<p>^ I’m going in as part of the class of '15, and I seem to like the changes imposed for the core… and especially about the frosh seminar:</p>
<p>Frosh seminar
The Frosh Seminar is our recommended way to help achieve two of our most important goals, the ability to take multiple paths through the core, and the exposure of incoming students to faculty in non-lecture settings. We envision Frosh Seminar as a required first term class with 10-15 freshmen and a single faculty member exploring in depth an exciting topic in the lab, around a table, in the field, or anywhere else appropriate. Examples that have been mentioned by a variety of faculty members include an exploration of signatures of the ice age glaciations in Southern California, an exploration of the physics of music, the reproduction of important classical experiments in different fields, and more. We believe that the Caltech faculty members are sufficiently interesting and creative that everyone could imagine one or two such seminars that they might enjoy teaching. The seminars are not intended to be a requirement for SURF-type individual research, though, done well, such research could work well as such a Frosh Seminar.
- Core Committee Task Force Preliminary Report</p>