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Fall 2008 Seminars

Humanities  |  Social Science  |  Natural Science  |  Cultural Diversity
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Humanities

Africology
African American Life Stories

Celtic Studies
Celtic Film: Fact or Fiction?

Communication
Communication and Conflict

Comparative Literature
Discovering Food: Myth, Ritual, and Symbol
The Bible in African American Cultures

English
The Memoir: Writing Your Life
Aspects of Hell
Satire, from Jon Swift to Jon Stewart
Wiki Nation: Producing the Internet
Multicultural America
Going Green: Literature and Film
Representations of the American Dream
Hmong American Life Stories
Baseball Reading and Culture
The Beat Writers
Freshman Workshop in Creative Writing: Riding the Waves of Change
The Translation Game: Examining Hidden Meanings in Language
Contemporary Western stories of Zen/Buddhism
Writing for the Social Good
Wild Justice: Revenge Terror and the State

Ethnic Studies
Identity and Transformation

German
Monsters of Knowledge

History
Life in a Medieval Castle
1950's: Fear, Sex, & Rock'n'Roll
Buddhist Literature: Love & Attachment
Marie-Antoinette: Villain or Victim?
Man's Best Friend: Human-Animal Relations in History
Living in a Divided World, 1945-1991: "We are all Children of the Cold War"

Italian
Italian Folklore in Fiction and Film

Philosophy
Coffee Houses and Revolutionary Ideas: Reason and Nature in the Enlightenment

Women's Studies
Radical Women: Fighting for Equality

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Natural Science

Atmospheric Sciences
The Art and Science of Weather Forecasting

Biological Sciences
Human Health and Disease
Bioethics

Physics
Physics for Future Presidents

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Social Science

Africology
Race In Popular Culture

Anthropology
Places of the Dead: The Archeology of Cemeteries
Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll (You Name It): The Neuroendocrinology of Young Adulthood

Economics
Economics of East Asia

Political Science
Being Perry Mason
Profiles in Power
Politics by the Numbers: The 2008 Election

Psychology
Coping With Stress
Psychology and Health

Sociology
Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
College in the City: Pupils, Places and Politics

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Cultural Diversity

English
Multicultural America
Hmong American Life Stories

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