FYS - First Year Seminar

FYS 011 International Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
FYS 012 Reading Photographs
FYS 013 Deviance
FYS 014 Individualism in American Culture, Character, and Society
FYS 015 The Endurance of Race
FYS 017 Making Change Democratically
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 022 Cinema, Mind, and Morals
FYS 023 Baseball: The One Constant Through All The Years
FYS 025 FÚTBOL: The Beautiful Game
FYS 026 Plagues: Past & Present
FYS 027 Death on Screens
FYS 028 Money: The Root of all Evil?
FYS 031 What Is a Miracle
FYS 032 What is a River?
FYS 033 Gambling: Here and Everywhere
FYS 035 Technology & Society: Semiconductor Era
FYS 036 Trials of the Century
FYS 037 I Cannot Live Without Books (or Liberal Arts)
FYS 039 Music and Gender
FYS 040 Geological Disasters: Agents of Chaos
FYS 041 Crazy in Love: The History and Science of Romantic Feeling
FYS 043 Charisma
FYS 044 Multiculturalism in the Medieval Mediterranean World
FYS 047 Life Sciences: a Human Endeavor in the Misinformation Age
FYS 049 Global Food
FYS 052 Weaponized Media: Living in a World of Bots, Trolls, and Disinformation
FYS 054 Indigenous and Settler Sites of Memory
FYS 055 Leaving Downtown: Race, Ethnicity, and the Creation of the Suburbs
FYS 056 The Worlds in Cookbooks: A Socio-Cultural Approach
FYS 057 Politics and Polling
FYS 059 Feed the World
FYS 060 Jewish Writing
FYS 061 Your Immune System: Friend or Foe?
FYS 063 Jewish Humor
FYS 064 Global Justice
FYS 066 Do You Feel My Pain?
FYS 068 Mobilizing Science
FYS 069 Popular Culture and Political Resistance in the Middle East
FYS 072 Ice Age
FYS 074 The Never-Ending Trojan War
FYS 075 Technological Citizenship
FYS 076 Land of Mystery: The Language and Culture of Modern China
FYS 077 The Dog Course
FYS 078 Monsters & Monstrosities
FYS 080 Creature: Animals in Contemporary Culture
FYS 084 Music, Art, and Literature in the Year 1944-1945
FYS 085 Asian Martial Arts in the West
FYS 086 Propaganda
FYS 087 Sustainable Cities: Urban Infrastructure and Equity
FYS 088 Communicating with the Dead
FYS 089 Virtue
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 098 Misadventure
FYS 102 Color: A History of Making and Meaning
FYS 106 Mate Choice: From People to Peacocks
FYS 109 Understanding Design
FYS 111 Social Justice and the Birth of the Interfaith Movement
FYS 113 Why Peace Fails
FYS 114 The Values of Cinema
FYS 117 Demonstrating Science
FYS 118 Fear
FYS 122 Psychology and the Media
FYS 124 Meaning and Morality in Fiction
FYS 125 Love and War in Indian Thought
FYS 127 Self and Other in Historical Asian Thought
FYS 129 War Stories
FYS 131 Order and Justice in the World Community: The Resolution of National Disputes
FYS 132 Pursuits of Happiness
FYS 136 Learning Science
FYS 138 Theater and Social Justice
FYS 141 The Mathematics of Social Justice
FYS 143 Coffee
FYS 144 Making Sex: History of Sexuality
FYS 145 Quilts: Fabric that Communicates
FYS 148 Melding Mind and Machine
FYS 150 A Plastic World
FYS 151 In the Media
FYS 153 Designer Genes: The Science and Ethics of Genome Editing
FYS 156 Narratives of Mental Illness
FYS 157 Islands and Isolation
FYS 158 Nonviolence: Theory and Practice
FYS 161 Songwriter's Voice
FYS 162 Music in European Society
FYS 165 Stories from the Archive
FYS 166 Atheists, “Nones,” and the “Spiritual But Not Religious”
FYS 167 Animals in History
FYS 169 The 1960s: The Causes and the Effects of Social Change
FYS 171 The Sounds of Silence
FYS 173 Latinx
FYS 174 This IsYour Brain on Drugs
FYS 175 Science or Pseudoscience?
FYS 179 Leveraging Social Entrepreneurship to Alleviate Poverty and Unfreedoms
FYS 180 From Fred Rogers to Taylor Swift: the Influence of America’s Public Theologians
FYS 183 A Sense of Place: Gender, Environmentalism, and the First-Year Experience.
FYS 188 The Participation Economy
FYS 189 Silk Roads and Sea Routes: East-West Trade and Intercultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Times
FYS 192 Facing the Fetus: Perspectives on the Abortion Controversy
FYS 193 Meaning in Light: Cinema and Philosophy
FYS 195 Russia Today Through Fiction and Film
FYS 196 Exploring Chinese Culture

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