专为高度积极的一年级学生, the 网关程序 are open by invitation to students who have specific interests and experience.

Gateway programs are living and learning communities where first-year students learn deeply in a specialized area with a small group of like-minded students starting in their first semester of college. Students form relationships with students and faculty who share their interests, and they participate in experiences on and off campus that engage them in new ways of learning and thinking. Gateway programs are for students who want to delve deeply into a specialized, interdisciplinary learning area and develop scholarly understanding, 人际关系网, 以及关于这个话题的个人经历.

社区行动门户 engages students in learning to create social change in their communities through critical thinking about today’s complex issues, 与当地的变革者交谈和合作, and taking action through collaborative research projects in 哈特福德.

  • 导演:艾丽卡·克劳利
  • Curriculum: Two seminars to be taken in a student’s first and second semesters on campus – Envisioning Social Change and Building Knowledge for Social Change. 参与者还将设计和执行实践, 哈特福德的合作社区研究项目.

在特立尼达讲课的学生 全球健康人文门户 provides opportunities for students to use tools and methods from the humanities to analyze health and healthcare locally and globally; by examining ethical questions, 批评不公正, 并与哈特福德的不同社区接触, students gain an understanding of the human experience of health.

  • 导演:艾琳·弗莱米尔 & 戴安娜波林
  • 课程设置:第一年, students take two gateway courses—全球健康及人文学科: An Introduction and Rhetorics of Health and 哈特福德. 的 first course introduces the central issues and questions that are shaping the interdisciplinary field of 全球健康及人文学科, such as how medical practices overlap with questions about the human condition explored in other disciplinary arenas, 比如哲学, 文学, 宗教, 电影, 和艺术. 的 second course extends this inquiry into hands-on projects in the 哈特福德 community. Students also take one course from a list of health-related electives during their first year. Students then complete a capstone project by studying health abroad or completing an independent community project in 哈特福德.

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人文门户计划 offers students an opportunity for intensive study of some of the most significant texts and ideas found throughout European traditions; its interdisciplinary core curriculum, co-taught by top faculty from Trinity’s departments of Philosophy, 古典研究, 宗教研究, 历史, 英语, 和语言 & 文化研究, traces the resonance of key concepts across time and place, 从古代到现在.

  • 导演:Julia Goesser Assaiante & 加布里埃尔霍农
  • Curriculum: Four classes over a student’s first two semesters at Trinity. 的se thematically linked seminars involve studying 文学, 历史, 哲学, 和宗教, and each semester builds on what was learned in the previous semester. Students take 2-3 classes outside of HMTS gateway each semester. 的 program works to develop critical thinking skills and an interdisciplinary approach to academic study.

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InterArts程序 offers first year students a cross-disciplinary curriculum that challenges them to think and make art that is both personal and pertinent to the times that we live in; it is taught by faculty from the departments of 音乐, 戏剧和舞蹈, 电影研究, 美术, 还有创意写作.

  • 导演:Lynn Sullivan & 丽贝卡·帕帕斯
  • Curriculum: Two required courses and two electives in their first year. 的 seminars are entitled Art and Artists and Art Views and Practices. 选修课必须是艺术实践课程, 但可以在学生选择的区域(舞蹈), 剧院, 音乐, 视觉艺术, 创意写作, 或电影). InterArts students are given priority registration into high demand classes across arts disciplines.

工程实验室学生

跨学科科学计划(ISP) focuses on how modern science is done and the various interactions between science and society, 而且重要的是, pairs high-achieving students in their first year with STEM faculty to do original research.

  • 导演:艾莉森·德雷珀
  • Curriculum: Three courses, one in each of a student’s first three semesters at Trinity. Students start with 的 Process of Discovery their first semester, 然后在春天做个研究学徒. Students can elect to stay on campus for 10 weeks in the summer to continue the research they began during their apprenticeship. 另外, students must complete two semesters of a lab science, 两个学期的数学, and an elective from a list of pre-approved courses that deal with science and society.