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Course Listing for FIRST YEAR SEMINAR - Fall 2025 (ALL: 09/02/2025 - 12/17/2025)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
3338 FYSM-105-01 Prohibitions 1.00 SEM Alcorn,John 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.
3426 FYSM-130-01 Physics in Science Fiction 1.00 SEM Branning,David TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM UNASSIGNED - Y FYR  
  Enrollment limited to 14 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
  Science fiction has a long history of presenting speculations on the physical laws of the universe and the consequences of these laws for our lives and our civilization. Many of these speculations have turned out to be correct, others have proved spectacularly wrong, and some are so forward-looking that the verdict may not be known for centuries. We will read stories mostly in the "hard SF" tradition of Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations" and Poul Anderson's "Tau Zero." Along with classic masters such as Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Larry Niven, we will explore modern award-winning authors such as Greg Egan, David Marusek, and Ted Chiang. We will discuss how their stories explore scientific concepts, and we will incorporate these concepts into original written works.
3335 FYSM-131-01 Landscape Photog and Conserv 1.00 SEM Geiss,Christoph MWF: 9:00AM-9:50AM
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM		 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.
  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.
3333 FYSM-132-01 Art, Aesthetics, & the Museum 1.00 SEM Hatch,Michael J. R: 1:30PM-4:10PM 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.
  If you've ever fallen in love with an artwork, it likely happened in a museum. If you never have, is it because of museums? How do the places where we encounter art shape our tastes as individuals and as a society? In this first year seminar, students will critically engage with the history of American art museums, taking Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as a case study. They will work closely with the museum's collection and archives to research its history and changing public mission from the 19th century through the present. Readings will include topics of aesthetics, art history, collecting, education, race, and class in America. Student work culminates in research papers on individual artworks and group presentations that propose critical interventions in the museum.
3377 FYSM-134-01 Games of Strategy 1.00 SEM Schneider,Arthur M. MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM 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.
  In this seminar we will learn about games and their predictions of rational human behavior. We will run a series of bargaining and social dilemma games to test whether these predictions are indeed true. Our goal will be to study how people actually behave in economic settings, not how we think they should behave. We will address the importance of monetary incentives in experimental economics and determine how to properly incentivize our own experiments. We will discuss the relevance and applicability of our experiments outside of economics. Finally, students will be required to design and conduct their own game experiments. No previous background in economics or game theory is required to take this course.
3398 FYSM-140-01 Mathematical Gems 1.00 SEM Skardal,Per Sebastian MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM 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.
  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.
3477 FYSM-144-01 Defending the Land and Water 1.00 SEM Hussain,Shaznene MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM 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.
  Why are environmental movements necessary? Are they effective? What are the goals of environmental movements and how should they achieve these goals? This first-year seminar introduces students to the histories, development, and contemporary work of environmental movements in the United States. The course will use primary and secondary texts in connection with multiple movements, ranging from conservation and sustainability to environmental justice, indigenous, and counter-movements, to explore a variety of issues, goals, and strategies these movements have pursued.
3506 FYSM-149-01 Thought World Ancient Greece 1.00 SEM Tomasso,Vincent E. MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM LIB - 181 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 course will be introduced to the wide world of ancient Greek culture, primarily through its literature. We'll begin with the eighth-century B.C poet Hesiod's conceptions of the Greek gods in his epic poem Theogony, on the one hand, and his advice for mortals working the land in his epic poem Works and Days, on the other. Next, we'll consider Homer's depiction of a journey home in the Odyssey. After that, we'll explore the incredible intellectual explosion of fifth- and fourth-century B.C. Athens, including philosophers like Plato, playwrights like Euripides and Aristophanes, and historians like Herodotus. Throughout, we'll consider connections with the wider ancient Mediterranean, particularly through the Old and New Testaments.
3362 FYSM-150-01 Assembling “The People” 1.00 SEM Litvin,Boris MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM SH - N215 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 investigates "the people" as a central concept in democratic life. What does it mean for the people to come together - and why do they fail to do so? What assumptions do we make about the people - and how might we question them? What does it mean to say the people are empowered? In what ways does this term get misused and manipulated - and what can democracies do about that? To answer these questions, we will bring together different perspectives on popular mobilization and civic engagement from political science, philosophy, literature, and political activism.
3363 FYSM-159-01 Cinephilia and Philosophy 1.00 SEM Younger,Prakash MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM
W: 6:30PM-9:00PM		 HL - 121
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 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.
3365 FYSM-164-01 Create, Invent, Innovate 1.00 SEM Marino,Nicholas P. 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.
  NOTE: Creativity, Invention, Innovation: Toys, Games and Rhetoric
  In this first year seminar, students will explore the connections between creativity, invention, innovation, and social progress. Guided by an emphasis on critical inquiry, this seminar delves into the art of problem identification, scoping, and solution preparation, reflecting upon both this history and the transformative future potential, of invention. Through iterative prototyping and interdisciplinary collaboration, students will explore the cognitive and creative processes underlying invention and the diverse forms it takes across different cultures and historical epochs. Through discussions and reflections, we seek to understand how creativity drives innovation and shapes human progress. The seminar culminates in a capstone project where students will present a prototype solution to a contemporary local/global challenge.
3366 FYSM-164-02 Create, Invent, Innovate 1.00 SEM Hubert,Rosario TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM LIB - 103 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: Creativity, Invention, Innovation: Storytelling
  In this first year seminar, students will explore the connections between creativity, invention, innovation, and social progress. Guided by an emphasis on critical inquiry, this seminar delves into the art of problem identification, scoping, and solution preparation, reflecting upon both this history and the transformative future potential, of invention. Through iterative prototyping and interdisciplinary collaboration, students will explore the cognitive and creative processes underlying invention and the diverse forms it takes across different cultures and historical epochs. Through discussions and reflections, we seek to understand how creativity drives innovation and shapes human progress. The seminar culminates in a capstone project where students will present a prototype solution to a contemporary local/global challenge.
3392 FYSM-164-03 Create, Invent, Innovate 1.00 SEM Gunasena,Natassja B. 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.
  NOTE: Creativity, Invention, Innovation: Decolonization
  In this first year seminar, students will explore the connections between creativity, invention, innovation, and social progress. Guided by an emphasis on critical inquiry, this seminar delves into the art of problem identification, scoping, and solution preparation, reflecting upon both this history and the transformative future potential, of invention. Through iterative prototyping and interdisciplinary collaboration, students will explore the cognitive and creative processes underlying invention and the diverse forms it takes across different cultures and historical epochs. Through discussions and reflections, we seek to understand how creativity drives innovation and shapes human progress. The seminar culminates in a capstone project where students will present a prototype solution to a contemporary local/global challenge.
3400 FYSM-164-04 Create, Invent, Innovate 1.00 SEM Landry,Timothy R. W: 1:30PM-4:10PM 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.
  NOTE: Creativity, Invention, Innovation: Culture and Design
  In this first year seminar, students will explore the connections between creativity, invention, innovation, and social progress. Guided by an emphasis on critical inquiry, this seminar delves into the art of problem identification, scoping, and solution preparation, reflecting upon both this history and the transformative future potential, of invention. Through iterative prototyping and interdisciplinary collaboration, students will explore the cognitive and creative processes underlying invention and the diverse forms it takes across different cultures and historical epochs. Through discussions and reflections, we seek to understand how creativity drives innovation and shapes human progress. The seminar culminates in a capstone project where students will present a prototype solution to a contemporary local/global challenge.
3383 FYSM-169-01 Reefer 1.00 SEM Eisenberg-Guyot,Nadja TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM MC - 305 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.
  From hippies to hip hop, marijuana’s association with American youth counter-cultures is ubiquitous. But what’s the deal with reefer, anyway? How did it become an object of fascination, regulation, and moral panic? How do gender, race, and class shape perceptions of marijuana’s threat? As marijuana is legalized across many U.S. states, this course will explore the social, political, and economic forces that shape the criminalization and decriminalization of marijuana, perceptions of marijuana as a “gateway” drug, and publicly-funded anti-drug campaigns targeting youth. Stepping into the anthropological role of cultural observer and critic, students will practice analyzing pop culture representations of marijuana in the broader social context of U.S. drug prohibition.
3407 FYSM-170-01 Orientalism 1.00 SEM Antrim,Zayde TR: 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 takes the landmark 1978 book Orientalism by Palestinian-American scholar and postcolonial theorist Edward Said as its central text. What is its legacy? In attempting to answer that question, we will apply Said's theories to art, film, and journalism. Topics of discussion will include Palestinian history, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab racism.
3382 FYSM-172-01 Modern Family 1.00 SEM Rodriguez,Allison A. TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM 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.
  Though seen as a constant, family life - and one's role in the family - is ever-changing. This course will examine different iterations, conceptions and representations of families across Europe since the French Revolution. From the Victorian invention of childhood to the rise of the post-WWII teenager, through empires, democracies and dictatorships, wars and revolutions, we will explore how childhood, motherhood and fatherhood have been defined and then redefined. Access to and discussions about family planning will also be explored. Sources include scholarly articles, documents, memoirs and films.
3413 FYSM-173-01 Community Wellness 1.00 SEM Bekanich,Julia TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM 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.
  This seminar will introduce the principles and practices of community-based health promotion, with a specific emphasis on education, health literacy, and behavior change strategies. Students will critically examine the relationship between health literacy and community well-being, drawing on current research and literature to understand key issues and challenges in improving health communication across diverse populations.
3391 FYSM-174-01 Latinx Legacy 1.00 SEM Aponte-Aviles,Aidali TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM MC - 303 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 is an introduction to LatinX in the U.S. with emphasis on the distinctions and similarities that have shaped the experiences and the cultural imagination among different Latinx communities by critically analyzing works from a range of genres and cultural expressions including comics, fiction, memoirs, film, music, and performance, along with recent literary and cultural theory works. The course will explore some of the themes and issues that inform LatinX cultural production. Topics to be discussed include identity formation and negotiation in terms of language, race, gender, sexuality, and class; the colonial subject; diaspora and emigration; the marketing of the Latinx identity; and activism through art.
3390 FYSM-175-01 Virtual Selves 1.00 SEM Holt,Laura J. MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM LSC - 137 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 what extent is your online persona a reflection of your “true” self? Can you form a true friendship or romance with someone you have never met in person? With an AI chatbot? What is it like to live in a virtual world where you can assume any body and identity you want and have a virtual job and family? Is “internet addiction” a psychiatric disorder? How should it be treated?These are just some of the questions that we will explore in this seminar. We will apply traditional psychological principles to investigate how people construct online identities, how they engage in romantic and social relationships, and how technology use affects one’s mental health and worldview. You will engage in several course activities to develop your knowledge on these topics, namely a) reading assigned texts and research articles, b) participating in class discussions and structured debates, c) applying the course concepts to yourself and your life through structured exercises, and d) writing argument papers about salient issues related to technology and well-being.
3384 FYSM-178-01 The Art of the Con 1.00 SEM Helberg,Alexander J. MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM LSC - 132 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.
  QAnon plots to take down satanic political cabals. Cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes. Vaccine skepticism causing outbreaks of previously “beaten” diseases. In our contemporary hyper-saturated media environments, it may seem like we are living in a unique period of irrationality, paranoia, and fraud. But in truth, these are all-too-human tendencies that have been with us long before the rise of the internet and the technological amplification of some of the most specious lines of thinking.In this First-Year Seminar course, we will interrogate the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of “un-critical” thinking, sequenced by three of its most prevalent categories: conspiracy theorizing, falling for confidence games (or more colloquially, “cons”), and forms of reactionary contrarian logic. The goal of this course is to prepare students with a set of critical thinking tools to marshal against these anti-intellectual forces as they encounter them in everyday life, and equip them with strategies for self-efficacious independent reasoning.
3385 FYSM-181-01 BIPOC Writers 1.00 SEM Bacote,Catina 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.
  In this course, we will read BIPOC writers who explore how the places people inhabit, physical and psychological, real and imagined, shape their identity and experiences. Specifically, we will pay attention to how a range of writers convey the complications of belonging, and the ways power can be used to exclude and harm or heighten the visibility of the maligned and forgotten. Our reading list will call us to bear witness to timely and urgent events and consider how spaces can be contested and reimagined through literature.
3336 FYSM-182-01 The American City 1.00 SEM Myers,Garth A. 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.
  What defines life in the American city, historically and in the current day? Is the quintessential American city more like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or one of the many smaller US cities found across the country? This course examines the evolution of American cities and issues that cities face today. Drawing from interdisciplinary work, we will follow the historical trajectories of US cities across the country; explore the rise and fall of the American Rust Belt; examine the experience of immigrants; learn about inequality through the lens of race, class, and gender; and scrutinize the ways in which urban processes, such as gentrification, natural disasters, and deindustrialization, continue to shape cities and their residents.
3386 FYSM-183-01 Science and Speculation 1.00 SEM Hill,Adam D. MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM 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.
  Science fiction has always fascinated us, asking us to consider seemingly impossible technologies and to dream about possible futures. However, science fiction also invites us to look inward, at ourselves and our current society, and to wonder how well we would use the technologies that we most hope for. Whether in the reaches of space or the depths of a digital world, through genetic engineering or time-travel, there are incredible stories with real-life lessons to be learned. Using readings and films, we will look at science and societies, both real and imagined, to discuss some of the different places humanity might be headed. As part of this course, writing assignments and oral presentations will teach you to be both a better storyteller and a better scientist.
3334 FYSM-184-01 The Art of Food (Writing) 1.00 SEM Wheatley,Chloe TR: 6:30PM-7:45PM 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.
  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).
3399 FYSM-186-01 Herstory of China 1.00 SEM Zhang,Shunyuan TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM 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.
  This seminar introduces students to China and its engagements with the world through the lens of gender and sexuality, covering diverse issues that include education, love, marriage, work, activism, and pop culture. Students will learn to read, analyze, and evaluate cross-disciplinary scholarly discussion of materials collected from late imperial to contemporary China. This seminar does not require prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language.
3396 FYSM-188-01 Reasoning Together 1.00 SEM De Schryver,Carmen WF: 1:30PM-2:45PM 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.
  What are we doing when we reason, and how do we do this well? According to a standard philosophical picture, reasoning is a solitary activity governed by specific goals: we reason to solve problems and reach determinate conclusions. This course offers an alternative view, pointing to the fundamentally social and open-ended nature of reasoning. Situating reason within the broader business of living together, we think about the role that reason plays in mutual understanding, the project of critique, and negotiation across difference. We conclude with a consideration of some of the ways that joint processes of reasoning can be circumscribed by prejudices pertaining to social identity.
3397 FYSM-189-01 Transgender Stories 1.00 SEM Provitola,Blase A. MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM HL - 123 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 role do narratives play in identity construction? How have authors and filmmakers established and contested tropes that society associates with “transgender identity”? What do trans stories have to tell us not only about trans experience, but about human experience and society more broadly? We will explore these questions by examining a variety of sources created primarily by trans, non-binary, and gender-variant people, including both fiction (novels, feature films) and non-fiction (historical texts, autobiographies, documentaries). Topics may include the medicalization of trans identity and critiques of that model, queer and trans kinship, and the ways in which legacies of colonization inform Western conceptions of gender.
3395 FYSM-195-01 Talking Trash 1.00 SEM Terwiel,Anna MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM SH - N215 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.
  When you throw something away, where is away? And how does it come to seem appropriate to throw something away in the first place? In this first year seminar, we will examine the production of trash from two perspectives. First, we will explore how we have come to rely on items made to be discarded, and what happens to such items after we put them in the garbage. We will also explore how we come to think of objects as trash, and how ideas about unworthiness and disposability can get attached not just to objects but also to people and groups.
3412 FYSM-196-01 Food History in Latin America 1.00 SEM Euraque,Dario A TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM SH - N215 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.
  Food in Latin America and the Caribbean has a rich, long history that dates thousands of years before Columbus sailed into the Caribbean Sea in 1492. This past was furthered enhanced by economic and cultural aspects of European Colonialism and the Atlantic Slave Trade, even with their tragic legacies. Before 1492, millions of Indigenous peoples grew corn, beans, chilies, cacao, quinoa, avocados, potatoes and tomatoes, and much more. Europeans brought wheat, and many spices and fruits from Africa and Asia, including sugar, bananas, and coffee. Africans, free and enslaved, enhanced the colonial and post-colonial diet with their own crop contributions: okra, rice, yams, black-eyed peas, kidney, lima beans, and more, as well particular techniques for processing and cooking. This course explores the economic processes of the history of colonial and post-colonial food production, consumption, and global marketing and branding in Latin America and the Caribbean.