NB: For the Fall 2021 semester, Penn is hosting both New Student Orientation preceptorials for incoming freshmen and Second-Year Orientation preceptorials for sophomores. Collegium Institute is offering a Socrates on College preceptorial for both NSO and SYO. This page is for the NSO preceptorial. To learn more and sign up for the SYO preceptorial, click here.
Imagine if, after a sabbatical of some 2400 years, Socrates reawakened as your academic advisor: what wisdom might he have about how to go about getting an “education” here at Penn? In this NSO Preceptorial, we will reflect together on some of Plato’s writings on the conditions and ends of learning. Whether these issues have long bothered you or you’ve never considered them before, please join us for a convivial first seminar with Collegium at Penn. No prior reading is required.
Penn Professors Dr. Daniel Cheely (Director of the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society) and Dr. Ralph Rosen (Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Classical Studies) will lead this interactive, conversational seminar.
Date: Saturday, August 28, 2021
Time: 11:00am–12:30pm
Location: TBA
Registration: This seminar is open only to incoming freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania. Sign up by clicking the button below!