| ARTH 199 | FYS: Themes in Art History. | 3 |
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| EAST 199 | FYS: East Asian Culture. | 3 |
FYS: East Asian Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to East Asian culture based on close examination of primary and secondary texts as well as visual materials. See course page for more information |
| ENGL 199 | FYS: Form and Representation. | 3 |
FYS: Form and Representation. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to major modes of literary and cultural representation in English, including
poetry, drama, film, the novel, and other forms. See course page for more information |
| FREN 198 | FYS: Introduction to French and Québec Literature. | 3 |
FYS: Introduction to French and Québec Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to French and Québec literature in English translation. See course page for more information |
| GERM 197 | FYS: Images of Otherness. | 3 |
FYS: Images of Otherness. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The seminar examines images and narratives of the foreign, alien, and uncanny Other in major works of German literature, film, music, and art from Romanticism to the present. Works discussed include Wagner's Lohengrin, expressionist art, and texts by authors such as ETA Hoffmann, Kleist, Freud, Nietzsche, Kafka, and Thomas Mann. See course page for more information |
| HISP 199 | FYS: Hispanic Literature and Culture. | 3 |
FYS: Hispanic Literature and Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to major issues in Hispanic literature and culture through the analysis of primary and secondary sources and intensive writing. See course page for more information |
| HIST 194 | FYS: Jewish Concepts of Others. | 3 |
FYS: Jewish Concepts of Others. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A survey, using translated primary and selected secondary sources, of the ways in which Jews represented Christians from late antiquity to the present. Legal, liturgical, literary and other sources are examined with the focus on the Medieval and Early Modern periods. See course page for more information |
| HIST 195 | FYS: Sources of World History. | 3 |
FYS: Sources of World History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the constitutive intellectual traditions of world history. See course page for more information |
| HIST 197 | FYS: Race in Latin America. | 3 |
FYS: Race in Latin America. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This seminar explores what it meant to be native, black, or white in Latin America from the colonial period to the present. It explores how conceptualisations of race and ethnicity shaped colonialism, social organisation, opportunities for mobility, visions of nationhood, and social movements. See course page for more information |
| HIST 198 | FYS: Nation Building and Nationalism. | 3 |
FYS: Nation Building and Nationalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to some of the major theories of nationalism; an exploration of the many varieties of nationalism and forms of nation-building; a particular focus on the historical background to case studies of current interest. See course page for more information |
| HIST 199 | FYS: History. | 3 |
FYS: History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the discipline of history through an in-depth look at a selected topic. See course page for more information |
| ISLA 199 | FYS: Narrations of the Middle East. | 3 |
FYS: Narrations of the Middle East. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to competing narratives about crucial moments in the history and culture of the Middle East. Reading and discussion of texts drawn from a variety of perspectives and genres, including historical accounts, poetry, fiction, memoir and others. See course page for more information |
| ITAL 199 | FYS: Italy's Literature in Context. | 3 |
FYS: Italy's Literature in Context. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history. See course page for more information |
| JWST 199 | FYS: Images - Jewish Identities. | 3 |
FYS: Images - Jewish Identities. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A seminar devoted to literary portrayals of Jews by Jews and non-Jews from Biblical times to the present. Both positive and negative understandings of Jewish identity and Judaism will be studied. See course page for more information |
| LING 199 | First Year Seminar: Language and Mind. | 3 |
First Year Seminar: Language and Mind. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This fast paced course introduces students to challenges faced by scientists who study how language is represented in the human brain. See course page for more information |
| LLCU 199 | FYS: Literary Animals. | 3 |
FYS: Literary Animals. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Study of the representation of animals in different European literary texts from both a thematic and a theoretical perspective. Questions about narrative voice, alternate worlds, and the human/animal binary will be raised within the larger political context of animals as Other in today's contemporary society. See course page for more information |
| PHIL 197 | FYS: Right and Wrong. | 3 |
FYS: Right and Wrong. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Reading and discussion of classic and contemporary philosophical texts on morality: its nature, status, and importance. See course page for more information |
| PHIL 198 | FYS: Knowledge and Ideas in Early Modern Philosophy. | 3 |
FYS: Knowledge and Ideas in Early Modern Philosophy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to central issues in the philosophy of the early modern period through an examination of works by, for example, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley and Hume. See course page for more information |
| PHIL 199 | FYS: Minds, Brain, and Machines. | 3 |
FYS: Minds, Brain, and Machines. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the philosophical foundations of the sciences of the mind. See course page for more information |
