First Year Seminars

First-Year Seminars

First-Year Seminars at the University of Georgia

Each semester the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Honors Program offer a special opportunity to first-year students: an additional one-credit seminar. These seminars provide an opportunity for students new to the University to become acquainted with a senior faculty member and to learn something about the excitement of study and research in a specific discipline and the intellectual challenge of academic life at the University of Georgia. Most first-year seminars meet for one hour each week during the spring semester. They will be taught by some of the most distinguished members of the University faculty who will focus on topics of special interest to their research and teaching.

First-year seminars explore a diverse array of topics. Read through the descriptions and choose a topic that complements your regular class schedule and broadens your interests as a university student. Each seminar description includes the name of the instructor, the topic of the seminar, and time and location of meetings. Seminars are graded either on a pass/fail (FRES 1010) or A-F (FRES 1020) basis. First-year seminars will count as one hour of credit towards graduation on the student transcript, unless otherwise indicated. Students may enroll in only one seminar at a time.

Students may register for first-year seminars during orientation and fall registration.

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