Fellows Proseminar III (SNF Paideia Program Course)

0.5 Course Units

In the SNF Paideia Fellows Proseminar III, students engage a set of questions about how best – as scholars, as citizens, in their personal lives, and in their careers – they can apply the skills and habits of dialogue that they have acquired throughout their tenure as Paideia fellows. As they work towards completion of their major, often tackling a senior thesis or comparable culminating academic project, the fellows will be given extensive opportunities to practice discussing the substance of their work with, and communicating its importance to, people outside of their discipline. And, as the fellows prepare for life beyond Penn, they will learn how the Paideia values of intentionality, curiosity, humility, and community can guide them as they make reflective choices of and within future jobs, relationships, and civic roles. This being the final course in a series of three half-credit courses that fellows take with their cohort, it continues to nurture, and reaps the rewards of, the diverse intellectual community that was forged in the first two proseminars (and through other programs of the SNF Paideia Program). This course is open only to SNF Paideia Fellows, who are required to take it during the fall of their senior year. 0.5 Course Units