First-Year Seminar Course Descriptions
Fall Semester
FYSP courses available for fall 2013
- 012. Socialism: Real and Imagined
- 055. Encountering Water: Worship, Fear, and Appropriation in the History of H2O
- 056. Music and the Search for Unity in Russian History
- 057. Disability in Literature
- 058. Religion and Film
- 059. Thinking Like a Scientist
- 060. Creativity, Innovation, and Design: Finding and Following One’s Muse
- 061. Magic, Metamorphosis, and the Artistic Imagination
- 062. Femmes Fatales
- 063. Literature of Carnivals, Circuses and Festivals
- 064. The Last Days of Pompeii
- 065. Cleopatra in History and the Imagination
- 066. Jane Austen Then and Now
- 067. Agreeing to Disagree: The Mathematics and Philosophy of Cooperation
- 068. The Synaptic Self
- 070. Uncle Sam(urai): Japan-U.S. Encounters since 1853
- 071. Pirates and Piracy in Times Past
- 072. Bodies in Play: Athletics, Identity and Culture in America
- 076. The Privileged and the Marginalized: History and Culture of American Colleges and Universities
- 078. Atomic Histories and Nuclear Nightmares
- 089. Heretics and Infidels: Muslims, Christians, Jews and the Legacy of the Middle Ages
- 094. Das Kapital
- 097. Russian Modernism: The Aesthetic Utopia
- 105. Staying Sane in a Crazy World: The Human Impact of War, Terrorism, and Natural Disasters
- 119. The First Amendment and the Internet
- 128. Media and Memory
- 129. Coming of Age in African Literature
- 131. How Early Jews and Christians Rewrote the Bible
- 132. Searching for Utopia: Episodes in American History
- 134. Crossing Borders: The Mysteries of Identity
- 141. Manga Genji
- 143. Deconstructing Technology
- 144. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 154. Freud’s Vienna: Artists, Intellectuals, and Anti-Semites at the Fin de Siècle
- 174. Technologies of Writing: From Plato to the Digital Age
- 183. The Literature of War, Resistance, and Reconciliation
- 190. Rationality, Objectivity, and Truth in Science
- 193. Beyond Disbelief: Can Poems Tell the Truth?
- 197. Cats, Cattle, and Corn: On the Origin of Domesticated Species
- 198. I Knew It All Along
Spring Semester
