First-Year Seminars

2026-2027

136 courses

FYSEM-UA 1Complexities: Ocean
FYSEM-UA 203The Nazi Racial State: Jews and Other Minorities 1933-1945
FYSEM-UA 210Language & Reality in Post-Classical Science and Postmodern Literature
FYSEM-UA 218The Supreme Court and The Religion Clauses
FYSEM-UA 255School & Society: NYU in The Sixties & Seventies
FYSEM-UA 306Latin America at Start of The 21St Century
FYSEM-UA 312Memoirs and Diaries in Modern European Jewish History
FYSEM-UA 371Welcome to College: The Novel
FYSEM-UA 379The Doctor's Dilemma: Being Correct & Right
FYSEM-UA 384Journalism of War, Revolution, Genocide, and Human Rights
FYSEM-UA 389Living Off The Laughter: Comedy in America
FYSEM-UA 449Wiseguys, Spies & Private Eyes: Heroes and Villains in Modern American Culture
FYSEM-UA 456Laboratories for Democracy: Making American Cites Better
FYSEM-UA 474What is College For?
FYSEM-UA 476Political Theater
FYSEM-UA 481Cannibalism
FYSEM-UA 484Globalization and its Discontents
FYSEM-UA 496Cultural Nature of Language
FYSEM-UA 497How We See
FYSEM-UA 500New Worlds of Work and Care
FYSEM-UA 503In Search of Lost Time
FYSEM-UA 506Game Theory and the Humanities
FYSEM-UA 507What is Memory?
FYSEM-UA 514Xenophon of Athens
FYSEM-UA 539Facing Fascism: The Spanish Civil War and U.S. Culture
FYSEM-UA 545Media and Communication in the Middle Ages
FYSEM-UA 546Travel and Communication in the Ancient World
FYSEM-UA 548History of Disbelief
FYSEM-UA 564Modern Poetry: Craft and Revolution
FYSEM-UA 572Literature and Machines
FYSEM-UA 593Rethinking Orientalism
FYSEM-UA 598After the End: Post-Apocalypse Novels in the 20th Century
FYSEM-UA 603Hoarding before *Hoarders*
FYSEM-UA 616Planet Human: Reading and Writing the Anthropocene
FYSEM-UA 634BlackLanguageMatters
FYSEM-UA 663Telling Stories: Journalists and Ethnographers
FYSEM-UA 666Battle of the Sexes: Love, Desire, and War on the Stage and Beyond Beyond
FYSEM-UA 689Homer Versus Vergil
FYSEM-UA 695Gestures, Movement, and Literature
FYSEM-UA 701Adventures in Interviewing: Oral History Theory and Practice
FYSEM-UA 714Crystallization in Life: Stories about Shells, Bones, and Kidney Stones
FYSEM-UA 722Italy and North America: Contact, Conflict, and Exchange
FYSEM-UA 728How We Learn
FYSEM-UA 732Nature vs. Nurture: The Neurobiology of Individuality
FYSEM-UA 734Derrida’s Archive Fever
FYSEM-UA 735Food for Thought: Narrating the Global Food System
FYSEM-UA 738Literature and Film of Human Rights
FYSEM-UA 739Stories to Live By
FYSEM-UA 740It's All a Plot: Uncovering the Conspiracy Narrative
FYSEM-UA 741Staging Power: Political Ceremonies and Pageantry
FYSEM-UA 743Archaeology of Ireland: Land of Saints and Scholars
FYSEM-UA 746Poetry and War
FYSEM-UA 747Graves, Bodies, and Books: Funerary Commemorations from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
FYSEM-UA 748Childhood and Youth in Cinema
FYSEM-UA 752Vikings and Celts: Ireland, Scandinavia and the North Sea World during the Long Viking Age
FYSEM-UA 753Heroic Journeys: Homer, Vergil, Dante
FYSEM-UA 767Dead Sea Scrolls and the Foundations of Judaism and Christianity
FYSEM-UA 770What is Evil?
FYSEM-UA 771The Art of Doing Nothing: Idlers, Drifters, Slackers,and Fugitives in Literature and Film
FYSEM-UA 774Cuba: An American History
FYSEM-UA 775Ethics and Activism
FYSEM-UA 776The Work of Translation: What Does Translation Do?
FYSEM-UA 777Beyond Athletics: Sports, Politics and Belonging in Europe and the U.S
FYSEM-UA 778Youth and Youth Movements in the Modern Middle East
FYSEM-UA 779Socrates and His Critics
FYSEM-UA 780The Sea in History
FYSEM-UA 781Happiness in Film
FYSEM-UA 782At World's End: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Societal Collapse
FYSEM-UA 783DNA: From the Double Helix to Nanotechnology
FYSEM-UA 784Italian Renaissance: A New Reading
FYSEM-UA 785Becoming Ecospheric: Embracing Life on a Damaged Planet
FYSEM-UA 786Quixotic Fanfiction: Cervantes, Don Quixote, and Their Afterlives
FYSEM-UA 787Born, Not Made? (Mis)understanding Genius
FYSEM-UA 788Technology vs. Democracy: Can the American Experiment Survive American Innovation?
FYSEM-UA 789Power Hungry: Food as a Tool for Social and Political Change
FYSEM-UA 790"We are Not in a Post-Fact World": Wikipedia and the Construction of Knowledge
FYSEM-UA 791NeuroStories: Narratives of the Brain, Mind, and Heart
FYSEM-UA 792Streaks and Coincidences
FYSEM-UA 793New Documentary Cinema in Brazil
FYSEM-UA 794Science and the Theater