First-Year Seminars 210RC - Read Closely, Think Broadly

This course is designed to introduce Francis Perkins scholars and other transfer students to Mount Holyoke's intellectual community and liberal arts curriculum. It will develop the academic skills required for intellectual confidence and success through a series of close readings, analytic writing exercises, and longer research projects. Thematically, course material will focus on some of the primary thinkers whose ideas form the basis of many areas of the curriculum.

Course limited to new Frances Perkins and transfer students.