Seminars Offered

Below is a list of the Freshman Seminar courses that have been approved for fall 2008.

For more information about the seminars below, click on the seminar title.

Adventure into Children's and Young Adult's Literature
Taught by Deborah Wooten

American Country Music: Roots and Change
Taught by Neal Shover

American Sign Language: Historical, Cultural, and Linguistic Perspectives
Taught by Jeffrey Davis

Animal Rights: The Key Issues
Taught by Todd Freeberg

Bart Simpson in Knoxville: The Legacy of World's Fairs
Taught by Micheline Westfall

Birth of Punk
Taught by Michael Kulikowski

Brazil Watch
Taught by Todd Diacon

Bride of Frankenstein
Taught by Bruce MacLennan

The Buddha: A Sacred Life, Devotion, and Embodiment
Taught by Rachelle Scott

China: Friend or Foe?
Taught by Yang Zhong

Chocolate Unwrapped – The Health Benefits
Taught by John Mount

Colleen's Book Club
Taught by Colleen P Gilrane

Concepts of Communication and Diversity in Music
Taught by M. Nathalie Hristov

Controversies, Advances, and Retreats in 21st Century Biology
Taught by Nathan Sanders

CSI Knoxville 1863
Taught by Robert Freeland

Down with the Internet!: The Revolt Against Getting Caught in the Worldwide Web
Taught by Les Essif

Drawing Architecture
Taught by David Fox

Ducking Arrows, Bullets and Rotten Eggs: War Correspondents from Marathon to Baghdad
Taught by Peter Gross

Family Issues in Film
Taught by Julia Malia

Fear Factor: Bugs for Dinner?
Taught by Jerome Grant

Fighting Words
Taught by Stephanie Bohon

From "X-Box" to "X-Games": Leisure & Sport in Post-Modern Culture
Taught by Steven Waller

Global Warming: Chicken Little or Global Crisis?
Taught by Charles Feigerle

Google: Under a Search Engine's Hood
Taught by Teresa Berry

How Eight Artists Were Ahead of Scientific Researchers
Taught by Mark A. Hector

How to Publish A Book
Taught by Kurt Piehler

Ideas: What Are They and Where Do They Come From?
Taught by Cary Staples

Infinity
Taught by David Anderson

Inside Collegiate Athletics
Taught by Robin Hardin

The Internet's Impact on Product Distribution
Taught by Mike Wirth

Introduction to Biofuels
Taught by Chris Cox

Is it Art? Sunsphere and Other Public Art Controversies
Taught by Jason Brown

Leadership and Self Deception
Taught by Kenneth Gilbert

Leading in a Changing Global Environment
Taught by Fritz Polite

LGBTQ: Our History
Taught by Lynn Sacco

Life in Outer or Inner Space? FaceBook, MySpace & SecondLife
Taught by Trena Paulus

Living Green: Let's Be Ecofriendly
Taught by Joanne Logan

Look at Me! No, Look at Me!
Taught by Sarah Lowe

Maniacs and Psycho Killers: Myths and Realities of Mental Illness in Pop Culture
Taught by Matthew Theriot

Mining and the Environment
Taught by Jennifer Franklin

Modern Astronomy through Images and Interactive Animation
Taught by Mike Guidry

Money Crunch
Taught by Ann Berry & Dena Wise

Money: Attitudes and Atributes
Taught by George Kuney

Naked to the Bone: The History of Medical Imaging and How It All Works
Taught by Jens Gregor

New Americans, or Foreign Menace?
Taught by Ernest Freeberg

Of Giants, Sheiks, and a New World Order: Society Through the Lens of Professional Wrestling
Taught by Matthew Schneider

Our Changing Planet
Taught by Carl Jones

Pleasure
Taught by Neil Greenberg

Polling the Election
Taught by Anthony Nownes

Preaching Superstars from America's Past
Taught by Russel Hirst

Preserving the Legacy: East Tennessee After Desegregation of United States Schools
Taught by David Cihak

The Question of God
Taught by Robert Mee

Record-high Gas Prices: What Are the Solutions?
Taught by Qiang He

Religion and Politics--Do They Fit Together?
Taught by Patricia Freeland

Restoring Nature: Sustainability in the Real World
Taught by Michael McKinney

Save the Soil--Save the Planet
Taught by Neal Eash & Forbes Walker

The Science of Reincarnation
Taught by James Conant

Scientists - Are They Really Human Beings?
Taught by William Blass

SEC Football
Taught by Mark Windham

Seeing is Believing: Experimenting with Light
Taught by Marianne Breinig

Seeking the Truth: Food Safety and Animal Welfare Issues in America
Taught by Jerry Roberson

The Simpsons: Studying Society through Sitcoms
Taught by Terrell Strayhorn

Speak! Slam! Write!
Taught by Jenn Fishman

Sudoku Science
Taught by Michael Berry

This Is Why You Came to UT (Psst...It's Not About Football)
Taught by Matthew Murray

Tokyo Cyberpunk: from “Akira” to “Ghost in the Shell”
Taught by Jon LaCure

Tyrannosaurus rex – Big, Mean, Feathered, and Tasted Like Chicken!
Taught by Colin Sumrall

Understanding Obesity
Taught by Guoxun Chen

The Unique Relationship Shared by Twins
Taught by Dean Kopsell

What If Your Child Has Significant Deficits at Birth?
Taught by James Thelin

Whose Breasts Are They? Feeding Babies in a Mass Media Culture
Taught by Katie Kavanagh-Prochaska

Wonders of Infant Development
Taught by Daniela Corbetta

Word Sorcerers: The Marvelous Poetics of Brooks, Clifton, Giovanni and Sanchez
Taught by Kimberly Black-Parker

You Are What You Eat: Where Do You Fit into the Food System?
Taught by Annette Wszelaki & Brandon Smith

You Tube is Everywhere
Taught by Gregory Kaplan

Contact

Freshman Seminar Program
Phone: (865) 974-0684
Email: froshsem@utk.edu