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Seminars for the Fall Term 2009

Butler College

FRS 101 Signals, Yardsticks, and Tipping Points of Global Warming and Ocean Environments  ST
Eileen Zerba
Shelly and Michael Kassen ’76 Freshman Seminar in the Life Sciences

FRS 103 Metals and Art  LA
Robert Bagley
Barrett Family Freshman Seminar

FRS 105 Water: Keystone for Sustainable Development  QR
Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe
Richard L. Smith ’70 Freshman Seminar

FRS 107 Going Back: The History of Princeton University  HA
James Axtell

FRS 109 Music and the Holocaust: Culture, Identity, and Ideology  LA
Christopher Hailey
Professor Roy Dickinson Welch Freshman Seminar in Music

FRS 111 Democracies at War  SA
Tamar Hermann
L. Richardson Preyer ’41 Freshman Seminar in Public Service

Forbes College

FRS 113 Eye of the Tiger: Reading Buildings  LA
Alan Chimacoff

FRS 115 Wordplay: A Wry Plod from Babel to Scrabble  LA
Joshua Katz
William H. Burchfield 1902 Freshman Seminar

FRS 117 Sprawl: Historical and Global Perspectives  SA
Shlomo Angel

FRS 119 Cinema and Philosophy: An Introduction to Media Theory  LA
Thomas Levin

FRS 121 Hedge Funds: Their Purpose, Strategies, and Social Value  SA
Jean-Christophe de Swaan
John H. Laporte Jr. ’67 Freshman Seminar

FRS 123 Behind the Scenes: Inside the Princeton University Art Museum  LA
Caroline Harris

Mathey College

FRS 125 In the Service of All Nations? Elite Universities, Public Policy, and the Common Good  SA
Christopher Eisgruber

FRS 127 Poetry and Its Public  LA
Meredith Martin
Class of 1975 Freshman Seminar

FRS 129 The Soviet Gulag  SA
Deborah Kaple
Agnew Family Freshman Seminar

FRS 131 Can Virtue Be Taught? (Introduction to the Philosophy of Education)  EM
Erika Kiss
Kurt and Beatrice Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

FRS 133 The Virgin Mary in the Hispanic World  HA
Christina Lee

FRS 135 History and Memory: Inventing the Past, Constructing the Present  EM
Michael Flower
Class of 1976 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

FRS 137 20th-Century Poems and Poets: Politics, War, Religion, and Art  LA
Neil Rudenstine

Rockefeller College

FRS 139 The Ghetto  SA
Mitchell Duneier
Professor Amy Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

FRS 141 Life in a Nuclear-Armed World  SA
Zia Mian
Frank E. Richardson ’61 Freshman Seminar in Public Policy

FRS 143 The Literature of Place and Travel  LA
William Howarth
Henry David Thoreau Freshman Seminar in Environmental Studies

FRS 145 Earth’s Changing Surface and Climate  ST
Adam Maloof and Frederik Simons
Richard L. Smith ’70 Freshman Seminar

FRS 147 The Stock Market  QR - CANCELLED
Burton Malkiel
William T. Young Jr. ’70 Freshman Seminar

FRS 149 Freud on the Psychology of Ordinary Mental Life  EC
Susan Sugarman
Dean Eva Gossman Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Whitman College

FRS 151 Art and the Lifecycle in Africa  LA
Chika Okeke-Agulu

FRS 153 Race, Class, and the Selective College Experience  SA
Thomas Espenshade
Robert H. Rawson ’66 Freshman Seminar

FRS 155 Romani Culture in Russia and East Europe  LA
Margaret Beissinger

FRS 157 Dilemmas in Intercollegiate and Professional Athletics  SA
Harold Feiveson  
Bert G. Kerstetter '66 Freshman Seminar

FRS 159 Consciousness: Brain and Mind  EC
Anne Treisman
Richard L. Smith ’70 Freshman Seminar

FRS 161 Magical Realism  LA
Zahid Chaudhary
Professor Whitney J. Oates ’25 *31 Freshman Seminar in the Humanities

Wilson College

FRS 163 Body and Spirit: A Comparative Approach to Sacred Dance  LA
Ze’eva Cohen

FRS 165 Borges for Beginners  LA
Gabriela Nouzeilles
Class of 1975 Freshman Seminar

FRS 167 Music of the Americas: From Tango to Bossa Nova and Beyond  LA
Alexandra Vazquez

FRS 169 The Rest of the Story: The Six O’Clock News, National Security, Intelligence, and You  SA
Diane Snyder

FRS 171 “Something wicked this way comes”: Witchcraft, Belief, and Agency in Early Modern Literature  LA
Russell Leo

FRS 173 Tolerance and Its Discontents: The Origins and Limits of a Political and Religious Virtue  EM
Elisha Russ-Fishbane