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Info for transfers & international students

The First-Year Seminar Program offers focused, challenging seminars in a wide range of vital topics representing the scholarly endeavors of our faculty. These small seminars serve to plunge new students into the academic life of Dickinson College, encouraging you to begin building an intellectual community, and setting high standards for scholarly inquiry.

Selecting a Seminar
To complete your First-Year Seminar Request Form, go to your Dickinson Gateway by directing a Web browser to http://gateway.dickinson.edu/ . Your Gateway user name and password were sent to you in the cover letter that came with your Orientation packet. Once you are in the Gateway, select the Student Forms tab to see all of your forms. You will need to click on the Seminar Selection link from the menu to make your seminar choices. Complete the form and click on “submit” when finished.

Click the title of a seminar to see the descriptions

1. A Year In History: 1926

2. Adolescence

3. American Women, Spirituality, and Social Justice
*This seminar has been designated as part of a Learning Community.

4. Biophilia: Human Connections to Other Life Forms

5. Clothing and the Changing Politics of Attractiveness
*This seminar has been designated as part of a Learning Community.

6. Conspiring to Believe

7. Detecting Cultural Narratives

8. From Peasants to Technocrats

9. Galileo’s Commandment

10. Green Science for the iPod Generation
*This seminar has been designated as part of a Learning Community.

11. Harlem, Haiti and Havana: Mapping Cultural Connections through Poetry

12. ID: Self-Portraiture and Notions of Identity
*This seminar has been designated as part of a Learning Community.

13-19. Ideas that Have Shaped the World

20. Identities, Diversity, and Social Justice
*This seminar has been designated as part of a Learning Community.

21. Law and Justice

22. Lord of the Castle, Lady of the House

23. Malcolm X: The Myth, The Man, and The Legacy

24. Mind, Knowledge, and Evolution

25. Mind Meets Matter

26. Muslim Lives in the First Person

27. Mysteries of the Brain

28. Nature or Nurture, Genes or Culture?

29. Religion, Science and the Environmental Movement
*This seminar has been designated as part of a Learning Community.

30. Science, Culture, and the Future of Civilization
*This seminar has been designated as part of a Learning Community.

31. Social and Economic Apartheid in America

32. Social Justice and American Education
*This seminar has been designated as part of a Learning Community.

33. Sustaining Northeastern Wildlife
*This seminar has been designated as part of a Learning Community.

34. Technology and Culture

35. “The Boy Who Lived”: The Making of Harry Potter

36. The Future of the Food Industry: Technology and Sustainability
*This seminar has been designated as part of a Learning Community.

37. The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

38. The Poetry of Place and Identity

39. War, Violence, and Memory

40. Writing About Sports

41. Writing and Filming: Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa Francophone Societies

*For additional information on Learning Communities, go to http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/learncomm/09/lcc-09.htm.