Explore IntroSems Skip to main content Skip to secondary navigation The IntroSems Catalog for 2026-27 is available now! Read about this year's courses and enter your choices for pre-enrollment starting August 12. Your Autumn choices are due by August 26. Heads-up! Some seminar pages on this website note that an IntroSem has been historically oversubscribed during the selection process. An oversubscribed course is one that receives more requests than available seats. As a result, faculty may be able to review and select from only a portion of the students who requested the course. Find Your Seminar Explore IntroSems Space Available Choose Search this site Submit Search Menu Home How Enrollment Works Seminars At a GlanceDates and Deadlines Choose Curiosity Booklet Seminar Updates Space Available About Explore IntroSems Main content start Choose Curiosity. Choose IntroSems. IntroSems let you explore in small, discussion-based seminars with some of Stanford's most esteemed professors and accomplished instructors. These academic classes are designed specifically for frosh, sophomore, and first-year transfer students as engaging and accessible ways for Stanford’s newest undergrads to get to know Stanford faculty, a discipline at a research university, and a peer community without having to go through survey classes or preliminary materials first. Enter your choices for pre-enrollment each quarter. Get to Know Your Professors Mentorship Cutting-edge scholarship Course Diversity 200 options from 60 departments Explore a potential major or minor Expand Your Community Find meaningful connections with other frosh, sophomore, and first-year transfer students Build real connections right away Learning in the Classroom — and outside of it. Hands-on activities Field trips Fulfill Your Requirements — No Prerequisites Needed. Course units that count towards graduation units A potential avenue for completing a Ways requirement Filter on what interests you from Seminars in the main menu. What Faculty Say "Stanford undergraduates are unique in their ability and desire to engage with the most difficult questions on the most pressing issues. I've benefited greatly from their fresh perspective on an intractable issue. Seeing them both grow through their exposure to a completely new issue and learning from their fantastic insights has been the most enjoyable piece of teaching an IntroSem." — IntroSems Faculty from the Stanford Law School Reasons to Make IntroSems part of your Stanford journey... Back to Top Stanford Explore IntroSems Web Login Address Sweet Hall 2nd Floor 590 Escondido Mall Mail Code: 3068 Stanford, CA 94305 United States Visit Campus Map Stanford Undergrad Instagram Contact Us [email protected] (650) 724-2405 Links Introductory Seminars Program Site Stanford Introductory Studies Stanford Undergrad About VPUE Submit a New IntroSem Visit this page to submit a new Introductory Seminar. Stanford VPUE Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Stanford Undergrad is your guide to undergraduate academics and opportunities found within the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. Sweet Hall 590 Escondido Mall Stanford, CA 94305 map Connect with us! Stanford Facebook Stanford Instagram Youtube Need help? [email protected] (650)723-4463 More to Explore Academic Advising Research and Independent Projects Tutoring and Support For Faculty / Staff VPUE Units Academic Advising Bing Overseas Studies Programs Center for Teaching and Learning Haas Center for Public Service Program in Writing and Rhetoric Stanford Introductory Studies Vice Provost’s Office VPUE Programs Approaching Stanford (APSU) Arts Intensive (AI) Bing Honors College (BHC) Bing Overseas Studies Programs (BOSP) Cardinal Service Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) Education as Self-Fashioning (ESF) Frosh 101 / Transfer 101 Hume Center for Writing and Speaking Introductory Seminars (IntroSems) ITALIC: Immersion in the Arts New Student Orientation (NSO) Office of Global Scholarships Oral Communication Program Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) Sophomore College (SoCo) Structured Liberal Education (SLE) Student Learning Programs Summer Bridge Program Summer Fellows Program (SSFP) Research and Independent Projects Ways of Thinking / Ways of Doing (WAYS) Stanford University (link is external) Stanford Home (link is external) Maps & Directions (link is external) Search Stanford (link is external) Emergency Info (link is external) Terms of Use (link is external) Privacy (link is external) Copyright (link is external) Trademarks (link is external) Non-Discrimination (link is external) Accessibility (link is external) © Stanford University. Stanford, California 94305.