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Course Listing for FIRST YEAR SEMINAR - Fall 2022 (ALL: 09/06/2022 - 12/21/2022)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
3498 FYSM-101-01 BFF or Strange Bedfellows? 1.00 SEM Spezialetti,Madalene TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM AAC - 231 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  Is the enemy of your enemy your friend, or will you need to make friends with your enemies? Will you use rhetoric, reason, persuasion, or just plain violence to get what you want? Leave your twenty-first century American sensibilities behind as you assume the roles of a member of an Athenian assembly in 403 B.C. and a member of the 1945 conference in Simla, India, to explore the timeless question of how much one should give up to get his or her political way. Using the role playing/game playing teaching paradigm of “Reacting to the Past,” your character’s political successes, failures and compromises will shape the outcome of “history.”
3480 FYSM-105-01 Prohibitions 1.00 SEM Alcorn,John H. MWF: 9:00AM-9:50AM HHN - 105 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  This seminar tackles two questions: Why do we outlaw some consensual behaviors by adults? And should we? We will examine “vices” (alcohol, drugs, and gambling), “repugnant markets” (commerce in sex, organs for transplantation, and adoption), and prohibitions against guns, advertising, and open international labor migration. Students will learn fundamentals of social science and will practice constructing perspicuous arguments. To punctuate the course, students will conduct policy debates during Trinity’s Common Hour. This is an experimental First-Year seminar that mixes traditional seminar meetings, public debates, multimedia instruction, and workshops in which students will learn to create polished virtual presentations of their final projects.
3497 FYSM-110-01 Designing Your Future Work 1.00 SEM Catrino,Joseph M. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM SH - N128 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  In this course, students will apply design thinking and career development theory to better understand the link between their liberal arts education and their life after college. Students will identify individual goals, assess their skills and talents, explore career options, analyze the job market, effectively use employment search tools, and contemplate and investigate how meaning and purpose can be infused into any career. Students will rely on self-reflection and understanding the value of experiential education in the exploration and decision-making process. Students will evaluate how to design their lives in the changing landscape of work. Through readings, class discussions, and assignments, students will design a plan that will guide their career and academic decision making throughout the remainder of their Trinity College experience.
3504 FYSM-112-01 Animal Minds 1.00 SEM Theurer,Kari L. TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM MC - 313 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  This course serves as an introduction to philosophical questions about the mental life and cognitive capacities of non-human animals. What is my dog thinking? How can I know? Do animals have language? Are birds afraid of heights? Do animals make sacrifices for each other? What does the world look like to animals that see many more (or fewer) colors than we do? What does the world "look" like to animals that "see" with their noses or ears, rather than their eyes? Finally, we will tie these questions together as we embark on an extended deep-sea exploration of the origins of consciousness. We will learn how key evolutionary developments - eyes that track, bodies that move - led to the development of our own rich inner mental lives.
3542 FYSM-116-01 Women and Philosophy 1.00 SEM Ewegen,Shane M. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM MC - 313 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  The thoughts of women have of course been present since the beginning of the Western philosophical tradition; however, for various reasons, their contributions to the discipline have often been discounted, marginalized, or simply ignored. This course will focus on texts from the Western philosophical tradition that showcase the work of women, or address the theme of femininity. Authors and ideas will include Sappho (on love), Hannah Arendt (on evil), Simone de Beauvoir (on ethics, femininity, and human action), Simone Weil (on God and war), Rebecca Solnit (on time, memory, and death), Judith Butler (on political agency), and more. What will be seen is that the intellectual contributions of women have been instrumental to the development of Western philosophy.
3507 FYSM-123-01 Human Rights: Art &Pop Culture 1.00 SEM Carbonetti,Benjamin C. TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM SH - N130 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  This course will explore a variety of human rights issues though the medium of photography, film, and popular culture. Topics include a mix of intense topics such as photography in war and more light hearted issues such as comedy and viral memes.
3543 FYSM-127-01 Exploring the 1960s 1.00 SEM Woldu,Gail H. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM AAC - 112 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  This seminar considers the 1960s through an examination of the decade's music, literature, film, and politics. We will discuss each year of the decade and explore, among other topics, the war in Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, the social revolution of the counterculture, and the transformation from colonialism to independence of much of Africa. The decade's extraordinary diversity of literature and arts will take center stage in our discussions, as we listen to, read, and view iconic works, including the music of Motown, the British invasion, and Woodstock; A Clockwork Orange, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Why We Can't Wait; and films Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Strangelove, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
3505 FYSM-129-01 Acts of Adaptation 1.00 SEM Incampo,Theresa A. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM AAC - 231 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  Adaptation, the act of translating and transforming a story from one medium into another, is the basis for many of our most popular entertainment works. Hollywood has long looked to the theatre for inspiration and adapted dramatic texts for the silver screen. And blockbuster Broadway musicals like Wicked, Hamilton, and SpongeBob SquarePants are drawn from existing literature and moving imagery. What are the constraints, complications, and advantages we encounter when converting oral, historical, and fictional narratives into something new? This course invites students to take up the act of adaptation as a creative practice while engaging foundational texts about this process. We will also analyze case studies of stories that have "crossed over" to address questions about an adaptation's genre, conventions, and cultural specificity.
3476 FYSM-131-01 Landscape Photog and Conserv 1.00 SEM Geiss,Christoph MWF: 9:00AM-9:50AM
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM		 LIB - B02 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  Nature photography has played a major role in conservation efforts. For example, early photographs of the American West excited the American public about these landscapes and were instrumental in the establishment of National Parks. Today photography is still used to promote environmental causes, but it also attracts large numbers of visitors to distant, often fragile places, thus aiding in the destruction of environments that it intended to protect. This seminar will explore the role of art in conservation. Students will have opportunities to take digital photographs during afternoon and Saturday sessions. A digital camera is required for the course. Photo outings will be subject to COVID regulations.
3506 FYSM-133-01 Applied Math and Life 1.00 SEM Ma,Lina MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM LSC - 136 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  This is an introductory seminar to show students the real application of mathematics in science where closely related to human activities. The topics of the seminar include but not limited to population dynamics, epidemic modeling, ion channel modeling, atmosphere model, and so on. No advanced mathematics is required for taking this seminar, just some enthusiastic towards STEM, some courage to observe weird math symbols and some patience to learn how to talk to computers is all that needed. Students will discover the history of development of some specific areas and learn the very basic mathematics intuition behind the model. Students will also have opportunities to utilize simple algorithms to visualize result without previous coding experience.
3508 FYSM-134-01 Curiosity and Madness 1.00 SEM Benedict,Barbara M. TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM 115V - 106 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  What makes a person curious--that is, inquisitive? what makes a person a curiosity--that is, odd? how do the two meanings relate and why do curious people in literature so often appear mad? Pandora, Eve, Sherlock Holmes and Alice in Wonderland are all curious, but is curiosity good or bad? What is madness? These and related issues will motivate our explorations into British and American literature, film and art that portrays mad and curious people from Shakespeare's Hamlet to R. L. Stevenson's Mr. Hyde to the gruesome Hannibal Lector. The course will include guest lectures on madness, films and an excursion to Hartford's Cabinet of Curiosities. Students will have the opportunity to identify and discuss a curiosity of their own.
3509 FYSM-138-01 Archiving Hip Hop 1.00 SEM Markle,Seth M. MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM SH - N128 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  This course will shine a much-needed spotlight on the early history of hip hop and the challenges and possibilities of hip hop archival preservation in the digital age. First, we will consider the codes of conduct, principles, and practices applied by pioneers in the making of hip hop music and culture during the 1970s and 1980s. Our particular focus on New York City and Hartford will lay the groundwork for student engagement with various digital technologies geared towards assisting in the construction the Trinity International Hip Hop Festival Digital Archive. In embracing the role of the hip hop archivist, students will be exposed to the praxis of recovery and documentation facilitated through a combination of lecture, critical reading and discussion, training in oral history, metadata writing and indexing, and site visits and virtual museum tours.
3510 FYSM-140-01 Mathematical Gems 1.00 SEM Pellico,Ryan H. MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM MECC - 260 Y FYR4  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  Each of you has been exposed to basic mathematics, including arithmetic, algebra, geometry and, in some cases, calculus, but there is much more to mathematics than those basic mathematical skills. In this course, we will explore some of the greatest ideas of humankind within the realm of mathematics by investigating topics that include problem solving, logic, geometry, probability, game theory, number theory, chaos, fractals, and connections to science and the arts. Although the course will be challenging, you will gain an appreciation of mathematics and discover the power of mathematical thinking in everyday life.
3511 FYSM-141-01 Museums, Publics, and Protests 1.00 SEM Guzman,Amanda J. MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM MC - 305 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with CLIC
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  What is the role of the museum in the 21st century? This course will survey the range of contemporary relationships - both those grounded in popular imagination and lived reality - that have developed and remain continually emergent between museums and their diverse publics. Through film case-studies, students will explore - with class discussions and written reflection responses - representations of museum institutions as sites shaped by dynamics of intrigue, fantasy, and identity-making. Through hands-on work with object and archival collections in local cultural institutions and beyond, students will develop analytical frameworks for observing and understanding the ways in which materials are taken up by and against the museum in dynamic practices of institutional transformation and protest.
3513 FYSM-142-01 Race and Capitalism 1.00 SEM Kamola,Isaac A. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM MC - 205 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  No concept of race existed prior to colonialism. However, the conquest of the Americas, the genocide of indigenous people, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade ushered in a capitalist world economy that depends upon the construction and enforcement of racialized categories. His history is still with us today. For example, the heavily segregated city of Hartford is the insurance capital of the world, an industry first developed to insure the ships traveling the Triangle Trade between New England, Caribbean plantations, and the slave coast of Africa. This class examines the many historical connections between race and capitalism, as well as the political struggles that have sought to build anti-racist and anti-capitalist futures. Readings include Eric Williams, Lloyd Best, Charles Mills, Silvia Federici, Stuart Hall, and others.
3539 FYSM-144-01 Food Biology 1.00 SEM Guardiola-Diaz,Hebe M. MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM LSC - 133 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  This seminar explores the physiology and neuroscience of food-seeking behavior and the impact of food preferences on our agricultural landscape. Which dietary choices are compatible with optimal health? Which are sustainable? Will climate change force diversification of our diet? Can science enhance the nutritional value of food and bring justice to the hungry? We will be guided by popular writings by scientists and journalists and consider relevant data in scientific journals.
3515 FYSM-147-01 The Holocaust and Memory 1.00 SEM Doerre,Jason J. MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM 70VS - SEM Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  This course will explore the origins of anti-Semitism in Central Europe, the Holocaust, and the memorialization of genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with the rise of anti-Semitism, this course will cover what led to the Holocaust and examine the trajectory of this human tragedy Some topics will include daily life in ghettos and concentration camps, the lead up to the Final Solution, resistance, and the memory of the Holocaust in museums, monuments, and culture. The course materials will include non-fictional texts, literature, films, art and more.
3479 FYSM-149-01 George Orwell and His Times 1.00 SEM Rosen,David W: 6:30PM-9:00PM SH - S204 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  Novelist, journalist, soldier, social-critic, policeman, bum: more than sixty years after his death, George Orwell’s stature as an interpreter of modern life is as high as it has ever been. Whether analyzing the structures of totalitarian power, or recounting the experience of his own education, or giving advice about how to write a good English sentence, Orwell let few aspects of daily existence escape his discriminating gaze. In this seminar we will read Orwell’s fiction and nonfiction, as well as the work of authors in many of the fields Orwell claimed as his own (e.g. literature, economics, philosophy, and politics). We will treat Orwell critically, as both a model for our own work (as writers, as intellectuals), and as a cautionary tale.
3516 FYSM-154-01 The Poetry of Social Movements 1.00 SEM Camp,Jordan T. TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM AAC - 231 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  This first-year seminar explores the poetry of social movements. Students will consider how American Studies scholars analyze culture as a social force, an alternative archive of change over time, and a site of conflict over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Through close readings and discussion, students will develop their own frameworks for interpreting the poetry of social movements in specific contexts. Along with our core texts we will also engage with primary texts including poetry, music, film, magazines, and newspapers. By the end of the semester students will demonstrate a critical understanding of cultures of social justice movements, develop critical thinking and writings skills, and apply theoretical tools to interpret the materials that form the basis of our case studies.
3517 FYSM-163-01 Water, science, legacy, crisis 1.00 SEM Bazilio,Arianne A. MWF: 9:00AM-9:50AM
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM		 CT - 308
CT - 210		 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  This seminar will examine the history of freshwater use and law in the United States. We will learn about historical and emerging contaminants in our waters, the ways in which we treat drinking water and wastewater, and research on how strained water resources are changing the way we must treat water for potable use. These topics will be viewed through the lens of climate change as "floods, droughts and other water-related hazards increase due to climate change, while the number of people experiencing 'water stress' continues to rise amid population growth and dwindling availability" (UN News 2021).
3518 FYSM-168-01 The Science behind DSP 1.00 SEM Cheng,Lin TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM MECC - 260 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  Students in this seminar will use engineering problem-solving approaches to understand the science and quantify the challenges behind digital signal processing (DSP) systems. This course will expose students to a wide range of scientific methods that can symbolize different types of signals which can be efficiently stored, transmitted, and processed by computers. Students will apply mathematical and scientific concepts to hands-on projects with computer programming. This course also includes a series of writing assignments and a comprehensive final research paper. The required background includes proficiency in complex numbers, trigonometry, and logarithms from high school algebra and geometry.
3526 FYSM-176-01 The Creative Brain 1.00 SEM Hanson,Lindsey A. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM CT - 210 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  In this seminar, we will examine creativity and its manifestations across many disciplines, from the arts and humanities to science and engineering. We will learn about the neuroscience of the creative brain, examine the practices and results of successfully creative people, and implement and analyze our own creative processes.
3477 FYSM-177-01 The Psychology of Happiness 1.00 SEM Helt,Molly MWF: 9:00AM-9:50AM SH - N128 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  We all want to be happy and experience a meaningful life, but do we really know what happiness is? Does money make us happy, and if so, when and why? How do our relationships contribute to a feeling of meaning in life? What types of situations encourage cognitive mastery and creativity? Can happiness be learned, or is our happiness "setpoint" mostly determined by genetics? How do we, as a society, encourage generosity and altruism? The common theme for all of these topics is how we can use scholarly research in psychology to improve our everyday lives and strengthen our communities. Students will write opinion papers about scientific findings, conduct self experiments, and journal about their experiences in trying to apply these findings to their own lives.
3475 FYSM-184-01 The Art of Food (Writing) 1.00 SEM Wheatley,Chloe TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM SH - N128 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  To write about food is to write about life. This course will consider various types of food writing from a variety of perspectives, ranging from food's cultural significance, and the rituals and artistry associated with culinary production, to issues of food justice. Field trips (to local farm, restaurants, soup kitchen) will help to contextualize and localize our readings, which will include plays, films, poems and short stories, as well as classics of culinary nonfiction (restaurant reviews, essays, memoirs, and investigative journalism).
3502 FYSM-185-01 Sustainable Life 1.00 SEM Del Puppo,Dario MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM SH - S201 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  Climate change is the greatest challenge of the 21st century. There is good reason for alarm, yet scientists tell us that humanity may still be able to contain the crisis if it acts swiftly. But act how? And does individual behavior matter at all? In this course we will explore what we, as individuals and collectively, can and indeed must do to contribute to a sustainable life for people and planet. We will learn from good practices found across the globe, but most importantly, we will think about the impact of our own 21st century lives and the positive change we are capable of.
3503 FYSM-185-02 Sustainable Life 1.00 SEM Evelein,Johannes F. MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM SH - S201 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  Climate change is the greatest challenge of the 21st century. There is good reason for alarm, yet scientists tell us that humanity may still be able to contain the crisis if it acts swiftly. But act how? And does individual behavior matter at all? In this course we will explore what we, as individuals and collectively, can and indeed must do to contribute to a sustainable life for people and planet. We will learn from good practices found across the globe, but most importantly, we will think about the impact of our own 21st century lives and the positive change we are capable of.
3519 FYSM-187-01 Race and Religion 1.00 SEM Koertner,Mareike TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM MC - 213 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course has seats reserved for first-year students.
  Race and religion shape the identity of the individual and its surrounding society. But how do they do that? In this seminar, students explore past and present dynamics of how religion has been utilized in the United States to oppress and empower communities of color. We will cover the role religion has played in slavery and its abolishment, the racialization of Jewish people, and the cultural genocide of indigenous peoples as well as various religions' impact on the Civil Rights and the Black Power movements, the emergence of liberation theologies, and BLM.
3481 FYSM-190-01 Reading the City 1.00 SEM Fitzpatrick,Sean M. TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM SH - N128 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  "The City," as both a social phenomenon and an ideal of human collaboration, evokes questions that have long engaged scholars, artists, and critics. Trinity College's own urban setting has powerfully shaped its heritage and increasingly informs its mission. Recent events, from the COVID-19 pandemic to an accelerating cycle of urban protest movements, have only heightened our awareness of the paradoxes and inequities that persist in our cities. In this seminar, we will examine the idea and the reality of "the City" through readings from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints, exploring the promise and the perils of our urban centers.
3514 FYSM-191-01 Social Issues and Economics 1.00 SEM Ruiz Sanchez,Gerardo TR: 6:30PM-7:45PM MC - 205 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  This seminar will introduce students to some of the key ideas used in modern applied economics to understand and analyze social issues. Topics will include education, healthcare, climate change, welfare programs, COVID-19, antitrust policy, etc. Students will read and engage with different type of materials (e.g. books, articles, podcasts, etc.) pertaining these topics. We will use these materials as a point of departure to discuss these issues during the seminar. We will learn how economists approach these topics as social scientists. Students will also be asked to develop their own ideas through writing assignments and make a short in-class presentation at the end of the semester. No previous exposure to economics is expected.
3496 FYSM-197-01 Reader's Identity and Culture 1.00 SEM Katz,Adi MW: 8:30AM-9:45AM MC - 313 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  The course is an international academic collaboration that seeks to produce a dialogue on a reading experience based on identity and ideology. During the semester, the students will have online meetings with Israeli students that will allow them to engage with different perspectives and mindsets. The students will examine the reading process as a subjective experience that changes according to the identity and culture of the reader. Students are exposed to ongoing societal issues and deal with varied cultural representations (literary, cinematic, and artistic) to the state of emergency in Israel. Pedagogically, learning will allow students to experiment with research and acquire essential academic habits that will help them integrate and develop tools adapted to learning in a Liberal Art College.
3474 FYSM-198-01 Read/Write Creative Nonfiction 1.00 SEM Papoulis,Irene TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM 115V - 106 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  Daily writing exercises, wide-ranging readings, sharing work aloud as well as on the page: this seminar is for students committed to taking themselves seriously as readers and writers. "Creative nonfiction" uses elements of literary writing--characterization, description, dialogue, experiments with structure--to explore “true” stories and ideas. We’ll examine the intimate relationship between subject and form in creative nonfiction, the role of "the personal," the nature of style and voice, the idea of “truth,”etc. In addition to reading and writing about a diverse range of published authors, students will generate their own creative nonfiction pieces, including a reflective research essay.
3512 FYSM-199-01 Networks, Historical & Contemp 1.00 SEM Regan-Lefebvre,Jennifer M. TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM LSC - 133 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  We use the word “network” to describe the structure of human connections in contemporary life. This course explores the way that the network has been a useful concept for historians, too. Students will read and learn to think about networks both in an abstract sense and through a range of historical examples. They will then get hands-on experience of using historical sources, working with archival material of business and personal networks from the nineteenth century. In parallel with our historical discussions, students will work closely with Career Development to think critically about networking and to start constructing their own professional networks.
3544 FYSM-258-01 Cinephilia and Philosophy 1.00 SEM Younger,James P. MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM
W: 6:30PM-9:00PM		 HL - 121 Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  NOTE: Evening meetings of this class are for film screening only.
  This course begins with an initiation into the mysteries of cinephilia via the films of the classic American auteur Howard Hawks and proceeds into a free-ranging exploration of philosophical texts and films designed to provoke creative thought, open-ended discussion, and elegant, poetic-critical writing. With philosophers like Simone Weil, Plato, Krishnamurti, Vyasa and Lao Tze to challenge us, powerful films by Hawks, Hitchcock, Mizoguchi, Bunuel, Cuaron, Bergman, Mallick and many others to ponder, we will use the dialogical methodology of experimental cinephilia to explore fundamental themes of human life. We will also collaborate to collectively-auteur a short, life-changing masterpiece, film.