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FYSE-101 The Value of Nature
Rachel A. Levin
(Section 01)
FYSE-102 Angels and Demons on the Opera Stage
Klara Moricz
(Section 01)
FYSE-103 Revolutionary Thinking
Bryn I. Geffert (Section 01)
FYSE-104 Exile
Sara J. Brenneis
(Section 01)
FYSE-105 Faraway Places
Amy C. Hall (Section 01)
FYSE-106 Language Crossing and Living in Translation
Benigno R. Sanchez-Eppler
(Section 01)
FYSE-107 Secrets and Lies
Austin D. Sarat
(Section 01)
FYSE-108 Evolution and Intellectual Revolution
Anna M. Martini
(Section 02)
Jill S. Miller
(Section 01)
FYSE-109 Asia in the European Mind: Modern European Discourse on History and Identity
Trent E. Maxey
(Section 01)
FYSE-110 Christianity and Evolution
Andrew C. Dole
(Section 01)
FYSE-111 The Literature of Love
Maria R. Heim
(Section 01)
FYSE-112 Things Matter
Amelie E. Hastie
(Section 01)
FYSE-113 Genocide
Ellen R. Boucher
(Section 01)
Sean Redding
(Section 02)
April D. Trask (Section 03)
FYSE-114 Thought Experiments in Physics
Jagu Jagannathan
(Section 01)
FYSE-115 Goya and His World
Natasha Staller
(Section 01)
FYSE-116 Justice in Question
Andrew Poe (Section 01)
FYSE-117 New Women in America
Wendy H. Bergoffen
(Section 01)
FYSE-118 Crossing
Frederick T. Griffiths
(Section 01)
FYSE-119 Romanticism and the Enlightenment
Ute Brandes
(Section 01)
FYSE-120 Telling Stories
Molly Mead
(Section 01)
FYSE-121 Pariscape: Imagining Paris in the Twentieth Century
Ronald C. Rosbottom
(Section 01)
FYSE-122 Art, Politics and Protest: Image and Text in Our Time
Justin F. Kimball
(Section 01)
FYSE-123 Reading, Writing, and Teaching
Karen J. Sanchez-Eppler
(Section 01)
FYSE-124 Vienna Around 1900: Cradle of Modernity
Christian Rogowski
(Section 01)
FYSE-125 Geology of the American West: Critical Landscapes in Earth Science and in American Cultural Debate
Tekla A. Harms
(Section 01)
FYSE-126 Political Identities
Amrita Basu
(Section 01)
FYSE-127 Genes, Genomes and Society
David I. Ratner
(Section 01)
FYSE-128 Transformative Ideas
Thomas L. Dumm
(Section 01)
FYSE-129 A History of the Native Book: Uncovering Indigenous Intellectual Trade-routes
Kiara M. Vigil
(Section 01)
FYSE-130 War and Peace
Boris Wolfson (Section 01)
FYSE-131 The Art of Noticing
Wendy Woodson
(Section 01)
FYSE-132 Brain Sciences of the Future
Michael A. Cohen
(Section 01)
FYSE-133 Food and Eating Disorders
John-Paul Baird
(Section 01)
FYSE-134 Education: For Whom and What For?
Jyl Gentzler
(Section 01)
Catherine M. Sanchez (Section 01)
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