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 2012/2013 academic year:

Fall 2012 Courses

IN 107	Forbidden Knowledge
IN 108-1	Love and Eroticism in Western Civilization*
IN 123-1	Shakespearean Exclusions: The Scapegoat in Tragedy and Comedy
IN 123-2	Queer Identities in Science Fiction and Fantasy
IN 123-3	The Literature of Photography
IN 123-4	Africana Thought & Practice
IN 123-5	Rethinking Race
IN 123-6	Power & Privilege*
IN 125-2	Behavioral Biology of the Sexes*
IN 126	The Literature of Extreme Situations
IN 135	Ways of Seeing
IN 146-1	Making Monsters: Manifestations of Fear*
IN 150-2	Creativity in Context*
IN 152-1	Cultural Constructions of Identity*

Spring 2013 Courses

IN 107	Forbidden Knowledge
IN 108-1	Love and Eroticism in Western Civilization*
IN 116	Ways of Knowing: Philosophy in Literature
IN 123-1	Ethics & Communication
IN 123-2	American Popular Culture
IN 123-3	Rethinking Race*
IN 123-5	Life and Death: The Science and Psychology of Survival*
IN 123-7	Culture, the Arts, and Social Change*
IN 123-9	Blood Rites: Explorations in Religion and Violence
IN 126-1	Literature of Extreme Situations*
IN 130	Exoticism in Literature and Art
IN 135	Ways of Seeing
IN 136	Behind the Headlines: The Culture of International News
IN 138	Staging American Women: The Culture of Burlesque
IN 146-1	Making Monsters: Manifestations of Fear*
IN 150	Creativity in Context