First-Year Seminars (FYS) constitute a common and academically significant experience in a student’s first year at Converse. All incoming first-year students are required to take a 3- or 4-credit hour FYS course in the fall semester, choosing from a variety of discipline specific topics. Each FYS carries the corresponding departmental prefix, but with a common course number. Each FYS carries the corresponding departmental prefix but with a common course number. Special emphasis is given to cultivating critical thinking, effective speaking, and writing skills.
GEP Natural Science, elective
Three-credit offerings do not include a laboratory.
Four-credit offerings usually include a laboratory, may be equivalent to CHM 190, and may count towards the Chemistry major and minor.