Freshman Seminars
Spring 2004The following courses, most of which are numbered 24, are limited to 15 students. Each is offered for one unit of credit. First-year students will be given priority for enrollment. Courses designated P/NP may be taken pass/no pass only; courses designated LG may be taken for a letter grade or on a pass/no pass basis. If a course is designated as requiring the consent of the instructor, or if you would like additional course information, call the undergraduate assistant in the department offering the seminar.
- Aerospace 24, section 1 & 2: The Foundation of the United States Air Force (LG)
- Dinner Series American Studies 24, section 1: The Internet and Society (LG) - CANCELED
- Architecture 24: Exploring American Cities (P/NP)
- Chemical Engineering 24, section 1: Traditional Careers and New Directions (P/NP)
- Chemical Engineering 24, Section 2: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (P/NP) - NEW!!!
- Chemistry 24, section 1: Irreversibility, Chaos and Fractals (P/NP) - CANCELED
- Chemistry 24, section 2: Advantages and Challenges of Nuclear Energy (P/NP)
- Chinese 24, section 1: Early Chinese Thought (P/NP)
- Classics 24, section 1: How Were They Built? Creative Technology in Ancient Greece (P/NP)
- Classics 24, section 2: Psyche: Ancient Greek Ideas of the Soul, the Mind, and the Afterlife (P/NP)
- Classics 24, section 3: Julius Caesar: General, Politician, Historian, and Lover (P/NP)
- Classics 24, section 4: Papyri, Greek Literature, and Ancient Life (P/NP)
- Classics 24, section 5: The Worlds of Odysseus (P/NP)
- Dinner Series Demog 24, section 1: Human Reproductive Technologies: Science, Ethics, and Society (P/NP)
- Earth and Planetary Science 24, section 1 & 2: From Geologic Maps to Earth History (P/NP)
- Education 24, section 1: Hot Topics in Higher Education (LG)
- Electrical Engineering 24, section 1: Gadgets Electrical Engineers Make (P/NP)
- English 24, section 1: Reading the Dictionary (P/NP)
- English 24, section 2: Shakespearean Comedy (P/NP)
- English 24, section 3: Growing Up Chicano (P/NP)
- English 24, section 4: The English Language (P/NP)
- English 24, section 5:Future, Past, Present: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee (P/NP)
- English 24, section 6: Reading Poems (P/NP)
- Environmental Economics and Policy 24, Section 1: Prelude to the Pacific Century: Golden Mountains on the Horizon Again? (P/NP) - NEW!!!
- Environmental Science, Policy, and Management 24, section 1:Literature of the Conservation and Environmental Movements (P/NP) - CANCELED
- Environmental Science, Policy, and Management 24, section 2: Science Goes to the Movies (P/NP)
- Environmental Science, Policy, and Management 24, section 3: Issues in Natural Resource Conservation (P/NP)
- Environmental Science, Policy, and Management 24, section 4: Globalization, Sweatshops, Toxics, and You (P/NP)
- History 24, section 1: The Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1964: An Historical Investigation (P/NP)
- History 24, section 2: Mau Mau: Liberation War in Colonial Kenya, 1952-55 (P/NP)
- History 24, section 3: The Museums of Berkeley (P/NP)
- History 24, section 4: Michelangelo's World (P/NP)
- History 24, section 5: Civil Rights Movement: History and Consequences (LG)
- History of Art 24, section 1: Looking at Classic Movies (P/NP)
- History of Art 24, section 2: Imagined Orphans: Missing Parents in Children's Fiction (P/NP)
- Integrative Biology 24, section 1: Disease, Ecology, and Man (P/NP)
- Integrative Biology 24, section 3: The Darwinian Revolution (LG)
- Integrative Biology 24, section 4:The Drunken Monkey: Evolutionary Origins of Alcohol Preference and Addiction (P/NP)
- Integrative Biology 24, section 5: Dinosaur Biology: An Introduction to Research (LG)
- Journalism 24, section 1: Storytelling for Television News (P/NP)
- Journalism 24, section 2: Ethics in Journalism (LG)
- Journalism 24, section 3: Old Time Radio (LG)
- Journalism 24, section 4: The Presidential Campaign Trail in Print (and Occasional Film) (LG)
- Linguistics 24, section 1: Language and Politics in Southern Africa (P/NP)
- Material Sciences 24, section 1: Materials and Weapons of War through History (P/NP)
- Math 24, section 1: What is Happening in Math and Science? (P/NP)
- Mechanical Engineering 24, section 1: Art and Science on Wheels (P/NP)
- Molecular and Cell Biology 90B, section 1: Biology in the Post-Genomic Years: Where is the Program for Life? (LG) - CANCELED
- Molecular and Cell Biology 90E, section 1: Consciousness: One of the Last and Deepest Unsolved Biological Problems (P/NP)
- Molecular and Cell Biology 90E, section 2: Brain Science in Contemporary Fiction (P/NP)
- Music 24, section 1: Israeli Ethnic Music (P/NP)
- Natural Resources 24, section 1: Dean's Day Out (P/NP)
- Natural Resources 24, section 2: Global Environment House Freshman Seminar (P/NP)
- Natural Resources 24, section 3: California Alive: An Overview of Biodiversity in California (P/NP) - CANCELED
- Naval Sciences 24, section 1: Asymmetric Conflict: Ethics of Guerilla Warfare and Terrorism (LG)
- Near Eastern Studies 24, Section 2: Islam and Imaginative Literature: The Making of a Problematic Relation (LG) - NEW!!!
- Nuclear Engineering 24, section 1: Scientific Frauds and Hoaxes (P/NP)
- Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology 24, section 1: The Spring Semester Freshman Experience (P/NP)
- Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology 24, section 2: Fad Diets (P/NP)
- Physics 24, section 1: Physics of Sports (P/NP)
- Plant and Microbial Biology 24, section 2: Microbes Make the World Go 'Round (P/NP)
- Political Science 24, section 1: Utopian Political Thought (LG)
- Dinner Series Political Science 24, section 2: Problems in East Asian Politics (P/NP)
- Psychology 24, Section 2: Conformity, Dissent and Creativity (P/NP) - NEW!!!
- Public Health 24, section 2: Women, Weight and Food (P/NP) - CANCELED
- Rhetoric 24, section 1: Bad Books and How to Spot Them (LG)
- Rhetoric 24, section 2: The Philosophical Discourse on Terrorism (LG)
- Scandinavian 24, section 1: The Norse Discovery of America (P/NP)
- Social Welfare 24, Section 2: Introduction to Community Organization and the Nonprofit Sector (P/NP) - CANCELED
- South and Southeast Asian Studies 24, section 1: Gandhi's Non-violence (LG)
- Spanish 24, section 1: Talking Funny: Language Variation in Spanish and English Literary Texts (LG)
- Spanish 24, section 2: La Celestina: Sex, Witchcraft and Violence in the Spanish Middle Ages (P/NP)
- Spanish 24, Section 3: What Kind of Things Do We Do with Poems? (P/NP) - CANCELED
- Theater, Dance and Performance Studies 24, section 1: Berkeley Little Theater (P/NP)
- Dinner Series Theater, Dance and Performance Studies 24, section 2: Acting from the Outside In: Training Interculturally (LG)
- Undergraduate Business Administration 24, section 1: Economic Development of Modern China (P/NP)
- Vision Science 24, section 1: The Human Eye (P/NP)
- Vision Science 24, section 2: Clinical Approaches to the Human Eye (P/NP)
