<p>DS just got an email recommending taking freshman seminar classes. Sounds interesting. Any advice out there???</p>
<p>Are you talking about the honors freshmen seminar classes? </p>
<p>Such as: </p>
<p>HONORS FRESHMAN SEMINARS (FOR UHP ENTERING FRESHMEN ONLY)
FRESHMAN SEMINAR: Judicial Procedure (H, HU) (3 credits)
UH 155 001 43689 T, R 09:30 – 10:45 Watkins, J 283 NT
Course content includes legal reasoning, court structures, trial procedures, the jury and jury trials, legal education, the structure of the legal profession, criminal procedure and criminal punishment, including the capital punishment question.</p>
<p>FRESHMAN SEMINAR: International War Crimes (H, HU) (3 credits)
UH 155 002 43869 T, R 11:00 – 12:15 Watkins, J 292 NT
Course covers international war crime trials from WW-I through recent U.S Supreme Court decisions after 9/11 to include emphasis on the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo trials after WW-II, Vietnam, the Balkan Cases and the international terrorism issue as well as the formation of the International Criminal Court in l998. NOTE: Course open to UHP ENTERING FRESHMEN ONLY.</p>
<p>FRESHMAN SEMINAR: Issues in American Politics (H, HU) (3 Credit Hours) UH 155 003 47130 W 03:00-05:30 Steinfels, M TBA
This course examines key issues in U.S. politics, including education, health care, immigration, and criminal justice. Students do research and present papers related to these topics. NOTE: Course open to UHP FRESHMEN ONLY.</p>
<p>Freshman Seminar (SB) (3 credits)
IHP 155 001 44445 T, R 11:00-12:15 James, F. 173 NT
IHP 155 002 42838 T, R 02:00-03:15 Oneal, F 292 NT
Get ready for your overseas study by becoming familiar with intercultural communication, practicing communicating across cultures, and gaining new perspectives on ―American‖ culture! Upon completion of this course, you will be able to more successfully communicate with others from different cultural backgrounds and have a deeper appreciation of the fact that certain views, priorities, and values that you hold may or may not be universal.</p>
<p>The email directed us to [Executive</a> Vice President and Provost - Dr. Judy Bonner](<a href=“http://provost.ua.edu%5DExecutive”>http://provost.ua.edu) and click on freshman seminars. I don’t think it is honors, but sounds interesting. First class listed is ANT155 The Anthropology of Travel: From Headhunters to Mystical Cities prof Keith Jacobi. There are others also.</p>
<p>Ooh! The anthropology of travel sounds wonderful…wonder if D got that email too. I’ll have to make sure she checks her UA email tonight.</p>
<p>Yes! There are interesting non-honors freshmen seminars too!</p>
<p>I wonder if any of them fulfill Core Req’ts…I guess you can look up the classes online and look to the far right and it will tell you if it has a designation (HI, HU, FA, FL, SB, etc)</p>
<p>[Current</a> Seminars at Executive Vice President and Provost](<a href=“http://provost.ua.edu/provostaa/information/freshman-seminars/current-seminars/]Current”>http://provost.ua.edu/provostaa/information/freshman-seminars/current-seminars/)</p>
<p>The Anthropology of Travel: From Headhunters to Mystical Cities, ANT 155</p>
<p>Keith Jacobi</p>
<p>10:00 am-12:30 pm W, Scientific Collections Facility 328</p>
<p>This seminar examines how the individual has described the people he or she has met in the travel writing left behind as their record. There is no more important source of knowledge than the writings of those who travel to a new place and describe what they see. If it weren’t for individuals such as Herodotus, Fray Bernadino de Sahagun, Bernal Diaz, Bernard Romans, Daniel Defoe, Margaret Mead, and Napoleon Chagnon to name a few, our understanding of the physical appearance, cultural customs, language and even archaeology/past history of many groups would be extremely inadequate. These travel writings whether they in the form of a diary, letters, notes, ethnographic descriptions, or drawings, are all primary sources for learning about not only the culture being contacted but also about the individual and his views on life and how those beliefs reflect on what he is observing. Charles Darwin’s notes, letters and diary about his voyage on The Beagle are so important to science today. Fray Bernadino de Sahagun’s Florentine Codex, with its detailed description of Aztec life, was written down in Nahuatl and translated to Spanish and is a major source on Aztecs. Without his work at culture contact we would not have any first hand knowledge of the customs and beliefs of the Aztecs because they did not have a written language. “The Jesuit Relations and other Allied Documents” compiled by Reuben Thwaites are wonderful writings by Jesuits who encounter Eastern North American Native American groups (ex. Huron) and they describe the Native American’s “heathen” activities. Much of early travel writing was created by the educated and the wealthy: explorers (Captain Cook, d’Ancona, Marco Polo), military men (Captain Charles Wilkes), presidents (Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt), artists (George Catlin), newspaper or magazine stringers (Harper’s Magazine), educated women traveling (Mary Kingsley, Mrs. Stephen Griswold) and men of letters (Mark Twain, Boswell). The words of individual explorers such as these affected both the people of the time and future generations.</p>
<p>Culture and Human Experience, IHP 155-001 and 002</p>
<p>Francine James and Fran O’Neal</p>
<p>11:00 am – 12:15 pm TR, Nott Hall 173</p>
<p>2:00 pm-3:15 pm TR, Nott Hall 292</p>
<p>Get ready for your overseas study by becoming familiar with intercultural communication, practicing communicating across cultures, and gaining new perspectives on “American” culture! Upon completion of this course, you will be able to more successfully communicate with others from different cultural backgrounds and have a deeper appreciation of the fact that certain views, priorities, and values that you hold may or may not be universal.</p>
<p>Ethics & the College Student, AHE 155</p>
<p>Jennifer Jones</p>
<p>9:30 am – 10:45 am T/R, Graves TBD</p>
<p>Ethics and The College Student is a dynamic and interactive course that explores the lenses through which college students make ethical decisions, moral choices, and value judgments.</p>
<p>Integrative Health Care Practices in the United States, NUR-155-001</p>
<p>Norma G. Cuellar</p>
<p>3:00 pm – 5:30 pm W, College Capstone of Nursing</p>
<p>This course will examine the use of Integrative Health Care Practices in the United States in health promotion and disease prevention, as well as in acute and chronic health conditions, through evidence-based research and practice. The five domains of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) will be discussed including Alternative Health Care Systems, Herbs and Natural Products, Body Manipulation, Mind/Body Therapies, and Energy Fields. Implications of complementary and alternative medicine will focus on the use of CAM on culture, health disparities, society, economics, safety, legal, ethical, and health policy issues. Guest lectures will provide insight into integrative health care practices of Western Medicine and CAM.</p>
<p>Italian Culture: A Trip Through Italian Culture, Music, and Food</p>
<p>Lidia Ciccone</p>
<p>3:30 pm-5:45 pm R, TBA</p>
<p>This course aims to given an overall view of Italian culture through film, music, food, and other aspects of Italian culture. Students will watch movies and then discuss them. Through movies we will focus on particular images of Italian cities and use them as a starting point to see how food and music become a very important aspect of the regional culture of Italy. Students will also have the opportunity to learn how to prepare some Italian dishes related to the culture of the city/region seen in the movie. We will also focus on folk music that represents the spirit of many Italian regions. At the end of the course, students will have a deeper appreciation and familiarity of Italian culture and customs and be ready to take a real trip to Italy!</p>
<p>Photography and Society, COM 155-001</p>
<p>Janis L. Edwards</p>
<p>3:30 pm – 5:50 pm R, Reese Phifer Hall 345</p>
<p>Photography is a familiar way of keeping memories, but what does it reveal about the broader values in society? How do the images around us influence us? Why are some images controversial? How can a photograph be true or false? This course explores those questions by look at case studies in photography from the 19th century to today. Since their invention, photographs have been a central force in forming personal, community, and national identity, shaping public policy, differentiating between truth and falsehood, creating personal and public memory, and providing a window on past and present.</p>
<p>Social Justice/Music and Media, SW 155-002</p>
<p>Cassandra Simon</p>
<p>11:00 am – 12:15 pm TR, Little Hall 206</p>
<p>Music has often been referred to as the universal language, having the power to transcend the limitations of traditional language barriers. This seminar will focus on how music has been used historically and contemporarily to not only communicate about unjust social conditions, but to also encourage activism and motivate individuals to work towards changing such conditions. Thus, through this seminar, with particular attention given to issues in the United States and the state of Alabama, this seminar focus on issues of human rights, social justice and civil rights and the role of music in these movements.</p>
<p>Turning Personal Strengths into Leadership Skill, HD 155- 001</p>
<p>Corrie H. Lake</p>
<p>12:30 pm – 1:45 pm TR, Adams 109</p>
<p>Discover and develop your strengths in this dynamic, discussion-driven course. Course content includes critical elements of leadership development, such as building keen self-awareness and enhancing interpersonal skills. Through the course of the semester, students will use what they learn about themselves in personality and leadership inventories to explore personal and professional interests and build a multi-phased plan of action for acquiring the skills and knowledge needed to achieve success.</p>
<p>Mom2, </p>
<p>All non-honors freshman seminars have to fill a core requirement by rule. My son is looking to take the HD-155 one just to get one of his behavioral science classes out of the way. They are limited to around 15 - 20 students though so not sure if he’ll be able to get a spot.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to the non-honors page. If you click on requirements you’ll see they all have to fill a core requirement.
<a href=“http://provost.ua.edu/seminars/index.html[/url]”>http://provost.ua.edu/seminars/index.html</a></p>
<p>Those look like some fun courses to take. I was getting them confused with freshman learning communities [Freshman</a> Learning Communities - The University of Alabama](<a href=“http://flc.ua.edu/]Freshman”>http://flc.ua.edu/) which are multiple classes you take with the same group of people. I’d suggest y’all look into those too.</p>
<p>I did read in the information on the seminars that the courses did satisfy core requirements. They also have specific requirements for the professors. Sounds really interesting! I like small classes to satisfy a normally large class requirement!</p>