Spring 2010 Discovery Seminars
UB’s Discovery Seminar Program offers a small class experience for first- and second-year students, providing them with the opportunity to engage with a distinguished faculty member around a thought-provoking and challenging topic. The goals of this course are to help students:
- Explore a topic in depth in a comfortable, small group setting;
- Get to know an outstanding faculty member who loves teaching undergraduates;
- Try out an unfamiliar subject in an environment conducive to exploration and discovery;
- Understand the academic challenges and rewards of attending a research university; and
- Improve skills in critical thinking and in oral and written expression.
Each semester, different faculty members offer seminars on exciting, unique topics. See Seminar Offerings for details.
Some of the seminars offered this spring include:
- Extreme Events: UB’s Research Role
- Globalization, Democracy and Gender
- Global Warming - Fact or Myth?
- Grief, Loss and Coping
For more information, including a complete list of all spring semester’s topics, visit http://discoveryseminars.buffalo.edu/. To participate, simply register for the appropriate section of UE 141 when you register for your courses. You can find these seminars in the Class Schedule under “Undergraduate Education.”
*Please note that students may take a maximum of 6 credits of UE141 toward graduation.
