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The First-Year Seminar Program
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The Basic Facts• First-Year Seminars are one or two unit courses
designed for students new to UC Davis
• Discussion and question-based learning for up to 19 students
• There's a huge variety of subjects -- 200 seminars are taught each year
• Established in 1988 and managed by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
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So Why Should You Take a First-Year
Seminar?
So Why Should You Take a First-Year
Seminar?
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Do creative projects like
building a rocket with a parachute.
They're fun and hands-on!
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Design and make ceramic art for the UC Davis Bee Haven.
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Learn to fold origami and
arrange flowers in the Japanese
style
Discover what the Japanese
definition of visual beauty is.
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Meet "Thursday," the trash-baby made of student's waste from one day.
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Discover the psychologies of drummers by describing their timing,
syncopation, and other traits.
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Some seminars look more
traditional...
...but explore ideas in new ways.
Students map Jean Toomer's Students map Jean Toomer's novel novel Cane Cane onto Google onto Google
MapsMaps
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Why are seminars fun?
•Small class size facilitates friendly, in depth discussion
• Professors are enthusiastic because they contribute personal experience
• They reveal the academic side of fun topics and the fun side of academic topics
• You can meet famous people and faculty and go to fun places
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Learn with NASA researcher Dawn
Sumner
Discuss with famousnovelist Kim Stanley
RobinsonTweet with inspirational, one-armed
drummer Rick Allen of Def Leppard
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Visit the UC Davis' Bee Haven
Or a Cave Automatic Virtual
Environment
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Other Reasons to Take a Seminar
• They're only a unit or two
• Take a class about a topic outside of your major
• Learn to: (1) Conduct research(2) Present your ideas orally
(3) Work in groups(4) Develop yourself in
general
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Every seminar has a detailed description at
cetl.ucdavis.edu/first-year-seminars
Read complete first-year seminar profiles about the seminar examples in this presentation on the CETL
website
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Seminars Shown in this Presentation in order of
depiction• Rocket Propulsion by Mohamed Hafez
• Art, Bees, and Survival by Diane Ullman and Donna Billick
• Japanese Culture: Nature and Visual Arts by Haruko Sakakibara
• Creative Responses to Climate Change by Stephen Wheeler
• Psychology of Drummers by Brad Henderson
• Mapping the Harlem Renaissance by Phillip Barron
• So You Think You Can Write? by Amy Clarke (famous authors)
• Curiosity on Mars by David Osleger (CAVE Lab)
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Photo Credit• Rocket photos by Mohamed Hafez
• Ceramic Art photos by Jenna Christopherson
• Flower Arrangement photo by Haruko Sakakibara
• "Thursday" image by Stephen Wheeler
• Origami, Psychology of Drummer, and Harlem Renaissance photos by Ryder Blue
• Dawn Sumner photo from the UC Davis Geology Website
• Rick Allen, Kim Stanley Robinson, and CAVE image from Wikipedia
• UC Davis Bee Haven image from Christopher Thaiss