Freshman Tutorials

Your Choices

At Ohio Wesleyan, you can begin your honors-level study right away with a Freshman Honors Tutorial during one or both semesters of your first year of enrollment. In 2007-2008, you can select tutorials in the natural sciences, social sciences, the arts, or the humanities.

Tutorials are intense learning experiences. You might be working one-to-one with a faculty member. Or meeting with a very small group of other freshman honors scholars who share your passion for a particular subject.

You and your faculty mentor will work together to define the scale and pace of your tutorial. Your coursework could consist of a reading and research schedule, a laboratory component, tutorial meetings, and the amount of written work required to meet Honors Program standards. Your own experience, knowledge, discoveries, and developing interests will influence the course’s progress and direction. When you discover a new idea or new topic of inquiry, you and your mentor may decide to modify the tutorial’s scope to pursue these new interests.

You may enroll in a Freshman Tutorial with the professor’s permission. Tutorial topics change each semester, so you have an array of choices, each one providing a provocative starting point for your advanced studies.

All Freshman Tutorials count towards graduation as full-unit courses. Nearly all of the tutorials also meet the University’s distribution requirements and many tutorials count towards a major or minor in a department or program. The professor conducting the tutorial will explain how a particular tutorial can fit into your academic program.

Note to Freshman Honors Students

You are welcome to pre-register for any of the tutorials when you arrive on campus in the fall.  However, make certain that you contact the professor who is teaching the tutorial to determine if room remains in that tutorial or if the professor is still able to offer the tutorial for this particular semester.  Thus for fall semester tutorials, either contact or see the professor shortly after you get to campus in August.

If you have an idea for a tutorial and find that none of the following descriptions matches your idea, talk with your academic advisor about this in August or see one of the two faculty Honors Directors—Professor Amy McClure or Professor Edward Burtt.  Often it is possible to design a tutorial to suit your interests.  Your academic advisor or the Honors Directors will be able to match your interest with a faculty person’s expertise.

Fall Semester 2009

Spring Semester 2010