First-Year Seminars

First-year Foundation Seminar Courses

Trinity College offers several seminar courses intended to enhance the academic role the College plays in the lives of our undergraduates, especially our first-year students. Available to all Faculty of Arts & Science students, these first-year foundation seminar credit courses are approved by the Faculty of Arts & Science and do not have prerequisites. The seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than 25 students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. The first-year foundation seminars are complementary to the First-Year Learning Communities (FLC) Program, and Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Program.

WHY SHOULD I TAKE A FIRST YEAR FOUNDATIONS COURSE AT TRINITY COLLEGE?

• Participate actively in small-group discussions
• Learn to think critically and to communicate clearly
• Study with Trinity faculty – scholars with a strong interest in teaching first-year students
• Build a community – get to know other first-year students

2025-2026 FIRST-YEAR FOUNDATION SEMINAR COURSES

• TRN191H: Disaster and Terrorism: Religion and Ethics at Ground Zero
• TRN192H: Public Health in Canada: Health for the 21st Century
• TRN193H: Canadian Health Policy: Past, Present and Future
• TRN194H: Literature and Wicked Problems
• TRN195H: Poetry & the Public: Social Movements & the
  Ethics of Response
• TRN196H: Joy and Resistance in Diverse Storytelling
• TRN197H: In the Shadow of the Vikings: Depictions of the Early Norse in Medieval, Modern, and Post-Modern Culture
• TRN198H: The Viking Phenomenon: Commerce, Conflict, and Communication along Europe’s Frontiers, 7th – 15th Century
• TRN199H: Classical Social and Political Thought from the 18th Century Enlightenment to the 20th Century

Please note: In the event of discrepancies in program requirements and course offerings between this website and the Faculty of Arts & Science Calendar, the Calendar shall take precedence.