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Apr 23, 2024
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Course Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
First-Year Seminar Program
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Elizabeth Hamilton, Associate Professor of German and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; director
 Visit the program web page for more information.
The First-Year Seminar Program (FYSP) invites incoming students to begin their Oberlin educational experience in a small seminar setting. The topics and academic approaches of seminars are diverse, but all are designed to help students hone their critical thinking, discussion, and writing skills. First-year seminars provide a venue for intellectual exchange between students and faculty. Each seminar is limited to 16 students. First-year seminars are offered primarily in the fall semester, and are closely aligned with Peer Academic Leaders, or PALs, who provide an extra layer of support as first-year students learn about the many resources of the college.
Most seminars satisfy part of the Writing or the Quantitative and Formal Reasoning bachelor of arts degree requirements, as well as part of certain other graduation requirements as indicated in particular course listings. Individual departments and programs may count certain FYSP courses in their curricula.
First-Year Seminar Courses
The courses listed below appear to require consent but do not for the summer registration process.
Arts and Humanities
- FYSP 007 - Artificial Intelligence and the End of the World
- FYSP 014 - Silence=Death: Rhetorics of HIV/AIDS
- FYSP 031 - Queer of Color Performance, Art, and Theory
- FYSP 044 - Objects and Apparitions: Poetry as Fiction and Fact
- FYSP 045 - How To Use Your Body to Survive College (and Write Brilliant Essays)
- FYSP 046OC - Crafting Change: Arts, Activism and the 2020 Election
- FYSP 047 - Decolonizing Cinema: Native Americans in Film
- FYSP 049 - Cultures of Food Writing
- FYSP 052 - Family and Gender in East Asia
- FYSP 064 - What Is Pop? German Fiction, Film and Music Since 1989
- FYSP 073 - Radical Reading and Writing: Imagination in the World
- FYSP 078 - Finding Stories in Surprising Places
- FYSP 085 - Rebellion, Revolution, Rock-‘n’-Roll: Art and Dissent in Russia
- FYSP 086 - East Asian Cinema
- FYSP 098 - Living Machines: Puppet, Robot, Statue, Clock
- FYSP 099 - Food for Thought
- FYSP 102 - Jewish Migrations
- FYSP 107 - City as Symphony: Cinema, Music, and Modernity
- FYSP 109 - Odysseys and Identities
- FYSP 111 - The Great Divide? Cultural Encounters Between the West and the Islamic World
- FYSP 112 - Live Performance, Live Technology
- FYSP 126 - Tolstoy’s War & Peace
- FYSP 129 - Great Lakes and Rust Belt States
- FYSP 144 - Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- FYSP 148 - Moving Pictures: Immigration and Italian Cinema
- FYSP 149 - International and Domestic Non-Profits and Democratic Movements
- FYSP 150 - Questioning Realism: The North and South American Fantastic
- FYSP 152 - So You Want to Be an Intellectual? An Introduction to Academic Journalism
- FYSP 158 - Dance, Dance, Revolution
- FYSP 159 - Back to the Land
- FYSP 167 - Writing Religion and Gender
- FYSP 171 - Environment and Expression in Appalachia
- FYSP 176 - Black Women’s Narratives on Page, Stage, and Screen
- FYSP 182 - Paying Attention with Tolstoy
- FYSP 185 - The Blues Detective: Riffing on a Literary Formula
- FYSP 191 - Muslim Oral Culture: Persian Poetry in Translation, Music and Calligraphy
- FYSP 187 - Playing at Gods: Myth, Ritual, Theater, Story
- FYSP 193 - Beyond Disbelief: Can Literature Tell the Truth?
Natural Science and Mathematics
Social Sciences
- FYSP 004 - A Playlist for Indigenous Survival
- FYSP 006 - Power, Politics, and Pastries
- FYSP 008 - On Time
- FYSP 011 - American Mixed Blood
- FYSP 018 - Red Futures: Exploring Soviet Science Fiction
- FYSP 033 - White Coat Wonders: Examining the Medical Profession
- FYSP 043 - Everyday Life in Twentieth Century European Dictatorships
- FYSP 048OC - Faith and the Ballot Box
- FYSP 067 - The Climate of History: From Asia to the Anthropocene
- FYSP 068 - Minds, Machines, and God
- FYSP 071 - Pirates and Piracy in Times Past
- FYSP 077 - Sanctuaries Medieval to Modern
- FYSP 096 - The Art of Social Work
- FYSP 105 - Food, Health, and Culture
- FYSP 114 - Know Your Place: Civic Humanism and Community Engagement
- FYSP 118 - Through the Looking Glass: Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Social Class in America
- FYSP 127 - Race-ing the Environment: Historical Approaches to Race and Environmental History
- FYSP 134 - Beastly Interactions: How Animals Shape What it is to be Human
- FYSP 146 - Pilgrimage in Global History
- FYSP 154 - Freud’s Vienna: Artists, Intellectuals, and Anti-Semites at the Fin de Siecle
- FYSP 156 - Jewish Identity and American Politics
- FYSP 173 - The French Revolution and the Making of the Modern World
- FYSP 177 - The Uncanny in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- FYSP 178 - Social Justice and Professional Athlete Activism
- FYSP 196 - Why Oberlin? The Value(s) of a Liberal Arts Education
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