The First-Year Seminar Program offers focused, challenging seminars in a wide range of vital topics representing the scholarly endeavors of our faculty. These small seminars serve to plunge new students into the academic life of Dickinson College, encouraging them to begin building an intellectual community and setting high standards for scholarly inquiry. Here are some examples of seminars that have been offered in recent semesters:

• Tell Me Why: The Role of Information in Society
• The Challenge of Global Poverty
• Transforming Lives: Social Justice Activists of the 19th and 20th Centuries
• Golem: The Creation of an Artificial Life
• The Myth of Frankenstein
• Knowing America Through Baseball
• Contemporary Writers of Color
• The Language of Power and The Power of Language
• Exploring Leadership: The Development and Cultivation of Citizen Leaders
• Images and Tales of Modern War
• Natural Disasters