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First-Year Seminars

From ancient artifacts to digital arts, grassroots movements to global revolutions, first-year seminars and colloquia cover a lot of cultural ground. 

This year students will hone their critical thinking, writing, and research skills while taking…

Cowboys, Samurai, Manly Men (Writing & Rhetoric)
Singing in the Literary Imagination (music)
The Information Economy from the 17th-Century to the Present (digital learning & research)
Science and You: A Needlessly Complicated Relationship (chemistry)
Visual Storytelling and Narrative Film (theater)
Capital Punishment and the Killing State (sociology)
Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Making (history)
Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America (diplomacy and world affairs)

…and many more.
 

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