clueless about univ seminars

<p>nd website says "University Seminars are required classes for all first-year students. These seminars are taught by a variety of full-time teaching and research faculty from different academic disciplines in order to allow students to pursue their interests while working on their writing and critical reading skills. Seminars taught in the past include classes in anthropology, economics, government, psychology, sociology, art history, film, television and theatre, music, theology, history, philosophy and literature".</p>

<p>But im still not sure what exactly univ seminars are.
thanks friends</p>

<p>University Seminars are small discussion sized classes of around 15 people that have a focused theme. I took an Irish Literature seminar freshman year with Professor O'Buachalla and it was a very easy course. They're meant to be interesting enough for those that don't want to take a major course to meet University requirements. The university wants the courses to be very reading and writing intensive (claiming that it should include a 20 page paper) but my clas never had to do anything like that. They can be on some pretty cool topics like the History of Pirates. I advise you guys to avoid taking social science classes for this (anthropology, sociology, and psychology) because they generally are exciting classes to begin with and instead take something that you wouldn't otherwise enjoy or wouldn't have the time to work on like philosophy or literature.</p>