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Southwestern University's First-Year Seminar (FYS) introduces new students to college, while exposing them to what it means to live and learn in a liberal arts and sciences environment. The program begins during Orientation Week in August and is required of all first-year students. First-Year Seminars include a variety of topics and should appeal to a wide range of interests.
Southwestern University's Paideia® Program engages students in learning by building a culture of connections and reflections, intentional learning, and by integrating in-class and out-of-class academic and non-academic experiences. The Paideia Program fosters and promotes connections between academic courses, intercultural experiences, leadership, service-learning, and collaborative/guided research & creative works through a series of six one-credit hour seminar courses and through frequent one-on-one meetings with Paideia® Professors.
The faculty of Southwestern University makes available to highly motivated and able students a Departmental Honors Program, designed to allow students to engage in a substantial project in their major area of study near the end of their undergraduate career. The honors project is an independent endeavor that is developed and executed by the student in consultation with an honors advisor. The project research could take the form of a substantial paper based on empirical and/or bibliographic research, creative works, and the like. The Departmental Honors Program is governed by the following provisions adopted by the faculty.
Departmental Capstones
One of the objectives of the study of a subject in depth is the development within students of the ability to organize and integrate their knowledge and experience within the field. A major or area of concentration is not simply a collection of courses; it involves the mastery of the subject and the ability to interrelate that knowledge. Each department and major program shall design its major(s) to include an appropriate summary or capstone experience. This may be a special course, a project in which students are expected to bring together and apply what they have learned, a comprehensive written and/or oral examination, or other experience appropriate to the area of specialization.
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