First-year Seminars

First Year Seminars do not require any prior knowledge of history. These courses emphasize reading, writing, and oral presentations.

Spring 2010

  • 014c The Nuclear Age
  • 025c The Civil War in Film

Fall 2009

  • 010c Monsters, Marvels and Messiahs: Europe in the Age of Discovery
  • 015c Frontier Crossings: The Western Experience in American History
  • 023c Writing the Racial Mountain in the Age of Jim Crow
  • 028c History of Tea in East Asia

Recent First Year Seminars

  • 011c Memory and Memoirs in American History
  • 012c Utopian Communities in America
  • 013c Living in the Sixteenth Century (Japan)
  • 016c From Montezuma to Bin Laden: Globalization and its Critics
  • 019c Bad Girls of the 1950's
  • 020c In Sickness and in Health: Public Health in Europe and America