Update
Undergraduate education: First-year students
Complete list of First-Year Seminars
Cluster—The Ocean and New Jersey’s Shore and Climate
Ken W. Able (SEBS Marine
Science), “The Estuary in Winter: Field Experiences at the Rutgers
Marine
Field Station”
Robin Fox (SAS Anthropology), “Seafood and Civilization”
Julie Lockwood (SEBS Evolution and Natural Resources), “The Ecology of the Jersey Shore”
Ken Miller (SAS Geological Sciences), “‘Should I Sell My Shore House?’: Global-Warming and Sea-Level Rise”
David A. Robinson (SAS Geography), “New Jersey’s Changing Climate”
Peter Rona (SEBS Marine Science), “Oceanography: Oceans of Opportunity”
Oscar Schofield (SEBS Marine Science), “The Oceans and Human Society”
Humanities
Michael Adas (SAS History), “Witnessing War in the 20th Century”
Ousseina Alidou (SAS Africana Studies), “Islam and African Women Writers”
Anne Freire Ashbaugh (SAS
Philosophy), “Defining Ourselves through Myths: Narcissus, Psyche, and
the Labyrinth”
Louise Barnett (SAS American Studies), “Marriages Made in Heaven and Hell”
Rudy Bell (SAS History), “Herbs and Gems: Popular Advice on Healing Thyself”
Alistair Bellany (SAS
History), “How to Read a Verse Libel: Early 17th-Century Politics
and ‘The King’s
Five Senses’”
T. Corey Brennan (SAS Classics), “Arena Sports and Their Structures: The First Three-Thousand Years”
Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin (Institute for Women and Art), “Your Identity and Visual Representation”
Abena P. A. Busia (SAS English), “What is Africa to Me?”
Chris Chism (SAS English), “Tolkien and Medieval Literature”
Marlene Ciklamini (SAS German), “Grimm Fairy Tales – Then and Now”
Paul G. E. Clemens (SAS History), “The Loeb-Leopold Kidnapping and Murder Case – 1924”
Ann Baynes Coiro (SAS English), “Alleged Madwoman in the Library”
Veneeta Dayal (SAS Linguistics), “The Language of Advertising”
Carlos Decena (SAS Women’s and Gender Studies), “Sexuality and Migration”
Marianne DeKoven (SAS English), “The 1960s in America”
Richard Dienst (SAS English), “Moving Pictures: History, Technology, and Cultural Form”
Uri Eisenzweig (SAS French), “Literature and Politics”
Brad Evans (SAS English),
“James’s The Ambassadors and the
Schimmel Rare Book Library at Rutgers
University”
Ann Fabian (SAS American Studies and History), “Curiosity”
David S. Foglesong (SAS History), “Lessons of the Past: The Viet Nam War and American Memory”
Jeff Friedman (Mason Gross: Dance), “Oral History and Performance: Arts-based Research Methods”
Angus Gillespie (SAS American Studies), “Twin Towers: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center”
Martin Gliserman (SAS English), "Deep Reading: Novels and Computers"
Mary Hawkesworth (SAS Women’s and Gender Studies), “Contesting Social Hierarchies in Everyday Life”
Martha Helfer (SAS German), “Wild Women”
Paul Israel (Edison Papers), “Biography and History: The Many Thomas Edisons”
Greg Jackson (SAS English), “New York Undercover: The City as Mystery”
James Johnson (SAS Religion), “Religion and Conflict: Part of the Problem? Or Part of the Solution?”
Myra Jehlen (SAS English), “‘It’s all in how you say it’: Form and Meaning in Literature”
Andrew Kirkman (Mason Gross: Music), “Music and Popular Religion in the Late Middle Ages”
Peter Klein (SAS Philosophy), “Relativism and Social Constructivism”
Elizabeth Leake (SAS Italian), “Italy and the Holocaust”
Matt Matsuda (SAS History) and Jeff Friedman (Mason Gross Dance), “Performing Histories”
Richard L. McCormick (Rutgers President; SAS History), “Rutgers and the Challenges Facing Higher Education in the 21st Century”
Brian McLaughlin (SAS Philosophy), “Exploring the Mind”
Meredith McGill (SAS English), “Edgar Allan Poe and the New Media of the 1840s”
Richard Miller (SAS English), “Thomas Paine’s Common Sense: An Exercise in Reading in Slow Motion”
Fatima Naqvi (SAS German), “Austrian Cinema and Urban Dissolution/2000”
Lorraine Pirroux (SAS French), “Can Books Make Us Travel?”
Barry V. Qualls (Rutgers Vice President for Undergraduate Education; SAS English), “Street Walking in Victoria’s London”
James Reed (SAS History), “Secrets of the 1950s: Alfred Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research”
Stephen Reinert (SAS History), “The ‘Real’ Dracula”
Gary A. Rendsburg (SAS Jewish Studies), “On Reading the Bible”
Dianne Sadoff (SAS English), “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Contemporary Technological Anxieties”
Paul Schalow (SAS Asian Languages and Culture), “Friendship in Japan: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry”
Marcy Schwartz (SAS Spanish and Portuguese), “Urban Intersections: Literature and the City in South America”
Richard Serrano (SAS French), “Gender’s Pleasures: Depicting Women of 18th Century China and Korea”
Jeffrey Shandler (SAS Jewish Studies), “Imagining Anne Frank”
Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui (SAS American Studies), “Desiring Gender: Rereading Puig’s Kiss of the Spiderwoman”
George Stauffer (Dean, Mason Gross School of the Arts), “What does Bach have to say?”
Larry Temkin (SAS Philosophy), “Puzzling about Ethics”
Alessandro Vettori (SAS Italian), “Satan in Western Culture and Literature”
Keith Wailoo (SAS History and Institute for Health Research), “Genes and History: Science, the Law, Identity, and American Society”
Carla Yanni (SAS Art History), “American Architecture: Exploring the University”
Social Sciences
Mark Aakhus (SCILS: Communication), “Communication Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility”
Douglas Blair (SAS Economics), “Microfinance and Global Poverty”
Gretchen Chapman (SAS Psychology), “The Psychology of Medical Decision Making”
Lee Clarke (SAS Sociology) and Caron Chess (SEBS Human Ecology), “Risk and Disaster: A Primer”
Cynthia R. Daniels (SAS Political Science), “Reproductive Politics”
Richard DeLisi (Dean, Graduate School of Education), “Children’s Moral Development”
Leela Fernandez (SAS Political Science), “Religion and Non-Violence”
David Finegold (Dean, SMLR), “Ethics and the Bioscience Revolution”
Gustav W. Friedrich (Dean, SCILS), “Working through Conflict”
Peter Guarnaccia (SEBS Human Ecology), “Social and Cultural Perspectives on Organ Transplantation”
Leonard Hamilton (SAS Psychology), “Broken Brains”
Milton Heumann (SAS Political Science), “Criminal Justice: Competing Policies”
Jane Junn (SAS Political Science), “Asian-American Political Identity”
Mark Killingsworth (SAS Economics) and Patricia Roos (SAS Sociology), “Choice and Constraint: Economic and Sociological Approaches to the Study of Inequality”
Eileen Kowler (SAS Psychology), “Understanding Perception in Humans and Machines”
Susan Lawrence (SAS Political Science/SAS Assoc. Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education), “United States Supreme Court: Decisions in the 2006-07 Term”
Barbara Lee (SMLR), “What is Discrimination?”
Catherine Lee (SAS Sociology), “Race and Biomedicine in the Age of Genomics”
Beth Leech (SAS Political Science), “Analyzing the News Media”
Roy Licklider (SAS Political Science), “Can Civil Wars be ended with Negotiated Settlements?”
Ruth Mandel (Director, Eagleton Institute of Politics), “A Woman for President”
Jenny Mandelbaum (SCILS: Communication), “The Audience as Co-Author: Storytelling in Conversation”
Paul McLean (SAS Sociology), “Networks: Patterns of Connectivity in the Social and Biological Worlds”
Kathe Newman (Bloustein School: Urban Planning), “Gentrifying New York City”
John V. Pavlik (SCILS: Journalism and Media Studies), “Digital Convergence and the Media”
Anne Morrison Piehl (SAS Economics), “The Economics of Incarceration”
Angela O’Donnell (Graduate School of Education), “Collaboration for
the Enhancement of Learning and
Performance”
Carl Pray (SEBS Economics), “Can Biotechnology Reduce Hunger in Developing Countries: Using Economics to Assess the Evidence”
Jeffrey D. Robinson (SCILS: Communication), “Universal Rules of Social Interaction”
Robyn M. Rodriguez (SAS Sociology), “Race and Immigration in New Jersey”
Aldo Lauria Santiago (SAS Latino Studies), “Latino New York 1920-1980”
Louis Sass (GSAPP: Clinical Psychology), “The Self and its Disorders, Modern and Post-Modern”
Craig Scott (SCILS: Communication), “Anonymous Communication in an Information Society”
Barry Sopher (SAS Economics), “Economics in the Laboratory”
Sciences
Michael Beals (SAS Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education/SAS Mathematics), “The Mathematics of Waves”
Joan Bennett and Douglas Eveleigh (Rutgers Vice President for Women and Science; SEBS Plant Biology/Microbiology), “Malevolent and Magnificent Microbes”
A.J. Both (SEBS Plant Biology and Pathology), “Jersey-Fresh Year Round: Crop Production in New Jersey”
Warren Crown (Grad. School of Education) and Kathleen Scott (SAS Biology), “Teaching in Math and Science”
John Colaizzi (Dean, Pharmacy), “Role of Pharmaceuticals in Modern Healthcare”
David T. Denhardt (SAS Cell Biology and Neuroscience), “Monoclonal Antibodies to Osteopontin”
Philip Furmanski (Rutgers Vice President for Academic Affairs; SAS Cell Biology and Neuroscience), “Modern Plagues”
Emmett Gill, Jr. (Social Work), “Role of Intercollegiate Sports in University Life”
Joshua Gray (EOHSI), “Biological and Chemical Weapons”
Stephen Greenfield (SAS
Mathematics), “Experimental Mathematics, with Computer-Aided Discovery and
Verification”
Sam Gunderson (SAS Molecular Biology and Biochemistry), “The Passion of RNA”
Ronald Hart (SAS Cell Biology and Neuroscience), “Fundamental Techniques in Bioinformatic Analysis”
Bahman Kalantari (SAS Computer Science), “Polynomiography:
The Fine Art and Science of Visualizing
Polynomials”
Lisa Klein (Engineering: Materials Science), “Alternative Energy”
Casimir Kulikowski (SAS Computer Science), “Computer Gaming”
Richard Ludescher (SEBS Food Science), “Molecules, Mechanisms, and Machines”
Charles Martin (SAS Cell
Biology and Neuroscience), “Microbes and Humans, or: Germs You Can’t Live
With and Others You Can’t Live Without”
Thomas
V. Papathomas (SAS
Biomedical Engineering), “Illusions: Royal
Path to Interdisciplinary Brain
Research”
Michael Pazzani (Vice President for Research and Graduate Education), “Internet Personalization: Technology, Opportunities, and Risk”
Lei Yu (SAS Genetics), “Opium, Biology, and History”
Andrew Vershon (SAS Molecular Biology and Biochemistry), “Control of Gene Expression”
Theodore Williams (SAS
Physics and Astronomy), “Rutgers,
South Africa,
and World-Class Astronomy –
Perfect Together”
Lily Y. Young (SEBS Environmental Sciences), “What is the Biology Behind Global Warming?”
Keck Center: Spinal Cord Injury Project, “Spinal Cord Injury, Stem Cells: Pushing the Frontiers, Raising the Ethical Questions”
Waksman Molecular Biology and Biochemistry group, “Using Model Organisms to Cure Cancer and Disease”