Seminars for Freshmen: Spring 2012

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.

Choose a Topic ... Art/Creativity Business California/Berkeley/Cal Career/Field Exploration Children/Families Civil Rights/Human Rights Environment/Nature Environment/Urban Ethics Film Food Foreign Languages/World Affairs Health Higher Education History Language Law Literature Museums Music News/Media/Journalism Philosophy Photography Politics Popular Culture Race/Ethnicity Religion/Spiritual Science Sex/Gender Sports/Games/Gambling Statistics Technology Technology

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!

= Connections@Cal Seminar

= On the Same Page Seminar

= Berkeley Arts Seminar

= Food for Thought Seminar

	African American Studies 24, Sec. 1: Language and Politics in Southern Africa (1 unit, P/NP)
	Anthropology 24, Sec. 1: Contemporary India: Introduction to Social and Cultural Analysis (1 unit, P/NP)
	Anthropology 24, Sec. 2: Exploring Our Campus and City Communities Through Photography (1 unit, P/NP)
	Architecture 24, Sec. 1: Exploring the Architectural Profession (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Chemical Engineering 24, Sec. 1: Foundation of Our Empire: Energy (1 unit, P/NP)
	Chemical Engineering 24, Sec. 2: The Science and Engineering Behind Food (1 unit, P/NP)
	Chemistry 24, Sec. 1: Bridge (1 unit, P/NP)
	Chicano Studies 24, Sec. 1: Chicano Civil Rights Movement (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Civil and Environmental Engineering 24, Sec. 1: The Design and Construction of Biosand Filters for Developing Countries (1 unit, P/NP)
	Civil and Environmental Engineering 24, Sec. 2: The History and Science behind Water-based Conflicts in the Movies (1 unit, LG) CANCELLED
	Classics 24, Sec. 1: Ancient Greek Food and Religion (1 unit, P/NP)
	Classics 24, Sec. 2: Indiana Jones and the Elgin Marbles: The Myth and Reality of Archaeology (1 unit, P/NP)
	Computer Science 39P, Sec. 1: Photographing History in the Making (2 units, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Earth and Planetary Science 24, Sec. 1: Oceans in the News (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Earth and Planetary Science 39A, Sec. 1: Geological Influences in California Society Today (2 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Education 24, Sec. 1: The Role and Purposes of Intercollegiate Athletics at Berkeley (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 24, Sec. 1: Gadgets Electrical Engineers Make (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 1: Bullets Across the Bay: Detective Narratives Set in San Francisco (to Coincide with Bancroft Library's Display in the Brown Gallery of Doe Library) (1 unit, P/NP)
	English 24, Sec. 2: Reading Walden Carefully (1 unit, 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)
	German 24, Sec. 1: Close Looking: German Art at the BAM (1 unit, P/NP)
	German 39H, Sec. 1: The World of Yesterday: Vienna 1900 (3 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	German 39L, Sec. 1: Wagner and Nietzsche (3 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	History 24, Sec. 1: HIV/AIDS and History (1 unit, P/NP)
	History of Art 24, Sec. 1: Socially Engaged Art and the Future of the Public University (1 unit, P/NP)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 1: The Darwinian Revolution (1 unit, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 10: Ethnobiology, Nutrition, and Global Food Systems (1 unit, P/NP)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 2: Animal and Human Navigation: Which Way Is Home? (1 unit, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 3: How and Why Do Birds Sing (1 unit, P/NP)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 4: Victorian Literature and the Idea of Evolution (1 unit, LG)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 5: Plants of the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden (1 unit, P/NP)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 6: Humans Evolving (1 unit, LG)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 7: Islands as Model Systems (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 8: Randomness and Heritable Memories in Biology (1 unit, LG)
	Integrative Biology 24, Sec. 9: Energy, Food, Fun, Money, Sex and Drugs: Changing the Course of the Sixth Mass Extinction (1 unit, P/NP)
	Jewish Studies 39E, Sec. 1: Jewish Collective Identity and Memory (2 units, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Journalism 24, Sec. 1: London Calling: Producing News for the BBC (1 unit, LG)
	Journalism 24, Sec. 2: Journalism on Film: Ethical and Moral Dilemmas (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Journalism 24, Sec. 3: Hyperlocal Multimedia Workshop in the Mission District (1 unit, LG)
	Legal Studies 39D, Sec. 1: Current Political and Moral Conflicts and the U.S. Constitution (2 units, LG)
	Letters and Science 24, Sec. 1: Classic Movies as Visual Art (1 unit, P/NP)
	Linguistics 24, Sec. 1: Language Myths (1 unit, P/NP)
	Linguistics 24, Sec. 2: Language Myths (1 unit, P/NP)
	Materials Science and Engineering 24, Sec. 2: Physics and Materials Science of Skateboarding (1 unit, P/NP)
	Materials Science and Engineering 24, Sec. 3: Materials and Weapons of War through History (1 unit, P/NP)
	Mathematics 24, Sec. 1: Calculus for People (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	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)
	Molecular and Cell Biology 90A, Sec. 1: Sampling the Performing Arts at Berkeley (1 unit, P/NP)
	Molecular and Cell Biology 90B, Sec. 1: Insulin as a Window on Discovery in Biology (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Molecular and Cell Biology 90D, Sec. 1: Human Viruses and Diseases (1 unit, P/NP)
	Molecular and Cell Biology 90E, Sec. 1: Gender and The Brain (1 unit, P/NP)
	Molecular and Cell Biology 90E, Sec. 2: Matter, Mind, Consciousness (1 unit, P/NP)
	Natural Resources 24, Sec. 2: Global Environment Theme House Freshman Seminar (1 unit, P/NP)
	Near Eastern Studies 24, Sec. 1: Islam and Imaginative Literature: The Making of a Problematic Relation (1 unit, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology 24, Sec. 1: Classic Asian Martial Arts Movies (1 unit, P/NP)
	Philosophy 24, Sec. 1: Philosophy with Socrates (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Physics 24, Sec. 1: The Japanese Disasters of 2011: What Happened? (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Plant and Microbial Biology 24, Sec. 1: Agrobacterium: A Simple Soil Bacterium that has Transformed the Plant World (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Plant and Microbial Biology 39E, Sec. 1: Biochemistry, Microbiology and Genetics in the Kitchen (2 units, P/NP)
	Political Economy 24, Sec. 1: What is Political Economy? (1 unit, P/NP) CANCELLED
	Portuguese 24, Sec. 1: Hello Brazil: Literature, Arts, Society (1 unit, P/NP)
	Public Policy 39B, Sec. 1: Art and Depair (2 units, LG)
	Rhetoric 24, Sec. 1: Elocution (1 unit, P/NP)
	Rhetoric 24, Sec. 3: Genocide and Accountability in Cambodia and Rwanda (1 unit, LG)
	Rhetoric 39I, Sec. 1: Renaissance Classics from a Rhetorical Perspective (2 units, LG)
	Slavic Languages and Literatures 24, Sec. 1: The Brothers Karamazov: Let's Read It Together (1 unit, P/NP) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Slavic Languages and Literatures 39M, Sec. 1: Linguistic Diversity: The Languages of the Former Soviet Union (3 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	South and Southeast Asian Studies 24, Sec. 1: Elephant, Monkey, Rabbit: Animal Magic in South and Southeast Asia (1 unit, LG)
	South and Southeast Asian Studies 39G, Sec. 1: “Think Gender” in Indian Short Stories (2 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	South and Southeast Asian Studies 39I, Sec. 1: Southeast Asian Performing Arts (2 units, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Spanish 24, Sec. 1: Talking Funny: Language Variation in Spanish and English Literary Texts (1 unit, LG) SEATS AVAILABLE
	Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies 39B, Sec. 1: Archival Research: Working with Primary Sources in the Humanities, Sciences, and Engineering (1.5 units, LG)
	Vision Science 24, Sec. 1: The Human Eye (1 unit, P/NP)