Theme Semester

a group of courses, lectures, and special events collectively entitled The Theme Semester. The topic of each theme Semester is chosen by the Dean of the College. A cluster of courses, from departments across the University, provides an opportunity to examine the selected topic from a variety of viewpoints and disciplines. Forums, lectures by distinguished visitors, special exhibits by libraries and museums, a film series, etc., are included in the Theme Semester.

	Theme Semester			Other Themed Course Areas Some programs on campus also sponsor annual interdisciplinary themed course areas, such as the Advanced Study Center and the Institute for the Humanities.
	Fall Term	Winter Term		Institute for the Humanities	Advanced Study Center
2009-10	F'09 No scheduled Theme Semester	F'10 No scheduled Theme Semester
2008-09	F'08 No scheduled Theme Semester	W'09 Museums in the Academy Coordinated by the Museum Studies Program and the UM Museum of Art (UMMA)
2007-08	F'07 A New Great Leap: China in the World Sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)	W'08 No scheduled Theme Semester
2006-07	The Theory and Practice of Citizenship: From the Local to the Global Sponsored by the College of LSA
2005-06	F'05 100 Years Beyond Einstein Sponsored by the Departments of Physics and Chemistry	W'06 Explore Evolution Coordinated by the Exhibit Museum of Natural History
2004-05	F'04 No scheduled Theme Semester	W'05 Cultural Treasures of the Middle East Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS)
2003-04	F'03 Celebrating St. Petersburg: 300 Years of Cultural Brilliance Sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES)	W'04 Brown vs. Board of Education: Fulfilling the Promise Sponsored by the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS), the Program in American Culture, and the Departments of History, Psychology, and Sociology
2002-03	No scheduled Theme Semester
2001-02	F'01 Detroit 300 Theme Semester	W'02 Women Who Ruled: Gender, Power and Representation Sponsored by the Program in Women's Studies in collaboration with the University of Michigan Museum of Art			Contested Childhood in a Changing Global Order
2000-01	No scheduled Theme Semester				Archives, Documentation, and the Institutions of Social Memory
1999-2000	No scheduled Theme Semester				Empires, States, and Political Imagination
1998-99	W'98 No scheduled Theme Semester	W'99 Diversity:  Theories and Practices Sponsored by the Office of Dialogues on Diversity		Form and Pattern	Violence and Ethics
1997-98	F'97 Genders, Bodies, Borders Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Women's Studies Program	W'98 The Environmental Theme Semester: Rethinking the Relationship Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program and the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE)		Narrative	Theories and Practices of Religious Toleration / Intolerance
1996-97	F'96 Food Throughout Global History Michigan Today article News brief	W'97 No scheduled Theme Semester		Images and the Imaginary	Nation, Community and Culture in the Aftermath of Empire
1995-96	F'95 No scheduled Theme Semester	W'96 Death, Extinction, and the Future of Humanity: Approaching the Millennium Sponsored by the Program on Studies in Religion (PSIR)		Emotion	Social Movements and Social Change in a Globalizing World
1994-95	No scheduled Theme Semester			Work and Play	The Cold War and its Aftermath
1993-94	F'93 Working in a Multicultural Society: The Changing Face of Labor Sponsored by the American Culture Program and the Center for Research on Social Organization	W'94 The Theory and Practice of Evil Sponsored by the Program on Studies in Religion (PSIR)		The Geography of Identity
1992-93	F'92 The Americas, Then and Now: Beyond 1492 Sponsored by the American Culture Program	W'93 No scheduled Theme Semester		Utopian Visions
1991-92	F'91 No scheduled Theme Semester	W'92 The Comedy Semester Sponsored by the Department of English and the School of Music		Authority of the Past
1989-90	No scheduled Theme Semester			Economies of Art
1988-89	No scheduled Theme Semester			Translation: Cultural Confrontation and Transformation
1987-88	No scheduled Theme Semester			Theatre and Society
1986-87, 1985-86, 1984-85	No scheduled Theme Semester
1983-84	F'83 No scheduled Theme Semester	W'84 Patriarchs, Prophets, Demons: The Major Victorians Revisited -- A Victorian Semester Sponsored by the Departments of History and English and the Center for Western European Studies
1982-83, 1981-82, 1980-81	No scheduled Theme Semester
1979-80	F'79 No scheduled Theme Semester	W'80 Experiment In Education: The Eighteenth-Century Semester Sponsored by LS&A and the School of Music