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...Students were assigned to only one seminar as opposed to the past, when one student might be accepted into two or three or more and turn down spots in all but one,” Doherty says...
Despite the rapid expansion of the Freshman Seminar Program over the last three years, there’s still a lot of work to be done...
Doherty is also pushing for departments to consider granting concentration credit for Seminars so that more first-years would be encouraged to make the seminar part of their plan of study...
...example, more than one student told me that in going over their long term plans with advisors, they were told that a freshman seminar would not ‘fit’ into their plans, that there wasn’t enough time in their schedules,” says Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literature Elvira G. Di Fabio. “Obviously this type of advice does not support the Freshman Seminar Program...
...number of concentrations—including English, History, Math, and Music Departments—have agreed to evaluate the Freshman Seminar Program over the next few years...