Seminars for Freshmen: Fall 2008

Seminars depend on the regular presence and active participation of every student. Sharing ideas in class is an important academic skill that can be acquired only through practice. The vigorous discussions that characterize the most successful seminars depend on the commitment of each and every member of the class.

Seminar professors often choose to explore unexpected topics that may not directly relate to the focus of their departments. We don't want you to miss a hidden treasure. If you are interested in the past, for instance, don't look only at seminars offered by the History Department. The pop-up menu below lets you search for seminars by topic.

Not all seminars are included in the topic search. The complete list of seminars for freshmen appears below. Seminars are very popular; we recommend that you choose a couple of alternatives in case the seminar you are most interested in is full. You may enroll in only one seminar during Phase I of TeleBears, so choose wisely!

= Food for Thought Seminar

= On the Same Page Seminar

	Anthropology 24, Sec. 1: Humor in Cross-Cultural Perspective (1 unit, P/NP)
	Anthropology 24, Sec. 2: The Imagined Past: Other Times in Film (1 unit, P/NP)
	Chemical Engineering 24, Sec. 1: Foundations of our Empire: Energy and Water (1 unit, P/NP)
	Chemistry 24, Sec. 1: Issues in Nuclear Chemistry (1 unit, P/NP)
	Chicano Studies 24, Sec. 1: The Chicano Civil Rights Movement (1 unit, P/NP)
	Classics 24, Sec. 1: How Were They Built? Creative Technology in Ancient Greece (1 unit, P/NP)
	Classics 24, Sec. 2: Homer's 'Odyssey'–The Text and the Mythology (1 unit, P/NP)
	Classics 39H, Sec. 1: The Trojan War: History or Myth? (4 units, LG)
	Computer Science 39J, Sec. 1: The Art and Science of Photography: Drawing with Light (2 units, P/NP)
	Computer Science 39M, Sec. 1: Information Technology in Society: Ethical, Policy and Legal Issues of Designing New Technology (2 units, P/NP)
	Dutch Studies 39A, Sec. 1: Cultural History of the Low Countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg) (3 units, LG)
	Earth and Planetary Science 39A, Sec. 1: Geological Influences in California Society Today (2 units, LG) NEW
	Education 24, Sec. 1: Civil Rights Law in Higher Education (1 unit, LG)
	Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 24, Sec. 1: Gadgets Electrical Engineers Make (1 unit, P/NP)
	Engineering 24, Sec. 1: Time, Money, and Love in the Age of Technology (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 1: Shakespearean Comedy: Twelfth Night (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 2: William Blake's Illuminated Books (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 3: Rethinking Hemingway (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 4: The Mysteries of Edwin Drood (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 6: Reading Walden Carefully (1 unit, P/NP)
	Environmental Economics and Policy 39D, Sec. 1: Great New Books and Hot Topics (2 units, P/NP)
	Environmental Science, Policy, and Management 24, Sec. 1: Issues in Natural Resource Conservation (1 unit, P/NP)
	Environmental Sciences 24, Sec. 1: Sustainability: The Future is Now (1 unit, P/NP)
	German 39A, Sec. 1: Ways of Reading: The Book of Genesis (3 units, LG) NEW
	History 24, Sec. 1: What Is a Book? (1 unit, P/NP)
	History 24, Sec. 2: Napoleon I Explored (1 unit, LG)
	History 39H, Sec. 1: Youth as Experience and Metaphor in Modern Japan (4 units, LG) NEW
	History 84, Sec. 1: Concept and Image: Movies as Historical Documents for the Study of the United States, 1920-1945 (2 units, P/NP)
	History of Art 24, Sec. 1: Looking at Berkeley Buildings (1 unit, P/NP)
	History of Art 39A, Sec. 1: Photography as a Fine Art (4 units, LG)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 1: Animal and Human Navigation: Which Way Is Home? (1 unit, LG)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 2: Biology: The Study of Life (1 unit, P/NP)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 3: The Stone Age (1 unit, P/NP)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 4: Dinosaur Biology: An Introduction to Research (1 unit, LG)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 6: Saving Nature in the Age of Global Warming (1 unit, P/NP)
	Linguistics 24, Sec. 1: Language and Politics in Southern Africa (1 unit, P/NP)
	Linguistics 24, Sec. 2: Language Myths (1 unit, P/NP)
	Materials Science and Engineering 24, Sec. 1: Materials in Music (1 unit, P/NP)
	Mathematics 24, Sec. 1: The Mathematics of Gambling (1 unit, P/NP)
	Mathematics 24, Sec. 2: What is Happening in Math and Science? (1 unit, P/NP)
	Mechanical Engineering 24, Sec. 1: Art and Science on Wheels (1 unit, P/NP)
	Mechanical Engineering 24, Sec. 2: Computer Graphics Tools (1 unit, P/NP)
	Molecular and Cell Biology 90B, Sec. 1: Insulin as a Window on Discovery in Biology (1 unit, P/NP)
	Molecular and Cell Biology 90B, Sec. 2: Blood, Guts and Plumbing: The Human Body (1 unit, P/NP)
	Molecular and Cell Biology 90E, Sec. 1: Music, Mind, Brain (1 unit, P/NP)
	Natural Resources 24, Sec. 1: Global Environment Theme House Freshman Seminar (1 unit, P/NP)
	Near Eastern Studies 24, Sec. 1: Ancient Egypt at Berkeley: Egyptian Archaeology in the Hearst Museum (1 unit, LG)
	Near Eastern Studies 24, Sec. 2: Islam and Imaginative Literature: The Making of a Problematic Relation (1 unit, LG)
	Nuclear Engineering 39A, Sec. 1: Issues in Nuclear Science and Engineering (2 units, LG)
	Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology 24, Sec. 1: The Freshman Experience: A Comparative Study (1 unit, P/NP)
	Optometry 39B, Sec. 1: The Developing World: Profound Challenges, Needs, and Opportunities—An Example Applied to Eye Care in India (2 units, P/NP)
	Physics 24, Sec. 1: From Mythbusters to Science Fiction: How Do We Know Things? (1 unit, P/NP)
	Physics 39, Sec. 1: Cellular Biophysics: Information and Energy Fluxes in Biology (1.5 units, LG)
	Plant and Microbial Biology 24, Sec. 1: Encounters with Plants: First-hand Experiences with the Culture, Lore, and History of Plants (1 unit, P/NP)
	Plant and Microbial Biology 39A, Sec. 1: Environmental Microbiology (3 units, LG)
	Plant and Microbial Biology 39B, Sec. 1: Introduction to Microbial Biology (2 units, P/NP)
	Plant and Microbial Biology 39C, Sec. 1: Genome Dark Matter (2 units, P/NP)
	Political Science 39B, Sec. 1: Problems in East Asian Politics (2 units, P/NP)
	Portuguese 24, Sec. 3: Islands, Myths and Heroes (1 unit, P/NP)
	Psychology 24, Sec. 3: The Psychology of Scientific and Religious Explanations (1 unit, P/NP)
	Rhetoric 24, Sec. 1: Arguing with Judge Judy: Popular "Logic" on TV Judge Shows (1 unit, P/NP)
	Slavic Languages and Literatures 24, Sec. 1: War and Peace: Let's Read It Together (1 unit, P/NP)
	South and Southeast Asian Studies 39C, Sec. 1: The Developing World: Profound Challenges, Needs, and Opportunities—An Example Applied to Eye Care in India (2 units, P/NP)
	South and Southeast Asian Studies 39G, Sec. 1: “Think Gender” in Indian Short Stories (2 units, LG)
	Spanish 24, Sec. 2: Baseball Spanish (1 unit, P/NP)
	Statistics 39D, Sec. 1: Teaching Statistics with Demos, Activities, and Projects (2 units, P/NP)
	Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies 24, Sec. 1: Documentary Playmaking: School Integration, Little Rock, 1957-58 (1 unit, P/NP)
	Vision Science 24, Sec. 3: The Human Eye (1 unit, P/NP)
	Vision Science 24, Sec. 4: Myths, Mysteries and Discoveries in Medicine (1 unit, P/NP)
	Vision Science 24, Sec. 5: Oh Say Can You See (1 unit, P/NP)