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Seminars for Sophomores, A-Z
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Zionism and the Novel | Russell Berman | Comparative Literature | Spring | |
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Zionism and the Novel | Russell Berman | Jewish Studies | Spring | |
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Writing and Gender in the Age of Disruption | Alice Staveley | English | Spring | |
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Write Like a Poet: From Tradition to Innovation | Michael Shewmaker | Creative Writing | Autumn | |
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Write Like a Poet: From Tradition to Innovation | Michael Shewmaker | English | Autumn | |
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Were They Really “Hard Times”? Mid-Victorian Social Movements and Charles Dickens | Gabriel K. Wolfenstein, Ph.D. | English | Spring | |
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Were They Really “Hard Times”? Mid-Victorian Social Movements and Charles Dickens | Gabriel K. Wolfenstein, Ph.D. | History | Spring | |
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United Nations Peacekeeping | Bertrand Patenaude | International Relations | Winter | |
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United Nations Peacekeeping | Bertrand Patenaude | Pediatrics | Winter | |
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The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Media and Culture | Shane Denson | Art & Art History | Autumn | |
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The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Media and Culture | Shane Denson | Film & Media Studies | Autumn | |
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The Taboo | Lauri Dietz | English | Spring | |
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The Global Positioning System: Where on Earth Are We, and What Time is It? | Sherman Lo | Aeronautics & Astronautics | Winter | |
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The Future Is Feminine | Shannon Pufahl | Creative Writing | Winter | |
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The Future Is Feminine | Shannon Pufahl | English | Winter | |
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The Future Is Feminine | Shannon Pufahl | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Winter | |
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The Detective and the City | Frederic Stout | Urban Studies Program | Autumn | |
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The Changing Face of Mental Illness in Women: Historical, Medical and Artistic Approaches | Regina Casper | Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Winter | |
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The Big Shift | Michael Wilcox | Anthropology | Winter | |
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The Big Shift | Michael Wilcox | Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity | Winter | |
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The Art of Medical Diagnosis |
Thomas Caruso Samuel Rodriguez, MD Lauren Toomer |
Anesthesia | Spring | |
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The Art and Science of Engineering Design | My T. Le | Electrical Engineering | Winter | |
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The American Road Trip | Kai Carlson-Wee | Creative Writing | Spring | |
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The American Road Trip | Kai Carlson-Wee | English | Spring | |
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Texts and Contexts: Spanish/English Literary Translation Workshop | Cintia Santana | Iberian & Latin American Cultures | Autumn | |
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Texts and Contexts: Spanish/English Literary Translation Workshop | Cintia Santana | Comparative Literature | Autumn | |
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Surgical Anatomy of the Hand: From Rodin to Reconstruction | James Chang, MD | Surgery | Winter | |
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Storytelling in Medicine |
Lauren Edwards Bryant Lin |
Medicine | Winter | |
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Sports Writing | John Evans | Creative Writing | Autumn | |
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Sports Writing | John Evans | English | Autumn | |
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Sport, Exercise, and Health: Exploring Sports Medicine | Calvin Hwang | Orthopaedic Surgery | Winter | |
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Sport, Exercise, and Health: Exploring Sports Medicine | Calvin Hwang | Orthopaedic Surgery | Spring | |
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Sexuality and Society | Lisa Medoff | Human Biology | Spring | |
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Russia's Weird Classic: Nikolai Gogol | Lazar Fleishman | Slavic Languages and Literature | Autumn | |
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Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler’s Europe | Jelena Batinic | History | Spring | |
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Resilience, Transformation, and Equilibrium: The Science of Materials | Yoda R Patta, Ph.D. | Materials Science & Engineering | Spring | |
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Race and Gender in Silicon Valley | Cynthia Lee | African and African-American Studies | Autumn | |
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Race and Gender in Silicon Valley | Cynthia Lee | Computer Science | Autumn | |
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Psychology of Xenophobia | Rania Awaad, MD | Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Winter | |
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Probability and Gambling | Gene Bernhard Kim | Mathematics | Autumn | |
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Photographing Nature | Robert Siegel | Microbiology & Immunology | Winter | |
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Perspectives on the Abortion Experience in Western Fiction |
Erica P. Cahill MD Paul D. Blumenthal, MD, MPH |
Obstetrics and Gynecology | Spring | |
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Partner with Trees | Devaki Bhaya | Biology | Spring | |
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Ouch it Hurts! The Comparative Neurobiology of Pain | Cholawat Pacharinsak, DVM, PhD | Comparative Medicine | Winter | |
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Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance | Rush Rehm | Theater and Performance Studies | Autumn | |
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Mending a Broken Heart: The Anatomy, Physiology, and Psychology of Congenital Heart Disease |
Manchula Navaratnam M. Gail Boltz Samuel Rodriguez, MD |
Anesthesia | Spring | |
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Medical Device Innovation |
Joseph Mandato Mr Ryan K Pierce |
Bioengineering | Spring | |
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Mathematics of Knots, Braids, Links, and Tangles | Wojciech Wieczorek | Mathematics | Spring | |
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Mass Atrocities: Reckoning and Reconciliation | Pawel Lutomski | International Relations | Winter | |
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Making Sense of Strategy | David Demarest | Graduate School of Business | Autumn | |
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Making Sense of Strategy | David Demarest | Graduate School of Business | Winter | |
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Making Sense of Strategy | David Demarest | Strategic Management | Autumn | |
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Making Sense of Strategy | David Demarest | Strategic Management | Winter | |
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Leaving Patriarchy: A Course for All Genders | Nina Schloesser Tarano | Creative Writing | Spring | |
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Leaving Patriarchy: A Course for All Genders | Nina Schloesser Tarano | English | Spring | |
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Law and the Biosciences | Henry T. (Hank) Greely | Genetics | Autumn | |
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Large Spacecraft Structures | Maria Sakovsky | Aeronautics & Astronautics | Spring | |
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Laboratory Mouse in Biomedical Research | Claude M. Nagamine | Comparative Medicine | Autumn | |
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Japanese Companies and Japanese Society | Bob Sinclair | Engineering | Spring | |
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Japanese Companies and Japanese Society | Bob Sinclair | Materials Science & Engineering | Spring | |
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It's the Freakiest Show: David Bowie's Intertextual Imagination | Tiffany Naiman | English | Spring | |
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International Organizations and Accountability | Erica Gould | International Relations | Autumn | |
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International Environmental Policy | John Weyant | Management Science & Engineering | Winter | |
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Imagining Women: Writers in Print and in Person | Valerie Miner | Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity | Autumn | |
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Imagining Women: Writers in Print and in Person | Valerie Miner | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Autumn | |
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Imaginative Realms: Writing Beyond Realism | Keith Ekiss | Creative Writing | Autumn | |
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Imaginative Realms: Writing Beyond Realism | Keith Ekiss | English | Autumn | |
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I Bet You Think You're Funny: A Workshop in Humor | Edward Porter | Creative Writing | Autumn | |
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I Bet You Think You're Funny: A Workshop in Humor | Edward Porter | English | Autumn | |
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Heartfulness: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Responsibility | Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu | Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity | Autumn | |
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Heartfulness: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Responsibility | Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu | Lifeworks | Autumn | |
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Government by the Numbers |
Mark Duggan Steve Ballmer |
Economics | Autumn | |
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Government by the Numbers |
Mark Duggan Steve Ballmer |
Public Policy Program | Autumn | |
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Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases | Stephen Felt, DVM, MPH | Comparative Medicine | Spring | |
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Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment | Londa Schiebinger | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Autumn | |
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Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment | Londa Schiebinger | History | Autumn | |
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Gender and Media | Patti Hanlon-Baker | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Winter | |
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First Chapters: Please Allow Me to Introduce My Novel | Tom Kealey | Creative Writing | Winter | |
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First Chapters: Please Allow Me to Introduce My Novel | Tom Kealey | English | Winter | |
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Family Trees: The Intergenerational Novel | Austin Smith | Creative Writing | Winter | |
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Family Trees: The Intergenerational Novel | Austin Smith | English | Winter | |
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Family Stories | Brittany Perham | Creative Writing | Spring | |
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Family Stories | Brittany Perham | English | Spring | |
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Demystifying Pregnancy: Physiology, Policy and Politics |
Cynthia DeTata Sylvie Blumstein |
Obstetrics and Gynecology | Autumn | |
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Decolonizing Global Health | Takudzwa Shumba | Medicine | Spring | |
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Dare to Care: Compassionate Design | John Moalli | Chemical Engineering | Autumn | |
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Cystic Fibrosis: From Medical Conundrum to Precision Medicine Success Story | Ron Kopito | Biology | Spring | |
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Critical Illness: Patients, Physicians, and Society | Erin Hennessey, MD | Anesthesia | Spring | |
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Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity | David Palumbo-Liu | American Studies | Spring | |
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Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity | David Palumbo-Liu | Comparative Literature | Winter | |
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Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity | David Palumbo-Liu | Comparative Literature | Spring | |
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Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity | David Palumbo-Liu | Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity | Winter | |
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Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity | David Palumbo-Liu | Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity | Spring | |
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Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity | David Palumbo-Liu | American Studies | Winter | |
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Clean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts | Alexandria Boehm | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Winter | |
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Chemical Engineering for Sustainability | Shari Libicki | Chemical Engineering | Winter | |
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Challenging Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Medicine | Marcia L. Stefanick, Ph.D. | Medicine | Spring | |
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Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism | Rowan Dorin | History | Winter | |
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Bird Brains and Monkey Business | Cynthia C. Flores | Psychology | Spring | |
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Being Reasonable | Krista Lawlor | Philosophy | Spring | |
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Becoming Whatever You Want to Be: Lessons Learned from a Stem Cell | Jill Helms | Surgery | Winter | |
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Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health | Kaustubh Supekar | Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Spring | |
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Art in the Metropolis | Charles Kronengold | Stanford Arts Institute | Spring | |
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Animal Archives: History Beyond the Human | Alison Grace Laurence | History | Spring | |
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After 2001: A 21st Century Science Fiction Odyssey | Melissa Stevenson | English | Spring | |
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Aerodynamics of Race Cars | Charbel Farhat | Aeronautics & Astronautics | Spring | |
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Accessing Architecture Through Drawing | John Barton | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Autumn | |
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Accessing Architecture Through Drawing | John Barton | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Spring | |
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Aardvarks to Zebras: The A to Z of Animal Anatomy | Kerriann Casey, DVM | Comparative Medicine | Winter | |
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A History of Reproductive Rights in the US | Margo Horn | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Spring |
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