First Year Seminars

First Year Seminars will provide students with opportunities to work closely with a member of the faculty as they explore important intellectual questions and become immersed in the life of the mind through an exploration of a variety of academic topics. In the course of the seminar, students will become familiar with the University’s Ignatian identity and mission and address important transition-to-college issues. Students will choose from seminars that address a wide variety of different topics, and which can function as a major course, a general education course or an elective. Each seminar will enroll no more than 18 students so as to maximize interaction with the professor and among students.

List of Seminars

T.A.P.E.S.T.R.Y Program

All students in the College of Professional Studies will participate in a series of co-curricular activities called the “T.A.P.E.S.T.R.Y. Program”. The purpose of our four-year professional development program is to ensure that PCPS students have to opportunity to consider and experience how they can become “men and women for and with others,” and to develop and cultivate those aspects of professionalism that are vital to their roles as professionals.

• First Year Seminars