First Year Seminars in Interdisciplinary Studies

The Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies offers a selection of courses designed specifically for first year students. These courses are designed to provide students with a rich and exciting introduction to academic life at Emerson. All first year courses are small in size and emphasize critical reading, writing, and speaking skills. These courses also emphasize topics, assignments, and instructional approaches that are geared toward the academic demands of the first year and reflect emerging perspectives in the interdisciplinary study of the liberal arts.

All incoming first year students and all transfer students (with fewer than 16 credits) are required to take one course at the Institute during their first year of study at Emerson. All of these courses fulfill the Arts and Humanities or History, Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Study component of the General Education Requirements. All courses are 4 credits. First year courses offered during the 2007-2008 academic year will include:

Courses Fall 2009

Courses Spring 2010