Freshman Seminar Revisited

Freshman Seminar is a mandatory course that is only worth one credit and holds a pass/fail status. From the first few lectures, most students cannot see the greater message the class holds. But looking back, I could now see the pattern each lecture furthered; the main point being the empowerment of black academics and the society as a whole.

The course also acclimates students to HU living and being a part of the "chocolate city", meaning the amount of issues facing blacks in all different circumstances could be studied and experienced at Howard. Other courses like Intro to Humanities and the Black Diaspora also look at the black academia, which is unique to most schools, even some HBCU's.

Freshman seminar also specifically applies history to current culture; it looks at the struggle of African Americans, who were not given anything, to gain equal opportunity for all minorities today. But through education we must now see that the struggle is not over and the battle needs to be rejuvenated by our generation.