From its beginnings Collins has been a place where living and learning occur together. Carrying on this tradition, freshmen and sophomores living at Collins take one Collins seminar a year. Three-credit Collins seminars are taught by instructors from across the College of Arts and Sciences, and carry CASE breadth of inquiry GenEd credit. Due to their small size, these seminars offer you an exciting opportunity to interact closely with an instructor and your peers. Seminars are chosen by the student members of the Board of Educational Programming and approved by the Collins Faculty Curriculum Committee.
Seminars
I had such fun teaching “School Stories in Popular Culture” for the Spring 2023 semester at the Collins Center. The students were incredibly curious, participative, creative, and original. I have never taught such an engaged and empathetic group of people who cared about getting to know one other and their teacher. The Collins Center also gave me the opportunity to create a niche class that helped me experiment both with course design and various teaching styles; we conducted classes indoors and outside in the courtyard, with activities ranging from arts and crafts to movie screenings and board games. The course has helped me see the benefits of student-centric environments like Collins that privilege diversity, empathy, and a joy of learning. I am very grateful for the time I got to spend with students at the Collins Center!
Jordan Bunzel, advanced-level graduate student, instructor for our Collins Seminar School Stories in Popular Culture
The College of Arts