The core of Collegiate Seminar is four courses that explore major texts and ideas of Western civilization, with readings literature, history, philosophy, science, politics, and art:

• SEM 001: Critical Strategies and Great Questions 
• SEM 002:  Western Tradition I 
• SEM 102:  Western Tradition I for Transfers
• SEM 103:  Western Tradition II
• SEM 104:  The Global Conversation of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Students may also enroll in two optional courses that investigate multicultural and non-western writing. Both of these electives may substitute for SEM 103 only:

• SEM 146: Common Good: Earth as a Shared Inheritance (Fall)
• SEM 144:  Multicultural Thought (Spring)

The Texts Online - provided by the Saint Mary's College library Web site.