"I wouldn't have added a lab component if I hadn't had that resource available," he says.
And for a small department like Rosen's, with around ten faculty members, offering a seminar can result in added offerings within the department.
A faculty member teaching a seminar will teach one less departmental course. At Princeton, the department is compensated for the faculty member's time, and can hire a visiting professor to teach a course not normally offered.
"We had someone come in to teach human evolution last year," Rosen says. "At the time there was no one in the department who specialized in human evolution."
A Positive Attitude
Dobin says that roughly 75 percent of a given class's bachelor of arts candidates have taken a freshman seminar.
And McLendon says the seminars' format is specifically geared to freshman.
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