First-Year Seminars (199 courses) are open only to newly-admitted students. They are full-credit or half-credit courses that focus on discussion of issues, questions and controversies surrounding a particular discipline (or several disciplines) in a small-group setting that encourages the development of critical thinking, writing skills, oral presentation and research methods. 199 seminars are as rigorous and demanding as any other first-year course and require in addition the acquisition of those skills expected of successful undergraduate students. With a maximum enrolment of 24 students each, they are an ideal way to have an enjoyable and challenging small-class experience in your first year.

First-Year Seminars:

• count as one (or one-half) of the 20 credits required for an Hon. B.A., Hon B.Sc. or B. Com.
• do not count towards a subject POSt. For example if you intend to enrol in the Major program in Mathematics, a 199Y1 or 199H1 course offered by the Department of Mathematics do not count as one of the courses required for that program.
• can be used to fulfil part of your distribution requirement: HUM 199H1/Y1 courses count as humanities distribution requirements; SCI 199H1/Y1 courses count as science distribution requirements; SSC 199H1/Y1 courses count as social science distribution requirements. INX 199H1/Y1 courses are interdisciplinary; check each individual INX 199H1/Y1 course description to see which areas it can count in.

Please note: Newly-admitted first-year students may enrol in only ONE 199Y1 course or TWO 199H1 courses.

Students planning to enrol in two 199H1 courses with the same section code (e.g., two F sections or two S sections) with the same designator (e.g., two HUM199H1 or two SCI199H1) will not be able to register in both on ROSI. Students should contact Ms Deborah Shaw at the First-Year Seminars Program Office at 416-978-0359 or FirstYearSeminars@artsci.utoronto.ca immediately after enrolling into one 199H1 course on ROSI to be enrolled into the second 199H1 course.

More Information

For more information and advice about First-Year Seminars, email the First-Year Seminars Program Office at FirstYearSeminars@artsci.utoronto.ca.

2008-2009 First-Year Seminars

• List of Humanities First-Year Seminars (HUM199H1)
• List of Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminars (INX199H1)
• List of Science First-Year Seminars (SCI199H1)
• List of Social Science First-Year Seminars (SSC199H1)
• List of Humanities First-Year Seminars (HUM199Y1)
• List of Science First-Year Seminars (SCI199Y1)
• List of Social Science First-Year Seminars (SSC199Y1)
• List of Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminars (INX199Y1)