Seminars for Freshmen: Fall 2009

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

	African American Studies 24, Sec. 1: Researching "Mixed-Race" Identity and History in the United States (1 unit, LG)
	American Studies 24, Sec. 1: Food Politics and American Popular Culture (1 unit, LG)
	Anthropology 24, Sec. 1: The World of the Inca: the Largest Pre-historic American Empire (1 unit, P/NP)
	Anthropology 39B, Sec. 1: Serious Games for Archaeology and Imagining the Past (2 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Chemical Engineering 24, Sec. 1: Chemical Engineering: What Is It and Where Is It Going? (1 unit, P/NP)
	Chicano Studies 24, Sec. 1: The Chicano Civil Rights Movement (1 unit, P/NP)
	Civil and Environmental Engineering 24, Sec. 1: Two Field Trips in Environmental Engineering (1 unit, P/NP)
	Classics 24, Sec. 1: Ancient Greek Food and Religion (1 unit, P/NP)
	Classics 24, Sec. 2: Homer's 'Odyssey'–The Text and the Mythology (1 unit, P/NP)
	Classics 39I, Sec. 1: The Origins of Rome (4 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Comparative Literature 24, Sec. 1: Reading and Reciting Great Poems in English (1 unit, P/NP)
	Comparative Literature 24, Sec. 2: Telling Tales (1 unit, P/NP)
	Comparative Literature 41D, Sec. 1: Theatres of Cruelty (4 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Computer Science 39J, Sec. 1: The Art and Science of Photography: Drawing with Light (2 units, P/NP)
	Computer Science 39N, Sec. 1: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (2 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Dutch Studies 39A, Sec. 1: Cultural History of the Low Countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg) (3 units, LG) CANCELLED
	Earth and Planetary Science 39A, Sec. 1: Geological Influences in California Society Today (2 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Earth and Planetary Sciences 24, Sec. 1: Geosciences in the Movies (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Education 24, Sec. 1: Civil Rights Law in Higher Education (1 unit, LG)
	Education 39D, Sec. 1: Educating Identity: Becoming Jewish in Israel and America (3 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 24, Sec. 1: Gadgets Electrical Engineers Make (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 1: Shakespeare's Sonnets (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 2: Hamlet (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 3: Animal Rights and Disability Studies (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 4: The Mysteries of Edwin Drood (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 5: California and Ethnicity: Fiction and Film (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 Science, Policy, and Management 24, Sec. 2: Insects, Ticks, and Human Diseases (1 unit, LG)
	Environmental Science, Policy, and Management 24, Sec. 3: Discussions on Evolutionary Biology (1 unit, P/NP)
	Environmental Sciences 24, Sec. 1: Sustainability: The Future is Now (1 unit, P/NP)
	Ethnic Studies 24, Sec. 1: President Obama and Cuba: Where to go after Fidel? (1 unit, LG)
	French 24, Sec. 1: Language and Technology (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Geography 24, Sec. 1: Food & Agribusiness (1 unit, P/NP)
	History 24, Sec. 1: Exploring Napoleon (1 unit, LG)
	History 39F, Sec. 1: How Wars Begin: Europe and the World 1789 to 1991 (4 units, LG)
	History of Art 24, Sec. 3: Looking at Berkeley Buildings (1 unit, P/NP)
	History of Art 39A, Sec. 1: Photography as a Fine Art (with darkroom work) (4 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research 24, Sec. 1: Overview of IEOR (1 unit, P/NP)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 1: Animal and Human Navigation: Which Way Is Home? (1 unit, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	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: The Age of Dinosaurs: What Do We Know? (1 unit, LG)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 5: How and Why Do Birds Sing (1 unit, P/NP)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 6: Nature in an Age of Global Warming (1 unit, P/NP)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 7: The Future of Marine Ecosystems (1 unit, LG)
	Jewish Studies 39A, Sec. 1: Jewish American Literature (2 units, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Journalism 24, Sec. 1: Opinion Writing (1 unit, LG)
	Journalism 24, Sec. 3: Revisiting World War II Through the Documentary Lens (1 unit, LG)
	Landscape Architecture 24, Sec. 1: The River on Film (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Linguistics 24, Sec. 1: Language Myths (1 unit, P/NP)
	Linguistics 24, Sec. 3: Translation and the English Bible (1 unit, P/NP)
	Materials Science and Engineering 24, Sec. 1: Materials in Music (1 unit, P/NP)
	Materials Science and Engineering 24, Sec. 4: The Berkeley Experience (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)
	Mathematics 24, Sec. 3: Knot Theory (1 unit, P/NP)
	Mechanical Engineering 24, Sec. 1: Computer Graphics Tools (1 unit, P/NP)
	Mechanical Engineering 24, Sec. 2: Art and Science on Wheels (1 unit, P/NP)
	Molecular and Cell Biology 90D, Sec. 1: Viruses and Cancer (1 unit, P/NP)
	Music 39M, Sec. 1: Classical Vocal Works of African-American Composers (3 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Native American Studies 90, Sec. 1: Myth, Memory, and History: Understanding Native America (4 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Natural Resources 24, Sec. 1: Global Environment Theme House Freshman Seminar (1 unit, P/NP)
	Natural Resources 24, Sec. 2: Dean's Night Out - Environmental Issues: Conflicts, Tradeoffs, and Resolutions (1 unit, P/NP)
	Near Eastern Studies 24, Sec. 1: Exploring Ancient Egypt: Egyptian Archaeology in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum (1 unit, LG)
	Near Eastern Studies 24, Sec. 2: Islam and Imaginative Literature: The Making of a Problematic Relation (1 unit, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Nuclear Engineering 39A, Sec. 1: Issues in Nuclear Science and Engineering (2 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	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)
	Philosophy 24, Sec. 1: The Ethics of Food: Philosophical Perspectives on "The Omnivore's Dilemma" (1 unit, P/NP)
	Physics 24, Sec. 1: Everyday Nukes (1 unit, P/NP)
	Physics 24, Sec. 2: The Big Bang (1 unit, P/NP)
	Plant and Microbial Biology 24, Sec. 1: Viruses, Health, and Society (1 unit, P/NP)
	Plant and Microbial Biology 39D, Sec. 1: Life on Earth (3 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Political Science 39B, Sec. 1: Problems in East Asian Politics (2 units, P/NP)
	Portuguese 24, Sec. 1: Endangered Cultures and Languages (1 unit, P/NP)
	Psychology 24, Sec. 1: Psychology of Cross-cultural Communication (1 unit, P/NP)
	Public Health 39H, Sec. 1: Renewal, Reinvention and Innovation: A Campus for the 21st Century (2 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Rhetoric 24, Sec. 1: Seeking Justice and Accountability in Cambodia (1 unit, LG)
	Rhetoric 24, Sec. 2: Arguing with Judge Judy: Popular "Logic" on TV Judge Shows (1 unit, LG)
	Slavic Languages and Literatures 24, Sec. 1: War and Peace: Let's Read It Together (1 unit, P/NP)
	Slavic Languages and Literatures 39L, Sec. 1: Russian Short Fiction (3 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	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) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Spanish 24, Sec. 1: Talking Funny: Language Variation in Spanish and English Literary Texts (1 unit, LG)
	Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies 24, Sec. 1: Documentary Playmaking: School Integration, Little Rock, 1957-58 (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Vision Science 24, Sec. 1: The Human Eye (1 unit, P/NP)