All first-year students take during their first semester
a course designated as a First-Year Course, which will have no more than 16 students. The class is taught in seminar style, by a faculty member who becomes the advisor for each of the students. This means that new students have immediate access to their advisor for academic and other questions and that their advisor will know them.
All first-year classes have a writing component, aided by the assistance of a writing preceptor. First-year courses provide focused instruction to write extended, cogent papers; to argue issues confidently and persuasively; and to make connections among academic disciplines.
Some first-year courses are designated as residential courses and students who enroll in the course live in the same residence hall, usually on the same floor. This facilitates discussion and group work outside of the classroom.
DEPARTMENT |
COURSE NAME |
American Studies |
The Problem of Race in US Social Thought and Policy: The American Dream |
Anthropology |
Culture and the Environment |
Art |
3-D Design |
Biology |
Cell Biology-Genetics I: Biologic Basis of Therapeutics |
Biology |
Biodiversity and Evolution |
Chemistry |
CSI Macalester |
Classics |
Background to the Modern Middle East |
Economics |
Principles of Economics |
English |
Studies in Literature: Science Fiction |
English |
Poetry |
Environmental Studies |
American Environmental History |
French and Francophone Studies |
Culture and Identity: Children and Youth in Film |
Geography |
People and the Environment |
Geology |
Environmental Geology |
Geology |
History & Evolution of Earth |
German and Russian Studies |
German Cinema Studies |
History |
The Global and the Local |
Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies |
Film Analysis and Visual Culture |
International Studies |
Introduction to International Studies |
Math/CS |
Newton's Principia |
Math/CS |
Multimedia and Robotics (plus lab Comp 194-L1) |
Philosophy |
Problems of Philosophy |
Philosophy |
Ethics |
Physics |
Gravity |
Political Science |
Foundations of International Politics |
Psychology |
Introduction to Psychology |
Religious Studies |
Islam in America |
Russian |
"Things Don't Like Me": The Material World and Why It Matters |
Sociology |
Introduction to Sociology |
Theater & Dance |
Acting Theory and Performance I |
