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First-Year Seminars
The Faculty of Arts offers the following First-Year Seminars (FYS). Note that each Seminar in the list below is not necessarily offered each year. Refer to the for the specific offerings each term.
Please see section First-Year Seminar Courses to determine if you qualify to register for an FYS course.
ARTH 199 FYS: Themes in Art History (3 credits)
EAST 199 FYS: East Asian Culture (3 credits)
ENGL 199 FYS: Form and Representation (3 credits)
FREN 198 FYS: Introduction to French and Québec Literature (3 credits)
GERM 197 FYS: Images of Otherness (3 credits)
HISP 199 FYS: Hispanic Literature and Culture (3 credits)
HIST 194 FYS: Jewish Concepts of Others (3 credits)
HIST 195 FYS: Sources of World History (3 credits)
HIST 197 FYS: Race in Latin America (3 credits)
HIST 198 FYS: Nation Building and Nationalism (3 credits)
HIST 199 FYS: History (3 credits)
ISLA 199 FYS: Narrations of the Middle East (3 credits)
ITAL 199 FYS: Italy's Literature in Context (3 credits)
JWST 199 FYS: Images - Jewish Identities (3 credits)
LING 199 First Year Seminar: Language and Mind (3 credits)
LLCU 199 FYS: Literary Animals (3 credits)
PHIL 197 FYS: Right and Wrong (3 credits)
PHIL 198 FYS: Knowledge and Ideas in Early Modern Philosophy (3 credits)
PHIL 199 FYS: Minds, Brain, and Machines (3 credits)