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It seems that many colleges and universities have some sort of first year seminar, usually an opportunity to work on students' writing skills while focusing on one often esoteric topic. Many of the LACs or honors programs of universities hold seminars on rather fascinating subjects, topics in globalization, nanotechnology, bioethics, comparative literature.

 

Did your student have a first year seminar? Was it valuable? Was it a semester long or year long course?

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three dozen first year seminars, and the requirement was just to take one semester, during freshman year, at UMW. She took the last one in this sample list and called it "Mad/Bad" and really had a great time and loved the work and the professor. Here's just a few of the titles.

Banned and Dangerous Art

 

Biological Terrorism: Threat or Reality?

 

Borders, Barrios, and Biases

 

Can Machines Think?

 

Celluloid Vampire: Dracula from Page to Screen

 

Cinderella to Harry Potter

 

Cold Case: Mystery and History in the Theatre

 

Computers, Culture, and Thought

 

Cryptology

 

Daily Life in Ancient Rome

 

Disability Studies: Representations of Autism in Contemporary Literature and Film

 

Economics of Everyday Life

 

Elizabeth I: Representations of the “Virgin” Queen

 

Energy Resources in the 21st Century

 

Environmental Justice

 

Escher Math

 

Ethics and Literature

 

Finding Fashion

 

French New Wave: Cinema and Society

 

Freud

 

From Cinderella to Harry Potter: Fairy Tales and Fantasy Literature

 

Games that People Play

 

Globalization

 

Human Animal

 

I, Robot: the Pursuit of the Synthetic Mind

 

Imagining Africa

 

I’m Not a Feminist, but . . .International Short Fiction by Women

 

James Farmer, the Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement, and the Great Debaters

 

Journey to the Underworld in Greek Myth and Modern

 

Lost and Forgotten Manuscripts of Early Christianity

 

Mad Scientists, Bad Scientists, and Evil Geniuses

 

"The first-year seminar introduces students to the pursuit of intellectual inquiry. Students will study a non-traditional topic in a nontraditional way while exploring the concept of a liberal arts education."

 

She would have been happy in any of several of these, and I was very intrigued and thought they looked pretty cool....FSEM was a 3 credit course.

 

LBS

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