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 -Youth Culture
• FS 002 PZ -Philosophical Questions
• FS 003 PZ -Political Imagination: Life on the Right
• FS 004 PZ -Conspiracy Theories & Populism
• FS 005 PZ -Pseudoscience and the tendencies of human thought
• FS 006 PZ -Higher Education in the US: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• FS 007 PZ -Seeing is Believing: Photography and Truth
• FS 008 PZ -Environmental Documentaries: Critical Analysis, Evidence and Persuasion
• FS 009 PZ -Women and Political Change in Africa
• FS 010 PZ -Surfing and the Politics of Race and Gender
• FS 011 PZ -Indigenous Cultural Resurgence
• FS 012 PZ -Unsettling Settlers and Making Space
• FS 013 PZ -Global Intimacies
• FS 014 PZ -Gender, Politics, and American Culture
• FS 015 PZ -Drug Development, Policy, and Innovation
• FS 016 PZ -Rich nations, poor nations
• FS 017 PZ -Deconstructing Religion
• FS 018 PZ -Diversity, Equality, and Inequities
• FS 019 PZ -Love and Loathing in Los Angeles