First-Year Seminar Options
All FYS courses examine the theme "The Greater Good" from various perspectives in an intimate seminar and/or experiential learning environment with an average faculty:student ratio of 1:16. Below is a list of recently offered FYS (CORE100) courses. Titles may vary from year to year. The list for upcoming semesters can be found here.
- A Short History of the Future
- Adapting Austen
- Ancient Greek Heroes
- Art for the Greater Good
- Asia in Cincinnati
- Bicycling Our Bioregion
- Black Literature and Faith
- Bob Dylan
- Border Wars
- Borderlands of Being Human
- Caesar: Tyranny and Political Violence
- Capital Punishment in America
- Chicago: Ecology and History
- Civil Disobedience
- Computers, Algorithms and Security
- Confucius, Laozi, Buddha
- Criminal Minds: Acts of Crime in German Literature
- Culture, Communities, and Global Social Justice
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Biodiversity and the Greater Good
- Environment and Film
- Exploring Real and Imaginary Places
- Extraordinary Women: A Comparison of the Women of Grimm and Today's Women with Disabilities
- Future Worlds in Literature, Art, and Film
- Gesundheit! Representations of Medicine in German Literature
- Gimme More! A History of Stuff
- God Comes to America
- God on Trial
- Health Care: Right or Privilege?
- Hispanic Literature and Surrealism
- Human Rights
- Identity in a Consumer Culture
- Inequality
- Ireland: Culture, and Film
- Lincoln and the Debate on Slavery
- Medical Madmen
- Modern Times
- Myth and Modernity
- Paris
- Pop Culture and Civil Rights
- Quests for the Good
- Reading the Web
- Rowling, Lucas, Disney: Passion as Career
- Separate and Equal: Native Americans and American Society
- Slow Food: We Are What We Eat
- Socrates Meets Jesus
- Technology: Help or Hurt?
- The Choice is Yours: Choosing in Everyday Life
- The Christian-Jewish Schism: Religious Tragedy or Greater Good?
- The Forever War: The US in Iraq
- The Human Need for Narrative
- The Latino Community as Story: An Immersion Experience
- To Treat or Not To Treat Mental Illness, That is the Question!
- Villains and Antiheroes: So Bad They're Good
- World Religions and the Environment