Freshman seminars offer new experiences
By Zak Kozuchowski | October 7, 2010Freshmen entering the University of Richmond this fall were not mandated to take a Core class for the first time in 20 years. Instead, a new program gave incoming freshmen the opportunity to choose from more than 40 different first-year seminars, one-semester courses with topics spanning nearly every discipline at Richmond. The decision to remove Core occurred nearly two years ago, during the 2008-09 academic year, but some Richmond students were discontent with the course long before then. "My Core experience was overwhelmingly bad," said senior Alex Vasiloff, who took Core three years ago.