Selected First-Year Seminar Topics

Trinity College

The Collapse of Communism and Its Aftermath: Revolution in Eastern Europe and Italy

Curiosity and Madness in English Literature

The “Politic” Muse: Democracy and Art in Classical Athens

What’s Happening to the American Middle Class?

Life, Death, and Modern Medicine

To the Reagan Years and Beyond: An Exploration of Modern American Conservatism

Dante’s Divine Comedy

Film, Literature, and History in the Study of Dictatorship, Democracy, and Revolution in Latin American History

Play Analysis for the Theater Artist

Daily Life in the Roman Empire

Desert Storm: A 20th-Century Crusade

Moral Controversies

Understanding Africa: Not Even God Is Wise Enough!

Experiences and Expectation: Everybody Has a Story to Tell

Mathematical Ideas and Changing Times

Visualizing the Fourth Dimension

Science and the Consumer

Computer Communication Is Revolutionizing Information Exchange

Urban Life, Urban Culture: Coming of Age in the Metropolis, 1890-1990s

The Quest for Friendship

Rethinking Class and Culture in the United States

Orientalism, or How the West Has Viewed the East

Effects of College on Student
Development

Teenage Kicks! Pop Music and Contemporary Western Culture

Reel Fiction: Looking at Literature on Film

The Myth of Faust

The Legal History of Race Relations

The Science of Color and Light

Hip-Hop America

The Proof of Excellence Recent Faculty Grant Awards Recent Student Scholarship


Majors


Recent Student Awards



Selected First-Year Seminar Topics