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The Freshman Seminar Program

Sample Proposals

Proposal Submission Procedure

Proposal Submission Form -- Proposals are still being accepted for the Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.

It is requested that you please inform the FSP office as soon as you can of your intention to submit a proposal by emailing our office at seminars@fas.harvard.edu

Please have your completed proposal submitted by Thursday, May 7. The Standing Committee will be reviewing proposals on Monday, May 11.

HUMANITIES

Carol Abbate - Music and Film

Katherine Coleman and Farish Jenkins, Jr. - Beasts of Antiquity

Catherine Elgin - Skepticism and Knowledge

Stephanie Sandler - Fear Itself

NATURAL SCIENCES

Jonathan Levy - Urban Environmental Health

Ronald Schouten - Responsibility, the Brain, and Behavior

SOCIAL SCIENCES

David Armitage - Declarations of Independence: The Political Philosophy of the American Revolution

Joyce Chaplin - Around the World in 80 Ways

Kimberly DaCosta - Changing Concepts of Race in Modern America