How does it work?
The 'how': As simple—or complex—as choosing one of approximately 50 Scribner Seminars.
The First-Year Experience begins in the summer prior to your first year, when you’ll
choose one of approximately 50 Scribner Seminar offerings–each with no more than 16
students. What makes the choice complex isn’t the process. It’s the problem you’ll
have in choosing among so many compelling topics, as well as how you approach the
choice: Do you choose what you’re best at? What you think you’ll major in? What you
believe you should major in? Or something totally new and different—even risky? That’s
your call.
Held every fall semester for three hours per week, the Seminars join faculty and students
in a critical examination of provocative issues based on the specific Seminar topic.
A fourth hour is reserved for mentoring and cocurricular activities. The results may
well be transformational: Encouraging students to think about the liberal arts as
a whole, challenging preconceived notions of inquiry and knowledge, and examining
issues from multiple perspectives. In essence, the Scribner Seminar is the means by
which you’ll become an engaged interdisciplinary thinker.
