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 Society: Recent Offerings
Into the Belly of the Beast: An Enquiry into the Anatomy of Evil
Contesting Absolutes: Existentialism in Literature, Film and Art
Beyond Money, Sex, and Power: Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche in the 21st Century
Gender Roles and Society
Law and Literature
What’s Left? Progressive Thought from 1776 into the 21st Century
The American Culture of Advertising
Vienna 1900 Revisited: The Birth of Modernism and Its Impact
Nation Building and the Problems of Democratization
Speaking and Seeking Women’s Liberation
Freedom and Responsibility in the Modern World
Faces in Totalitarianism: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin
Modern Roots of 20th Century Philosophy and PoliticsThe Darwinian RevolutionCrime and Punishment in Contemporary SocietyModern Nationalism and Medieval Europe: The Politics of the Pre-ModernThe U.S. Constitution and American Art and ExpressionModernity Across Europe and East AsiaThe Enlightenment Project and its CriticsEconomic Foundations and Transitional SocietiesTechnological Innovation and the Creation of Post-Industrial Society
