FYS SAMPLE SYLLABI
Fall 2018

FYS 001 (CRN 2931) – Women & Money

FYS 003 (CRN 6453) – Fiction of Gender

FYS 005 (CRN 6959) – Religion & Culture Wars*

FYS 006 (CRN 6456) – Science in Sport

FYS 007 (CRN 1129) – Shakespearean Adaptations and Appropriations*

FYS 008 (CRN 7469) – Groundwater Contamination, Law, Community: Wells G&H lessons*

FYS 009 (CRN 6479) – South African Literature and Culture*

FYS 010 (CRN 6481) – Power of Tradition, Forces of Change: Athens (403 BCE) and

FYS 012 (CRN 6967) – Comics & Social Diversity

FYS 015 (CRN 6515) – Animal Consciousness and Human Consciousness

FYS 016 (CRN 6486) – Conversation

FYS 017 (CRN 6568) – Mid-term Elections 2018: Media Coverage*

FYS 018 (CRN 7498) – Beatles, Popular Music & Society

FYS 019 (CRN 6964) – Leadership, Personality, and the Hunger Games*

FYS 021 (CRN 7906) – #MeToo

FYS 022 (CRN 7003) – Crossing Over: Boundaries & the Body

FYS 024 (CRN 6962) – Toxic Charity: A critical look at Service-Learning & Volunt.

FYS 025 (CRN 7474) – American Dreams (learning community)*

FYS 026 (CRN 6593) – Ethnobiology, Nature, and Culture

FYS 027 (CRN 3437) – Ethics and Star Trek

FYS 028 (CRN 3006) – FLIGHT: Do You See What I See?

FYS 029 (CRN 7907) – FLIGHT: Exploring Social Justice and Culture

FYS 030 (CRN 6963) – How We Fight, How We Win

FYS 031 (CRN 7002) – Science Fiction & Philosophy

FYS 033 (CRN 6974) – Religions of Des Moines

FYS 035 (CRN 5176) – Life in the key of Em: What we can learn from the American

FYS 036 (CRN 3663) – Underground Voices: Alternative Media

FYS 037 (CRN 6490) – How We Fight, How We Win

FYS 038 (CRN 1916) – Exploring the Portrayal of Mental Illness and Intellectual

FYS 039 (CRN 6977) – A Small Dose of Toxicology

FYS 041 (CRN 6978) – Vote Smart!*

FYS 042 (CRN 6979) – Building Democracy in the Wake of Apartheid

FYS 043 (CRN 7503) – #BlackLivesMatter*

FYS 044 (CRN 7058) – Women in the Bible

FYS 045 (CRN 6980) – Famous & Almost Famous Women*

FYS 046 (CRN 7041) – Fanfiction & Fandom*

FYS 047 (CRN 6982) – The Other Side of the Wall: The Americanization of Mexico

FYS 048 (CRN 6983) – Science Fiction, Science Fact

FYS 050 (CRN 7952) – Lovecraft: Horror & Madness

*this syllabus will not be posted