First-Year Writing Seminars (FYWS)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Vanderbilt University
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<p>the list for 2007/2008:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cas/docs/FYWS07.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cas/docs/FYWS07.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>To you fellow Vanderbilt freshmen (that is, class of 2011), which first-year writing seminars are you thinking about taking? (During orientation/registration, you're apparently supposed to select one, and then six back-ups.)</p>

<p>To Vanderbilt students who have already gone through this, which seminar did you take? How did you like it? How hard / work-intensive was it? How interesting and thought-provoking was it?</p>

<p>As for me, in rough order of interest (top = most interested):</p>

<p>Economics of Globalization
Mathematical Truth
What is Matter?
Human Memory and the Brain
Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Green Cities</p>

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<p>I had no clue we had a choice! Human Memory and the Brain or Darwin and he Theory of Evolution for sure.. I just suddenly got really excited. Okay, dork moment over.</p>

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<p>I took Forms of History: Literature in the Pursuit of Law, which is actually an honors seminar, but counts for a first year. My advice to you: Take one that you are definitely interested in. I got stuck in this one because I wanted an honors seminar, and this was the last one left. I regretted it alllll semester. I'm a science nerd with no interest in law so I was pretty miserable. My friends who have ended up in seminars they were interested in all loved them. Good luck!</p>

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<p>@silversparkles18: Wait a second, honors seminars count as first-year writing seminars?</p>

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<p>1) The Politics of Gladiator: Representations of Romans in the Cinema
2) Green Cities
3) From Einstein to Chomsky: Revolutionary Sciences in Jewish America
4) Prison and Exile Writing
5) The Border Identities
6) Representing the Holocaust
7) Economics of Globalization</p>

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<p>honors seminars count as FYWS and as your other required W classes...rejoice!</p>

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<p>can any current/past students describe their FYWS and what they thought about it...</p>

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<p>UGH do NOT take voodoo science if they still offer it... that's all i have to say. it was atrocious and i droppped it.</p>

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<p>i took voodoo science...and loved it. gilligan is SUHWEET</p>

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<p>Has anyone had any previous experience with Human Memory and the Brain?!</p>

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<p>Hey, I was thinking of taking The nature of discovery- From America to Mars (it's an astronomy FYWS) because it sounds interesting and I'm someone who plans to go to law school so it sounds like an easy way to get a math/sci requirement done. Any thoughts?</p>

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<p>just a thought on the easy way to get math/sci requirement done --- also a non math/science person here... and i found math 140 and chem 101a to be great ways to fulfill requirements... really easy classes if u just show up and take notes. they're specifically designed for non-math/sci majors.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know what the science writing seminars are like, specifically the astronomy one? Will I have to write huge research papers and does it require a great deal of understanding in that science?</p>