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.
First Year Seminar Late Adds, after Added After Mid-April (Sections ARE INCLUDED below)
This list is subject to change.
Independent Study and Special Topics
Section 001 – Black Multiculturalism. Meets with English 140.002.
Instructor(s): Ifeoma Nwankwo (icn@umich.edu)
Introductory Courses
Section 002 – Culture and Media.
Introductory Courses
Section 003 – Sex and Gender in the Real World.
Instructor(s): Charlene Makley (makley@umich.edu)
Section 200 – Historical and Philosophical Approaches to Chemistry from 2000 BC to 2000 AD.
Section 002 – Myths in Images: Expression and Communication in the Visual Cultures of Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
Instructor(s): Nassos Papalexandrou
Section 004 – Barbarians: The Greek and Roman Perceptions of their Foreign Neighbors.
Section 005 – Pagans and Christians in the Roman World.
Introductory Courses
Section 001 – The United States in an Asia-Pacific-Centered Global Economy.
Section 002 – Black Multiculturalism. Meets with CAAS 104.001.
Instructor(s): Ifeoma Nwankwo
Introductory Courses and Courses for Non-concentrators
Section 001.
Section 001 – The Rise of Environmentalism and Radical Science in Cold War America.
Section 001 – Art and the City in the Medieval West.
Instructor(s): Robert Maxwell
Section 001 – Philosophy of Mind.
Instructor(s): Laura Schroeter (bugge@umich.edu)
Section 001 – Constructing the Self.
Section 015 – Health & Healing: Mind & Body.
Section 016 – Language and Thought.
Section 017 – Violence in the Lives of Children.
Instructor(s): Sandra Graham-Bermann (sandragb@umich.edu)
Section 018 – The Psychology of Intelligence.
Instructor(s): James Hoeffner
Section 001 – Breaking Gender and Racial Barriers in Brazil.
Section 002 – Population and Health in Societies in Transition.
Section 006 – Inventing Race.
Section 007 – The Psychiatric Patient.
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