General Education Electives

Faculty of the Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction

Susan Pedersen, Professor of History (Chair)
Julie A. Buckler, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (on leave fall term)
Gerard Francis Denault, Associate Director of the Freshman Seminar Program (ex officio)
Karl S. Guthke, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture
John W. Hutchinson, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering
Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe, Sr. and Linda and Christel Noe Laine Kelley Professor of China in World Affairs (on leave spring term)
Susan W. Lewis, Director of the Core Program and Director of the Freshman Seminars, General Education, and House Seminars (ex officio)
Daniel E. Lieberman, Professor of Anthropology
Elisa New, Professor of English and American Literature and Language (on leave spring term)
Anthony G. Oettinger, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Information Resources Policy

General Education Courses

General Education 105. The Literature of Social Reflection
Catalog Number: 0769 Enrollment: Limited to 500.
Robert Coles (Graduate School of Education and Medical School )
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10, with one ninety-minute section weekly. EXAM GROUP: 12
An examination of selected novels, essays, poems, and autobiographical statements which aim at social scrutiny or at a moral critique of a particular society. Lectures emphasize the distinctive approach of the literary mind to a variety of social problems: poverty, racial injustice, historical change, the various tensions of rural and urban life. Authors studied include George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Georges Bernanos, William Carlos Williams, James Agee, George Orwell, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Tillie Olsen, Flannery O’Connor, and Walker Percy.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2002–03.

General Education 156. The Information Age, Its Main Currents and Their Intermingling: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 3172 Enrollment: Limited to 25.
Anthony G. Oettinger
Half course (fall term). M., W., 2:30–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Dynamics of the worldwide shift toward information-intensive economies. The hype and the ripe in information infrastructures, networks, and multimedia. Transformations of information businesses: telecommunications; computers; TV; consumer electronics; books; newspapers; mail; toys. Antecedents in shifts from memorized to written records in 12th-century England and to steam printing presses in the 19th century. Each term paper traces the linkages between evolving information suppliers and a student-picked sphere of information use—e.g., literacy and numeracy, personal communication, entertainment, political processes, international trade, capital and labor markets, military intelligence and command practices, or organizational structure and behavior.
Note: Term paper in lieu of final examination; extensive research expected of graduate students; counts as an elective for Applied Mathematics concentrators if the term paper includes appropriate mathematical content. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School of Government as BGP-586.
Prerequisite: Social Analysis 10 or elementary calculus or equivalent.

General Education 175. Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation-Building I
Catalog Number: 5587
Joseph P. Kalt (Kennedy School) and guest lecturers
Half course (fall term). M., W., 1–2:30. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Uses a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach to examine some of the major issues faced by today’s Native American bands, tribes, and nations. These include: sovereignty, economic development, constitutional reform, cultural and language continuity, land and water rights, religious freedom, health and social welfare, and education. Concepts of “nation-building,” identity, and leadership, taken from tribal points of view, form the central themes of the course. All aspects of the course are placed in a cross-cultural context. Guest presentations are made by Native American students, visiting scholars, and Native American leaders.
Note: Offered jointly with the Kennedy School of Government as PED-501, and with the Graduate School of Education as A-101.

General Education 186. Introduction to Health Care Policy
Catalog Number: 4045
Richard G. Frank (Medical School)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 8:30–10, and a weekly section to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 10, 11
Provides students with an overview of US health care delivery system, its components, and policy challenges. The health care system is considered from an organizational perspective: analysis of roles of patients, providers (doctors and hospitals), health plans, and payers. Considers objectives, constraints, incentives, knowledge, and conduct of each component. Evaluates problems faced by each component using both “insider” and “outsider” perspectives. What makes health care so hard to reform? How shall we understand recent proposals? Reading will include selections from medical sociology, economics, politics, anthropology, and ethics.

[*General Education 187 (formerly Pforzheimer 123). The Quality of Health Care in America]
Catalog Number: 4832 Enrollment: Limited to 35.
Donald M. Berwick (Medical School), Howard H. Hiatt (Medical School), and guest lecturers
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 4:30–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
Offers information and experiences regarding an array of the most important issues and challenges in health care quality. Includes overview of the dimensions of quality of care, including outcomes, overuse, underuse, variation in practice patterns, errors and threats to patient safety, service flaws, and various forms of waste. Each session focuses in depth on one specific quality-of-care issue, exploring patterns of performance, data sources, costs, causes, and remedies. Explores international comparisons and systemic remedies: the desirable properties of health care systems that can perform at extremely high levels in many dimensions of quality.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

House Seminars

Primarily for Undergraduates

All House Seminars are offered for degree credit. House Seminars are normally graded with letter grades; as with other letter-graded courses students may, with the instructor’s permission, take House Seminars Pass/Fail. All House Seminars require the permission of the instructor (*). Information concerning enrollment in House Seminars should be sought from the appropriate House Office. House Seminars are frequently not repeated from year to year.

Adams

*Adams 122. Printed Books as a Field of Study
Catalog Number: 6137 Enrollment: Limited to 6.
Roger E. Stoddard
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Introduces students to the appreciation of books as technical, commercial, and artistic products as well as intellectual ones. With due regard for text and picture, concentrates attention on the printed book in Europe and the Americas from the technical inventions of Gutenberg and other pioneers to the postmodern renovations of today. Books from Houghton Library collections are viewed and discussed in relation to their manufacture, distribution, and use. Much of the work is comparative. Vocations of book culture to be studied and illustrated are printer, book artisan, publisher, bookseller, collector, librarian, antiquarian bookseller, and bibliographer.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2002–03.

Eliot

*Eliot 129. Nutrition and Public Health
Catalog Number: 1497 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
Clifford Lo (Medical School)
Half course (spring term). M., 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Introduction to the critical reading of technical nutrition and medical literature; surveys current issues in public health and public policy relating to nutrition. Critical analysis of different types of medical literature: historical monographs, metabolic laboratory observations, clinical case reports, epidemiological surveys, prospective randomized controlled trials, metaanalyses, and literature reviews. Prepares science and non-science concentrators to examine critically current controversies for themselves; requires active participation and presentation by students.
Note: Clinical rounds with the Nutrition Support Services at Children’s Hospital will be optional.

[*Eliot 133. The Táin: The Medieval Irish Saga]
Catalog Number: 2966 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Patrick K. Ford
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Investigates the great medieval Irish saga, Táin Bó Cúailnge. The Táin is the centerpiece of the so-called Ulster Cycle of tales, a group centered on the court of King Conchobor at Emain Macha in 1st-century (CE) Ulster. Cycle focuses on heroic exploits of Cú Chulainn, the Hound of Cooley, and on ethos of a warrior aristocracy in heroic golden age. Of especial interest are roles played by women in the tales. Tensions between literacy and orality in the transmission of the tales and issues related to the translation of the tales into English in the modern period will be studied.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.

Leverett

*Leverett 104. Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis: Two Contrasting World Views
Catalog Number: 0773 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
Armand M. Nicholi, II (Medical School)
Half course (spring term). Tu., 7–9 p.m.
Focuses on the “scientific” Weltanschauung (world view) of Sigmund Freud as a key to understanding his life and work. Students examine the world view Freud attacks by reading selected writings of C. S. Lewis and the letters between Freud and Oskar Pfister, the Swiss psychoanalyst and theologian. Considers the following themes: source of morality and ethics, definition and understanding of human sexuality, problem of pain and suffering, definition of happiness and reason that unhappiness prevails, role of different categories of love in human relationships, nature of human nature and the problem of “the painful riddle of death.” Selected expository works by Freud serve as a brief introduction to basic psychoanalytic concepts and to philosophical works that form the core of study.

Freshman Seminars

Faculty Offering Instruction in the Freshman Seminar Program

Paul G. Bamberg, Senior Lecturer on Mathematics
Ofer Bar-Yosef, George Grant MacCurdy and Janet G. B. MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology (on leave spring term)
Ana P. Barros, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering on the Gordon McKay Endowment
Janet Beizer, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature
Benjamin Fred Berger, Lecturer on Social Studies, Lecturer on Government
Sue Brown, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (on leave 2002-03)
Rory A. W. Browne, Lecturer on History and Literature
Audrey Helfant Budding, Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Lecturer on Social Studies
Alide Cagidemetrio, ( )
David L. Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America in the Faculty of Divinity and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Pramod Chandra, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art
Marjorie B. Cohn, Senior Lecturer on History of Art and Architecture and Carl A. Weyerhauser Curator of Prints in the Harvard University Art Museums
Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics
Catherine A. Corman, Assistant Professor of History
James Cuno, Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums
Leo Damrosch, Harvard College Professor and the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature (on leave fall term)
Gwendolyn Dordick, Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Social Studies
Erika Dreifus, Lecturer on History and Literature
Alexia Elisabeth Duc, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
John Thomas Dunlop, Lamont University Professor, Emeritus
Carlos Ramiro Espinosa, Lecturer on History and Literature
William L. Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology
Franco Fido, Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
David R. Foster, Senior Lecturer on Biology
Roy J. Glauber, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics
Erik Irving Gray, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language
Karl S. Guthke, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture
Joseph C. Harris, Professor of English and Folklore
Timothy Crocker Harte, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Kirkland House, Lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literatures
David H. Hubel, Research Professor of Neurobiology (Medical School)
Jay H. Jasanoff, Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology (on leave spring term)
Philip Joseph, Lecturer on History and Literature
Kelly A. Joyce, Teaching Assistant in Social Studies, Lecturer on Social Studies, Lecture on Social Studies
Adam Kern, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature
Robert Kiely, Harvard College Professor and the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English (on leave spring term)
Sun Joo Kim, Assistant Professor of Korean History
Courtney Bickel Lamberth, Lecturer on the Study of Religion, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House
Myron Lecar, Lecturer on Astronomy
Wai-yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature (on leave 2002-03)
Daniel E. Lieberman, Professor of Anthropology
David A. Long, Lecturer on History and Literature, Lecturer on Histoy and Literature
N. Gregory Mankiw, Professor of Economics (on leave spring term)
Sylvia Maxfield, Lecturer on Social Studies
Everett I. Mendelsohn, Professor of the History of Science
Ralph Mitchell, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Biology
Mark Christopher Molesky, Lecturer on History and Literature
Martha Jane Nadell, Lecturer on History and Literature, Head Teaching Assistant in Afro-American Studies
Ken Nakayama, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology
Marshall T. Poe, Lecturer on History and Literature, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House
Leah Price, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language (on leave 2002-03)
Charles E. Rosenberg, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Social Sciences (on leave 2002-03)
Stephanie Sandler, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (on leave 2002-03)
Otto T. Solbrig, Bussey Professor of Biology, Emeritus
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies
Christopher J. Sturr, Lecturer on Social Studies
Charis Thompson, Assistant Professor of the History of Science (on leave 2002-03)
T. Robert Travers, Assistant Professor of History
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
Justin Weir, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (on leave spring term)
Irene J. Winter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts
Christoph Wolff, William Powell Mason Professor of Music
Karen Zivi, Lecturer on Social Studies

Other Faculty Offering Instruction in the Freshmen Seminar Program

Richard Wilson, Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics

Only students in Freshman standing at Harvard College may apply for a Freshman Seminar. Enrollment in Freshman Seminars is limited to 12. For a complete description of the Freshman Seminar Program and 2001–02 offerings, please consult the current Freshman Seminar catalog. Catalogs and application forms may be obtained from the Freshman Seminar Office, 6 Prescott Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (telephone: (617) 495-1523; email: seminars@fas.harvard.edu).

Freshman Seminars 2001–02

*Freshman Seminar 5. Calculating Pi
Catalog Number: 4737 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Paul G. Bamberg
Half course (fall term). W., 2:30–5:30. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 6. Human Modification of Freshwater Systems
Catalog Number: 0135 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ana P. Barros
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1:30–4:30. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17, 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 7. From the Neolithic Revolution to the Green Revolution
Catalog Number: 5664 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ofer Bar-Yosef
Half course (spring term). M., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 9. Autobiographical Underpinnings of Contemporary Biography
Catalog Number: 2582 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Janet Beizer
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3:30. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17, 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 10. Why Be Just? Morality in an Uncertain World
Catalog Number: 5479 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Benjamin Fred Berger
Half course (spring term). Tu., 7–10 p.m. EXAM GROUP: 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 11. Language, Gender, and Culture
Catalog Number: 2788 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Sue Brown
Half course (spring term). M., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 12. A History of Zoos
Catalog Number: 6327 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Rory A. W. Browne
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17, 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 13. Nation, State, and “Ethnic Cleansing”: The Case of Yugoslavia
Catalog Number: 8474 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Audrey Helfant Budding
Half course (fall term). W., 1:30–4:30. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8, 9
Note: Open to Freshman only.

[*Freshman Seminar 14. Europe in American Literature and Film]
Catalog Number: 2891 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alide Cagidemetrio ( )
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 15. The Hindu Temple
Catalog Number: 6665 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Pramod Chandra
Half course (fall term). M., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 16. European and American Prints
Catalog Number: 4599 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Marjorie B. Cohn
Half course (fall term). M., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 17. Public Policy Approaches to Global Climate Changes
Catalog Number: 1032 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Richard N. Cooper
Half course (fall term). W., 1:30–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 18. “Knowing” Boston: Historical Methods and the City of Boston
Catalog Number: 3656 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Catherine A. Corman
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 19. Considering the Works of Art in the Harvard Art Museums, from Antiquity to the Present
Catalog Number: 0012 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
James Cuno
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Catalog Number: 8897 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Leo Damrosch
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 21. Urban Experience in America
Catalog Number: 8805 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Gwendolyn Dordick
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17, 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 22. Historical Fiction
Catalog Number: 7281 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Erika Dreifus
Half course (fall term). M., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 23. Molière and Comedy
Catalog Number: 9131 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alexia Elisabeth Duc
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–6. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 24. The Workplace: The Roles of Business, Labor, and Government
Catalog Number: 0016 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
John Thomas Dunlop
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4:30. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 25. Colonizing the Americas
Catalog Number: 7243 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Carlos Ramiro Espinosa
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17, 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 26. The Aztecs and Maya
Catalog Number: 7826 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David L. Carrasco and William L. Fash
Half course (spring term). M., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 27. Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Birth of the Novella
Catalog Number: 8039 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Franco Fido
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 29. Research at the Harvard Forest
Catalog Number: 0060 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David R. Foster
Half course (spring term). Four Weekends at the Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA.
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 30. Science and Technology
Catalog Number: 1868 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Roy J. Glauber
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 33. Tragedy
Catalog Number: 4398 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Erik Irving Gray
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 35. "Are We Alone?": The Idea of Extraterrestrial Intelligence from the Scientific Revolution to Modern Science Fiction
Catalog Number: 7829 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Karl S. Guthke
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 37. Family Sagas and the Literature of Medieval Scandinavia
Catalog Number: 4666 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Joseph C. Harris
Half course (fall term). W., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 38. Soviet and Eastern European “New Wave” Cinema
Catalog Number: 5248 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Timothy Crocker Harte
Half course (spring term). W., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 41. The Neurophysiology of Visual Perception
Catalog Number: 7584 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David H. Hubel (Medical School)
Half course (fall term). Alternate weeks in Cambridge (M., 2-5) and Medical Area (M., 1:30-4:30). EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8, 9
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 43. Language and Pre-Historic Studies
Catalog Number: 3017 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jay H. Jasanoff
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 44. Literature and the Origins of American Mass Society
Catalog Number: 6471 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Philip Joseph
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17, 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 45. The Politics and History of the Internet
Catalog Number: 1259 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Kelly A. Joyce
Half course (spring term). W., 6–9.
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 46. Japan Pop
Catalog Number: 5160 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Adam Kern
Half course (spring term). W., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 47. Sonnets and Sermons: Christian Religious Writing within the English Tradition
Catalog Number: 1461 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Robert Kiely
Half course (spring term). W., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 48. The Historical Bases of Korean Nationalism
Catalog Number: 4281 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Sun Joo Kim
Half course (spring term). W., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 49. Rebellion, Violence, and Symbols of Grace: Religious Themes in American Literature
Catalog Number: 4224 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Courtney Bickel Lamberth
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 50. Cosmology
Catalog Number: 0034 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Myron Lecar
Half course (fall term). Tu., 4:30–7 p.m. EXAM GROUP: 18
Note: Only open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 51. The Story of the Stone
Catalog Number: 8002 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Wai-yee Li
Half course (fall term). W., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 52. The Origin and Evolution of Homo
Catalog Number: 9218 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Daniel E. Lieberman
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17, 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 53. A Literary Tour of the American South
Catalog Number: 8135 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
David A. Long
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 2:30–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 55. The Economist’s View of the World
Catalog Number: 5728 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
N. Gregory Mankiw
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 56. The Contemporary Latin American Political and Economic Landscape
Catalog Number: 0038 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Sylvia Maxfield
Half course (fall term). M., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 57. Darwin
Catalog Number: 6924 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Everett I. Mendelsohn
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 58. Microorganisms in the Biosphere
Catalog Number: 2067 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ralph Mitchell
Half course (fall term). W., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 60. Memoirs and Biographies of the Holocaust
Catalog Number: 9873 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Mark Christopher Molesky
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 62. Black Aesthetics
Catalog Number: 7836 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Martha Jane Nadell
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 63. Perception and Recognition of Faces
Catalog Number: 1272 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Ken Nakayama
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 67. Western Images of Russia, 1500-2001
Catalog Number: 9970 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Marshall T. Poe
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17, 18
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 68. Victorian Literature and Communications
Catalog Number: 3648 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Leah Price
Half course (fall term). M., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 73. Madness and Society
Catalog Number: 8855 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Charles E. Rosenberg
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 9
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 75. Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
Catalog Number: 1745 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Stephanie Sandler
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 78. Beyond the Amazon Basin: Environment, Development, and Conservation in Latin America
Catalog Number: 6900 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Otto T. Solbrig
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 79. American Literature in English and Other Languages
Catalog Number: 2907 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Werner Sollors
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 83. The Political Theory of Schools and Prisons
Catalog Number: 1476 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Christopher Sturr
Half course (spring term). W., 3–6. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 86. Cloning, Designer Babies, and the Genetic Imaginary
Catalog Number: 6113 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Charis Thompson
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 87. Kipling and the Cultural History of the British Empire in India
Catalog Number: 0325 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
T. Robert Travers
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 88. Topics in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Catalog Number: 2937 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 91. Films of Sergei Eisenstein
Catalog Number: 7564 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Justin Weir
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 93. Quantitative Methods in Public Policy Decisions
Catalog Number: 8839 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Richard Wilson
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 94. Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East
Catalog Number: 9085 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Irene J. Winter
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 96. The Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Concertos: The Evolution of a Quintessential Instrumental Genre from Bach and Handel to Liszt and Brahms
Catalog Number: 8946 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Christoph Wolff
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–5.
Note: Open to Freshman only.

*Freshman Seminar 98. Democracy and Citizenship in the United States
Catalog Number: 2997 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Karen Zivi
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Note: Open to Freshman only.