FACULTY First-Year Seminars (FFYS) Fall 2011 – Updated 8-8-11
Search on Spire “begins with” UNIV 197
MONDAYS
Class Title
Faculty – Dept.
Course
Spire
Time
Sleep on It!
Rebecca Spencer
Psychology
UNIV 197 PSY1
39451
9:05 -9:55 AM
Getting Medieval: University Life in the
Middle Ages
Jenny Adams
English
UNIV 197 ENGL5
38925
10:10-11:00 AM
Planning the Future Massachusetts
John Mullin
UNIV 197RP
39040
10:10 -11:00 AM
Jay Z’s Black Album: The U Mass
Remix
Will Power, Theater
UNIV 197THEAT2
39343
10:10 – 12:05
Preparing for a Career in Clinical
Psychology
M. Constantino,
Psychology
UNIV 197PSY6
38935
11:15-12:05 PM
Ecological Consequences of Global
Warming
William Manning
Plant, Soil & Insects
UNIV 197PSIS4
38932
1:25-2:15 PM
Childhood as a Cultural Artifact
Sally Galman, Education
UNIV 197EDUC4
38930
2:30-3:20 PM
Achilles to Batman
Kenneth Kitchell, Classics
UNIV 197CL
39171
2:30-3:20 PM
Civil Liberties and the Supreme Court
S. Goldman, Political
Science
UNIV 197POLI3
38919
3:35 -4:25 PM
Nuclear Chemistry & Medicine
Michael Knapp
Chemistry
UNIV 197CHEM3
39234
4:40 - 5:30PM
Arsenic Around the World
Julian Tyson
Chemistry
UNIV 197CHEM
39034
4:40 - 5:30PM
Cultural Economy/Pioneer Valley
NC Christopher Couch,
Languages, Lit, & Culture
UNIV 197CL1
39049
6:00 –6:50 PM
Class Title
Faculty – Dept.
Course
Spire
Time
Florida: The News Capital of the United
States
Madeleine Blais
Journalism
UNIV 197JOURN
39399
1:00 – 1:50 PM
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond
Good & Evil
Robert Holub
Chancellor
UNIV 197 GER1
38938
4:00 - 4:50PM
Music is Everywhere
Miriam Jenkins
Music
UNIV 197MUS3
38934
4:00 - 4:50 PM
TUESDAYS
K. Weilerstein
8/8/2011
FFYS Fall 2011 continued
WEDNESDAYS
Class Title
Faculty – Dept.
Course
Spire
Time
Clinical Neuropsychology
Rebecca Ready
Psychology
UNIV 197PSY2
39017
9:05 -9:55 AM
Asia-Pac AmerStudies: Explor Intellec &
PracResources @ UMass & 5 Colleges
Richard Chu, History
UNIV 197HIST6
39344
10:10-11:00 AM
Feast or Famine: Agriculture and
Disease
Dan Cooley
Microbiology
UNIV 197PSIS1
38888
10:10-11:00 AM
What is Race?
Kysa Nygreen
Education
UNIV 197EDUC3
38889
10:10-11:00 AM
History of American Medicine
Michael Begay
Public Health
UNIV 197PUBH1
39455
11:15 -12:05 PM
Live Art and Audience
Jenny Spencer
English
UNIV 197ENGL2
38936
11:15 -12:05 PM
Mathematicians: Who Are They and
What Do They Do?
Farshid Hajir
Mathematics & Statistics
UNIV 197MATH
39380
11:15 -12:05 PM
Know Your Food
Yeonhwa Park
Food Science
UNIV 197FDSCI
38933
1:25 -2:15 PM
Cosmopolitan Cities in the Middle East
Jillian Schwedler
Political Science
UNIV 197POLI1
39364
1:25 -2:15 PM
To Bee or Not to Bee: Cause & Impact
of Honeybee Decline
John Burand
Plant, Soil & Insects
UNIV 197PSIS3
38931
3:35 -4:25 PM
Media, Fashion, Culture, Style
Anne Ciecko,
Communication
UNIV 197COMM1
39249
4:40 – 5:30 PM
Class Title
Faculty – Dept.
Course
Spire
Educating America's Youngest Children
Claire Hamilton,
Education
UNIV 197EDUC1
39233
1:00 –1:50 PM
Culture, Community & Language
Jean Forward,
Anthropology
UNIV 197ANTH2
38927
4:00 -4:50 PM
Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”: a
Revolution in Environmental Comm.
Guy Lanza, Economics
UNIV 197MCBIO1
38937
4:00-4:50 PM
Introduction to Art & Artmaking
John Simpson. Honors
UNIV 197ART
38904
4:00 –4:50 PM
THURSDAYS
K. Weilerstein
Time
8/8/2011