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Previous First Year Seminars and Summer Readings
2008-2009
Summer reading: A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki
First year seminars
Amazing New Products: Changing Our World Forever
Are We Alone? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
C. S. Lewis: Faith and Fiction
Darwin and the Galápagos Islands
Do You Believe Everything You Read?
Elections through the Looking Glass
Epidemics: Past, Present and Future
The Food We Eat: From the Local to the Global
From Black & White to Color: Race & Ethnicity in American Film
GMO’s: Friend or Foe? Facts and Myths on the Subject of Genetically Modified Foods and Organisms
I Want to Be a Quantum Mechanic
The Many Faces of Leadership
Medicine, Morality, and Mortality
Million Dollar Baby: Ethical Issues in the Context of Modern Medicine
Nanotechnology and Our Future: Science, Ethics, and Societal Changes
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict as Seen by Authors from Both Sides
Reincarnation: The Allure of Having Lived Before
Science or Fiction? Science in Context
Spanish-American Cultural Narrative: Views from South of the Border
The Parable in Ancient and Modern Thought
Ten Global Problems and What You Can Do Today to Solve Them
Travelers’ Tales and Other Adventures
When Identities Intersect
Writing through Darkness
Your Food, Your Table
2007-2008
Summer reading: The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
First year seminars
Ancient Greek Myths as a Source of History
Collision of Two Hemispheres: The Creative and Analytical Mind?
Consciousness and Unconsciousness in the Modern World
Contemporary American Theatre
Culture and Self
Culture: What Are We Doing About It?
From South Africa to New Orleans: Economic Influences on Education
Funny Men and Funny Women
Math and More in the Plays of Tom Stoppard
Mental Illness Across Time and Culture
Million Dollar Baby: Ethical Issues in the Context of Modern Medicine
Multicultural England: ‘Racing’ Between the Global and the Local
Music and Identity
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict as Seen by Authors from Both Sides
Rags to Riches: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Money
A Room with a View: Exploring Social Problems Within and Beyond the U.S.
The Search for Utopia
A Second Look
The Wall Street Journal: It’s Much More Than Money
2006-2007
Summer reading: The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
First year seminars
Argentina: Culture, Language, Society
China: Superpower of the 21st Century?
Collision of Two Hemispheres: The Creative and Analytical Mind?
Consciousness and Unconsciousness in the Modern World
Constructed Identities: Fashioning the Self in the 21st Century
The Creative Universe
Culture and Self
Factual Fictions and Mythical Realities
Funny Women
Just Say Know: Drugs and Drug Policies in America
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction and Popular Science
Language, Myth, and Politics in the work of J. R. R. Tolkien
The Many Faces of Leadership
Mental Illness Across Time and Culture
My Name is Not “Those People:” Homeless in America
Origins: The Science & Sociology of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
Our Wal-Mart World
The Parable in Ancient and Modern Thought
Two Americas? Power, Wealth, Inequality and Poverty in the U.S.
The Unique You: Strategic Goal Setting and Life Planning
The Wall Street Journal: It’s Much More Than Money
The Webs We Weave
What’s all the Fuss About? Manet’s Olympia and the Salon Scandal of 1865
Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die: Medicine as an Institution of Social Control
Writing Through Darkness
2005-2006
Summer reading: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie
First year seminars
America, Europe, and Africa: The Slavery Connection
Conflict in Perspective
The Creative Universe
Culture and Self
Deciphering The Da Vinci Code
Diasporas of the "New World:" Trinidad and Tobago
Exploring the Worlds of Southeast Asia
Germany in the 21st Century: Language, Culture and Society
The Impact of Science: Past, Present, Future
Living in a Rape Culture: What Are We Doing About It?
The Lord of the Rings: Real-Life Issues in Fantasy Literature
Making a Living vs. Making a Difference
The Many Faces of Leadership
Million Dollar Baby: Ethical Issues in the Context of Modern Medicine
Music in Response to Oppression, War and Violence
My Name is Not "Those People:" Homeless in America
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict As esen by Authors from Both Sides
The Parable in Ancient and Modern Thought
Two Americas? Power, Wealth, Inequality and Poverty in the U.S.
The Unique You: Strategic Goal Setting and Life Planning
The Use and Abuse of Psychological Influence
The Wall Street Journal: It's Much More Than Money
The Webs We Weave
What Does Fiction Have to Do with Reality?
What's All the Fuss About? Manet's Olympia and the Salon Scandal of 1865
Who Needs Art? The Idea(l) of (King) Arthur
Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die: Medicine as an Institution of Social Control
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