Historical List of FYSM courses for CEAS Students

Below you will find a historical list of FYSM 1000 courses that have been approved for lower division Humanities and Social Science credit within the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Not all FYSM courses will count towards a degree in the College of Engineering & Applied Science. It is important students understand how a First-Year Seminar course will fit into their degree program. If an FYSM course is ²Ô´Ç³ÙÌýlisted below, a student can still take the course, but it may not apply directly to their degree.

Spring 2019 First-Year Seminar Courses Approved for the College of Engineering & Applied Science:

The Art of Storytelling

Fall 2018 First-Year Seminar Courses Approved for the College of Engineering & Applied Science:

Living the Heroic Life, From Beowulf to Batman

Immigrants and Refugees in Literature and Culture, Ancient and Modern

Good Men Are Hard to Find: O'Connor, McCarthy, and the Coens

Investigating Art, Media, Culture, and Visual Literacy Through Drawing

The 1,001 Nights

The Power of Fairy Tales

Introduction to Contemporary Issues in Inequality

Asia Travels: Perceptions of Self, Constructions, of Other

How to Think (Philosophically) ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ18 Sex

Technology as a (Black) Mirror of Society

Choices, Choices! An Interdisciplinary Look at Decision Making

America at the Movies

Gandhi and Meditation: Practicing Peace Inside and Out

Why Be Moral?

Liberty: Political Revolution in Colonial American Society

Heroism: Troy to Afghanistan

Ethical Person, Ethical Engineer

Latinos in Colorado History

Immigrant Colorado

How Mountains Made Modern America

Race and the Universtiy

Designing the Renaissance

Comedy: Commedia and the Process of Creating the Classic Comedy

The Origins of Racism: European Encounters with the Americas

Theatre for Children

Art, Public, Site: Imagining Place and Making Worlds

Fighting Fascism From Mussolini and Hitler to the KKK and Neo-Nazis

Astronauts & Astropolitics: Topics in Space Exploration from the Cold War

Media Literacy

Human Rights: Rites of Passage in Film and Literature

Art & Diversity  

Spring 2018 First-Year Seminar Courses Approved for the College of Engineering & Applied Science:

Tupac Shakur  

Fall 2017 First-Year Seminar Courses Approved for the College of Engineering & Applied Science:

America at the Movies

Wunderkammer to Wikipedia: Knowing, Collecting, and Categorizing the World

Living the Heroic Life, From Beowulf to Batman

The Contemporary American Novel

 The Vietnam Wars: History, Literature, Music, and Film

American Indians and National Parks

Exploring U.S. History through Music and Documents

The Power of Fairy Tales

Bob Dylan and his Contemporaries

Good Men Are Hard to Find: O'Connor, McCarthy, and the Coens

Global Ghosts: Gender, Sexuality, and Haunting in the Modern World

What in the World is a Japanese Poem?

Saving the World: Museums, Archives, and Collections

Buildings Talk: History and Controversy at CU-Boulder

Gandhi and Meditation: Practices of Peace

Legacies of Violence: Politics & Memory in Response to Conflict

Historical Genius: Great Thinkers

Liberty: Political Revolution in Colonial American Society

A World of States

Tragedy and Inspiration

Representations of Gender, Race, and Sexuality through Pop Culture

Why be Moral?

Immigrants and Refugees in Literature and Culture, Ancient and Modern

Journalism Through the Cinematic Lens

Selfie: Identity & Representation in the Digital Age

Comics in the Twenty-First Century

Writing the Self: Intersections of Journaling, Autobiography, and Memoir

Choices, Choices! An Interdiscliplinary Look at Decision-Making Â