TAP is an elective program for first-year students in the College of Arts & Sciences that combines an interactive course environment with careful academic advising. In TAP, students enroll in a small-group seminar on a topic of common interest. The seminar encourages you to approach major issues from a variety of points of view, develop your own creative projects, and express yourself in speech and writing. Your professor, doubling as your academic advisor, helps you further explore your interests and reach your academic goals.
These web pages describe our TAP seminars for the 2008-2009 academic year: their meeting times, the requirements they satisfy, some information about the faculty member who will be teaching the course, and how you can contact him/her for further information.
Interested students choose between two kinds of involvement: semester-long departmental seminars (see menu to the left) and yearlong interdisciplinary seminar programs - the Integrated Humanities Program (IHP), the Integrated Social Sciences Program (ISSP), and the Integrated Study of Earth and the Environment (ISEE) program. Because we offer three interdisciplinary programs and more than 50 departmental seminars, we are confident you will find some excellent seminars of interest.
You can enroll in Fall Teacher-Advisor Program seminars simply by registering in a TAP course during UVM's June Orientation sessions. You can be admitted to Interdisciplinary Programs earlier, and we encourage you to apply before coming to Orientation. For brochures and application forms that more fully describe these programs and the application procedures, contact the professors listed under their respective program. Please also feel free to contact Lise Larose in the Dean's Office (802-656-3344 or lise.larose@uvm.edu) with any questions you may have about TAP courses.
This year's TAP Booklet (Adobe PDF)
Last modified June 23 2008 02:21 PM
