How does it work?
It's as simple—or complex—as choosing one of approximately 45 Scribner Seminars.
The First-Year Experience begins in the summer prior to your first year, when you’ll
choose one of approximately 45 Scribner Seminar offerings–each with no more than 16
students. But 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? 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; these courses encourage students to think about the liberal
arts as a whole, challenge preconceived notions of inquiry and knowledge, and examine
issues from multiple perspectives. In essence, the Scribner Seminar is the means by
which you’ll become an engaged, interdisciplinary thinker.
