Seminars
It's a good idea to choose some small classes so that you have chances to express your ideas and respond to others'. Although places in seminars are often given first to students in the major, who are usually juniors or seniors, don't hesitate to try for a place in a seminar that interests you. Just keep in mind as you plan your course schedule that you cannot count on finding a place in a seminar. Make sure you have a backup plan.
Some departments have a fall-term deadline to register for seminars in the spring and a spring-term deadline to register for seminars in the fall. Check with the office of the DUS for deadlines.
About thirty seminars are limited to freshmen, but there are some designed for both freshmen and sophomores. Specific listings appear below.
Special seminars for sophomores
Enrollment in the following two seminars is limited to sophomores.
*PLSC 228b, Perspectives on the City
Harry Wexler T 5.30-7.20
Introduction to the range of disciplines and methods appropriate to exploring the character and evolution of cities. Each week a scholar from a different field discusses that discipline's approach and methodology in its study of urban life.
*SOCY 221b, Sex and Romance in Adolescence
Hannah Brueckner M 1.30-3.20
Sexuality—making decisions about when and with whom to have sex, understanding of risk, and measures taken to reduce risk—analyzed as a fundamentally social aspect of human development. Themes include cultural, socioeconomic, institutional, and relational determinants of adolescent sexual development and behavior; courtship processes; relationship formation and dissolution; sociological versus biological perspectives on sexual orientation; review and evaluation of interventions to promote sexual health.
Additional seminars limited to sophomores and freshmen
*ENAS 115b, Data Analysis and Forecasting
*ENGL 140b, Introduction to Writing Fiction
*MATH 101b, Geometry of Nature
*MCDB 109b, Immunology and Microorganisms
*MENG 101b, Energy and the Environment
*PSYC 129a, Statistics as a Way of Knowing
*QUAN 199a, Quantitative Methods across the Disciplines
*SOCY 121b, The Sociological Imagination
