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First Year Seminars
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Working closely with select Stetson faculty to explore a single topic, students will learn how to join an intellectual conversation at a significantly higher level than they have been accustomed to in high school. Entering students will be able to join an academic community of thinkers, learners and researchers who are committed to maintaining the rigors and rewards most typically associated with a liberal arts education. Through their active participation in the First Year Seminar Program, first-year students will acquire the skills necessary for success in college and, therefore, life. The purpose of the First Year Seminar is to help us understand the human condition and, as a result, to make it better.
First-year seminars have the following goals:
- to provide courses exclusively for first-year students
- to improve writing skills by focusing on writing in a range of genres within a particular field of study and in ways that emphasize clarity, coherence, intellectual force, and stylistic control
- to introduce students to the excitement of studying and interpreting primary sources
- to enhance students' abilities to read and think critically
- to instill, through practice, the ability to express themselves cogently
With the following learning objectives:
- ability to read in a scholarly and critical fashion and to distinguish between styles of writing
- ability to analyze, integrate, and synthesize ideas
- ability to develop, support, and critique arguements
- ability to write clear and persuasive text
- ability to distinguish between and produce work within different academic contexts and traditions
Most first-year students will be in a seminar. The exceptions are students in the School of Music and the School of Business Administration. Music students will be actively engaged in a variety of small group activities, ensembles, and performance experiences; business majors will be enrolled in BN 109 – “How to Succeed in the Business School,” which is designed to help new majors become acclimated to the business school environment, including developing the skills needed for successful academic performance in their major.
Students who are certain they will not be either a music major or a business major should follow the link below to the First Year Seminar checklist to identify their preferences for a possible Seminar in the fall term.
Click Here To View First Year Seminars
Click Here To Identify a First Year Seminar Preference
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Stetson University
First Year Studies | Unit 8275
421 North Woodland Boulevard
DeLand, Florida 32723
Email Address : firstyearstudies@stetson.edu
Phone Number : 386.822.7345
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