The sophomore seminars in LS constitute a very different experience from that of the freshman year courses. While the freshman year courses encourage students to comprehend the possibilities for broad interdisciplinary understandings, the sophomore seminars emphasize writing-intensive research on specific topics as well as seminar activities such as student presentations, student-moderated discussions, and peer feedback. In each semester of the sophomore year, students take one Topics seminar in Modern Culture, and one Topics seminar in Modern Society.
Topics in Modern Culture: Recent Offerings
American Identity
Into the Post-Colonial World
20th-Century Theatre: Modern Intersections
World War II: Film, Art, Music and Literature
American Outlaw: Walt Whitman’s Radical Cultural Legacy
The Making of the Modern Body: Sex, Beauty, and Medical Culture
Myth and Legend in Modern Culture
Rebels with Causes: Sex and Gender Wars of the 20th Century
Addicted: Desire, Compulsion, and Pathology in Fiction and Film
Post-Traumatic Century: The Culture of Disaster
Culture, Identity and Immigration
Divas and Dancers: Opera and Musical Theatre, Ballet and Modern Dance in Performance
The Africanist Other, the Detective Novel and Black NoirWriting on the Edge: Tendencies in Modern and Postmodern PoetryReading PsychoanalyticallyGlobal Women's Writing: Self, Culture and SocietyWorld War II: Film, Art, Music, and LiteratureLiterature and Languages of Human RightsCelebrity: A Cultural and Historical Exploration of Modern FameThe Unbearable Presence of HistoryBritish Encounters: Intertextual Dialogue on Class and Identity in Modern Britain
