The First-Year Seminar Program is an opportunity for first and second semester students to investigate a topic in a small (maximum enrollment is 15) class led by some of the University's most able and interesting faculty members. The seminars are open to all first and second semester students; they are not intended for majors or potential majors only. Students may register for only ONE of the courses described below. Students may not enroll in both an Honors Seminar and a First-Year Seminar in the same semester. Some classes are offered for 1 s.h. credit, others for 2 s.h. credit. First-year students attending summer orientation programs will be allowed to register for First-Year Seminars.
NOTE: Because First-Year Seminar topics are determined by individual instructors and may not be repeated, and because these courses are open only to First-Year students, the provisions of the Second-Grade-Only option do not apply to these courses.
000:029:001 2 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Views of the University
John Folkins, Associate Provost
000:029:002 2 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Karl Marx, Dead or Alive?
Tom Lewis, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
002:029 2 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Trees, Not the Forest
Diana Horton, Department of Biological Sciences
07X:029 1 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Chicanos and Popular Culture
Heriberto Godina, College of Education
008:029 2 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Fakes, Forgers, and Plagiarists - The Problem of Originality
Judith Pascoe, Department of English
009:029 1 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Gossip in Literature and Film
Roland Racevskis, Department of French and Italian
012:029 2 s.h. First-Year Seminar: How Continents Grow
C.T. Foster and Mark Reagan, Department of Geoscience
019:029:001 1 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Local and Global Meanings of Sport
Judy Polumbaum, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
019:029:002 1 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Understanding Media
Hanno Hardt, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
22C:002 1 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Living in a Digital World, or Fast Times on the Internet
James Cremer, Department of Computer Science
22C:002 2 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Computation as Deduction
Arthur Fleck, Department of Computer Science
22C:002 1 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Visual Explanations and Visual Persuasions
Joe Kearney, Department of Computer Science
029:039 1 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Work, Leisure, and Your Liberal Education
Benjamin Hunnicutt, Department of Sport, Health, Leisure, and Physical Studies
030:029 1 s.h. First-Year Seminar: The (Mis)Information Society
Douglas Madson, Department of Political Science
030:029 1 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Lawyers in the American Political System
Tim Hagle, Department of Political Science
033:029 2 s.h. First-Year Seminar: What is Storytelling For?
Steve Thunder-McGuire, School of Art and Art History/College of Education
036:029 1 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Can there be Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation in South Africa?
Kathleen Farrell, Communication Studies
154:029 2 s.h. First-Year Seminar: Sex and College Life
Mickey Eliason, College of Nursing Scaling the Ivory Tower