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First Year Seminar, Fall 2016
FYSE-101 Amherst Poets
Amelia Worsley
(Section 01)
FYSE-102 Cicero to Trump: Political Rhetoric and the Public Fashioning of the Self
Christopher S. van den Berg
(Section 01)
FYSE-103 Revolutionary Thinking
Bryn I. Geffert (Section 01)
FYSE-105 Faraway Places
Amy C. Hall
(Section 01)
FYSE-106 Language Crossing and Living in Translation
Benigno R. Sanchez-Eppler
(Section 01)
FYSE-107 Secrets and Lies
Austin D. Sarat
(Section 01)
FYSE-108 Evolution and Intellectual Revolution
Jill S. Miller
(Section 01)
FYSE-109 Mind and Brain
Stephen A. George
(Section 01)
FYSE-110 Authority, Obedience and the Rule of Law
Lawrence R. Douglas
(Section 01)
FYSE-111 Violence and Politics
Jonathan M. Obert
(Section 01)
FYSE-112 Growing Up in America
Allen J. Hart
(Section 01)
FYSE-113 Genocide
Ellen R. Boucher
(Section 01)
Sean Redding
(Section 02)
April D. Trask (Section 03)
FYSE-114 Reading Asian American
Robert T. Hayashi
(Section 01)
FYSE-115 Goya and His World
Natasha Staller
(Section 01)
FYSE-116 Justice in Question
Andrew Poe
(Section 01)
FYSE-117 Liquid Gold: The Science, History, and Social Context of Olives and Olive Oil
Patricia B. O'Hara
(Section 01)
FYSE-118 Presence
Ron Bashford
(Section 01)
FYSE-119 Romanticism and the Enlightenment
Ute Brandes
(Section 01)
FYSE-120 Telling Stories
Molly Mead
(Section 01)
FYSE-121 The Confession: Theory and Practice
Pooja G. Rangan
(Section 01)
FYSE-122 Representing Equality
C. Rhonda Cobham-Sander
(Section 01)
Wendy T. Ewald (Section 01)
FYSE-123 Drugs in History
Francis G. Couvares
(Section 01)
Jerome L. Himmelstein
(Section 02)
FYSE-124 Vienna around 1900: Cradle of Modernity
Christian Rogowski
(Section 01)
FYSE-125 Giving
Molly Mead
(Section 01)
FYSE-126 Relativism and Toleration
Nishiten Shah
(Section 01)
FYSE-127 Genes, Genomes and Society
David I. Ratner
(Section 01)
FYSE-128 Transformative Ideas
Thomas L. Dumm
(Section 01)
FYSE-129 Africa: Power and Representation
Miriam R. Goheen [d] (Section 01)
FYSE-130 War and Peace
Boris Wolfson
(Section 01)
FYSE-131 Education: For Whom and What For?
Jyl Gentzler
(Section 01)
Catherine M. Sanchez
(Section 01)
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