FYS - First Year Seminar

FYS 011 International Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
FYS 012 Photography and Race in America
FYS 013 Deviance
FYS 014 Individualism in American Culture, Character, and Society
FYS 015 The Endurance of Race
FYS 016 Zombies! From Slaves to Cannibals
FYS 017 An Element of Risk
FYS 018 Ten Ways to Know Nature
FYS 019 From Magical Mushrooms to Cereal Killers: How Fungi Have Shaped Human Civilization
FYS 020 Appalachia
FYS 021 Masculinities: Maleness in Contemporary American Culture
FYS 022 Cinema, Mind, and Morals
FYS 023 Baseball: The One Constant Through All The Years
FYS 024 Human Aggression and Social Pathology
FYS 025 The American College Student
FYS 026 Abortion, Morality, and the Law
FYS 027 Life, Liberty, and Equality: Contemporary Political Controversies
FYS 028 Money: The Root of all Evil?
FYS 029 Mind Benders, Ways of Knowing, or a Course in Paradigms
FYS 030 Vision: It's as plain as the nose on your face or Is It?
FYS 031 What Is a Miracle
FYS 032 Who Am I and Why Am I Here?""
FYS 033 Wild Imaginings: The Creative Process
FYS 034 Originality
FYS 036 Trials of the Century
FYS 037 The Human Animal
FYS 038 Animal Voices
FYS 039 Music and Gender
FYS 040 Geological Disasters: Agents of Chaos
FYS 041 Crazy in Love: Romantic Love in the Western World
FYS 042 The Life We Write: An Introduction to Chican@ Literature and Culture
FYS 043 Charisma
FYS 044 Multiculturalism in the Medieval Mediterranean World
FYS 045 Cotton
FYS 046 Gender, Sexuality, and Media
FYS 049 Global Food
FYS 050 Miles Davis: Popular Music and Race in America
FYS 051 Toward Cultural Literacy: De-mystifying the Non-Western World
FYS 052 The Great Late Soviet Union
FYS 053 Overcoming the Wall: German Unification and Its Aftermath
FYS 054 The Revolutionary Vision: Europe 1642-1991
FYS 055 Leaving Downtown: Race, Ethnicity, and the Creation of the Suburbs
FYS 057 Politics and Polling
FYS 058 Icons: Art, Magic, Ritual, and Technology
FYS 059 Feed the World
FYS 060 The Real World: The Challenge of Managing Change in the Business Environment
FYS 061 Your Immune System: Friend or Foe?
FYS 062 Discussions on Diversity: Strategies for Creating Change
FYS 063 Jazz Issues
FYS 064 Global Justice
FYS 065 The Uses and Abuses of Science in Science Fiction
FYS 066 How Is Greatness Possible?
FYS 069 Monuments
FYS 070 Oil, Politics, and the Environment
FYS 071 Race and Class
FYS 072 Power, Principle, and Personality in American Leadership
FYS 073 Technology and the City: Chicago and New York
FYS 074 Questers of Extremes
FYS 075 Majesty: Monarchy, the British Royal Family, and its Artistic Celebration and Depiction
FYS 076 Land of Mystery: The Language and Culture of Modern China
FYS 077 The Dog Course
FYS 078 Baseball
FYS 079 The Cactus Throne: The Changing Image of Mexico and Its People
FYS 080 Creature: Animals in Contemporary Culture
FYS 081 Highs and Lows: Reading Culture
FYS 082 Reason and Folly
FYS 083 Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse
FYS 084 Music, Art, and Literature in the Year 1944-1945
FYS 085 Asian Martial Arts in the West
FYS 086 Propaganda
FYS 087 Distant Mirrors, Performing Selves
FYS 088 Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: The Appeal of Evil in Western Culture
FYS 089 Virtue
FYS 090 Life Writing
FYS 091 Serious Games and Critical Contexts
FYS 092 Forging the Human: Sci-Fi and Fantasy in Russian and East-European Culture
FYS 094 Bread
FYS 095 Visualizing Immigration
FYS 096 Civil Engagement, Leadership, and Social Change
FYS 097 Latinos, Latinas, and the U.S
FYS 099 Satan, Devils, Demons, and the Other
FYS 101 TenLive Concerts
FYS 102 On Cooking, Culture, and Cinema
FYS 103 The Problem of Peace in the Modern World
FYS 104 Encounters with Infinity
FYS 106 Mate Choice: From People to Peacocks
FYS 107 Innovation of Warfare
FYS 108 The Art of Letter Writing
FYS 109 Understanding Design
FYS 110 E Pluribus Unum: The European Union and the Surrender of Sovereignty
FYS 111 Social Justice and the Birth of the Interfaith Movement
FYS 112 Once Upon a Time: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney and Beyond
FYS 113 Womens Coming-of-Age Narratives: A Multicultural Exploration
FYS 114 The Values of Cinema
FYS 115 Predicting Human Behavior: The Science and Culture of Testing
FYS 116 The Manipulation of Appearances
FYS 118 Fear
FYS 119 Great Breakthroughs
FYS 120 Theater and Visual Culture
FYS 121 Election Rhetoric
FYS 122 Psychology and the Media
FYS 123 Elvis Everywhere
FYS 124 Meaning and Morality in Fiction
FYS 125 Love and War in Indian Thought
FYS 126 Satire, Media, and Politics
FYS 128 Germany's Third Reich
FYS 129 War Stories
FYS 130 Fabulous Fictions: Fairy Tales and the Modern World
FYS 131 Order and Justice in the World Community: The Resolution of National Disputes
FYS 132 Pursuits of Happiness
FYS 133 Human Flight: Magic and Madness
FYS 135 Entrepreneurial Environment: Exploring Innovation, Risk and Value
FYS 136 Learning Science
FYS 137 Unity of the Sciences and Ethical Consequences
FYS 138 Theater and Social Justice
FYS 139 Race, Gender, and Social Issues in Public Policy
FYS 140 The Right to Privacy
FYS 141 The Mathematics of Social Justice
FYS 142 Taking It To The Streets: The Theory And Practice Of Community Arts In Urban America
FYS 144 Science: A Human Endeavor
FYS 145 Quilts: Fabric that Communicates
FYS 146 Paradoxes
FYS 147 A War within a War: The American Bombing Campaigns against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan
FYS 148 Melding Mind and Machine
FYS 149 Living with a Serial Killer: Life on Planet Earth
FYS 151 In the Media
FYS 153 Nanotechnology: Less Really is More
FYS 154 Nanotechnology and Modern Society
FYS 155 Asian Immigration and Assimilation into America
FYS 156 Narratives of Mental Illness
FYS 157 Islands and Isolation
FYS 158 Nonviolence: Theory and Practice
FYS 162 Music in European Society
FYS 163 Power and Political Cartoons
FYS 164 'Us' and 'Them': The Human Group Imperative
FYS 165 Stories from the Archive
FYS 166 Atheism and Skepticism
FYS 167 Beyond Belief
FYS 169 The 1960s: The Causes and the Effects of Social Change
FYS 170 Art, Morality, and the Limits of Expression
FYS 171 The Sounds of Silence
FYS 172 Adventure and Exploration Meet the 21st Century
FYS 173 ¡Latin@s!
FYS 174 This IsYour Brain on Drugs
FYS 175 Science or Pseudoscience?
FYS 176 America at War in the 20th Century
FYS 177 The Year 1912-1913: Music, Art, and Literature Anticipating WWI
FYS 178 Mental Illnesss, Disability Studies, and Popular Culture
FYS 179 Leveraging Social Entrepreneurship to Alleviate Poverty and Unfreedoms
FYS 181 No Child Left Behind? Education, Social Justice, and the United States
FYS 182 Finding Happiness
FYS 183 A Sense of Place: Gender, Environmentalism, and the First-Year Experience.
FYS 186 Literacy in the Digital Age
FYS 188 Democracy 2.0: Movements and Markets in the Participation Economy
FYS 189 Silk Roads and Sea
FYS 190 Biology of Women
FYS 191 Crossroads of the 21st Century
FYS 192 Facing the Fetus: Perspectives on the Abortion Controversy
FYS 193 Meaning in Light: Cinema and Philosophy
FYS 194 Cries, Pleas, and Roars: Statements of Identity in Modern Music
FYS 195 Russia Today
FYS 196 Exploring Chinese Culture
FYS 197 Deconstructing "Africa"

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