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First-year seminars (FYS) have become increasingly prevalent in North American postsecondary institutions. The popularity of such initiatives owes much to the belief that providing unprepared students general life and aca- demic skills can bolster engagement and thereby improve retention. In this paper we argue that, despite their good intentions, many FYS actually per- petuate the kind of disengagement they were designed to alleviate due to their reliance on a narrow, instrumental view of education. To demonstrate, we briefly outline the history and curricula of the FYS movement to draw at - tention to its dependence on marketplace ideals, rationales, and strategies. We demonstrate some of the ways this vision of education impoverishes the university experience and suggest that, in order to be robust, FYS must focus first and foremost on cultivating rich understandings of the broader purposes of higher education and its relation to the good life, both for and beyond one’s own fulfillment. Resume Les seminaires de premiere annee sont devenus de plus en plus repandus dans les enstitutions d post-secondaires en Amerique du Nord. La popularite de telles initiatives doit beaucoup a l’idee que le fait de fournir des aptitudes generales et academiques aux etudiants non prepares peut renforcer leur engagement et ainsi ameliorer leur taux de retention. Dans cet article, nous soutenons que, malgre leurs bonnes intentions, beaucoup de sention. Dans cet aere annee perpetuent le meme genre de desengagement qu’ils essaient  d’attenuer en raison de leur dependance envers une vision instrumentale mais etroite de l’education. Pour le demontrer, nous decrivons brievement l’histoire et les programmes de ce mouvement qui vise a attirer l’attention sur sa dependance a l’egard des ideaux de marche, des justifications et des strategies. Nous demontrons quelques-unes des facons par lesquelles cette vision de l’education appauvrit l’experience universitaire et nous suggerons que pour etre robustes, les seminaires de premiere annee doivent d’abord se concentrer a cultiver la richesse de comprehension des objectifs plus larges de l’enseignement superieur et de sa relation au bien-vivre, pour la r ur n-viv personnelle des etudiants et au-dela.

The Problem of First-Year Seminars: Risking Disengagement Through Marketplace Ideals