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First-Year Seminars: 199H1 and 199Y1 CoursesCoordinator: Professor K.R. Bartlett, MA Ph D, Victoria College, (416-585-4590) and First-Year Seminar Office (416-978-0359) Website: www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/current The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide entering undergraduates with the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. Each Seminar focuses on specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary issues, questions or controversies of particular interest to the instructor, and introduces the students to the excitement of discovery inherent in academic work at the University of Toronto. In addition, students are encouraged to develop their ability to think analytically and to express ideas and logical arguments clearly and coherently, both orally and in writing. These interactive seminars are not designed as introductory surveys to a discipline or program. Rather, they are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Thus, students are encouraged to experience material and methods that are outside the area in which they will eventually concentrate in order to benefit fully from the scope and diversity of the Faculty of Arts and Science. All 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are described within the First-Year Handbook that is distributed to every newly admitted first-year student. NOTE: 198H1 may be used in circumstances where a student enrols in two 199H1 seminars. All 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars have generic designators HUM (HUManities) or SCI (SCIence) or SSC (Social SCience), or INX (Interdisciplinary), according to the disciplinary content of the seminar. All 199Y1 and 199H1 courses count for degree credit in the same way as any other course. STUDENTS MAY ENROL IN ONLY ONE 199Y1 SEMINAR OR TWO 199H1 SEMINARS. These courses can under most circumstances fulfill breadth requirements. For details see the Calendar (under Distribution Requirements, page 25) and the First-Year Handbook. Research Opportunity Program: 299Y1 CoursesCoordinator: Professor K.R. Bartlett, MA Ph D, Victoria College (416-585-4590) and Research Opportunity Program Office (416-978-0359) Web site: www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/current The Research Opportunity Program (“ROP”) provides an opportunity
for students in their second year (i.e., after completing
at least four
but not more
than nine courses) to earn one 299Y1 course credit
by participating in a faculty
member’s research project. A student may accept only one 299Y1 course. Each
299Y1 course will bear the three-letter designator
of the
department or
program sponsoring
it,
e.g., ANT
299Y1, ZOO 299Y1, etc. Not all departments or programs
will necessarily participate in the ROP each year. Summer Research Opportunities A limited number of ROP 299Y1 courses are offered each summer. Applications for summer 299Y1s are due in mid March, the same time as fall/winter 299Y1s. Independent Experiential Study Program: 398H0/399Y0 CoursesCoordinator: Professor K.R. Bartlett, MA Ph D, Victoria College (416-585-4590) and Program Office (416-978-0359) A limited number of 398H0/399Y0 courses are available each year. Faculty supervisors propose the projects and choose the students who apply for the projects as they now do for the 299Y1s. They also sign a contract with the successful candidates as with the 299Y1 projects. Students must normally have completed a
minimum of eight FCEs and a maximum of
14.0 FCEs
of their studies
by the
time they
begin
a 398H0/399Y0
project.
The 398H1/399Y1 would be eligible to
count towards program completion if the program
sponsor (Chair
or Director)
so chooses. The 398H0/399Y0
would
normally
have a program-specific designator, such
as ANT, CLA, VIC, ZOO, etc. Details of individual 398H0/399Y0 projects
will be available in the Program office
after March
1st each
year. |