UCSB has created an exciting new educational opportunity for members of the freshman class—freshman seminars. These small group seminars, with a maximum of twenty students, will be taught by faculty who have volunteered their time and effort because they want to meet and teach students who are early in their UCSB careers. Facilitating student-faculty contact is one of the major goals of the freshman seminar.
"Freshmen seminars really helped ease my transition to UCSB! It was an awesome way to meet other first years, and also a way to really establish genuine relationships with some of the professors. As an added bonus the seminars were innovative, and interesting and always fun!"
-Rayana Poole
Here are some details about the courses:
- All seminars are listed as Interdisciplinary 94 (INT 94).
- Each seminar will meet for a total of ten hours, and are worth one unit of credit.
- All grading will be passed/not passed.
- Enroll on GOLD at http://my.sa.ucsb.edu/home/gold.aspx.
- Students may earn a total of 3 units from all INT 94AA-ZZ courses.
- No seminars with the same suffix (AA-ZZ) may be repeated.
- Students with transfer units or AP test credit may need an approval code to enroll. Please contact the coordinator for information.
There will be approximately 95 freshman seminars offered during 2009-2010, with 34 offered in winter, 31 offered in spring, and 30 offered in the fall from a variety of departments. Seminar topics may introduce a particular discipline, explore an area of professional interest or provide important insight on a matter of contemporary concern.
