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Freshman Seminars

The Freshman Seminar Program

The Freshman Seminars are a hugely popular programme of small classes (usually less than 15 students) under the guidance of a senior faculty member. Many of the seminars are thematic and interdisiplinary, offering first year students a taste of what it is like to study an intellectually stimulating topic in collaboration with a specialist or expert.

Harvard offers a range of over 125 Freshman Seminars to first year students. The full listing of Freshman Seminars can be found in the Advising Programs Office website at right, but here is a small sample:

  • Galaxies and the Universe
  • Uncertainty, Probability and Climate Change
  • AIDS in Africa
  • The Beasts of Antiquity and Their Natural History
  • Mapping the British Empire
  • Art of Storytelling
  • Literatures of Historical Guilt
  • American Dissent
  • Evolution of Cooperation
  • The Book: From Gutenberg to the Internet
  • Urban Environmental Health
  • The Physics and Physiology of the Senses
  • Bioluminescence
  • Neurotoxicology: Biological Effects of Environmental Poisons
  • Skepticism and Knowledge
  • Heist: The Culture and Politics of Art Theft, Grave Robbing and Looting
  • The Folklore of Ireland
  • African Musical Traditions
  • Muslim Voices in Contemporary World Literatures
  • Extremism: Causes, Consequences, Cures