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Freshman Seminars
The First-Year Seminar Program offers focused, challenging seminars in a wide range of vital topics representing the scholarly endeavors of our faculty. These small seminars serve to plunge new students into the academic life of Dickinson College, encouraging you to begin building an intellectual community, and setting high standards for scholarly inquiry.

Click the title of a seminar to see the descriptions or else check a number of titles to view them together:
  Competition in Our Lives: What's fair and who decides?
  Youth, Love and Revolution in Postwar Japan
  The Religions of Early America
  Meditation
  Pardon my French! Americans in France - Ce je ne sais quoi! The French in America
  National (In)Securities and Human Rights
  Order and Chaos in Science and Society
  The Campus Novel and Cultural Contexts
  Science and Religion: Searching for Order, Searching for Meaning
  Are We Alone in the Solar System?
  Why Do People Believe Weird Things?
  The Science of Being Human
  Public Speaking in the 21st Century
  Green Science for the iPod Generation
  Mind, Knowledge, and Evolution
  The Black Arts Movement
  Science on Stage
  The Political Economy of Health
  Art and Memory
  Mediated Realities
  Discerning fact from fallacy in nature and medicine
  Whose story is it?: History and Identity in Latin American Literature
  The Good, The Bad, and the Greeks: Ancient Origins of Ethics and Politics
  The Secret History of the Dismal Science
  Hollywood on Hollywood
  Time
  When Languages Die: How does language extinction affect us all?
  Biophilia: Human Connections to Other Life Forms
  The War on Terrorism & Civil Liberties
  Mental Illness: From Movies to Memoir
  Language Games: Historical Truth Through the Historical Novel
  Theater and Human Rights
  Growing a Healthy Community: The Story of One Community’s Response to America’s Health and Health Care Challenges
  The Uses and Abuses of the Drug War
  Explaining Illness to Ourselves
  Extraordinary accomplishments and advancements: Creative geniuses and their rivalries
  Sustaining Places: National Parks, Forests, Farms, and Communities
  Ethics of Hunting and Fishing
  Law and Justice
  Sustaining Northeastern Wildlife
  Detecting Cultural Narratives


 


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