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 fulfill part of your distribution requirement: HUM 199 courses count as humanities distribution requirements; SCI 199 courses count as science distribution requirements; SSC 199 courses count as social science distribution requirements. INX 199 courses are interdisciplinary; check each individual INX 199 course description to see in which areas it can count.

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 HUM 199H1 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, 416-978-0359, 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.

2009-2010 First-Year Seminars

• Humanities First-Year Seminars: Half-courses (HUM199H1)
• Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminars: Half-courses (INX199H1)
• Science First-Year Seminars: Half-courses (SCI199H1)
• Social Science First-Year Seminars: Half-courses (SSC199H1)
• Humanities First-Year Seminars: Full-courses (HUM199Y1)
• Science First-Year Seminars: Full-courses (SCI199Y1)
• Social Science First-Year Seminars: Full-courses (SSC199Y1)
• Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminars: Full-courses (INX199Y1)