First-Year Seminars/Colloquia

First-year Cultural Studies seminars and colloquia cover a wide range of subjects and disciplines. Among this year’s offerings are:

• Artistic Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean (c.3000 BCE – 300 CE) (Art History and the Visual Arts)
• Into the Hidden Fortress: Exploring the Films of Akira Kurosawa (Asian Studies)
• Science and You: A Needlessly Complicated Relationship (Chemistry)
• Explorations of the Brain: Memory (Cognitive Science)
• Collegiate Sexualities (Critical Theory and Social Justice)
• Place and place: identity and location in American fiction (English and Comparative Literary Studies)
• Hood Science 101: Scholars, Schools and Rules in Southcentral Los Angeles (Education)
• Harry Potter And The Academic Conversation (English Writing)
• Remembering Slavery (History)
• The Unexamined Digital Life (ITS)
• Nutrition and Disease (Kinesiology)
• Gender, Race and Gay Rights in the Obama Era (Mathematics)
• 20th Century Musicians: In Their Own Words (Music)
• Reel Lives:  Reading and Writing about Documentary (English Writing)