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Skidmore College
First-Year Experience

Scribner Seminar Program
Fall 2023

Below is a listing of the Scribner Seminars offered in Fall 2023. 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) From Chocolatl to Chocolate
Instructor: Kristi Peterson
TU/TH 9:10a-11:00a

(024) Dynamics of Chaos
Instructor: Rachel Roe-Dale
M/W 2:30p-4:20p

(002) American Tastes
Instructor: Beck Krefting
W/F 10:10a-12:00p

(003) Riddles of Culture
Instructor: Joowon Park
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p 
M 12:20p-1:15p

(004) Forging Utopia
Instructor: David Peterson
M/W 2:30p-4:20p

(027) The Business of Food
Instructor: Caroline D'Abate
W 10:10a-11:30a
F 11:00a-1:20p

(005) Earth Elegies
Instructor: Robert ParkeHarrison
TU/TH 3:40p-5:30p

(028) The Business of Food
Instructor: Caroline D'Abate
W 12:20p-1:40p
F 11:00a-1:20p

(006) Thirteen Ways
Instructor: Paul Sattler
TU/TH 6:30p-7:50p
W 6:30p-7:25p

(029) Music: Mix and Remix
Instructor: Sarah Day-O'Connell
TU/TH 3:40p-5:30p

(007) Ancient Medicine
Instructor: Amy Oh
W/F 8:40a-10:00a
M 9:05a-10:00a

(030) Stress and the Human Brain
Instructor: Sarita Lagalwar
W/F 12:20p-2:10p

(008) Can Machines Think?
Instructor: Thomas O'Connell
TU/TH 11:10a-12:30p
M 11:15a-12:10p

(031) Digital Life
Instructor: Peter Murray
W/F 10:10a-11:30p
M 11:15a-12:10p

(009) The Dancing Brain
Instructor: Sarah DiPasquale
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p
TU 7:30p-8:25p

(032) Political Economy and Poverty
Instructor: William Lewis
TU/TH 9:40a-11:00a
M 9:05a-10:00a

(010) Analysis of the 7 Deadly Sins
Instructor: Rodrigo Schneider
M/W 2:30p-4:20p

(033) Real Democracy
Instructor: Robert Turner
M/W/F 12:20p-1:15p 
M 6:30p-7:25p

(011) Bullock Carts to BMWs
Instructor: Monica Das
TU/TH 2:10a-3:30p
M 1:25p-2:20p

(034) Politics and Eros
Instructor: Natalie Taylor
M/W 2:30p-4:20p

(012) Reading the Cosmos
Instructor: Margaret Greaves
W/F 10:10a-11:30p
M 11:15a-12:10p

(035) Reading Minds
Instructor: Rebecca Johnson
W/F 12:20p-1:40p
M 12:20p-1:15p

(013) American Utopias
Instructor: Nicholas Junkerman
M/W 2:30p-4:20p

(036) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Dominique Vuvan
TU/TH 11:10a-12:30p  
M 1:25p-2:20p

(014) Weird Books
Instructor: Paul Benzon
TU/TH 11:10a-12:30p  
TH 6:30p-7:25p

(037) Sexing Politics
Instructor: Minita Sanghvi
TU/TH 9:40a-11:00a
M 9:05a-10:00a   

(015) Shocked: WWI & Modern Culture
Instructor: Timothy Wientzen
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p
M 12:20p-1:15p

(038) Nature/Nurture Myth
Instuctor: Erica Wojcik
TU/TH 2:10p-3:30p
TH 5:30p-6:25p

(016) Can Literature Save the Environment?
Instructor: Michael Marx
TU/TH 2:10p-3:30p
M 1:25p-2:20p

(039) Randomness, Logic and the Universe
Instructor: Mary Odekon
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p
M 12:20p-1:15p

(017) Jane Austen, Inc
Instructor: Catherine Golden
TU/TH 3:40p-5:30p

(040) Asimov, Science, and Fiction
Instructor: Javier Perez-Moreno
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p
M 12:20p-1:15p

(018) Plastic Fantastic?
Instructor: Anne Ernst
W/F 12:20p-2:10p 

(041) Science Fiction and Religion
Instructor: Eliza Kent
W/F 12:20p-1:40p
M 12:20p-1:15p

(019) Are We in the Anthropocene?
Instructor: Kyle Nichols
TU/TH 9:10a-11:00a

(042) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: June Paul
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p
M 1:25p-2:20p

(020) Sport, Self and Society
Instructor: Jeffrey Segrave
TU/TH 11:10a-12:30p 
M 11:15a-12:10p

(043) Mixed Race on Stage and Film
Instructor:
TU/TH 12:40p-2:00p
W 5:30p-6:25p

(021) World Through Maps
Instructor: Jordana Dym
TU/TH 3:40p-5:30p

(044) Space of Modern Thought
Instructor: Grace Burton
W/F 10:10a-11:30a
M 11:15a-12:10p

(022) Human Dilemmas
Instructor: Jennifer Day
TU/TH 2:10p-3:30p
M 1:25p-2:20p

(045) Ideal Worlds 
Instructor: Mao Chen
TU/TH 3:40p-5:30p

(023) No Place to Hide
Instructor:  Scott Mulligan
W/F 10:10a-11:30a
TH 6:30p-8:30p

(046) Seduction of the Strange
Instructor: Juliane Wuensch
TU/TH 3:40p-5:30p

London- First Year Experience

The Good Life In London
Instructor: Mark Rye

The Science of Global Cities
Instructor: Andrew Lindner