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Students who have started the SAGES Program take two University Seminars. Though the writing and discussion proceed at a more advanced level, University Seminars have a family resemblance to First Seminars. Enrollment is still limited to 17 students.
The courses are writing...
Yearly Archives: 2014
Back to The Course Sequence
→ First Seminar
University Seminars
Writing Portfolio
Departmental Seminar
Capstone
Before the introduction of the Unified General Education Requirement (UGER) in the Fall of 2023, all first year students enrolled in a First Seminar. The seminar’s defining feature was its small size: with enrollment limited to 17 or fewer students,...
Fisayo Jebutu demonstrates the truth of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s observation that “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Jebutu was participating in a Fourth Hour event at the Cleveland Botanical Garden as...
On 17 November, H.M. Naqvi, the author of the novel Home Boy spoke to First Seminar students via Skype from Karachi, Pakistan. This was a Fourth Hour activity for the course America Chutnified: The Immigrant Experience (FSSO170), run by Suhaan Mehta. The students were able to ask Naqvi questions...
The Observer has interviewed SAGES Fellow Kelly St. Pierre about her career, which has included playing violin at Carnegie Hall and touring Europe.
2015/16
Writing faculty in SAGES work in two primary roles: providing supplemental and one-on-one support in the Writing Resource Center (WRC), and teaching in SAGES First and University Seminars.
SAGES writing faculty act as Writing Resource Center Instructors, providing ten hours of scheduled tutoring time per week in the Writing...