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FYSE-101 Keywords in American Culture
Carey Aubert
(Section 01)
Jen Manion
(Section 01)
FYSE-102 Books on the Brain
Sarah M. Turgeon
(Section 01)
FYSE-103 Drugs in History
Francis G. Couvares
(Section 01)
Jerome L. Himmelstein
(Section 02)
FYSE-104 Music and Difference
Jason Robinson
(Section 01)
FYSE-105 The Queerness of Children
Pooja G. Rangan
(Section 01)
FYSE-106 Language Crossing and Living in Translation
Benigno R. Sanchez-Eppler
(Section 01)
FYSE-107 Secrets and Lies
Stephen E. Laizer
(Section 01)
Theresa A. Laizer
(Section 01)
Austin D. Sarat
(Section 01)
Donna M. Simpter
(Section 01)
FYSE-108 Evolution and Intellectual Revolution
John W. Servos
(Section 01)
FYSE-109 Authority, Obedience and The Rule of Law
Lawrence R. Douglas
(Section 01)
Megan L. Estes
(Section 01)
FYSE-110 Encounters with Nature
Nicola Courtright
(Section 01)
Christine Mirabal (Section 01)
FYSE-111 The Literature of Love
Lisa M. Ballou (Section 01)
Maria R. Heim
(Section 01)
FYSE-112 Violence and Politics
Stephen E. Laizer
(Section 01)
Theresa A. Laizer
(Section 01)
Jonathan M. Obert
(Section 01)
Donna M. Simpter
(Section 01)
FYSE-113 The Nuclear Age
Ellen R. Boucher
(Section 01)
FYSE-114 Oceans of the Past
Edward D. Melillo
(Section 01)
FYSE-115 Goya and His World
Christine Mirabal (Section 01)
Natasha Staller
(Section 01)
FYSE-116 Justice in Question
Stephen E. Laizer
(Section 01)
Theresa A. Laizer
(Section 01)
Andrew Poe (Section 01)
Donna M. Simpter
(Section 01)
FYSE-117 New Women in America
Wendy H. Bergoffen
(Section 01)
FYSE-118 Crossing
Frederick T. Griffiths
(Section 01)
FYSE-119 Coexistence: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Spain
Catherine V. Infante
(Section 01)
FYSE-120 Telling Stories
Molly Mead
(Section 01)
FYSE-121 Pariscape: Imagining Paris in the Twentieth Century
Elizabeth A. Eddy
(Section 01)
Ronald C. Rosbottom
(Section 01)
FYSE-122 Presence
Ron Bashford
(Section 01)
FYSE-123 Reading, Writing, and Teaching
Judith E. Frank
(Section 01)
FYSE-124 Faulty Vision
Christine Mirabal (Section 01)
Niko Vicario
(Section 01)
FYSE-125 Geology of the American West: Critical Landscapes in Earth Science and in American Cultural Debate
Tekla A. Harms
(Section 01)
Diane B. Hutton
(Section 01)
FYSE-126 Manifestos
Carey Aubert
(Section 01)
Adi Gordon
(Section 01)
FYSE-127 Reading Asian American Experiences
Barry O'Connell
(Section 01)
FYSE-128 Growing Up in America
Elizabeth J. Aries
(Section 01)
FYSE-129 War and Peace
Boris Wolfson
(Section 01)
FYSE-130 Relativism and Toleration
Nishiten Shah
(Section 01)
FYSE-131 Thinking Through Improvisation
Darryl Harper
(Section 01)
FYSE-132 Food and Culture
Amy C. Hall
(Section 01)
FYSE-133 “Finding Your Roots”: Narratives of Self and Community
Carey Aubert
(Section 01)
Rick A. Lopez
(Section 01)
FYSE-134 Education: For Whom and What For?
Jyl Gentzler
(Section 01)
Catherine M. Sanchez (Section 01)
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