Research

Results - Seminars

Examples:

University of Massachusetts - Boston
UMass - Boston requires first-year and intermediate seminars to satisfy their critical analysis requirement. Some examples include:

• Reality and the Americas
• Mind-Body Connections
• Communication Technology
• Examining Consciousness
• Art, Image and the Media
• Technology and the Soul

University of California - Los Angles
UCLA uses small discussion or lab sections for students in their clusters, which are year-long, collaboratively taught interdisciplinary courses.

George Mason University
George Mason uses a seminar for their synthesis requirement. Synthesis courses may link issues in the student’s major to wider intellectual and community concerns. Other synthesis courses may be interdisciplinary.

(See also Themes, Interdisciplinary Approaches, Learning Communities, and First-Year Seminar)

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