Freshman Seminars (2012–2013)

Note: Additional course information, including meeting days and time, can be found through Online Course Information and on the Yale Classes*v2 server.

Yearlong course

• Current Topics in Science

Fall courses

• American Consumer Culture in the Twentieth Century
• Dance on Film
• The Divine and the Human in Russian Fiction
• Egypt and Northeast Africa: A Multidisciplinary Approach
• Energy Technology and Society
• Epidemics in Global Perspective
• French Poetry and the Invention of Modern Life
• Freshman Colloquium: Literary Studies in Spanish
• Immunology and Microbes
• Jazz and Architecture
• Liberalism and Conservatism in the Twentieth-Century United States
• The Memory of Slavery
• Music and Human Evolution
• Postwar America at Home: 1945–1960
• Radiation and the Universe
• The Romans: A Cultural Introduction
• Search for Extraterrestrial Life
• Shakespeare and Music
• Sociology of Social Control and Criminal Justice
• Studies in Visual Biography
• Tokyo
• What History Teaches

Spring courses

• Digital Photorealism
• Ethnicity and Identity in Antiquity
• Feminism, Race, Gender, and Sexuality
• Film and the Arts
• Forms of Communication and Intimacy
• Islam and Modernity
• Jane Austen
• Literary Cities: New York, Chicago, San Francisco
• Narrations of Native America
• Opera, Culture, Media
• Paper
• Reproductive Technologies
• Russian Music, 1836–1948
• Science of Modern Technology
• Significance of American Slavery