Dickinson First Year Seminar Selection Fall 2025

Section 1

Black Horror

Section 2

Arguing about Politics, Society, and Culture in China, Japan, and Vietnam

Section 4

American History Through Poetry

Section 7

Narratives of Disaster: Puerto Rico Responds to Hurricane Maria

Section 9

From Kyoto to Paris to Carlisle: Human Impact on Global and Local Environments

Section 10

Beekeeping in the End Times—Grappling with Climate Change through Speculative Fiction

Section 13

Youth, Love, and Rebellion: Growing up in Modern Japan

Section 18

Singing Amid Social Strife

Section 21

Charcoal, Iron, Environment and Community

Section 24

Race and Radical Pedagogy

Section 26

Three Views on the "Problem of the Color Line": Du Bois, Baldwin, Coates

Section 28

The Art of Protest and the Power of Performance

Section 30

Persephone and Hades through the Ages

Section 31

Natural Disasters and You

Section 32

All Roads Lead to Kathmandu: Meditation, Mindfulness, and the Mystical Marketplace

Section 38

Galileo's Commandment

Section 39

Narratives of French Imperialism in Africa and the Caribbean