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 Culture |
| IN 108-2 | Love and Eroticism in Western Culture |
| IN 123-1 | Shakespearean Exclusions |
| IN 123-2 | Queer Identities in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| IN 123-3 | The Literature of Photography |
| IN 123-4 | TBA |
| IN 123-5 | Rethinking Race |
| IN 123-6 | Power & Privilege |
| IN 123-7 | Power & Privilege |
| IN 125-1 | Biology of the Sexes |
| IN 125-2 | Biology of the Sexes |
| IN 126 | The Literature of Extreme Situations |
| IN 134-1 | Local Action/Global Change |
| IN 134-2 | Local Action/Global Change |
| IN 135 | Ways of Seeing |
| IN 146-1 | Making Monsters |
| IN 146-2 | Making Monsters |
| IN 146-3 | Making Monsters |
| IN 150-1 | Creativity in Context |
| IN 150-2 | Creativity in Context |
| IN 152 | Cultural Constructions of Identity |
Spring 2013 Courses: TBA
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.
