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2022-2023 Catalog > Course Descriptions > FYS - First Year Seminars

FYS - First Year Seminars

FYS 1 (Im)migrant Communities of California
FYS 2 Envisioning and Enacting Health Justice
FYS 3 Bohemias
FYS 4 The Examined Life
FYS 5 Reframing the I/Eye: The Politics of Autobiographical Media
FYS 6 From Birth to Death: A Philosophical Life
FYS 7 Literature and Philosophy: The Dionysian in Modern Thought
FYS 8 From Low Culture to High Art: The Evolution of American Comics
FYS 9 Race and the Environment
FYS 10 All that Glitters: Life and Literature in Los Angeles
FYS 11 Histories of Incarcerated Youth
FYS 12 Climate Change: Then and Now
FYS 13 Myth, Magic, Mystery: Writing Enchantment in the Modern World
FYS 14 Rhythm and Rhetoric: New Formal Poetry
FYS 15 Isn't It Romantic? Lovers, Knights, Sorcerers and Superheroes Through the Ages
FYS 16 Rhetorical Agency and Cultural Production from the Asian Diaspora
FYS 17 Spinning Science: How Storytelling Drives the Perception and Progress of Science
FYS 18 Islamophobia
FYS 19 Philosophy and Film: Between Moscow and Berlin
FYS 20 German Film: Modernity and its Monsters
FYS 21 Applying the Sociological Imagination to Social Problems in the United States
FYS 22 Literature, Science, and Technology
FYS 23 How to understand the world, and lie, with maps
FYS 24 Cultural Anthropology & Other/Realities
FYS 25 Los Angeles Cultures and Subcultures
FYS 26 Arguing with Science: The Practice and Communication of Scientists
FYS 27 Performing Disease
FYS 28 Arrivals: From Columbus to War of the Worlds
FYS 29 Representing Capitalism
FYS 51 Reimagining Family
FYS 52 China in a Changing World: From the Opium Wars to Post-Mao Reforms
FYS 53 How to understand the world, and lie, with maps
FYS 55 Diversity and Secularism in the Middle East
FYS 56 The Project of Selfhood: German Romanticism and the Birth of Modernity
FYS 57 Imagining Other Worlds: Genre Fiction by Writers of Color
FYS 58 Race and the Environment
FYS 59 Urban Fictions: The Modern City in Literature and Other Arts
FYS 60 Rhetorical Agency and Cultural Production from the Asian Diaspora
FYS 61 Rhythm and Rhetoric: New Formal Poetry
FYS 62 Detective Fiction
FYS 63 The Senses, Sensibility, and Society
FYS 64 Monsters and Mayhem
FYS 65 Social and Cultural Dimensions of Epidemics
FYS 66 Environmental Entanglements
FYS 68 A Critical Examination of American Society
FYS 71 Cultural Anthropology & Other/Realities
FYS 72 White Privilege, White Grievance: The rise of White Identity Politics
FYS 73 The World in Your Hands: A Haptic and Historic Exploration of The Book
FYS 74 Driving the American Dream: Taxis, Tech, and Transformations in American Capitalism
FYS 75 Science, Society and You
FYS 76 Social Difference and the Politics of Technology
FYS 77 What’s Going On in the World, and Why Should You Care
FYS 78 Writing the Self: Truth on the Margins of Memory

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