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Scribner Seminars
The Scribner Seminars are the centerpiece of the First-Year Experience, taught by faculty from virtually every discipline, who design seminars to highlight their own intellectual curiosities and passions. Scribner Seminars help new students begin to explore ideas, challenge assumptions, and gain first-hand experience of faculty expectations of academic rigor and excellence.
The fall semester Seminars are not isolated educational opportunities but are part of the larger continuum of FYE curricular, mentoring, co-curricular, and residential experiences that will help shape our students’ four years at Skidmore. These initial courses will introduce students to ways of thinking and knowing, to working independently and collaboratively, to crafting arguments and articulating positions, and to living within an intellectual community committed to the life of the mind.
The Scribner Seminars are the centerpiece of the First-Year Experience, taught by faculty from virtually every discipline, who design seminars to highlight their own intellectual curiosities and passions. Scribner Seminars help new students begin to explore ideas, challenge assumptions, and gain first-hand experience of faculty expectations of academic rigor and excellence.
The fall semester Seminars are not isolated educational opportunities but are part of the larger continuum of FYE curricular, mentoring, co-curricular, and residential experiences that will help shape our students’ four years at Skidmore. These initial courses will introduce students to ways of thinking and knowing, to working independently and collaboratively, to crafting arguments and articulating positions, and to living within an intellectual community committed to the life of the mind.
The Seminars are defined by the passion for learning that the faculty and students bring to the enterprise, by the nature of the mentoring relationships that faculty establish with the students, and by the connections faculty and students make between and across disciplines.
