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2021-2022 Catalog > Course Descriptions > FYS - First Year Seminars

FYS - First Year Seminars

FYS 1 Digital Worldmaking
FYS 3 National Odysseys: Travel as Transformation in American Narrative
FYS 4 Diversity in France
FYS 5 Religion and Violence
FYS 6 Chaos
FYS 7 Authoritarianism and Globalization
FYS 8 Literature and Philosophy: The Dionysian in Modern Thought
FYS 9 Women and Arts of East Asia
FYS 10 Black Movements
FYS 11 Asian Pacific Americans and Education
FYS 12 The Rose Garden: History and Culture of Iran
FYS 13 Because Each Believes Himself Inspired: Individualism and the Birth of American Literature
FYS 14 Identity Politics and Intersectionality: Who am/are I/we in 2021?
FYS 15 Knowledge and Nature in the African Diaspora
FYS 16 All that Glitters: Life and Literature in Los Angeles
FYS 19 Piracy, Enslavement, and the Making of the Atlantic World
FYS 20 The Figure a Poem Makes
FYS 22 Philosophy and Film: Between Moscow and Berlin
FYS 23 Self-Sacrifice in the History of Philosophy
FYS 26 Play Ball!: The Social Significance of America’s National Pastime
FYS 27 Contesting Native American Sovereignty
FYS 28 Disability Narratives: Drugs, Care, and Cure
FYS 29 Art and the Sea
FYS 30 The Optimized Life: Deep Principles for Human Learning
FYS 31 Spinning Science: How Storytelling Drives the Perception and Progress of Science
FYS 51 Science, Society, and You: A Complicated Relationship
FYS 52 Debating Controversial Issues in Sexuality
FYS 53 Urban Fictions
FYS 54 Prison Abolition
FYS 53 Detective Fiction: Investigating Our Modern World
FYS 57 Isn’t It Romantic? Lovers, Knights, Sorcerers, and Superheroes Through the Ages
FYS 58 Global Medical Cultures
FYS 59 Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance in Early Judaism and Christianity
FYS 60 Black Paris: Diasporic Connections in the City of Light
FYS 61 Ecomusicology
FYS 62 Emerging from Chaos
FYS 63 Ethnographic Approaches to the Contemporary Middle East
FYS 64 White Privilege, White Grievance: The Rise of White Identity Politics
FYS 65 Renaissance and Enlightenment Individuals
FYS 66 The Uncanny
FYS 67 The American South
FYS 68 A Foodie’s Philosophy
FYS 68 First Year Seminar
FYS 70 Kendrick Lamar and Hip-Hop Pedagogy in Post-Modern America
FYS 71 Stay Mad: Countercultural Aesthetics from the Chicago Seven to Lil Nas X
FYS 72 Other/Realities
FYS 73 Representing Capitalism
FYS 74 Transnational Feminist Film
FYS 75 Disneyland and Los Angeles
FYS 76 Memory and the Self in Graphic Narratives
FYS 77 Immigration, Citizenship, and Political Community
FYS 78 The Politics of Water

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