Courses

New College faculty offer courses and laboratories in over 30 academic fields. Sixty-one percent of the courses have 19 or fewer students; only 17 percent have 30 or more students (fall 2001 data). All courses and labs are taught by faculty, none by graduate assistants (there are no graduate students at New College).

Courses typically allow opportunity for discussion, and many involve student presentations of individual and/or team projects. There's an emphasis on use of primary source materials and even introductory courses tend to treat the subject matter in depth. 

Unlike most colleges and universities, New College does not list courses in a catalog. This is because at New College, course offerings change continually to reflect the changing state of knowledge in each field, and changing faculty and student interests. Thus, the course list published has only the courses offered in this particular year or semester, not all courses available. (click here for class schedules and syllabi)

Tutorials
After you get to know members of the faculty, and you develop interests that cannot be fully met through the course offerings, you will formulate ideas for tutorials and independent reading projects. You take your proposal to the appropriate faculty in the appropriate academic field, and if you both agree, you design a plan for study and place the tutorial into your next academic contract.