| Department | Seminar Title | Seminar Description |
| Academic Affairs | Exploring Your Path: Choosing a Major | This seminar offers students who are undecided on a major the chance to learn how academic exploration works at Luther. You'll hear how students discover majors, how advising supports exploration, and why being undecided can be a great place to start. |
| Chemistry | Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Chemistry is the Key to Changing the Hue. | Explore the chemistry of color change by extracting pigments from flowers and learning about how chemistry can help us understand the world around us. |
| Economics, Accounting, and Management | Management and Marketing
in Everyday Life | In this session, you’ll get to hear about the management and marketing experience Prof. Hongxiao Yu brings from her career. You’ll also explore what a Management or Marketing major can open up for you—both in your future job and in everyday life. And of course, come see the hands-on projects and real experiences you can jump into as a Luther student. |
| Education | Aspiring to be the Next Great Educator! | Who sparked your potential?
We’ve all had that one legendary teacher who changed the game—the one who made school matter and helped you find your voice. What if you could be that person for someone else?
Get the inside scoop from current Luther students who are already on that path. They asked the big questions about what makes a teacher great, and they’re ready to share their stories. If you want to make a real impact, come hear how it starts. |
| Education/Music | Rock Band 101 | This hands-on session will provide a brief introduction to guitar, keyboard, drums, and bass. Never played a drum set before? Never strummed an electric guitar? This is your chance. No experience preferred! |
| Environmental Studies | Luther's Path to Carbon Neutrality | Sustainability is a core value at Luther College and one of the ways we live out that value is through our commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030. We’ve reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by more than 72% since 2004 through improving our energy efficiency and investing in renewable electricity generation and purchase. But what’s next? What are the options as Luther continues to make progress toward complete carbon neutrality? Seminar participants will learn about the rapidly changing landscape in the clean energy transition both nationally and on campus as we discuss pathways to carbon neutrality. |
| Global Health | Global Health at Luther College | Explore Global Health adventures at Luther College, and get a taste for population health at a local and global level. |
| History | Material Culture and Identity | What do the objects we own communicate about who we are? This seminar will delve into the questions we might ask of objects in order to better understand their greater meanings. The seminar will be based on a class activity and focus of the history course Scandinavian Immigration to the United States regularly offered at Luther and include objects and images from Vesterheim Museum's collection. |
| International Studies | Engaging with a Wider World | Join a conversation about engaging with a wider world by examining how the United Nations operates. You will learn how International Studies majors are encouraged to think globally, ask big questions, and connect their learning to the world around them. |
| Modern Languages and Cultures | Study Abroad Opportunities in the Spanish-Speaking World | Hear ¡en español! about short-term and long-term study abroad opportunities in Spanish speaking countries. Spanish majors and minors at Luther spend time abroad immersing themselves in language and culture. Faculty and current students will show you where our students go and what they do while studying abroad. You will also have a chance to share your own travel and study abroad experiences while practicing your language skills. |
| Music | Anybody Can Make music! Universal Design for Learning in Music Education | Have you ever tried to teach an instrument to a young student but they are just not getting it? Worry not! Universal Design for Learning can inform creative practices for teaching! Learn how to teach your instrumentalists fun and engaging ways of making music together with research-based best practices that seek to include everybody in your classroom. |
| Music | John Williams' Film Scores | We'll explore iconic moments in several films scored by John Williams, focusing on how music and image interact to create dramatic tension and vivid characterizations. |
| Nursing | Using Nursing Simulation to Save Nursing Lives | This seminar is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Luther College’s Nursing Program and tour the nursing labs and simulation center. Students will have the opportunity to practice nursing assessments and skills as well as observe a manikin in simulation. Current students will discuss their experiences and help throughout the seminar as available. |
| Physics/Engineering | Discovery, Exploration, and Innovation: the Worlds of Physics and Engineering Science | The deeply intertwined fields of Physics and Engineering offer the opportunity for curious people to explore interesting and important questions: What makes the universe tick? What all is out there yet to be found? How does it all work? How can what we learn help us to create new technologies and address complex, unsolved problems that society needs answers to? For us at Luther, curiosity and the drive to experience the pleasure of finding things out (a catch phrase of one of our favorite physicists, Richard Feynman) is paramount. In this seminar, you’ll learn from faculty and current students about some of the many questions we are exploring and how our programs at Luther help set students on the path to their future. |
| Political Science/Law and Values | The Interdisciplinary Nature of the Law and Values Major | Luther's Law and Values major includes courses from political science, economics, and philosophy. Hear how our students learn to debate the big questions relating to law, policy and the common good. This seminar will examine how the Supreme Court operates by using current cases as examples. |
| Psychology | Yuck, that's disgusting: Why certain things gross us out | Have you ever wondered why, across the globe, the dark is something people fear, and the same types of things gross us all out? Evolutionary psychologists explain these phenomena by examining our thoughts and behaviors through a biological lens. Come learn why certain things make us say, “Yuck!” |
| Theatre | The Story of West Side Story | Discover the events that brought together the creative team that produced the hit musical West Side Story. |