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First-Year Seminar
Words and Numbers are your first-year seminar classes.
At Lewis & Clark, you’ll take one faculty-led foundational seminar per semester. These small classes (19–25 students) are designed to help you develop the reading, writing, discussion, and analytical skills you will need to succeed in college and for life. One of your two courses will focus on interpreting the meaning and significance of texts (CORE 120: Words), the other on interpreting quantitative information and models (CORE 121: Numbers). These are not simply writing and math classes; rather, these courses allow you to explore a specialized topic of particular interest with a faculty member and a small group of students.
Words teaches students to explore the meaning and significance of texts via close reading and analysis, and to express that analysis in writing.
Numbers teaches students to interpret quantitative information presented in various forms and contexts; to understand the logical structure of quantitative arguments; and to use quantitative models, theories, and data to simplify, explain, and make predictions.
- Iris Hu BA ’20
Lewis & Clark is just what I want from college: a community with friendly peers and close student-faculty relationships.
Shanghai, ChinaMore about Iris - Annabelle Rousseau BA ’23
My favorite and most challenging class has been Emerging Topics in Environmental Law with Adjunct Professor Karen Russell. We dove into the history of environmental law in the U.S., and the landmark cases and pieces of legislation that inform the environmental field today.
Modesto, CaliforniaMore about Annabelle - Alexander Castanes BA ’18
I chose sociology and anthropology because I had never been so intellectually stimulated and gratified at the same time. SOAN teaches you how to be human!
Seattle, WashingtonMore about Alexander
First-Year Seminar News
Words and Numbers is located in room 404 of Miller Center on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 83
email GenEd@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7208
Director: Kundai Chirindo
Admin: Dawn Wilson
Words and Numbers
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 83
Portland OR 97219