The General Requirements
The First-Year Seminar Program
The first-year seminar program comprises one-semester topical seminars unified under the theme, "Knowledge, Values and Social Change." These seminars are designed to introduce the first-year students to the ways in which the liberal arts construct knowledge; to enhance their abilities to read closely, analyze information, construct arguments and communicate effectively; to educate students in the expectations and values of the academic community, and to provide first-year students with an opportunity to work closely with a member of the faculty. Requirement: one semester, first year.
Domains of Knowledge
The knowledge, skills and habits of mind developed through the study of the liberal arts disciplines and their respective methods of inquiry, their concepts and vocabulary, their creative and critical processes, and their contributions to human knowledge are basic to the goal of developing the formed intellectual, aesthetic and moral sensibility assumed in a person liberally educated for life. The domains are (click for details):
- Aesthetic Inquiry (A)
- Historical Consciousness (H)
- Social Analysis (SA)
- Scientific Inquiry and Quantitative Analysis (SI; SI-L; QA)
- Relgious Thought and Moral Reasoning (R; M)
The Capstone Experience
Each student is required to complete a one-semester capstone experience that is designed to provide an opportunity to integrate and present content and methodology acquired in the major. This course may take the form of a seminar, an internship, a research project or creative project. 10 General Information for Liberal Arts and Sciences As part of the general requirements of the College, one course in a student's program must deal with some aspect of United States society and one course must deal with a society or culture outside North America.