First Year Seminars
The First Year Seminar (FSEM) courses are committed to fostering critical thinking, reading, writing, and speaking. FSEM courses are designed to be writing-intensive, meaning that the courses encourage and assist learning by means of writing. This writing-to-learn approach helps students figure out the ways to think and write and speak about a subject.
Assignments in FSEM courses run the gamut, from brief summary paragraphs to lists of questions generated by a given reading to producing detailed lab reports and research essays. Click here for the Writing Intensive Curriculum resource pages.