Intensive first-year seminar focused on specific themes and/or disciplinary perspectives. Emphasis on developing critical reading and writing skills, substantive revision, information literacy, and analytical thinking. First-year seminars are frequently organized to meet one of the disciplinary Catamount Core requirements. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years.

Fundamentals course in effective, informative, and persuasive public speaking and critical listening. Includes theory and practice.

Grapple with complex issues affecting communities by engaging in dialogic learning through organized debates on social justice topics. Provides skills in research and informational literacy, written and oral communication, perspective taking and stakeholder analysis, and listening in addition to engagement with contemporary social justice theories, perspectives, and topics. Credit not awarded for both SPCH 1610 and versions of the course offered as SPCH 1010 to 1029.

Participation in the Lawrence Debate Union's intercollegiate competitive debate team. Students gain competency in oral communication, teamwork, critical thinking, problem/solving, argumentation and analysis, and advocacy by learning the fundamentals of debate through practice and skill-building; research and case-building; debate competition; public debates; and civic engagement. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.