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Seminars Offered

Below is a list of the Freshman Seminar courses that have been approved for spring 2010.

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

Courses designated with "RFTW" are part of UT's Ready for the World initiative. Find out more about how UT is making its students Ready for the World.

All About Twins
Taught by Dean Kopsell

America's Response to Genocide (RFTW)
Taught by Kurt Piehler

Anantomy of Peace
Taught by Kenneth Gilbert

Another Brick in the Wall (RFTW)
Taught by Jochen Denzler

Are You Game?
Taught by Lynn Hodge

Bioenergy: Fueling the Future (RFTW)
Taught by Neal Stewart & Charles Kwit

Brazil Watch (RFTW)
Taught by Todd Diacon

Campus Conversations: Reading and Writing "The Beacon"
Taught by Les Essif

Can a Robot Have a Mind?
Taught by Bruce MacLennan

Chocolate Unwrapped
Taught by John Mount

Colleen's Book Club
Taught by Colleen Gilrane

CSI Knoxville -- 1919 (RFTW)
Taught by Robert Freeland

Earthquakes in Tennessee and around the World
Taught by Qiuhong Zhao

Evolution of the World's Religions (RFTW)
Taught by Gordon Burghardt

Facebooking 129: Social Networking Sites
Taught by Trena Paulus

The Global War on Drugs (RFTW)
Taught by Matthew Cooper

Graphic Novels and the Future
Taught by Stergios Botzakis

The Great Influenza: the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Taught by Patrick Matheny

Hijacking of the U.S. News Media
Taught by Shelley Binder

How Do You See Yourself? (RFTW)
Taught by Suzanne Kurth

How the World Views the U.S. (RFTW)
Taught by Candace White

How to Argue (without yelling or punching)
Taught by Mark Harmon

I Saw it on U-Tube: Environment (RFTW)
Taught by Jennifer Franklin

Images of Nations (RFTW)
Taught by Thomas Broadhead

A Journey Down the Ganges River (RFTW)
Taught by Rita Hagevik

LGBTQ at UT
Taught by Michael Higdon

Living Green: Be Ecofriendly!
Taught by Joanne Logan

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

The Matrix Trilogy: Social Theory and Science Fiction
Taught by Harry Dahms

Mind Games (RFTW)
Taught by Cary Staples

Monty Python Psychology
Taught by Todd Freeberg

The Music of the Grateful Dead
Taught by Peter Fernandez

Myths of Mexican Immigration (RFTW)
Taught by Susan Groenke

Obesity, a Global Health Issue (RFTW)
Taught by Guoxun Chen

Pranks
Taught by Beauvais Lyons

The Question of God
Taught by Robert Mee

Rebels of the Mind: from Darwin to Freud (RFTW)
Taught by Kurt Lamour

Religion in the U.S, (RFTW)
Taught by Freeland Patricia

A Rising China: Myth and Reality (RFTW)
Taught by Yang Zhong

Sex Offenders & Sex Offenses
Taught by Sarah Craun

Sign Language and Deaf Studies (RFTW)
Taught by Jeffrey Davis

The Sunflower (RFTW)
Taught by Edward Schilling

Survey of Technology Entrepreneurship (RFTW)
Taught by Lee Martin

Sustainable Transportation (RFTW)
Taught by Christopher Cherry

Vernacular Literacy Today (RFTW)
Taught by Bethany K. Dumas

What It's Like to be a Refugee (RFTW)
Taught by Karla McKanders & Tricia Redeker-Hepner

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