Freshman Seminars

The topics can range from sports to spirituality, from nanotechnology to biology in popular media.

Small, intensive and highly personalized, the freshman seminars expand the opportunities for you as a first-year student to engage intellectually with your peers and the faculty.

The freshman seminars are designed to help you develop the critical skills of liberal arts education that freshmen need for success in college and beyond. Within a specific course topic, each seminar teaches you to synthesize information, formulate arguments, write clearly, speak well and participate in discussion and debate. The seminars also nurture the close student-faculty relationships that are a hallmark of the Connecticut College experience. Class size is limited, to encourage interaction among students and between students and faculty.

You as a freshman may register for seminars in the same manner as any other course, as there are no prerequisites.

View the 2008 Freshman Seminars listing on the online catalog.

Last Modified: Thursday, April 10, 2008 16:44