First-Year Seminars provide students with the optimal environment to work closely with faculty and peers on topics of mutual interest. They are also ideal for discovering areas of interest and exploring potential concentrations. We offer the broadest set of topics, and students can enroll in one seminar, worth 4 degree credits, in each term. Incoming students apply to our seminars during the summer prior to their arrival at Harvard. In August, students can secure their Fall seminar, their Spring seminar, or two seminars of their choice, one for each of the terms.