Jane in NC Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBS Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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