AS First Year Seminars

2026–2027

178 courses

AS.001.100FYS: What is the Common Good?
AS.001.101FYS: The Hospital
AS.001.102FYS: Experimental Fish
AS.001.103FYS: America in the Rear View Mirror: How Car Culture Shaped a Country
AS.001.104FYS: The Science of Color
AS.001.105FYS: The Science Behind the Fiction
AS.001.106FYS: Virtual Companions: History and Ethics
AS.001.107FYS: Who Wrote the Bible? A Story of Scribes, Priests, Prophets, and Scholars
AS.001.109FYS: Why'd Your Brain Sign You up for This?
AS.001.110FYS: How We Read
AS.001.111FYS: What's Music Do?
AS.001.112FYS: Seven Musical Myths (Remixed)
AS.001.114FYS: The Ends of Truth
AS.001.115FYS: Illusions, Delusions, and Other Confusions
AS.001.117FYS: Composer Biographies in Film
AS.001.119FYS: The Nature of Nature
AS.001.120FYS: U.S. History of the Present
AS.001.121FYS: Socrates and his Intellectual Context
AS.001.122FYS: Global Cinema in the 21st Century
AS.001.123FYS: Telling Stories
AS.001.128FYS: The Economics of Hidden Truth
AS.001.132FYS: The Great Divide: Income and Wealth Inequality in the United States
AS.001.133FYS: Hot Topics in Education
AS.001.134FYS: The Story of Why We Misunderstand our Relationships
AS.001.135FYS: Free Speech and Its Limits
AS.001.136FYS: Cults, Communes, and Conspiracies
AS.001.137FYS: The Power of Speech: Law, Politics, and the Humanities
AS.001.139FYS: Medicine and Cinema
AS.001.140FYS: Remixing the Archive
AS.001.141FYS: The Art of Mathematics
AS.001.142FYS: Trees: Ecology, Aesthetics, Society
AS.001.143FYS: Poets, Physicists, Philosophers, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
AS.001.144FYS: Literary Multilingualism
AS.001.145FYS: The Haitian Revolution
AS.001.146FYS: Democracy is Hard
AS.001.147FYS: Reading Ancient Middle Eastern Literature
AS.001.148FYS: The World of J.S. Bach: Music, Life, Legacy
AS.001.149FYS: What Is Poverty? A View from Economics and the Social Sciences
AS.001.150FYS: How to Model a Planet
AS.001.152FYS: When Chemistry Changed History
AS.001.154FYS: Phage Hunters - Discovering novel bacteriophages
AS.001.155FYS: Is a Corporation a Person?
AS.001.156FYS: Why is There So Much Bullsh*t?
AS.001.157FYS: "Did You Forget Something?" - Exploring Memory and Forgetting
AS.001.158FYS: Love, Anger, Fear, and Hope
AS.001.159FYS: Reporting the Earth Crisis: Journalism, Ecology, and Popular Media
AS.001.160FYS: Theater, Here and Now
AS.001.161FYS: Why are you here? Universities: Past, Present, and Future
AS.001.162FYS: From Shakespeare to Baltimore
AS.001.163FYS: Abolition in the Urban South: Baltimore’s William Levington
AS.001.164FYS: Could Machines Be Conscious?
AS.001.165FYS: Biology in Deep Time
AS.001.166FYS: The Pleasures of the Imagination - British culture in the eighteenth century
AS.001.167FYS: The Natural History of the Homewood Campus
AS.001.168FYS: The Psychology of Mass Politics in the U.S
AS.001.169FYS: Beyond Homewood - Baltimore’s Past and Present
AS.001.170FYS: Vive la Différence? The Love-Hate Relationship Between France and the USA
AS.001.171FYS: Turnover in Baltimore Harbor
AS.001.172FYS: Earth On Drugs - Medicine, Bodies, Environment
AS.001.173FYS: Taking TV Seriously - Analysis and Interpretation
AS.001.174FYS: Women and Family in Chinese Film
AS.001.175FYS: Music and Shakespeare
AS.001.176FYS: Microbe Hunters - Student-sourcing Antibiotic Discovery
AS.001.179FYS: Race Before Race - Difference and Diversity in the Ancient Mediterranean
AS.001.181FYS: Introduction to Lives in Medicine - Exploring the Experience of Patients and Practitioners
AS.001.182FYS: Seeing Things
AS.001.184FYS: The Mathematics of Politics, Democracy, and Social Choice
AS.001.185FYS: Why We Science?
AS.001.186FYS: Tuberculosis
AS.001.187FYS: Exile and Return: Outcasts, Refugees, Emigrés
AS.001.188FYS: Science, Politics, and Democracy
AS.001.189FYS: Language, Advertising, and Propaganda
AS.001.190FYS: Poisons! A History
AS.001.191FYS: How to be a Renaissance Person
AS.001.192FYS: How Not to be Afraid of Poetry
AS.001.193FYS: Diplomacy and Conflict in the Ancient Middle East
AS.001.194FYS: The Arrow of Time
AS.001.195FYS: Chemistry and Everyday Living
AS.001.196FYS: What is Love? - A Long History
AS.001.197FYS: Doctors and Patients: A Few Case Studies