The four Macaulay Honors College Seminars are required for all Macaulay students. For specific information (including sample syllabi, meeting notes, important dates, and other information), you can check the appropriate section of this site on the menu above.
All our seminars, regardless of the specific subject or the specific instructor, share some inter-connected common features.
1. Interdisciplinary. The seminars are interdisciplinary in scope and content, and students are asked to (and helped to) become aware of and critical about the different ways in which different academic disciplines approach problems and questions.
2. Collaborative. Students in the seminars work on projects in groups or teams, and student-student interaction and shared learning are frequent and productive.
3. Engaged. The seminars engage the world outside the classroom, asking students to work with primary sources, real-world data, contemporary questions, performances, and issues.
4. Open. The seminars include some projects which are directed to a wider public audience, beyond the instructor and the other students in the particular class.
Beyond this site, each seminar each semester has a faculty list-serv, for announcements of immediate importance, and for faculty to collaborate and share ideas and questions. Contact Lisa Brundage, Director of Teaching, Learning and Technology (lisa.brundage@mhc.cuny.edu) if you are not receiving the list-serv emails or would like to change your preferred email address.
