Activities

In recent years students in first-year seminars have enjoyed these activities:

• Attending plays, performances, and films on and off campus;
• Attending meetings of campus groups to analyze their communication styles;
• Visiting and reporting on various campus rescues dealing with AIDS;
• Attending a campus lecture as a group and then discussing it in class;
• Analyzing themselves and their classmates by using the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator;
• Eating together at a professor's home, at the Tower Club, or in a residence hall kitchen;
• Participating in a class workshop that explores identity;
• Discussing their careers with Ithaca graduates in their majors;
• Reading literature or exploring data on drinking or sexual behavior and integrating it with a workshop on the topic;
• Attending a workshop on eating disorders;
• Communicating with the class by e-mail or using the World Wide Web documentary about campus life;
• Focusing in class on choosing a major, advance registration, stress management, and time management;
• Going for walks or touring campus or off-campus locations as a class; and
• Exploring academic resources through a small-group library exercise.