Most important, Freshman Studies builds intellectual foundations that serve Lawrence students during their college years and beyond. F aculty members from all departments teach individual sections of the course.
Small classes encourage discussion and the development of skills of argumentation.
Frequent paper assignments, closely evaluated by instructors, stress clarity of exposition. Lectures to the entire freshman class, delivered by Lawrence professors, place the texts of the course in their historical and cultural contexts. Freshman Studies I R equired of freshmen and selected transfer students. Through the close reading and lively discussion of important works from ancient times through the seventeenth century, the course introduces students to significant ideas of abiding concern. Classics of philosophy, science, social and political theory, theology, literature, and the fine arts afford students numerous opportunities to confront formative statements of systematic thought and creative imagination.