FYS Descriptions

All seminars are scheduled Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-10:50 a.m. unless otherwise indicated.

1. Coming of Age at the End of the World — Katharine Beutner, Department of English
2. Adventures in Citizenship — Angela Bos, Department of Political Science
3. To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Teaching and Learning Across the Americas in the Digital-Age - Matthew Broda, Department of Education  [Monday/Wednesday/Friday 8:00-8:50 a.m.]
4. The Mind of the Novel: Psychology and Literature — Michael Casey, Department of Psychology [Monday/Wednesday/Friday 2:00-2:50 p.m.]
5. The Impossible Nude: Sexuality, Warfare, and Religious Experience, East and West - April Contway, Department of Philosophy
6. Was This Land Really Made for You and Me? A Critical Examination of the Topic of Illegal Immigration to the United States from Latin America — Brian Cope, Department of Spanish 
7. Theme and Variations: Adaptation in the Performing Arts — Carrie de-Lapp-Culver, Department of Music
8. Solving the Mystery: Experiments in Reading and Writing — Carolyn Durham, Department of French and Comparative Literature 
9. History, Science, Theatre — Karl Feierabend, Department of Chemistry
10. Friendship: An Introduction — Travis Foster, Department of English
11. M. Renoir Invites You to Lunch: Seeing through the Eyes of the Artist — Jay Gates, Department of Art and Art History 
12. This I Believe: Exploring Beliefs, Life's Challenges, and Disabilities — Donald Goldberg, Department of Communication [Monday/Wednesday/Friday 8:00-8:50 a.m.]
13. Silence, Solitude and Ideals of Human Flourishing - Mark Graham, Department of Religious Studies
14. Is American Education the "Great Equalizer"?  Race, Class, Gender, and Academic Achievement in the United States — Raymond Gunn, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
15. Theatre and Film/East and West — Shirley Huston-Findley, Department of Theatre and Dance 
16. Spears and Drones: Wars in the Middle East — Ronald Hustwit, Department of Philosophy
17. Mapping the Americas: Encounters and the Construction of Identity in North and South America — Katherine Holt, Department of History
18. Great Debates in Sports and Society — Bryan Karazsia, Department of Psychology
19. Half-frican: Black Identity in the Caribbean, England, and the United States — Shannon King, Department of History
20. Gender, Race, and Poverty in the United States — Stacia Kock, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 
21. Human Rights — Matthew Krain, Department of Political Science
22. Explorers and Exploration — Richard Lehtinen, Department of Biology
23. Science, Theism, and the Nature of Reality — John Lindner, Department of Physics
24. Raging Hormones: Science, Sex, and Society — Sharon Lynn, Department of Biology
25. Are We Lovin' It?: McDonalization of Global Society — Setsuko Matsuzawa, Department of Sociology and Anthropology 
26. Strawberries, Marijuana and Guns: The Global Underground Economy — Amyaz Moledina, Department of Economics
27. The Art of Childhood: The Fairy Tales, Books, and Movies We Think We Know — Kara Morrow, Department of Art and Art History 
28. Identity and Immigration - Beth Muellner, Department of German [Monday/Wednesday/Friday 12:00-12:50 p.m.]
29. Literature, Music, and the Rules of Engagement: Multi-Ethnic Musical Experiences in the U.S. — Mazen Naous, Department of English
30. Taking Our Chances: Investigating Risk in our World – Pamela Pierce, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science 
31. The History of the Future — Jeff Roche, Department of History
32. Questions of Identity Through World Music — Denise Rotavera-Krain, Department of Music
33. On the Meaning of Life — Elizabeth Schiltz, Department of Philosophy
34. Controversies in Science and Public Policy — Mark Snider, Department of Chemistry
35. Fictions, Facts, and Truth — Larry Stewart, Department of English 
36. Chinese Box — Rujie Wang, Department of Chinese
37. Nonsense! (And why it's so popular) — Mark Wilson, Department of Geology [Monday/Wednesday/Friday 8:00-8:50 a.m.]

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