Past Freshman Seminars

Spring 2022

Imprisoned Minds: Religion and Philosophy from Jail    
Mark Edwards    
Paul L. Miller '41 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Intellectual Foundations of Modern Conservatism
Thomas Kelly        
Dean Eva Gossman Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Tech/Ethics
Steven Kelts
Class of 1976 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Marx in the 21st Century    
Daniel L. Hoffman-Schwartz  
Peter T. Joseph '72 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Fall 2021

Tragedy and the Meaning of Life
Rhodri Lewis
Kurt & Beatrice Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

What Makes for a Meaningful Life? A Search
Ellen Chances        
University Center for Human Values Freshman Seminar (Anonymous)

Spring 2021

Gender and Sex Diversity    
Kristina Olson
Peter T. Joseph '72 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

History and Cinema: Fascism in Film
Gaetana Marrone-Puglia
Professor Amy Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Money, Markets, and Morals
Steven Kelts    
Paul L. Miller '41 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Fall 2020

Civil Disobedience: Breaking the Law from Socrates to the Civil Rights Movement
Peter Wirzbicki
Kurt & Beatrice Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Freedom in the Age of Revolutions 
Joel Lande        
University Center for Human Values Freshman Seminar (Anonymous)

Intellectual Foundations of Modern Conservatism    
Thomas Kelly    
Dean Eva Gossman Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Spring 2020

Sentencing and Punishment
Steve Chanenson
Paul L. Miller '41 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Imprisoned Minds: Religion & Philosophy from Jail
Mark J. Edwards
Professor Amy Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Atomic-bombing and Firebombing Cities in World War II: Morality, Science, and Race
Sheldon Garon
Kurt & Beatrice Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Marx in the 21st Century
Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
Peter T. Joseph '72 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Fall 2019

What Makes for a Meaningful Life? A Search
Ellen Chances
University Center for Human Values Freshman Seminar (Anonymous)

Intellectual Foundations of Modern Conservatism
Thomas Kelly
Dean Eva Gossman Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Law and American Society
Felicia Kornbluh
Class of 1976 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Spring 2019

Designing Life: The Ethics of Creation and Its Control
Elizabeth Harman
Kurt & Beatrice Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Democracy and the Good Life
Charles Beitz
Professor Amy Gutmann Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Fall 2018

Intellectual Foundations of Modern Conservatism
Thomas Kelly
Dean Eva Gossman Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Being Human
Rhodri Lewis
Class of 1976 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

What Makes for a Meaningful Life? A Search
Ellen Chances
University Center for Human Values Freshman Seminar (Anonymous)

Disability and the Making of the Modern Subject: From Wordsworth to X-Men 
Natalie Prizel
Paul L. Miller '41 Freshman Seminar in Human Values

Marx in the 21st Century
Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
Peter T. Joseph '72 Freshman Seminar in Human Values