First-Year Seminar Courses

Stephanie Donnelly  | American Language and Culture

In American Characterization, students develop an awareness of America as a "character" through the exploration of key contemporary media. They identify key features of modern culture and analyze their depiction in film, television, and other entertainment through the frameworks of tradition, subversion, and self-comparison. The course promotes cross-cultural understanding and aims to encourage deep insight into American identity from a global perspective.

*For international students*

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This course is designed to strengthen students' reasoning skills and advance their capacity to think clearly and deeply about important issues - like truth, goodness, justice, and meaning. Together, students and professors uncover and sharpen vital intellectual tools and then apply those tools to big ideas and to specific real-world situations. There is also an emphasis on developing arguments and engaging with others in civil fashion. This course must be taken within the first year of study at the College. FOR 101 fulfills a Seaver Core Foundations requirement.