The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.

Seminar Description: Rowing is one of the most celebrated sports in the 152 year history of UC Berkeley. The first crews were formed in the latter half of the 19th century and the men's program rose to prominence in the roaring twenties when a crew from Cal representing the USA won the gold medal for men's 8 with coxswains at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Cal crews repeated this feat in 1932 and 1948. Much of this history is documented in Daniel Brown's "Boys in the Boat." To this day, Cal men's rowing remains one of the premier collegiate rowing programs in the world. Women's rowing rose to prominence in the 1970s and have claimed the NCAA national championship in 2005, 2006, 2016 and 2018. In this seminar, we will explore the remarkable history of rowing at UC Berkeley.

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