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Fall 2008 Seminars

Humanities  |  Social Science  |  Natural Science  |  Cultural Diversity
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Humanities

Africology
African American Life Stories (Full)

Celtic Studies
Celtic Film: Fact or Fiction? (Full)

Communication
Communication and Conflict (Full)

Comparative Literature
Discovering Food: Myth, Ritual, and Symbol (Full)
The Bible, The Blues, and The Black Experience

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

Ethnic Studies
Identity and Transformation

German
Monsters of Knowledge (Full)

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

Italian
Finding the Italian in You: Italian Folklore in Fiction and Film

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

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 (Full)
Bioethics (Full)

Geosciences
Shaking, Quaking Earth: Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics (Full)

Physics
Physics for Future Presidents

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Social Science

Africology
Race In Popular Culture (Full)

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

Economics
Economics of East Asia (Full)

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

Psychology
Coping With Stress (Full)
Psychology and Health (Full)

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

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Cultural Diversity

English
Multicultural America
Hmong American Life Stories (Full)

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