First-Year Seminars for Fall Term 1999
The First-Year Seminar Program offers entering LS&A students a small group learning experience. Students participate in groups of approximately 18-20 and explore subjects of particular interest in collaboration with a faculty member who has chosen to work with first-year students in a seminar setting. It is hoped that students who take a seminar will find in it a sense of intellectual and social community that will make the transition from high school to a large university easier.
First-Year Seminars are taught through the University Courses division of the College (Division 495) or individual departments and programs. Course descriptions can be found later in this Course Guide. First-Year Seminars are 3- or 4-credit courses which may be used toward fulfillment of the Area Distribution requirement in Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Mathematical and Symbolic Analysis; the Quantitative Reasoning requirement; or the Introductory Composition requirement.
The following First-Year Seminars will be offered by departments and programs in the Fall Term, 1999. Course descriptions appear in the departmental listings of this Course Guide.
Only first-year students (including first-year students with sophomore standing) may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All other students need permission of instructor.
This list is subject to change.
Independent Study and Special Topics
Section 001 – Barrel of A Pen: African Politics in Literature
Instructor(s): Yaw Twumasi (yawt@umich.edu)
Section 001 – Politics and Culture of Race in Post-1945 U.S. Meets with Hist 196.003. Evening Meetings on Sept. 13 & Nov. 13, 7-10 P.M. Required As Part of First-Year Intergroup Relations Seminars (FIGS)
Introductory Courses
Section 001 – Race and Power in the Americas
Section 001 – Languages of Asia
Culture Courses/Literature Courses
Section 001 – Reiterations: Filming Fiction in Japan
Section 001 – Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases
Section 001 – Theaters of Identity: Ancient Greece
Section 003 – Remembrance of Things Past? Social Memory in Greece and Rome
Section 019, 066 – Literature and Loss
Section 053 – Film and Society
Section 066 – Literature and Loss
Introductory Courses and Courses for Non-concentrators
Introductory Courses and Courses for Non-concentrators
Instructor(s): Pares
Introductory Courses and Courses for Non-concentrators
Introductory Courses and Courses for Non-concentrators
Section 001 – History of Jewish Women from Talmud to Tekhines
Section 003 – Politics and Culture of Race in Post-1945 U.S. Meets with American Culture 102.001. Evening Meetings. on Sept. 13 & Nov. 13, 7-10 P.M. Required As Part of First-Year Intergroup Relations Seminars (FIGS)
Section 001 – Caesar, Augustus, and the Roman Revolution
Section 001 – Medieval Art
Section 002 – Asian Art
Section 001 – Dance, Landscape in Memory: Movement and Journal that Re-creates Body Geography
Section 001 – Languages of Europe
Section 002 – Exploring Diversity in Language
Section 003 – Deciphering Ancient Languages
Section 003 – Introduction to Bioethics
Instructor(s): Rebecca Walker
Section 001 – Constructing The Self
Section 002 – Social Change and Child Development in Africa
Section 003 – Psychology and Law
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Section 004 – Diversity and the Coming of Age in the United States
Section 005 – Racism Underground: Hidden and Not-So-Hidden Prejudice in America
Instructor(s): Denise Sekaquaptewa (dsekaqua@umich.edu)
Section 006 – Positive Psychology: The Science of Optimal Human Functioning
Section 007 – Psychology and Culture of Fertility, Pregnancy, and Motherhood
Section 008 – The Future of Work and Your Work Future
Section 010 – Psychology and Non-Ordinary Experience
Section 011 – The Psychology of Culture, Power, and Human Relations
Section 012 – Late Life Potential
Instructor(s): Marion Perlmutter (perlmut@umich.edu)
Section 013, 014 – Leadership: Theory and Practice
Section 001 – The Evolution of Consciousness and Cognition
Courses Taught in English (without language prerequisite)
Courses Taught in English Translation (without language prerequisites)
Section 001 – Society and Its Discontents
Instructor(s): Alison Cornish (acorn@umich.edu)
Section 001 – Brazilian Women
Section 001 – Russian Film/Russian Life. Required Film Screening Mondays, 7-9 PM
Section 001 – Democracy, Diversity, and Community
Section 001 – Fictional World of Ernest Hemingway
Instructor(s): Edward Shafter
Section 002 – What is Man – Saint Or Sinner?
Instructor(s): Edward Shafter
Section 003 – The Arts Alive: An Introduction to The Arts in Ann Arbor
Section 004 – Reading "The Body"
Instructor(s): Scott Spector (spec@umich.edu)
Section 005 – Hopes and Fears of the Modern Self
Instructor(s): Paul Sunstein
Section 006 – Inventing Race
Section 002 – Public Education for Blacks and Other Minorities: An Historic Perspective
Section 003 – Identity, Alienation, and Freedom
Section 005 – Poetry in the City
Instructor(s): Murray Jackson
Section 006 – Public Policy and Science
Section 010 – War, Nationalism, and Development in 20th Century Asia
Instructor(s): Rhoads Murphey
Section 011 – Medicine and the Media from Hippocrates Through ER
Section 012 – Injury, Alcohol, Drugs: A Modern Epidemic
Section 013 – Science and the Practice of Dentistry in the 21st Century
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