HSP Seminars Course Sequence

The HSP program consists of seminars taken throughout the scholars Carnegie Mellon career and is supplemented by extracurricular social activities and the Giler Humanities Lecture Series. For the first two years of the HSP program, scholars will be taking seminars with their class, four seminars in all.

The seminars, which are exclusively designed for that year's HSP class, provide unique opportunities to create a cohesive intellectual community, study a variety of subjects which may fall outside of the range of the scholar’s specific major, and work with university professors in a small roundtable setting. The first seminar will introduce the scholars to the humanities.

The second seminar will be a case study. The third seminar will be team-taught by two professors from different fields offering several disciplinary perspectives on a single topic. The fourth seminar will serve to broaden the scholars scope by taking a course in new directions. Examples of these courses can be found in the Previous Seminars page.

These seminars are excellent examples of the interdisciplinary scholarship offered by the college of Humanities and Social Sciences. The result is an engaging, challenging, and fun experience that cannot be found outside of this program.