Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies
First-Year Seminars
The Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies first-year courses provide a rich introduction to your academic life at Emerson. Courses emphasize critical reading, writing, and speaking skills, as well as topics, assignments, and instructional approaches geared toward the academic demands of your first year.
Incoming first-year students and transfer students (with fewer than 16 credits) are required to take one Institute course during their first year at Emerson. Each course fulfills the Interdisciplinary Study component of the General Education requirements. All courses are 4 credits.
The following first-year seminar courses will be offered by the Institute during the Fall of 2013:
Fall 2013 Courses
| IN 107 | Forbidden Knowledge |
| IN 108 | Love and Eroticism |
| IN 123 | Top: Literature of Photography |
| IN 123 | Top: Rethinking Race |
| IN 123 | Top: American Popular Culture |
| IN 123 | Top: Women in Philosophy, Art, & Culture |
| IN 123 | Top: Africana Thought and Practice |
| IN 123 | Top: Shakespearean Exclusion |
| IN 123 | Top: American Popular Culture |
| IN 123 | Top: Blood Rights |
| IN 126 | Literature of Extreme Situations |
| IN 127 | Politics of the Past: History |
| IN 135 | Ways of Seeing |
| IN 146 | Making Monsters* |
| IN 150 | Creativity in Context |
| IN 152 | Cultural Construct of Identity* |
| IN 154 | Power and Privilege |
* Multiple sections of this course are offered
Institute Newsletters
Each semester the Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies produces a newsletter chronicling the news, events, and happenings of both the Institute and its faculty.
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