First-Year Seminars at the University of Georgia
Sponsored by the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences and the Honors Program

What is a First-Year Seminar?

Spring 2009 Seminars

Fall 2008 Seminars

Previous Seminars

First-Year Seminar Proposal Form

Outstanding First-Year Seminar Awards

Sample Course Syllabi from 2007-2008

Sample Course Syllabi from Fall 2001

Frequently Asked Questions (for Seminar Instructors)

News stories and other information:

President Michael Adams' first-year seminar

John Inscoe (History), "In Defense of Appalachia on Film," a discussion of his first-year seminar, from his book Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South (2008)

English Professor Elizabeth Kraft's 2007 seminar on "The Tower of Song: The Poetry of Leonard Cohen"

Edward Halper (Philosophy), "Freshman Seminar Film Courses," Teaching Philosophy, 28:4 (December 2005).

February 2002 Red and Black article on "Edible Invertebrates" seminar, taught by Mark Farmer (Cellular Biology) and Bill Fitt (Ecology)

Georgia Faces on Food Science Professor William Shewfelt's "Chocolate Science" seminar (2001)

Oct. 1999 Columns article on "Mini courses with a major impact"