Stanford:
The program at Stanford also grew out of discussions sparked by former Stanford University President Gerhard S. Casper about undergraduate education.
Eight years later, there are several different programs, including freshman seminars and sophomore seminars, of which 110 of each are offered each year on a quarterly basis.
By the time students in a class of 1600 have completed their sophomore year, 75 to 80 percent of them have taken a seminar, according to Sharon R. Palmer, director of freshman and sophomore programs and assistant provost for undergraduate education at Stanford.
"Students get to know faculty. We hope they have long term mentoring relationships," Palmer says.
The courses aren't surveys. Like Harvard's, they are specific, often hewing to the interest and research of the professors.
"It can bring students into the discipline [of the seminar] because it really uses the skills and methodology of it."
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