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Scribner Seminars Fall 2026

Below is a listing of the Scribner Seminars offered in Fall 2026. Descriptions of the seminars are linked to the titles, and the number to the left is the section number of the course; during registration, these numbers distinguish each seminar within the SSP 100 class listing.

Please keep in mind that the below information is subject to change and that some Scribner Seminars may have a class time or 4th credit hour session in the late afternoon or early evening.

(001) Disney's America
Instructor: Greg Pfitzer
M/W/F 9:05am-10:00am
M 6:30pm-7:25pm

(002) Earth Elegies
Instructor: Robert ParkeHarrison
M/W 2:30pm-4:20pm

(003) The Future is Archival: Past & Future Creative Strategies*
*Pending Curriculum Committee Approval
Instructor: Ruben Castillo
T/TR 3:40pm-5:30pm

(004) Cataloging the Everyday Landscape: Document, Print, Publish!*
*Pending Curriculum Committee Approval
Instructor: Samantha Haedrich
M/W 2:30pm-4:20pm

(005) Inventing Leonardo da Vinci
Instructor: Michael Orr
T/TR 2:10pm-3:30pm
M 1:25pm-2:20pm

(006) Green World
Instructor: Debamalya Chatterjee
T/TR 3:40pm-5:00pm
W 6:00pm-6:55pm

(007) Human-Nature
Instructor: Joshua Ness
T/TR 9:10am-11:00am

(008) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Winston Grady-Willis
W/F 8:40am-10:00am
M 1:25pm-2:20pm

(009) Myth Conceptions
Instructor: Dan Curley
T/TR 3:40pm-5:30pm

(010) How Computers See
Instructor: Michael Eckmann
T/TR 2:10pm-3:30pm
M 1:25pm-2:20pm

(012) Mystery of Human Cooperation*
*Pending Curriculum Committee Approval
Instructor: Sanchit Shrivastava
T/TR 8:10am-9:30am
M 8:00am-8:55am

(013) Wonder
Instructor: Maggie Greaves
W/F 12:20pm-1:40pm
M 12:20pm-1:15pm

(014) American Utopias
Instructor: Nick Junkerman
M/W 12:20pm-2:10pm

(017) Podcasting History*
*Pending Curriculum Committee Approval
Instructor: Murat Yildiz
T/TR 9:40am-11:00am
F 8:00am-8:55am

(018) Brasilidade: Culture and Contestations in Brazil
Instructor: Rachel Cantave
T/TR 2:10pm-3:30pm
M 1:25pm-2:20pm

(019) Stories Covered in Chalk*
*Pending Curriculum Committee Approval
Instructor: Greg Malen
T/TR 2:10pm-3:30pm
M 1:25pm-2:20pm

(020) Dynamics of Chaos
Instructor: Lucy Oremland
T/TR 9:40am-11:00am
M 9:05am-10:00am

(021) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Rachel Roe-Dale
M/W/F 9:05am-10:00am
M 1:25pm-2:20pm

(024) Sound, Speech, Story, Song
Instructor: Adam Tinkle
T/TR 11:10am-12:30pm
M 6:00pm-8:00pm

(025) Sound the Call: Protest Music through the Ages*
*Pending Curriculum Committee Approval
Instructor: Georgia Mills
M/W/F 9:05am-10:00am
F 11:15am-12:10pm

(026) Wonder, Love & Sex
Instructor: Silvia Carli
T/TR 12:40pm-2:00pm
M 12:20pm-1:15pm

(028) Elections Around the World*
*Pending Curriculum Committee Approval
Instructor: Emmanuel Balogun
M/W 2:30pm-4:20pm

(030) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Casey Schofield
T/TR 12:40pm-2:00pm
M 1:25pm-2:20pm

(031) Nuclear Fallout: (Re)Conceptualizing "The American Family"*
*Pending Curriculum Committee Approval
Instructor: Corinne Moss-Racusin
T/TR 12:40pm-2:00pm
M 6:30pm-7:25pm

(033) Head Games: The Public Health Concussion Crisis
Instructor: Denise Evert
T/TR 11:10am-12:30pm
M 11:15am-12:10pm

(034) Rethinking Child Care
Instructor: Jess Sullivan
T/TR 12:40pm-2:00pm
TR 6:30pm-7:25pm

(035) Revelations: An Abbreviated History of Apocalypses*
*Pending Curriculum Committee Approval
Instructor: Gregory Spinner
M/W 10:10am-12:00pm

(036) Sport, Self and Society
Instructor: Peter McCarthy
T/TR 11:10am-12:30pm
M 9:05am-10:00am

(037) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Amon Emeka
M/W/F 11:15am-12:10pm
M 1:25pm-2:20pm

(038) Food for the Future
Instructor: John Brueggemann
T/TR 11:10am-12:30pm
M 11:15am-12:10pm

(039) Lovers & Fools: Shakespeare's Comedies in Performance*
*Pending Curriculum Committee Approval
Instructor: Dennis Schebetta
T/TR 11:10am-12:30pm
M 11:15am-12:10pm

(040) Diasporic Memories
Instructor: Aurelie Matheron
T/TR 12:40pm-2:00pm
M 12:20pm-1:15pm

(041) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Dorothy Mosby
M/W 10:10am-11:30am
M 1:25pm-2:20pm

(042) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Dorothy Mosby
M/W 2:30pm-3:50pm
M 1:25pm-2:20pm

(043) Telling Lives: Stories of Self and Society*
*Pending Curriculum Committee Approval
Instructor: Maria Lander
W/F 12:20pm-1:40pm
M 12:20pm-1:15pm

London First-Year Experience Seminars

LFYE
Instructor: Ting Li

LFYE
Instructor: Beau Breslin

 

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