As the process continues, the student chooses an experimental design and plans the logistics of the experimental process. In the second course, the student collects data on the topic chosen and analyzes those data. Finally, the student prepares oral and written presentations on the year's work. The capstone is the one year of thesis research under the guidance of a faculty member. The track's general aims are to promote intellectual excellence within a common scholarly community, foster an awareness of various disciplines within the humanities and their unity, and to offer opportunities for self direction of future goals.
Students make application.
A GPA of 3.0 is required for admission. Some flexibility may be shown for especially motivated students. Selected humanistic problems in literature, history, and philosophy are explored via readings, discussion, lecture and guest presentations. The semester is divided into two periods, the classical and medieval, and the Renaissance. This course has the same format as Seminar I except that this course is divided into two periods, the age of revolutions, and the twentieth century.