First-Year Seminars 2014

First-Year Seminar Courses

First-Year Seminar Offerings, Fall 2014

All first-year seminars meet Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00-12:15.

Please note that ten (10) of the 18 FYSs are part of Pitzer’s Global-Local Mentoring Program (GLMP). These FYSs are marked by an asterisk (*) and include additional required programming outside of scheduled class time (TBA). Because professors teaching a GLMP FYS serve as their students’ faculty adviser for the first three semesters, students in the program develop strong mentoring relationships with faculty and gain a broad understanding of how the curriculum intersects with their individual educational goals. (Normally, incoming students are assigned faculty advisers in a field related to the major interest that they indicated on the college application.) In addition, global-local mentorship goes beyond the first semester by providing diverse venues for students to participate early on in community engagement and study abroad, two of the hallmarks of a Pitzer education.

• FS 001 PZ -Human Rights and Terrorism*
• FS 002 PZ -Writing about Art*
• FS 003 PZ -Reality Hunger*
• FS 004 PZ -Right Wing Politics*
• FS 005 PZ -A Short History of the Sale*
• FS 006 PZ -The Trojan War*
• FS 007 PZ -Utopias and Dystopias*
• FS 008 PZ -Africana Film: UK to USA*
• FS 009 PZ -Making Space and Unsettling Settlers: California Indian Nations and Pitzer College*
• FS 010 PZ -Model Minority and Perpetual Foreigner: Asians in America*
• FS 011 PZ -What is Science and Who Owns It?
• FS 012 PZ -Science in the Public Imagination
• FS 013 PZ -First Year Seminar TBA
• FS 014 PZ -What is Human?
• FS 015 PZ -Native Americans and Environments
• FS 016 PZ -Deviant Heroes
• FS 017 PZ -Environmental Documentaries: Controversy, Evidence, Persuasion & Critical Analysis
• FS 018 PZ -Youth Culture
• FS 019 PZ -Signs of the Future*