The First-Year Seminar introduces students to the disciplined thinking a liberal arts education requires, enhances a student's speaking and writing skills, and assures a small-class experience in the first year. The instructor of the student's First-Year Seminar serves as academic adviser until the student declares a major. Seminars offered in 2007-2008 include:
- Are You Ready to Take Charge? Zotos
- Crossroads: Discovery and Self Ganne-Schiermeier
- The Culture of the 1970s Levi
- The Devil in Russian Culture Ueland
- Ecological Footprint of Colleges and Universities Curtis
- Evolution in Everyday Life Fox
- Google, Facebook and iTunes: Social Networks and the Future of Information, Communication and Commerce Bradshaw
- Guantánomo: History, Politics and Representation Lokaneeta
- Hispanic Caribbean Culture in New York City Ortuzar-Young
- Love, Marriage and Sexuality: Understanding the Cultural and Biological Basis of Love Golden
- Magic and Witchcraft: Medieval or Modern? Hamilton
- Mathematical Masterpieces Lesniak
- Music Criticism, Creativity and Performance Ledeen
- Nonviolence in Religious Thought: From Classical Asia to the Modern West Gold
- On Being Human: A Convergence of Psychological Perspectives Jennings
- Oprah’s Book Club Jamieson
- Our Footprint on the Earth: Issues in Environmental Science Byrnes
- Personal Identity and Immortality Anderson
- The Sustainable Campus: Reducing the Ecological Footprint of Colleges and Universities Curtis
- Philosophy and Human Rights Morsink
- Plagues and Peoples Bernstein
- “The Play’s the Thing”: Shakespeare in Performance LaPenta
- The Politics of Style: Fashion, Etiquette and American Identity Edwards
- Science as a Human Enterprise Miyamoto
- SHOCK: The Theatre of the Grand Guignol & Its Legacy Elliot
- Special Relativity Supplee
- (Way) Beyond Queen Bees and Wannabees: The Sociology of Friendship Rosenbloom
- Who’s in Charge? A Sociological Analysis of Community Power Reader
- You Are What You Eat Peek
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