Northwestern University
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Freshman Seminars - Fall 2007-2008
Listed by Department


SEMINAR CANCELLATION: Please note that Psych 101-6-21, "Psychology and 'Weird' Beliefs," has been canceled as of 5/18/07. DO NOT include it on your Top Ten list.


Humanities
101-0-20   Carl Smith, Kathryn S. Evans, Henry Binford    GOOD SOCIETY 1: BRAVE NEW WORLDS
TTH 3:30-4:50
 
African-American Studies
101-6-20   Mary Pattillo   BLACK CHICAGO
TTH 3:30-4:50
 
African and Asian Languages
110-6-23   Richard Lepine   FRAME TALES: BOOKS AND MOVIES
TTH 9:30-10:50

Anthropology
101-6-21   Timothy Earle   LEADERS: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
TTH 2:00-3:20
 
101-6-22   James A. Brown   WHO OWNS THE PAST?
MWF 3:00-3:50

101-6-23   William Irons   EVOLUTIONARY FOUNDATION OF MORALITY
TTH 3:30-4:50

Art
101-6-20   Lane Relyea   BE AN ART CRITIC
TTH 9:30-10:50
 
Art History
101-6-1   Claudia Swan   WAYS OF SEEING: HISTORY OF VISION
TTH 9:30-10:50
 
Asian-American Studies
**106-6-20   John Cheng   ASIAN AMERICAN LIVES, PAST AND PRESENT
TTH 12:30-1:50

Astronomy
110-6-20   David Meyer   SEARCHING FOR ET: SCIENCE AND STRATEGIES
MWF 11:00-11:50

110-6-21   Michael Smutko   EVOLVING PERCEPTIONS OF THE UNIVERSE
TTH 2:00-3:20
                               
Biological Sciences
*103-6-20   Joseph S. Walsh   VALUES OF BIODIVERSITY
TTH 9:30-10:50

105-6-20   David Taylor   SCIENCE WRITING FOR THE LAY READER
TTH 2:00-3:20
 
109-6-20   Joshua Schnell   SCIENCE POLICY OR SCIENCE POLITICS?
TTH 2:00-3:20

Chemistry
105-6-01   Barry Coddens   A YEN FOR FLY-FISHING:PHILOSOPHY & ENVIRONMENTALISM FROM MIDSTREAM
MWF 11:00-11:50                                              

105-6-02    Owen Priest    CSI: NORTHWESTERN
MWF 11:00-11:50

105-6-03    Shelby Hatch    WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE
TTH 9:30-10:50

105-6-04    Frederick J. Northrup    CHEMISTRY OF ART : COLOR, FORGERY, AND EFFECTS ON SOCIETY
TTH 9:30-10:50

105-6-05    Larry S. Trzupek    DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
MWF 11:00-11:50

Classics
101-6-20    William Tortorelli    MADNESS AND WINE IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE
TTH 9:30-10:50

Earth and Planetary Sciences

102-6-1    Donna M. Jurdy    DEATH OF THE DINOSAURS
MW 3:00-4:20

102-6-32   Steven D. Jacobsen   FUTURE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
TTH 3:30-4:50

102-6-33   Francesca A. Smith   GLOBAL WARMING: SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
TTH 2:00-3:20

Economics
101-6-20   Lillian Kamal   ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
MW 2:00-3:20

101-6-30   Lynne Kiesling   ECONOMICS OF ENERGY
TTH 2:00-3:20
 
**101-6-50   Steffen Habermalz   ECONOMIC IMPACT OF LEGAL AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA
TTH 12:30-1:50
 
English
101-6-20   Brain Bouldrey   ARCHITECTURE OF ENTHUSIASM
TTH 2:00-3:20

101-6-21    Julie Gordon    STUDIES IN 20TH CENTURY LIT: BEAST WITHIN/BEAST WITHOUT
TTH 3:30-4:50

Writing Program

105-6-20    Penny L. Hirsch    READING AND WRITING STORIES FROM THE MARGIN
MWF 9:00-9:50

105-6-21   Ellen Wright   HOW LANGUAGE WORKS
MWF 10:00-10:50

105-6-22   Charles Yarnoff   UTOPIAN AND DYSTOPIAN FICTION
MWF 10:00-10:50

105-6-23   Marcia Gealy   INWARD JOURNEY: SELF DISCOVERY THROUGH READING AND WRITING
MWF 11:00-11:50

105-6-24    Barbara Shwom    HOW TO BECOME AN EXPERT IN ROUGHLY TEN WEEKS
MWF 11:00-11:50

105-6-25    Jeanne W. Herrick    INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS: READING AND WRITING CULTURAL STORIES
TTH 9:30-10:50

105-6-26    Kathleen Carmichael    CREDIBLE WRITER: NATURE OF WRITING &  EVIDENCE
TTH 2:00-3:20

French & Italian
105-6-20   Marie-Simone Pavlovich   TELL ME WHAT YOU EAT AND …
MWF 11:00-11:50

105-6-21   Dominique Licops   IMAGINING IDENTITIES IN FRANCOPHONE FICTION & FILM
MWF  10:00-10:50

105-6-22    Doris Garraway    AVENGERS OF THE NEW WORLD: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN MEMORY AND REPRESENTATION
TTH 2:00-3:20

Gender Studies
101-6-20    Amy Partridge    MAKING HISTORY IN THE 60S: SEX RADICALS, RADICAL FEMINISTS, AND BLACK PANTHERS
TTH 2:00-3:20

German
104-0-20   Ingrid Zeller   MUSIC, MAGIC, AND LANGUAGE
MWF 2:00-2:50

History
101-6-21   Tessie Liu   WILD CHILD: SEPARATING HUMANS FROM ANIMALS
TTH 2:00-3:20

102-6-21    Melissa Macauley    CHINA IN THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION
W 2:00-4:50

102-6-22    Laura Hein    MUSEUMS, WAR MEMORIALS, AND OTHER COMMEMORATIONS
TTH 2:00-3:20

103-6-20   Frank Safford   PRACTICING HEGEMONY INTERNATIONALLY
MW 2:00-3:20
 
103-6-22   Jeff Rice   FROM NATIONALISM TO ETHNIC CLEANSING
TTH 9:30-10:50
                        
Linguistics
101-6-20   Robert Gundlach   LANGUAGE AND CHILDHOOD
TTH 9:30-10:50
 
Mathematics
105-6-20   John M. Alongi   GETTING A LIFE
MW 2:00-3:20

105-6-21   David McClendon   PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
MW 2:00-3:20

Philosophy

109-6-20   Jon Garthoff   ANARCHISM AND DUTY TO OBEY THE LAW
TTH 3:30-4:50

109-6-23   Axel Mueller   WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
TTH 10:30-11:50

Physics
110-6-20   Frederic Rasio   ORIGINS: FROM BIG BANG COSMOLOGY TO ASTROBIOLOGY
TTH 2:00-3:20

Political Science
**101-6-20    Karen Alter    INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
TTH 11:00-12:20
 
101-6-21    James Mahoney    WHY ARE SOME COUNTRIES RICHER THAN OTHERS?
TTH 2:00-3:20

101-6-22    James Druckman    MEDIA AND POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS
MW 2:00-3:20

101-6-23    Galya Benarieh Ruffer    IMMIGRATION AND THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION
TTH 9:30-10:50
 
101-6-24    Larry Stuelpnagel    PRESS AND PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
MW 3:30-4:50
 
Psychology
101-6-20    Marcia Grabowecky    BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY
MW 2:00-3:20
 
**101-6-22    Renee Engeln-Maddox    PSYCHOLOGY OF POPULAR MEDIA
MW 11:00-12:20

Religion
101-6-20    Barry Wimpfheimer    KABBALAH: FROM ESOTERICA TO US WEEKLY
TTH 9:30-10:50

Sociology
**101-6-20    Gary Fine    SCANDALS AND REPUTATIONS
TTH 11:00-12:20

101-6-21    Karrie Ann Snyder    PARENTING IN US: MOTHERHOOD &  FATHERHOOD
MW 2:00-3:20                                                    
 
**101-6-22   Wendy Griswold  GO TELL IT : MID CENTURY BLACK NOVELS
TTH 11:00-12:20

101-6-23   Thomas Durkin   CRIME, TORT, AND JUSTICE
TTH 9:30-10:50

Spanish
105-6-20   Penny Nichols Fahey   SPANISH CIVIL WAR : IMAGES AND WORDS
MWF 2:00-2:50
 
105-6-21   Dario Fernandez-Morera   LITERATURE AND LIBERTY
TTH 9:30-10:50
 
Statistics
101-6-20   Bruce Spencer   HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN THE EARTH SUPPORT?
TTH 2:00-3:20
 

* (plus 2 half-day field trips on a Sat. or Sun. during one of the first couple of weekends in the quarter)

** These classes conflict with MENU (Mathematical Experience at NU) undergraduates