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Each First-Year Seminar course has a unique theme—from pop culture and music to geek chic and incarceration—you're guaranteed to find a course you'll love.
The First Year Seminar (FYS) is a two-semester, writing-intensive course that prepares students for the intellectual life of college
Our Saints love First Year Seminar. FYS teaches our first year Saints how to be college students, and does so in a way that is unique to our Franciscan heritage. Students learn important skills that carry over to each and every course they will take at Siena. They learn to:
Each First-Year Seminar course has a unique theme—from pop culture and music to geek chic and incarceration—you're guaranteed to find a course you'll love.
In order to meet the goals of the seminar, class size is limited to 19 students. Classes are structured along a “learning community” model, where careful reading, class conversation, using writing as a way of learning, and thesis driven argumentative essays are valued.