Nine seminars will follow our highly successful one-semester model. In the spring, the residential and social experience will continue since most students stay in the same room all year, but there won't be an academic component. The seminars following this model are:

• College Writing: Gazing Long Into the Abyss - Reading and Writing About Evil
• College Writing: Pushing Limits - Examining Extremes Through Writing
• Individual Freedom vs. Authority
• Forms of the Sacred: Religions of the East
• Understanding Music
• U.S. Society
• Understanding Human Behavior
• Western Legal Tradition
• Why Aren't We Dead Yet? The Role of Public Health in Society

The remaining seminars will follow an innovative year-long model combining our signature academic experience with student-designed individual projects. In the Spring semester, students in these seminars will build on the academic experience from the Fall through a supervised research, creative or community service project. The seminars following this model are:

• Critical Approach to Cinema
• Politics in the U.S.
• Theatre: Principles, Plays and Performance
• The Sustainable Earth
• Western Philosophy
• World Politics (two sections)