EN First Year Seminars

2026–2027

45 courses

EN.501.101FYS: For All Practical Purposes: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
EN.501.105FYS: Technical Leadership in Times of Crisis
EN.501.112FYS: Computing Through The Ages
EN.501.113FYS: Turing’s Shadow: Uncovering What’s Hidden in STEM
EN.501.114FYS: Gas Prices, GameStop and Toilet Paper: Innovation and American Enterprise
EN.501.116FYS: Minding the Gap: Understanding the Design of Habit
EN.501.117FYS: Combating Misinformation and Disinformation in Science
EN.501.119FYS: Adulting 101: Managing Your Financial Wellness Journey
EN.501.120FYS: City as Campus: Discovering Entrepreneurship and Leadership in Baltimore
EN.501.121FYS: AnthroDesign for Healthcare
EN.501.122FYS: Juries to Journals: Elle Woods, Einstein, and the Meaning of Evidence
EN.501.123FYS: Exploring Computer Science
EN.501.124FYS: Design Cornerstone
EN.501.125FYS: Envisioning Antarctica: Science, Diplomacy, and the Arts
EN.501.126FYS: Communicating with Other Intelligences - Artificial, Alien, Animal
EN.501.127FYS: Designing a Just Future
EN.501.129FYS: The Climate Game
EN.501.131FYS: What Comes Next? Critical Perspectives on Technological Innovation
EN.501.132FYS: Water, Health, and the City
EN.501.133FYS: Influencers: Contemporary Media and Leadership
EN.501.134FYS: The Leadership Challenge
EN.501.135FYS: Breaking Through: Readings and Techniques for Imagining the Future
EN.501.136FYS: Math in the Movies
EN.501.137FYS: The Uses and Abuses of the Internet
EN.501.139FYS: Pushing the Boundaries: Building a Better World Through Science Fiction and Film
EN.501.141FYS: From Pavement to Pixels - Navigating Life in Physical and Digital Worlds
EN.501.142FYS: What's in a Game? The Art and Science of Strategy
EN.501.143FYS: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Popular Culture
EN.501.144FYS: What Should "College" Mean?
EN.501.145FYS: Explaining AI Through Games
EN.501.146FYS: Storage and Information: How Data Defines the World
EN.501.149FYS: Materials, Music, and Megabytes: Interplay, Analysis, and Appreciation
EN.501.150FYS: Causal Inference: Understanding Cause and Effect
EN.501.151FYS: The Infinite Fugue: Self-Reference in Art, Logic, and Music
EN.501.152FYS: Computational Reasoning
EN.501.153FYS: Storage and Information: How Data Defines the World
EN.501.154FYS: The Path to Preeminence: Leading a School of Engineering
EN.501.155FYS: Defending the Planet: How to Stop an Asteroid
EN.501.156FYS: Molecules that Changed the World: Engineering, Discovery, and Society
EN.501.157FYS: Classics of Environmental Justice
EN.501.158FYS: The Materials Science of Museums: From Art to Artifact
EN.501.159FYS: Exploring Leadership and Ethics in the Engineering Profession Through Visual Media
EN.501.160FYS: Poisons: From Paracelsus to the Age of AI
EN.501.161FYS: Are We Ready? - Addressing Public Health Emergency & Disaster Threats in a Dynamic World
EN.501.162FYS: From Turing to Tomorrow: Foundations and Trends of Machine Learning