<p>From the schools i've seen or heard of alot them have freshman seminars. I'm not sure what their called at other colleges but with the one im attending it's called University 101. Every entering freshman has to take a full year of this class. I'm sorta looking forward to it because, i know every person in the class will be in the same position which is being in the unknown. The only thing im wondering is , how did the seminar help you ? I'll be honest i'm not really looking forward to learning the history of the school or learning how to use the school email.</p>
<p>Did it help? Not one bit. But I can’t speak for everyone.</p>
<p>At my university, there is no set seminar, so each college does it differently. I was originally in the Fine Arts department, and our seminar was only half a semester, and had a couple required worksheets. Meanwhile, my roommate in a different department had a semester-long class that had trips and projects and what not. Not saying that made it more helpful, but it’s a possibility.</p>
<p>Hopefully the class will go beyond e-mail and will actually delve into resources (online, on-campus, off-campus) that will be helpful to your undergrad experience.</p>
<p>Either way, you don’t really have a choice. So even if it’s boring, you gotta suck it up and go ;)</p>
<p>My school apparently is the school that invented University 101 or something like that. Anyways, U101. Was it helpful? Absolutely not. Was it the easy A as promised? Absolutely not. I hated that class.</p>
<p>At my school, I found out that it can either be a really great class or it can be really terrible. It all depends on the students in the class and the teacher. My teacher enjoyed taking it really seriously and as a result, U101 was actually my class with the biggest work load first semester. The only real positive that came out of it for me was that I became pretty good friends with a couple of people in it.</p>
<p>Since you’ve got to take it, then just go in with the best attitude possible. I think 9 times out of 10 it’s actually a positive experience in some form (GPA booster, fun activities, friends, etc.)</p>
<p>At Appalachian State, it’s called the First Year Seminar, and is listed as University College 1200. There a whopping 71 different offerings for the seminar ranging from “The Twilight Zone” to “Appalachian Music and Dance.” The reason for the variety is that professors get to design their own courses. I’ll be in one called “Deliberate Living: America’s Search for Simplicity and Self-Reliance.”</p>
<p>Obviously the topics are pretty random, but the point is that it’s something that will require writing and research to help transition into college work. I haven’t gotten to take it yet, obviously, but I hear that it’s actually really helpful and quite entertaining, if you have the right professor. Personally, I’m looking forward to the one I’ll be in.</p>
<p>Oh God no. But it did help me meet new people. In my old school, we had a cluster. Basically, we had two classes plus the seminar with the same people. Usually, the classes were something related to our majors. </p>
<p>But the class itself didn’t teach me anything. I can’t even remember what it was about.</p>
<p>Mine did, and I loved it bc I had a passionate teacher. I hated the school tho so I transferred.</p>
<p>Mine was called First year seminar, it was simply a one credit class. It was kind of helpful in the sense that It was a small sized class which allowed interaction with other freshman and I made some friends out of that. Also one of the teachers was an upperclassmen which was useful for asking questions about different classes. professors. and tips. I really liked both of my teachers and they geniunely cared for the students so i enjoyed the course and it only met once a week. Plus we even got to take a trip to the dairy bar for ice cream at like 9 am.</p>
<p>No, it was 100% pointless. Everything taught could have been learned by anyone with an hour to kill and Google.</p>
<p>Nope. Not at all.</p>
<p>Our FYS (first-year seminar) was a class focused on a wide range of subjects about whatever we wanted, so no, my first-year seminar didn’t really help me with anything. It was just another class for me, which was only marginally easier than the other classes I was taking at the time.</p>
<p>Well, at my school, a freshman seminar can be in any subject, it’s only one semester, and there are both writing-intensive and non-writing-intensive ones. I just picked one that sounded interesting and went with it. It wasn’t particularly engaging, and I didn’t really learn anything applicable, so, no, I wouldn’t say it helped.</p>
<p>I’ve only taken a freshman seminar geared towards General Education Curriculum. I got a history and a writing intensive with it. The nice part for me that it was a pretty small class and there were more discussions. It wasn’t really a UNI 101 type course though. My uni has it as FFL 101 and I decided to not take it, because I’ve heard they don’t really help.</p>