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The Scribner Seminars are the centerpiece of the First-Year Experience, taught by faculty from virtually every discipline, who design seminars to highlight their own intellectual curiosities and passions. Scribner Seminars will help you begin to explore ideas, challenge assumptions, and gain first-hand experience of faculty expectations of academic rigor and excellence. 

Below is a list of Scribner Seminars that have been offered multiple times.

• 20th Century Apparel in the United States
• Adirondacks: Forever Wild
• Africa Through Its Changing Cinema
• African Arts
• Africa in Stereotypes
• Afterlives
• American Dreams
• American Liberty
• American Memories
• American Political and Activist Theater
• American Taste
• Animals in History
• Broadway Musical
• Buzz: Visual and Material Culture of Caffeine
• Can Literature Save the Environment?
• Care of the Heart
• Challenges to Global Health
• Children's Literature Revisited
• China and the West
• Coming of Age
• Contemporary British Politics (London)
• Cycles of Marriage and Divorce
• Dangerous Earth
• The Debate About Women in the Middle Ages
• Democracy Inaction
• Den of Antiquities
• Den of Antiquities (London)
• Detective Fictions, Dark Designs
• Diabesity
• Dynamics of Chaos
• Earth System Evolution
• Educating Citizens for the American Republic
• Empire Strikes Back (London)
• Environmental Problems. Economic Solutions?
• Eros and Belonging
• European Integration
• Extraordinary Bodies
• Eyes Wide Open
• Food, Self, and Society
• Garden of Forking Paths
• Gender in Medieval Europe (London)
• Gendering God and "God Talk"
• Genes and Generation
• The Good Life in Greek Literature and Philosophy
• The Good War
• Hollywood's Portrayal of Science
• How Computers See
• How Do Women Look?
• The Hudson: Science, Society, and Art
• The Human Body—From Science to Society
• Human Colonization of Space
• Human - Nature
• Human Origins
• Ideal Worlds
• Images of Work
• Imagination, Innovation, and the Impossible
• Industry and Innovation
• Ireland: Myth, Reality, Conflict, Identity
• Italian Cinema
• Italy, Fascism, and Jews
• Japanese Animation
• Law, Religion, and Society
• Leather, Paper, and Lead
• Life in the North Woods
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Capitalism
• Lives of the Hudson
• Living in a Green World
• Location and GIS
• Love and Lust
• Made in God's Image
• Making Theater in a Digital Age
• Media and British National Identity (London)
• Mind Design
• The Mind's I
• Mother Russia's Daughters
• The Music Between Us
• Narcocultures
• The Nature of Comedy (London)
• Non-Euclidean Revolution
• Nothing Doing: The Space of Modern Thought
• Paint, Potential, and Power (London)
• The Painters' Convention: Landscape, Still Life, Figure
• Perception and Reality
• Philosophic Basis of the American Founding
• Pixelated: The new photography
• Plagues and Their Power on Human Society
• Political Economy and Her Poor
• Popular Kabbalah and Contemporary Culture
• Psychological Theories of Social Justice
• Purple Nation
• Queenship and Change: Wisdom From China
• Race in the Obama Era
• Reading Minds
• Rich, Free, and Miserable
• Robot Design
• Sailing the Seas with Captain Cook
• The Search for Pattern and Symmetry
• Seduction of the Strange
• Self and Desire
• Serious Games: Conflict, Voting and Power
• Sex and the Ancient City
• Sextants, Nutmeg, Maps, and Muskets
• Sexualities/Textualities
• Shakespeare was Jewish?
• Sport, Self, and Society
• Statesmen and Tyrants
• There's No Place Like Home
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Painting
• Travel Writing and Gender
• Truth and Value in Cinema
• An Unsettled Place: 400 Years of Remaking the Hudson
• Urban Latin America: Aztec Spaces to Modern Places
• Virtual Republic
• Waging War, Making Peace
• Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs
• Water: Society, Science and the Arts
• Ways of Seeing
• What's the big idea?
• Where Are We?
• Why We Eat What We Eat
• Word and Image
• World in a Town
• Writing in America: The Contemporary Essay