Measures of Writing in the First-Year Seminar

Bowdoin's First-Year Seminars place a strong emphasis on providing students the opportunity to explore a topic of interest while building their writing, critical reading, research and analytical skills within a small, seminar-style class. The purposes of research related to First-Year Seminars have been to learn how much writing students are doing in the seminars, the level of confidence students coming out of the seminars have in their writing ability and students' perceptions of seminar requirements and emphasis.

Relevant Surveys


1. Survey of Students Who Took First-Year Seminars in Fall 2001 & 2003

Fall 2003 marks the 2nd year that the "First-Year Seminar Survey" has been administered; the survey was first administered to students who had taken a Fall 2001 first-year seminar. The report provides a comparison of the overall responses from the 2001 and 2003 surveys.

Survey Instruments

    2001 Survey Instrument
    2003 Survey Instrument

Survey Report

    First-Year Seminar Survey

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