First-Year Seminars for Winter Term 2000

All first-year seminars remain closed until first-year students begin to enroll

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 Winter Term, 2000. 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.

Winter Term 2000 Course Guide homepage

Engl. 124. College Writing: Writing and Literature. (4). (Introductory Composition).

Section 002 – Sweetland Junior Fellows Course.

Instructor(s): Julia Carlson-Federhofer

Section 018 – "Reading Responses" to 20th-Century African American Literature. A Sweetland Junior Fellows Course.

Instructor(s): Shawn Christian

Section 028 – American Ethnic Literatures

Instructor(s): Joyce Meier

Section 031 – Women's Travel Writing

Instructor(s): Joyce Meier

Section 034, 042 – Literature and Loss

Instructor(s): Rebecca Egger (egger@umich.edu)

Section 036.

Instructor(s): David Thomas

Engl. 125. College Writing. (4). (Introductory Composition).

Section 049 – Manifest Destinies? "Power" in the Shaping of American Cultures and Identities. A Sweetland Junior Fellows Course.

Instructor(s): Shawn Kimmel

Section 059 – Representing Violence. A Sweetland Junior Fellows Course.

Instructor(s): Ellen Moodie

Section 068 – American Dialectology. A Sweetland Junior Fellows Course.

Instructor(s): Bridget Anderson

Amer. Cult. 102. First Year Seminar in American Studies. (3). (SS).

Section 001 – History of the West. Meets With History 196.001.

Instructor(s): Maria Montoya (mmontoya@umich.edu)

Anthro. 158. First Year Seminar in Cultural Anthropology. (3). (SS).

Introductory Courses

Section 001 – Race & Power in the Americas.

Instructor(s): Julie Skurski (skurski@umich.edu)

Anthro. 158. First Year Seminar in Cultural Anthropology. (3). (SS).

Introductory Courses

Section 003 – Ethnography of Writing

Instructor(s): Stephan Senders (ssenders@umich.edu)

Asian St. 252/Japanese 250. Undergraduate Seminar in Japanese Culture. (3). (HU).

Section 001 – Courtesans and Bathhouses: the Floating World in the Literature of Early Modern Japan

Instructor(s): Keller Kimbrough (kimbroug@umich.edu)

Asian St. 254/Korean 250. Undergraduate Seminar in Korean Culture. (3). (HU).

Section 001 – Culture and Politics in Modern Korea. Meets with History 197.001

Instructor(s): Henry Em (henryem@umich.edu)

Japanese 250/Asian Studies 252. Undergraduate Seminar in Japanese Culture. (3). (HU).

Culture Courses/Literature Courses

Section 001 – Courtesans and Bathhouses: the Floating World in the Literature of Early Modern Japan

Instructor(s): Keller Kimbrough (kimbroug@umich.edu)

Korean 250/Asian Studies 254. Undergraduate Seminar in Korean Culture. (3). (HU).

Culture Courses

Section 001 – Culture and Politics in Modern Korea. Meets with History 197.001

Instructor(s): Henry Em (henryem@umich.edu)

Astro. 122. The Origin of the Elements and the History of Matter. (3). (NS).

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Charles Cowley (cowley@umich.edu)

Astro. 125. Observational Astronomy. (4). (NS).

Section 001 – http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/~paglione/as125/syll-w00.html

Instructor(s): Timothy Paglione (paglione@umich.edu)

Biol. 120. First Year Seminar in Biology. (3). (NS).

Section 001 – Injecting Creativity Into Science.

Instructor(s): Robert Fogel (rfogel@umich.edu)

Biol. 120. First Year Seminar in Biology. (3). (NS).

Section 002 – Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Instructor(s): Alice Reinarz (areinarz@umich.edu)

Biol. 120. First Year Seminar in Biology. (3). (NS).

Section 003 – Evolution of Life.

Instructor(s): David Shappirio (dshap@umich.edu)

Chem. 120. First Year Seminar in Chemistry. (3). (NS).

Section 100 – Questions and Advances in Chemistry... Big and Small

Instructor(s): Robert Kuczkowski (kuczkows@umich.edu)

Class. Civ. 121. First-year Seminar in Classical Civilization (Composition). (4). (Introductory Composition).

Section 001 – The Culture of Contemporary Greece: Between Antiquity and Modernity.

Instructor(s): Artemis Leontis (aleontis@umich.edu)

Comm. 159. First-Year Seminar in Communication Studies. (3). (SS).

Section 001 – Introduction to Journalistic Performance

Instructor(s): Anthony Collings (collings@umich.edu)

Engl. 140. First-Year Literary Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 001 – Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

Instructor(s): Steven Mullaney (mullaney@umich.edu)

Engl. 140. First-Year Literary Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 002 – The Making of Race, The Making of Fiction

Instructor(s): Xiomara Santamarina (xas@umich.edu)

F/V 190. First-Year Film Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 001 – Idea, Form, and Medium

Instructor(s): Frank Beaver (fbeaver@umich.edu)

Geol. Sci. 145(269). Evolution of the Earth. (3). (NS).

Introductory Courses and Courses for Non-concentrators

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Samuel Mukasa (mukasa@umich.edu)

Geol. Sci. 147(271). Natural Hazards. (3). (NS).

Introductory Courses and Courses for Non-concentrators

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Larry Ruff (ruff@umich.edu)

Geol. Sci. 148(272). Seminar: Environmental Geology. (3). (NS).

Introductory Courses and Courses for Non-concentrators

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Carola Stearns (cstearns@umich.edu)

Geol. Sci. 148(272). Seminar: Environmental Geology. (3). (NS).

Introductory Courses and Courses for Non-concentrators

Section 002 – People and Their Physical Environment: Applied Geology

Instructor(s): Clara Castro

Geol. Sci. 150(274). Dinosaur Extinction and Other Controversies. (3). (NS).

Introductory Courses and Courses for Non-concentrators

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Peter Wilf (pwilf@umich.edu)

Geol. Sci. 151(275). The Ice Ages: Past and Present. (3). (NS).

Introductory Courses and Courses for Non-concentrators

Section 001.

Instructor(s): John Hoaglund (hoaglund@umich.edu)

History 196. First-Year Seminar. (3). (SS).

Section 001 – History of the West. Meets With American Culture 102.001.

Instructor(s): Maria Montoya (mmontoya@umich.edu)

History 196. First-Year Seminar. (3). (SS).

Section 003 – Religion and Power in the Graeco-Roman World

Instructor(s): Beate Dignas (bdignas@umich.edu)

History 197. First-Year Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 001 – Culture and Politics In Modern Korea. Meets with Asian Studies 254.001.

Instructor(s): Henry Em

History 197. First-Year Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 002 – Paris and Vienna, 1890-1920

Instructor(s): Rudi Lindner (rpl@umich.edu)

Hist. Art 194. First Year Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 001 – In the Service of the Empire: Photography and Imperialism.

Instructor(s): Jasmine Alinder (jalinder@umich.edu)

Ling. 102. First Year Seminar (Humanities). (3). (HU).

Section 001 – Humor and Its Enemies

Instructor(s): Jeffrey Heath (jheath@umich.edu)

Ling. 104. First Year Seminar (Introductory Composition). (4). (Introductory Composition).

Section 001 – The Literate Imagination

Instructor(s): Deborah Keller-Cohen (dkc@umich.edu)

Math. 127. Geometry and the Imagination. (4). (MSA).

Section 001.

Philo. 196. First Year Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 001 – The Mind/Body Problem

Instructor(s): Laura Schroeter (bugge@umich.edu)

Philo. 196. First Year Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 002 – Philosophical Ethics

Instructor(s): Nadeem Hussain (nhussain@umich.edu)

Philo. 196. First Year Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 003 – Philosophy of Religion

Instructor(s): Glenn Hartz

Psych. 120. First-Year Seminar in Psychology as a Social Science. (3). (SS).

Section 001 – Health & Healing: Mind & Body.

Instructor(s): Anne Murphy (jamurphy@umich.edu)

Psych. 120. First-Year Seminar in Psychology as a Social Science. (3). (SS).

Section 002 – Psychology and Non-Ordinary Experience

Instructor(s): Richard Mann (rdmann@umich.edu)

Psych. 121. First-Year Seminar in Psychology as a Natural Science. (3). (NS).

Section 001 – The Human Mind and Brain

Instructor(s): Thad Polk (tpolk@umich.edu)

Portuguese 150. First Year Seminar in Brazilian Studies. (3). (HU).

Section 001 – Breaking Gender and Racial Barriers in Brazil

Instructor(s): Niedja Fedrigo (niedja@umich.edu)

Soc. 105. First Year Seminar in Sociology. (3). (SS).

Section 001 – Reshaping Metropolitan America: Economy, Race, and Suburbanization Since WWII

Instructor(s): Reynolds Farley (renf@umich.edu)

Soc. 105. First Year Seminar in Sociology. (3). (SS).

Section 002 – Democracy, Diversity, and Community

Instructor(s): David Schoem (dschoem@umich.edu)

Stat. 125. Games, Gambling and Coincidences. (3). (MSA).

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Robert Keener

UCourses 150. First-Year Humanities Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Gita Ragan

UCourses 150. First-Year Humanities Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 002 – Hopes and Fears of the Modern Self.

Instructor(s): Paul Sunstein (sunstein@umich.edu)

UCourses 150. First-Year Humanities Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 003 – The Arts Alive: An Introduction to the Arts in Ann Arbor.

Instructor(s): Susan Nisbett (snisbett@umich.edu)

UCourses 150. First-Year Humanities Seminar. (3). (HU).

Section 004 – Exploring Photography in the Community.

Instructor(s): Victoria Veenstra (vicciv@umich.edu)

UCourses 151. First-Year Social Science Seminar. (3). (SS).

Section 001 – Why Grandpa Went to War: The Psychology of Obedience & Drives Toward World War.

Instructor(s): Donald Brown (donrobro@umich.edu)

UCourses 151. First-Year Social Science Seminar. (3). (SS).

Section 002 – Public Education for Blacks & Other Minorities 1863-1954 & Beyond: An Historical & Legal Perspective

Instructor(s): Warren Palmer (palmerwg@umich.edu)

UCourses 151. First-Year Social Science Seminar. (3). (SS).

Section 003 – Medicine and the Media from Hippocrates Through ER.

Instructor(s): Raymond Hobbs (rhobbs@umich.edu)

UCourses 151. First-Year Social Science Seminar. (3). (SS).

Section 004 – War, Nationalism, and Development In 20th-Century Asia

Instructor(s): Rhoads Murphey

UCourses 151. First-Year Social Science Seminar. (3). (SS).

Section 005 – Responding to Unprecedented Environmental Changes: The Hope for Sustainability

Instructor(s): Jim Crowfoot (crowfoot@umich.edu)

UCourses 151. First-Year Social Science Seminar. (3). (SS).

Section 006 – Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships.

Instructor(s): Allen Menlo (almenlo@umich.edu)

UCourses 151. First-Year Social Science Seminar. (3). (SS).

Section 008 – Epidemics: Mass Disease In American History

Instructor(s): Martin Pernick (mpernick@umich.edu)

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