College of Arts and Sciences

2011-2012 Archived Catalog Information

Seminar for Freshmen Courses

Course Number	Name	Description
Course descriptions may be updated periodically to reflect changes since the last published catalog.
SF-101	Fixing the World- Energy and Water: The Science of Solutions	Two of the most daunting challenges the world faces (or will face) is ... Read More »
SF-102	Economics and the Environment	This seminar will establish a clear link between the environment and t ... Read More »
SF-104	German Divisions	Does cultural identity come from language, history, or both? German is ... Read More »
SF-105	Voices in Conflict	Why are conflicts so hard to resolve? How do myths about conflict affe ... Read More »
SF-107	Life Lessons From the Writing of Alice Walker	This seminar will explore the poetry and prose of Alice Walker a conte ... Read More »
SF-109	Media Literacy	This course explores the cultural and social functions of the media wi ... Read More »
SF-110	Indiana Jones and the Temple of American Law	This course examines the American legal system and the legal professio ... Read More »
SF-1101	Hearts of Whiteness/Hearts of Darkness	There is a long tradition in the western world of viewing Africa as a ... Read More »
SF-1104	HIV/AIDS and Society	Students will examine the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a variety of perspect ... Read More »
SF-1105	Contemporary Urban Challenges	The increasing rate of urbanization has been accompanied by dramatic c ... Read More »
SF-1106	EU and US Responses to Globalization	This interdisciplinary course focuses on the political, economic and s ... Read More »
SF-1107	Vertebrate Fossils and Evolution	An introduction to vertebrate history using the fossil record. The pat ... Read More »
SF-1109	Ancient to Modern Law	This course will examine the major topics, trends, and controversies i ... Read More »
SF-1110	Decoding Boston: Signs and the City	This interdisciplinary seminar will explore the buildings, monumnets, ... Read More »
SF-1111	Logo Police: the Crime & Culture of Trademark Counterfeiting	Counterfeit goods have simultaneously become a financial drain on righ ... Read More »
SF-1113	Get Thee to the Mall	This seminar will examine America's preoccupation with materialism. It ... Read More »
SF-1114	Memoirs of Development	The purpose of this course will be to help students gain a greater und ... Read More »
SF-1115	Boiling Mad: the Tea Party and the Battle Over History & the Constitution	This course will seek to examine the roots, funding and ideology of th ... Read More »
SF-1117	The Libertarianism	This course will explore the philosophical and economic underpinnings ... Read More »
SF-1118	Pageantry: Competitive Beauty	In this seminar, we will explore the history and mystique of pageantry ... Read More »
SF-1121	The War to End All Wars: World War I In History, Literature, Art, and Film	To commemorate the approaching 100th anniversary of World War I (1914- ... Read More »
SF-1122	The Ethics of Peace and War: From The Ancient World to the Present	This course will explore historical, ethical and political issues conc ... Read More »
SF-113	Citizens, Soldiers, and Scribes: a Literary Examination of the Civil War Era	After years, the War Between the States continues to inspire writers i ... Read More »
SF-115	Love, Death, & Immortality in the Ancient World	This seminar will examine the related ideas of love, death, and immort ... Read More »
SF-116	Enlightened Insanity	Why is commenting on the world while sitting in a Parisian cafe such a ... Read More »
SF-120	Food: Sustainable Choice for a Healthy Planet	By now the general public is aware that individual food choices affect ... Read More »
SF-121	The Challenge of the Cradle to Prison Pipeline	This course explores the process through which youth in urban areas ar ... Read More »
SF-122	Family Ties: Gender, Marriage, Childhood And the History of Emmotion	Do we all feel the same feelings across cultures and throughout histor ... Read More »
SF-126	The Boston Theatre Scene: the Inside Experience	Using the current Boston theatre season as its syllabus, this writing- ... Read More »
SF-132	The Beatles: Here, There & Everywhere	This seminar will investigate the impact and legacy of the Beatles. Th ... Read More »
SF-135	Dynamics of Human Conflict Res	This seminar looks at men and women in conflict and love by linking cl ... Read More »
SF-137	Democracy in Action: How Citizens Change The World	Should young people vote? Does it matter? What are other forms of poli ... Read More »
SF-141	Modern Presidential Campaign Communications: 1952-2008	This seminar will focus upon presidential campaigns in the television ... Read More »
SF-147	Liberation Movements At Home and Abroad	We will begin the course by examining the inspiring liberation struggl ... Read More »
SF-148	No Place Like Home: the American House and Cultural Identity	The house as a cultural symbol permeates all aspects of our lives, fro ... Read More »
SF-149	Philosophy of Art and Beauty	This course will examine the nature of aesthetic experience, art, beau ... Read More »
SF-151	Getting Over It: Dealing With the Aftermath of Group Conflict/Mass Atrocity	Once violent conflict between two groups has ended, what is the best w ... Read More »
SF-152	Women, Gender, and the Media	This seminar aims to empower female and male students through understa ... Read More »
SF-154	Music History and the Bible	Students will read and discuss significant Bible passages that have in ... Read More »
SF-155	Dante's Divine Comedy	Dante's Divine Comedy is a journey to the three realms of the afterlif ... Read More »
SF-156	The Mask Behind the Face: Personas, Personalities, and Perception. Acting in /Out Life	The theatre has always been a metaphor for life. In modern times life ... Read More »
SF-163	Fast Food and Big Tobacco: Using Law to Combat Corporate Harm	The law dictates that corporations, arguably the most influential inst ... Read More »
SF-164	The End of the World	Using materials drawn from several disciplines, this seminar examines ... Read More »
SF-166	Beowulf: From Germanic Poem to Hollywood	This seminar will read and discuss the Old English poem Beowulf in tra ... Read More »
SF-167	Women and Cinema in Contemporary Spain	This seminar explores the history of women in Contemporary Spain and i ... Read More »
SF-168	Women in Art: Eastern and Western Perspectives and Issues of Identity	This course will survey issues of female identities and how they were ... Read More »
SF-170	Real Life: Hollywood's View of Society and the Sociological Perspective	Sociology is the study of social behavior in human groups and in socie ... Read More »
SF-171	Maugham: Playwright, Author,spy	Bring a love of reading to this seminar. Our focus will be the life an ... Read More »
SF-172	Seeking Paradise: From Modern Fantasy to To the Classics	Philip Pullman to Milton and back to C.S Lewis The course will begin w ... Read More »
SF-173	Crime in American Society	Popular beliefs about crime are often inspired by the media and by spe ... Read More »
SF-174	Tragedy and Literature	This course will focus on classic works of ancient and modern literatu ... Read More »
SF-176	Political Marketing and Campaign Politic	This class will examine the way in which marketing techniques are used ... Read More »
SF-177	Language, Culture, and Identity in Globalization	Language is a living thing. It grows and changes with each generation ... Read More »
SF-178	Sacred Hoops & Sneaker Pimps: Understanding the American Hoop Dream	This course is about the basketball hoop dream played out at the high ... Read More »
SF-180	Living on and Beyond the Hyphen/ Latino Writers in the U.S.A	Hyphenated Americans come from many places and backgrounds. Instead ... Read More »
SF-181	The Psychology of the American Teenager: Integrating Nature and	American adolescence is relatively a short-lived age period but it has ... Read More »
SF-182	Heroes, Antiheroes and Outsiders: Reading the Graphic Novel	How is it that comics, a genre often viewed as entertainment for child ... Read More »
SF-183	Politics, Power and the Media	Is there a relationship between accumulated political power and mass m ... Read More »
SF-184	The Natural History of the Gulf of Maine	This class includes a one week period in residence at the University's ... Read More »
SF-185	Emerson & American Renaissance	Readings from Emerson and other American Renaissance writers, includin ... Read More »
SF-186	From Philia to Facebook: the Meaning of Friendship	Friendship is one of the most enduring forms of human relationship. Ye ... Read More »
SF-188	Travel, Exile, and the Literary Imagination	Why do we travel? What does it mean to call oneself a citizen of the ... Read More »
SF-189	American Gothic: Edgar Allen Poe, Flannery O'Connor and Annie Proulx	This literature seminar will study and compare the short stories of Ed ... Read More »
SF-190	Asia in America Fiction and Fact	Through selected readings, movies, and a field trip to Chinatown, we w ... Read More »
SF-191	Film Adaptation Film Adaptation	Why did they change the ending of the book? The novel is so much bette ... Read More »
SF-193	Autism in History, Science and Society	In this reading-intensive seminar we will take a multidisciplinary app ... Read More »
SF-194	The Rebirth of Tragedy: Rock Music 1968-1972	Writhing, screaming, howling, moaning, androgynous, chemically-altered ... Read More »
SF-195	German Divisions	How unified is Germany? How German is Austria? We will examine the cul ... Read More »
SF-196	Introduction to the Legal System	This course examines the American Legal System and the legal professio ... Read More »
SF-197	Sustainability, Energy, and Technology At Suffolk Univerrsity	In this project and team-based course, students study a sustainability ... Read More »
SF-198	Music and the Brain	What accounts for the power of music to move us so profoundly? This co ... Read More »
SF-199	Unfolding the European Union	The EU is a powerful political, economic and cultural block that is me ... Read More »