First-Year Seminars are an array of specially designed courses offered only to first-year students. Students choose from dozens of intriguing seminars creatively designed to hone writing, speaking, critical thinking, and other learning skills. Each seminar is built around a provocative personal interest of the instructor.
- Enrollment is limited to 16
- FYS classes encourage participation and discussion
- To keep conversation going outside the classroom, members of each seminar are assigned to the same residence hall
Seminars
FYS-102-3 The World's Children
FYS-107 The Bush Administration: Approach to the War on Terror, Torture, and Prisoners of War.
FYS-110-3 The Literature of Vocation
FYS-112-2 Connecting Here and There, and Now and Then: Developing Global Imagination
FYS-114 Propaganda, Persuasion and the Public Sphere: Democracy in an Age of Mass Media
FYS-115-3 Electoral Politics: Parties, Procedures, Strategies and Reform
FYS-118-2 Why Jazz Matters: The Legacy of Pops, Duke, and Miles
FYS-121-3 Soldiers’ Tales – Reading and Writing War
FYS-126-2 Do’h! Psychology and The Simpsons
FYS-128-2 Shakespeare: Then & Now!
FYS-128-3 Shakespeare’s Sisters: Women’s Literature in English
FYS-130-1 Women's Health and Sexuality
FYS-130-2 Pills, Potions, Poisons, and Pathogens: Exploring the Mysterious World of Fungi
FYS-135-2 The Secret Life of Puppets
FYS-136-3 I Think, Therefore I Write: Philosophy in French Fiction
FYS-138-2 Plato, Personhood, and Popcorn: Big Ideas on the Big Screen
FYS-139-2 Logic, Brain, and Society: Critical Thinking and How To Stop It
FYS-141-3 But Is It Crazy Enough?
FYS-146-2 Cryptography: The Science of Secrecy
FYS-150 Death and the Meaning of Life
FYS-155-2 Cancer in Society: A War Against Immortality
FYS-156-2 Green Eggs And Government Cheese: Food For Environmental Sustainability
FYS-157-2 Food, Water, Shelter, Song: Staying Human on a Planet in Transition
FYS-159-3 The Romance and Trauma of Exile
FYS-165 Anarchism and the Anarchist
FYS-172-2 Science and Technology Italian StyleScience & Tech Italian Style
FYS-176-2 Lasers: Light and Easy!
FYS-177 Complementary Medicine: A Cultural and Scientific Inquiry
FYS-178 An Experimental Avatar: Discovering Economics
FYS-178-2 Voice of the Rebel in America
FYS-179 Language in a Multicultural America
FYS-180-3 This Film Inspired By: Screening Multicultural Literature
FYS-181-2 Rewriting the Past: Historical Fiction and History
FYS-183 Investigate the Battlefield of Gettysburg
FYS-183-4 Blood on the Moon: Literature and the American Civil War
FYS-185-2 The Long Shadow of the Civil War
FYS-192-3 Yoga: Ancient Philosophy, Global Phenomenon
FYS-193-2 Cultural Perspectives on the Body
FYS-198-2 Tryin' to find a Way Back Home: Introduction to Literature of Homelessness in America
