Yale:
Yale also has a system of college seminars, but they are part of different system than that of Harvard, Princeton or Stanford, according to Paul Fry, a professor of English and director of the college seminar program.
Like Harvard, these seminars have their origin in the 1960s, but they are more similar to Harvard's House Seminars than to Harvard's freshman seminars.
Like Princeton's, they are based in the university's residential colleges.
"When the program began forty years ago, there was not much in the way of interdisciplinary study. Now, that happens more frequently in the departments, so these seminars are not so radical anymore," Fry says.
They serve purposes other than those of introducing freshmen to small-group instruction with tenured faculty. In fact, preference is given to juniors and seniors in obtaining spaces in the seminars, Fry says.
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