Our son is a freshman as well and in a small liberal arts college. One thing we did was used this website a ss a guide to selecting a school, www.isi.org. They publish a guide for colleges based on 1) the american experience and 2) western civilation/great books. While he has not decided on a major he is required as a first year to a sequence of classes on the great books in western civilization (regardless of major). Hopefully this heps.