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
