are becoming increasingly important skills. In the 21st century, education will not be acompartment-alized experience limited to your time in a classroom.
School is a first step, a preparation for the ongoing challenge of the future.
New possibilities emerge almost daily as new technologies transform the way we gain access to information, the way we work, and the way we live. Such guidance is now an essential function of college. In the Florham Seminars, you will learn how to learn techniques, approaches, and skills you will use the rest of your life. You will be an active learner, developing your own ideas and conclusions to produce concrete results, often in collaboration with fellow students. To be an effective contributor, however, you also must find out about yourself how you learn, how you think, what you value, and how you interact.