HC-Sem seminars are part of our high-impact first-year experience, designed as small, one-credit courses offered by exceptional faculty and are designed to provide a fun, experiential, highly engaged experience.
Taught by Rutgers’ world-renowned faculty from departments and professional schools across the university, these seminars offer students the chance to experience the excitement of original research as faculty members share their curiosity, their intellectual passion, and how they develop new ideas and fields of knowledge.
Faculty also have the ability to add specialized field trips, site visits, guest speakers, unique projects, and other engaging components to the class, to help bring the learning to life.
HC-Sems are graded Pass/No Credit, providing a low-pressure opportunity to become familiar with a professor and subject area in greater depth. They are only open to first-year students.
2026-2027 Honors College HC-Sem seminars
Honors Master Class
Previous offerings have included courses on learning to play the ukulele, barbecue and soul food, the "city as text" model of learning by studying New Brunswick, the ever-popular Reading the Times, in which the text is the digital edition of the New York Times, which is free to all students, and more.
Past enrollees rave about their HC-Sem experiences. The Honors College highly recommends you enroll in at least one.