First-Year Seminar and First-Year Launch
First-Year Seminars (FYS) provide students with this close contact through in-depth study of a specialized topic in a small class (no more than 24 students). FYSs are issue-oriented, covering a wide range of knowledge and/or engaging specific issues or advanced, cutting-edge topics. They are methodologically self-conscious, focus on how scholars pose problems, involve active learning, encourage self-directed inquiry, and enable students to take responsibility for producing knowledge. The courses also build students’ communication skills. They are not introductory surveys.
First-Year Launches (FYL) provide an introduction to a discipline or field of study that directly relates to a major offered at UNC-Chapel Hill. Thus, FYL courses must fulfill a requirement in a major (e.g., gateway, core requirement, or elective requirement). These courses also build students’ communication skills. FYL courses are ordinarily capped at 24 but may have as many as 35 students.
A First-Year Seminar or a First-Year Launch is a required First-Year Foundations course in the IDEAs in Action curriculum.
First-Year Seminar
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Approved Courses | ||
| AAAD 50 | 
First-Year Seminar: Defining Blackness | 3 |
| AAAD 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Masquerades of Blackness | 3 |
| AAAD 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Experimentalism in Global Black Music and Performance Arts | 3 |
| AAAD 54 |
First-Year Seminar: African Migrations, Boundaries, Displacements, and Belonging | 3 |
| AAAD 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Youth Activism, Citizenship, and Social Change in Africa | 3 |
| AAAD 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Afro-Latinxs in the U.S. | 3 |
| AAAD 58 |
First-Year Seminar: Health Inequality in Africa and the African Diaspora | 3 |
| AAAD 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| AMST 54 |
First-Year Seminar: The Indians' New Worlds: Southeastern Histories from 1200 to 1800 | 3 |
| AMST 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Birth and Death in the United States H | 3 |
| AMST 59 |
First-Year Seminar: American Indian Art in the 20th Century | 3 |
| AMST 60 |
First-Year Seminar: American Indians in History, Law, and Literature | 3 |
| AMST 62 |
First-Year Seminar: Mobility, Roads, NASCAR, and Southern Culture | 3 |
| AMST 65 |
First-Year Seminar: North Carolina Black Feminisms | 3 |
| AMST 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Language in the U.S.A | 3 |
| AMST 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Food and the Media | 3 |
| AMST 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| ANTH 50 |
First-Year Seminar: Skeletons in the Closet | 3 |
| ANTH 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Environmentalism and American Society | 3 |
| ANTH 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Darwin's Dangerous Idea H | 3 |
| ANTH 54 |
First-Year Seminar: The Indians' New Worlds: Southeastern Histories from 1200 to 1800 | 3 |
| ANTH 56 |
First-Year Seminar: The Art of Healing, the Culture of Curing | 3 |
| ANTH 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Crisis & Resilience: Past and Future of Human Societies H | 3 |
| ANTH 61 |
First-Year Seminar: Deep Economies | 3 |
| ANTH 62 |
First-Year Seminar: Indian Country Today | 3 |
| ANTH 63 |
First-Year Seminar: The Lives of Others: Exploring Ethnography | 3 |
| ANTH 64 |
First-Year Seminar: Public Archaeology in Bronzeville, Chicago's Black Metropolis | 3 |
| ANTH 65 |
First-Year Seminar: Humans and Animals: Anthropological Perspectives | 3 |
| ANTH 67 |
First-Year Seminar: Blackness and Racialization: A Multidimensional Approach | 3 |
| ANTH 68 |
First-Year Seminar: Forced Out and Fenced In: Ethnography of Latinx Immigration | 3 |
| ANTH 70 |
First-Year Seminar: By Persons Unknown: Race and Reckoning in North Carolina H | 3 |
| ANTH 72 |
First-Year Seminar: Archaeology and Popular Culture | 3 |
| ANTH 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| APPL 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Tree. Timber. Totem | 3 |
| APPL 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| ARTH 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Cathedrals, Abbeys, Castles: Gothic Art and Architecture (c. 1130-1450) | 3 |
| ARTH 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Art, War, and Revolution H | 3 |
| ARTH 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe H | 3 |
| ARTH 59 |
First-Year Seminar: World's Fairs | 3 |
| ARTH 61 |
First-Year Seminar: African American Art of the Carolinas | 3 |
| ARTH 64 |
First-Year Seminar: Picturing Nature | 3 |
| ARTH 66 |
First-Year Seminar: Art, Money, and the Market | 3 |
| ARTH 85 |
First-Year Seminar: Art and Technology | 3 |
| ARTH 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| ARTS 50 |
First-Year Seminar: The Artistic Temperament H | 3 |
| ARTS 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Time, A Doorway to Visual Expression | 3 |
| ARTS 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Stories in Sight: The Narrative Image | 3 |
| ARTS 78 |
First-Year Seminar: The Visual Culture of Photography | 3 |
| ARTS 82 |
First-Year Seminar: Please Save This: Exploring Personal Histories through Visual Language | 3 |
| ARTS 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| ASIA 50 |
First-Year Seminar: The Samurai: Gender and Power in Japanese History | 3 |
| ASIA 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Food in Chinese Culture | 3 |
| ASIA 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Kung-Fu: The Concept of Heroism in Chinese Culture | 3 |
| ASIA 56 |
First-Year Seminar: Writing Women in Modern China H | 3 |
| ASIA 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Dis-Orienting the Orient | 3 |
| ASIA 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Media Masala: Popular Music, TV, and the Internet in Modern India and Pakistan | 3 |
| ASIA 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Israeli Culture and Society: Collective Memories and Fragmented Identities | 3 |
| ASIA 61 |
First-Year Seminar: A Tour of South Asia's Regional Art Cinemas | 3 |
| ASIA 65 |
First-Year Seminar: Philosophy on Bamboo: Rethinking Early Chinese Thought | 3 |
| ASIA 69 |
First-Year Seminar: Wars and Veterans: Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan | 3 |
| ASIA 71 |
First-Year Seminar: Asia in Iberian Converso Literature, 1500s-1650s | 3 |
| ASIA 72 |
First-Year Seminar: Transnational Korea: Literature, Film, and Popular Culture | 3 |
| ASIA 73 |
First-Year Seminar: Popular Culture in the Arab World | 3 |
| ASIA 74 |
First-Year Seminar: Imagining Palestine | 3 |
| ASIA 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Love in China | 3 |
| ASIA 76 |
First-Year Seminar: Traveling to China and Traveling from China in the Premodern World | 3 |
| ASIA 77 |
First-Year Seminar: Women and Performance in Transnational Asia | 3 |
| ASIA 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| ASTR 63 |
First-Year Seminar: Catastrophe and Chaos: Unpredictable Physics H | 3 |
| ASTR 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| BIOL 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Foods to the Sequence of the Human Genome | 3 |
| BIOL 55 |
First-Year Seminar: The Roots and Flowering of Civilization: A Seminar on Plants and People | 3 |
| BIOL 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Detecting the Future: Human Diseases and Genetic Tests | 3 |
| BIOL 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Unsolved Problems in the Genomic Age | 3 |
| BIOL 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Unsolved Problems in the Genomic Age | 3 |
| BIOL 61 |
First-Year Seminar: Sea Turtles: A Case Study in the Biology of Conservation | 3 |
| BIOL 62 |
First-Year Seminar: Mountains Beyond Mountains: Infectious Disease in the Developing World H | 3 |
| BIOL 65 |
First-Year Seminar: Pneumonia | 3 |
| BIOL 66 |
First-year seminar: Evolution and the Science of Life | 3 |
| BIOL 68 |
A History of Life, the Universe, and Everything | 3 |
| BIOL 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Biodiversity and Citizen Science H | 3 |
| BIOL 81 |
First-Year Seminar: Intuition, Initiative and Industry: Biologists as Entrepreneurs | 3 |
| BIOL 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| BMME 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| BUSI 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| CHEM 70 |
First-Year Seminar: You Don't Have to Be a Rocket Scientist | 3 |
| CHEM 73 |
First-Year Seminar: From Atomic Bombs to Cancer Treatments: The Broad Scope of Nuclear Chemistry H | 3 |
| CHEM 74 |
First-Year Seminar: Polymers: How Plastic Changed our World | 3 |
| CHEM 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Bread from Air? The Chemistry of Fertilizers | 3 |
| CHEM 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| CLAR 50 |
First-Year Seminar: Art in the Ancient City H | 3 |
| CLAS 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Greek Drama from Page to Stage H | 3 |
| CLAS 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Three Greek and Roman Epics H | 3 |
| CLAS 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Dead and Deadly Women: Greek Tragic Heroines from Aeschylus to Eliot H | 3 |
| CLAS 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Ancient Magic and Religion | 3 |
| CLAS 61 |
First-Year Seminar: Writing the Past H | 3 |
| CLAS 62 |
First-Year Seminar: Bandits, Barbarians, and Rebels in the Ancient Mediterranean | 3 |
| CLAS 63 |
First-Year Seminar: The Politics of Persuasion in the Ancient and Modern Worlds | 3 |
| CLAS 64 |
First-Year Seminar: Cinema and the Ancient World | 3 |
| CLAS 65 |
First-Year Seminar: The City of Rome | 3 |
| CLAS 67 |
First-Year Seminar: Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood | 3 |
| CLAS 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| CMPL 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Comics as Literature | 3 |
| CMPL 62 |
Curiosity and the Birth of the Imagination | 3 |
| CMPL 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| COMM 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Organizing and Communicating for Social Entrepreneurs | 3 |
| COMM 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Collective Leadership Models for Community Change | 3 |
| COMM 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Is There Life after College?: The Meaning of Work in Contemporary Life | 3 |
| COMM 61 |
First-Year Seminar: The Politics of Performance | 3 |
| COMM 62 |
First-Year Seminar: African American Literature and Performance | 3 |
| COMM 63 |
First-Year Seminar: The Creative Process in Performance | 3 |
| COMM 68 |
First-Year Seminar: Paying Attention: The Art of Documentary | 3 |
| COMM 73 |
First-Year Seminar: Understanding Place through Rhetoric | 3 |
| COMM 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Researching Society and Culture | 3 |
| COMM 82 |
First-Year Seminar: Food Politics from an Organizational Communication Perspective | 3 |
| COMM 83 |
First-Year Seminar: Networked Societies | 3 |
| COMM 84 |
First-Year Seminar: Make A Zine! Do-It-Yourself Writing, Publishing, and Distribution | 3 |
| COMM 85 |
First-Year Seminar: Think, Speak, Argue | 3 |
| COMM 86 |
First-Year Seminar: Surveillance and Society | 3 |
| COMM 88 |
First-Year Seminar: Technologies of Popular Culture | 3 |
| COMM 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| COMP 50 |
First-Year Seminar: Everyday Computing H | 3 |
| COMP 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Robotics with LEGO® H | 3 |
| COMP 65 |
First-Year Seminar: Folding, from Paper to Proteins H | 3 |
| COMP 89 |
First -Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| DRAM 79 |
First-Year Seminar: The Heart of the Play: Fundamentals of Acting, Playwriting, and Collaboration | 3 |
| DRAM 80 |
First-Year Seminar: Psychology of Clothes: Motivations for Dressing Up and Dressing Down H | 3 |
| DRAM 81 |
First-Year Seminar: Staging America: The American Drama H | 3 |
| DRAM 83 |
First-Year Seminar: Spectacle in the Theatre | 3 |
| DRAM 85 |
First-Year Seminar: Documentary Theatre H | 3 |
| DRAM 87 |
First-Year Seminar: Style: A Mode of Expression H | 3 |
| DRAM 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| ECON 54 |
First-Year Seminar: The Entrepreneurial Imagination: Turning Ideas into Reality | 3 |
| ECON 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Economics of Sports H | 3 |
| ECON 56 |
First-Year Seminar: Entrepreneurship: Asia and the West | 3 |
| ECON 57H |
First-Year Seminar: Constructing Your Own Venture | 3 |
| ECON 58 |
First-Year Seminar: Researching the Tools for Success in College H | 3 |
| ECON 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| EDUC 65 |
First-Year Seminar: School Daze: What's School Got to do with Getting an Education? | 3 |
| EDUC 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| EMES 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Global Warming: Science, Social Impacts, Solutions | 3 |
| EMES 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Living with Our Oceans and Atmosphere | 3 |
| EMES 53 |
First-Year Seminar: The Ends of the Earth: Polar Oceanography and Exploration | 3 |
| EMES 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Change in the Coastal Ocean | 3 |
| EMES 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Extreme Microorganisms: Pushing the Limits of Life on Earth and Beyond | 3 |
| EMES 68 |
First-Year Seminar: Soundscape of Our Planet | 3 |
| EMES 72H |
First-Year Seminar: Field Geology of Eastern California | 3 |
| EMES 76 |
First-Year Seminar: Energy Resources for a Hungry Planet | 3 |
| EMES 77 |
First-Year Seminar: Volcanoes and Civilization: An Uneasy Coexistence | 3 |
| EMES 79 |
First-Year Seminar: Coasts in Crisis | 3 |
| EMES 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| ENEC 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Balancing the Environment: Science, Human Values, and Policy in North Carolina | 3 |
| ENEC 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| ENGL 50 |
First-Year Seminar: Multimedia North Carolina | 3 |
| ENGL 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Computers and English Studies H | 3 |
| ENGL 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Slavery and Freedom in African American Literature and Film | 3 |
| ENGL 54 |
First-Year Seminar: The War to End All Wars? The First World War and the Modern World H | 3 |
| ENGL 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Reading and Writing Women's Lives H | 3 |
| ENGL 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Future Perfect: Science Fictions and Social Form H | 3 |
| ENGL 58 |
First-Year Seminar: The Doubled Image: Photography in U.S. Latina/o Short Fiction H | 3 |
| ENGL 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Black Masculinity and Femininity | 3 |
| ENGL 63 |
First-Year Seminar: Banned Books H | 3 |
| ENGL 66 |
First-Year Seminar: Blake 2.0: William Blake in Popular Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 69 |
First-Year Seminar: Entrepreneurial on the Web | 3 |
| ENGL 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Courtly Love, Then and Now | 3 |
| ENGL 71 |
First-Year Seminar: Healers and Patients H | 3 |
| ENGL 72 |
First-Year Seminar: Literature of 9/11 | 3 |
| ENGL 73 |
First-Year Seminar: Literature of War from World War I to the 21st Century | 3 |
| ENGL 74 |
First-Year Seminar: Epic/Anti-Epic in Western Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Interpreting the South from Manuscripts | 3 |
| ENGL 76H |
First-Year Seminar: Biography: People and Places, Chapel Hill | 3 |
| ENGL 79 |
First-Year Seminar: Globalization/Global Asians | 3 |
| ENGL 81 |
First-Year Seminar: Jane Eyre and Its Afterlives | 3 |
| ENGL 85 |
First-Year Seminar: Economic Saints and Villains H | 3 |
| ENGL 86 |
First-Year Seminar: The Cities of Modernism | 3 |
| ENGL 87 |
First-Year Seminar: Jane Austen, Then and Now H | 3 |
| ENGL 88 |
First Year Seminar: The Legacy of the Japanese American Internment: from WWII to 9/11 | 3 |
| ENGL 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| ENVR 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| EURO 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| EXSS 50 |
First-Year Seminar: Discrimination and Sport | 3 |
| EXSS 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Entrepreneurship in Human Performance and Sport | 3 |
| EXSS 53 |
Brain Matters: The Human Computer H | 3 |
| EXSS 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Sport Engineering and Human Performance | 3 |
| EXSS 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| FOLK 77 |
First-Year Seminar: The Poetic Roots of Hip-Hop: Hidden Histories of African American Rhyme H | 3 |
| FOLK 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| FREN 65 |
First-Year Seminar: La mode: Fashion in French Culture | 3 |
| FREN 80 |
First-Year Seminar: Déjà vu. Medicine and Narration across Time and Space | 3 |
| GEOG 50 |
First-Year Seminar: Mountain Environments H | 3 |
| GEOG 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Political Ecology of Health and Disease H | 3 |
| GEOG 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Battle Park: Carolina's Urban Forest | 3 |
| GEOG 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Global Change and the Carolinas | 3 |
| GEOG 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Landscape in Science and Art | 3 |
| GEOG 56 |
First-Year Seminar: Local Places in a Globalizing World | 3 |
| GEOG 58 |
First-Year Seminar: Making Myth-Leading Memories: Landscapes of Remembrance | 3 |
| GEOG 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Space, Identity, and Power in the Middle East | 3 |
| GEOG 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Health Care Inequalities | 3 |
| GEOG 61 |
First-Year Seminar: Climate Change in the American Southeast | 3 |
| GEOG 62 |
First-Year Seminar: The Culture of Technology | 3 |
| GEOG 63 |
First-Year Seminar: The Problem with Nature and Its Preservation H | 3 |
| GEOG 64 |
First-Year Seminar: Vietnam | 3 |
| GEOG 65 |
First-Year Seminar: Climate Change in the Media H | 3 |
| GEOG 67 |
First-Year Seminar: Politics of Everyday Life | 3 |
| GEOG 68 |
First-Year Seminar: Freshwaters in the Anthropocene | 3 |
| GEOG 69 |
First-Year Seminar: People and Forests | 3 |
| GEOG 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| GLBL 87H |
First Year Seminar: The Migratory Experience | 3 |
| GLBL 88 |
First-Year Seminar: Beg, Borrow, and Steal: The Political Economy of Aid, FDI, and Corruption | 3 |
| GLBL 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| GSLL 50 |
First-Year Seminar: Literary Fantasy and Historical Reality | 3 |
| GSLL 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Stalin and Hitler: Historical Issues in Cultural and Other Perspectives | 3 |
| GSLL 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Nature and Death: Ecological Crises in German Literature and Film | 3 |
| GSLL 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Early Germanic Culture: Myth, Magic, Murder, and Mayhem | 3 |
| GSLL 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Once upon a Fairy Tale: Fairy Tales and Childhood, Then and Now | 3 |
| GSLL 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Fantasies of Rome: Gladiators, Senators, Soothsayers, and Caesars | 3 |
| GSLL 56 |
First-Year Seminar: Germans, Jews, and the History of Anti-Semitism | 3 |
| GSLL 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Moscow 1937: Dictatorships and Their Defenders | 3 |
| GSLL 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Avant-Garde Cinema: History, Themes, Textures | 3 |
| GSLL 63 |
First-Year Seminar: Performing America | 3 |
| GSLL 67 |
First-Year Seminar: Blackness in the European Imaginary, Europe in the Black Imaginary | 3 |
| GSLL 68 |
First-Year Seminar: Intensity, Vitality, Ecstasy: Affects in Literature, Film, and Philosophy H | 3 |
| GSLL 69 |
First-Year Seminar: Laughing and Crying at the Movies: Film and Experience | 3 |
| GSLL 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Teenage Kicks: Race, Class, and Gender in Postwar Youth Cultures | 3 |
| GSLL 75 |
First-Year Seminar: The Book of Books: Literature and the Bible | 3 |
| GSLL 76 |
First-Year Seminar: Uncharted Territory: Underworlds in Literature and the Visual Arts | 3 |
| GSLL 80 |
Not Just Dogs: Animals in Russian Literature | 3 |
| GSLL 82 |
First-Year Seminar: Doctor Stories | 3 |
| GSLL 83 |
First-Year Seminar: We, Robots: Identifying with our Automated Others in Fiction and Film | 3 |
| GSLL 84 |
First-Year Seminar: Terror for the People: Terrorism in Russian Literature and History | 3 |
| GSLL 85 |
First-Year Seminar: Children and War | 3 |
| GSLL 86 |
First-Year Seminar: Literature and Madness | 3 |
| GSLL 87 |
First-Year Seminar: Literature Confronting Totalitarianism | 3 |
| GSLL 88 |
First-Year Seminar: Gender and Fiction in Central and Eastern Europe H | 3 |
| GSLL 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics in Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures | 3 |
| HIST 50 |
First-Year Seminar: Time and the Medieval Cosmos | 3 |
| HIST 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Latin American Revolutions | 3 |
| HIST 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Conflicts over Israel/Palestine | 3 |
| HIST 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Traveling to European Cities: American Writers/Cultural Identities, 1830-2000 | 3 |
| HIST 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Movies and the Medieval Past | 3 |
| HIST 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Preventing Broken Hearts in North Carolina: History and Health Care in the South | 3 |
| HIST 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Dogs, Past and Present | 3 |
| HIST 58 |
First-Year Seminar: History and the Meaning of Life | 3 |
| HIST 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Rebuilding the American South: Work and Identity in Modern History | 3 |
| HIST 62 |
First-Year Seminar: Nations, Borders, and Identities | 3 |
| HIST 63 |
First-Year Seminar: Water, Conflict, and Connection: the Middle East and Ottoman Lands H | 3 |
| HIST 64 |
First-Year Seminar: Gorbachev: The Collapse of the Soviet Empire and the Rise of the New Russia | 3 |
| HIST 66 |
First-Year Seminar: Film and History in Europe and the United States, 1908-1968 | 3 |
| HIST 67 |
First-Year Seminar: Maid in America, Made in China: Laboring Women in Global Perspective | 3 |
| HIST 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Seeing History in Everyday Places: Chapel Hill as a Case Study | 3 |
| HIST 72 |
First-Year Seminar: Women's Voices: 20th-Century European History in Female Memory H | 3 |
| HIST 74 |
First-Year Seminar: Emperors, Courts, and Consumption: The Mughals of India | 3 |
| HIST 76 |
First-Year Seminar: Understanding 1492 | 3 |
| HIST 77 |
First-Year Seminar: United States and the Caribbean | 3 |
| HIST 79 |
First-Year Seminar: Coming of Age in 20th Century America | 3 |
| HIST 80 |
First-Year Seminar: African American Music as History | 3 |
| HIST 81 |
First-Year Seminar: Diaries, Memoirs, and Testimonies of the Holocaust | 3 |
| HIST 83 |
First-Year Seminar: African History through Popular Music | 3 |
| HIST 84 |
First-Year Seminar: Monsters, Murders, and Mayhem in Microhistorical Analysis: French Case Studies H | 3 |
| HIST 85 |
First-Year Seminar: What Concentration Camp Survivors Tell Us H | 3 |
| HIST 86H |
First-Year Seminar: Witchcraft and Magic in the Early Modern Atlantic World | 3 |
| HIST 88 |
First Year Seminar: America's Founding Documents | 3 |
| HIST 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| IDST 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| INLS 73 |
First-Year Seminar: Smart Cities | 3 |
| INLS 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| ITAL 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Contagion and Culture: Lessons from Italy | 3 |
| JWST 56 |
First-Year Seminar: Germans, Jews, and the History of Anti-Semitism | 3 |
| JWST 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Israeli Culture and Society: Collective Memories and Fragmented Identities | 3 |
| JWST 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Jewish Spain: History and Culture Across the Hispanic World | 3 |
| JWST 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| LING 60 |
First-Year Seminar: How Reading Works: Language, Cognition, and Literacy | 3 |
| LING 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Language in the U.S.A | 3 |
| LING 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| LTAM 52 |
First-Year Seminar: The Cuban Revolution, Latin America, and the United States | 3 |
| LTAM 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| MATH 51 |
First-Year Seminar: 'Fish Gotta Swim, Birds Gotta Fly': The Mathematics and the Mechanics of Moving H | 3 |
| MATH 62 |
First-Year Seminar: Combinatorics H | 3 |
| MATH 65 |
First-Year Seminar: Colliding Balls and Springs: The Microstructure of How Materials Behave | 3 |
| MATH 68 |
First-Year Seminar: The Mathematics of Voting | 3 |
| MATH 69 |
First-Year Seminar: Unfolding Infinity: Mathematical Origami and Fractal Symmetry | 3 |
| MATH 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Topology and Symmetry | 3 |
| MATH 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| MEJO 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| MUSC 51 |
First-Year Seminar: The Interplay of Music and Physics | 3 |
| MUSC 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Building a Nation: The Stage Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1942-1949 | 3 |
| MUSC 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Rock 'n' Roll: The First Wave, 1955-1964 | 3 |
| MUSC 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Music and Magic | 3 |
| MUSC 55H |
First-Year Seminar: A Love Affair in Renaissance Drama and Music | 3 |
| MUSC 56 |
First-Year Seminar: Early-Modern Court Spectacle | 3 |
| MUSC 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Music and Drama: Verdi's Operas and Italian Romanticism | 3 |
| MUSC 58 |
First-Year Seminar: Music in Motion: American Popular Music and Dance | 3 |
| MUSC 59 |
First-Year Seminar: 20th-Century Music and Visual Art | 3 |
| MUSC 60H |
First-Year Seminar: American Literature and Its Music | 3 |
| MUSC 61H |
First-Year Seminar: Reverberations | 3 |
| MUSC 62 |
First-Year Seminar: Vienna: City of Dreams H | 3 |
| MUSC 63 |
First-Year Seminar: Music on Stage and Screen H | 3 |
| MUSC 64 |
First-Year Seminar: What is a Work of Art? Listening to Music | 3 |
| MUSC 65 |
First-Year Seminar: Music and Culture: Understanding the World through Music | 3 |
| MUSC 66 |
First-Year Seminar: A Course in Digital Humanities and Multimedia H | 3 |
| MUSC 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| NSCI 61 |
First-Year Seminar: Drug Addiction: Fact and Fiction H | 3 |
| NSCI 71 |
First Year Seminar: Plasticity and the Brain | 3 |
| NSCI 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| NURS 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| PHIL 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Who Was Socrates? | 3 |
| PHIL 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Reason and Religion at the Dawn of Modern Science | 3 |
| PHIL 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Theories in Human Nature H | 3 |
| PHIL 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Thinking about Time | 3 |
| PHIL 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Paradoxes | 3 |
| PHIL 56 |
First-Year Seminar: Abortion | 3 |
| PHIL 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Race and Affirmative Action | 3 |
| PHIL 58 |
First-Year Seminar: From Vengeance to Mercy: Dealing with Evil | 3 |
| PHIL 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Proofs of the Existence of God H | 3 |
| PHIL 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Plato's Symposium and Its Influence on Western Art and Literature H | 3 |
| PHIL 61 |
First Year Seminar: The Self: Aspiration and Transformation | 3 |
| PHIL 62 |
First-Year Seminar: Philosophy with Children | 3 |
| PHIL 63 |
First-Year Seminar: Mind, Brain, and Consciousness | 3 |
| PHIL 65 |
First-Year Seminar: Philosophy through Mathematics | 3 |
| PHIL 66 |
First-Year Seminar: Ethics: Theoretical and Practical | 3 |
| PHIL 67 |
First-Year Seminar: Issues in a World Society: Sports and Competition | 3 |
| PHIL 68 |
First-Year Seminar: Moral Life H | 3 |
| PHIL 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Gateway to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics | 3 |
| PHIL 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Evil | 3 |
| PHIL 76 |
First-Year Seminar: Is Free Will an Illusion? H | 3 |
| PHIL 77 |
First-Year Seminar: Moral Weakness and Conscience | 3 |
| PHIL 78 |
First-Year Seminar: Death as a Problem for Philosophy: Metaphysical and Ethical | 3 |
| PHIL 79 |
First-Year Seminar: Words That Bind: The Structure of Constitutions | 3 |
| PHIL 80 |
First-Year Seminar: Short Stories and Contemporary Social Problems | 3 |
| PHIL 85 |
First-Year Seminar: Reason, Religion, and Reality in the Copernican Revolution H | 3 |
| PHIL 86 |
First-Year Seminar: Persons and Identity | 3 |
| PHIL 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| PHYS 50 |
First-Year Seminar: Time and the Medieval Cosmos | 3 |
| PHYS 51 |
First-Year Seminar: The Interplay of Music and Physics | 3 |
| PHYS 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Handcrafting in the Nanoworld: Building Models and Manipulating Molecules | 3 |
| PHYS 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Physics of Movies | 3 |
| PHYS 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Introduction to Mechatronics | 4 |
| PHYS 63 |
First-Year Seminar: Catastrophe and Chaos: Unpredictable Physics H | 3 |
| PHYS 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| PLAN 50 |
First-Year Seminar: This Land Is Your Land | 3 |
| PLAN 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Envisioning Community | 3 |
| PLAN 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Race, Sex, and Place in America | 3 |
| PLAN 53 |
First-Year Seminar: The Changing American Job | 3 |
| PLAN 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Bringing Life Back to Downtown: Commercial Redevelopment of Cities and Towns | 3 |
| PLAN 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Sustainable Cities | 3 |
| PLAN 57 |
First-Year Seminar: What Is a Good City? H | 3 |
| PLAN 58 |
First-Year Seminar: Globalization and the Transformation of Local Economies | 3 |
| PLAN 59 |
First-Year Seminar: World's Fairs | 3 |
| PLAN 63 |
First-Year Seminar: Planning the Night | 3 |
| PLAN 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| PLCY 51 |
First-Year Seminar: The Global Environment in the 21st Century | 3 |
| PLCY 54 |
First-Year Seminar: U.S. Immigration | 3 |
| PLCY 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Higher Education, the College Experience, and Public Policy | 3 |
| PLCY 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Understanding Poverty | 3 |
| PLCY 61 |
First-Year Seminar: Policy Entrepreneurship and Public/Private/Non-Profit Partnerships H | 3 |
| PLCY 63 |
First-Year Seminar: Creating Social Value | 3 |
| PLCY 68 |
First Year Seminar: Health & Inequality | 3 |
| PLCY 71 |
First-Year Seminar: Justice and Inequality H | 3 |
| PLCY 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Debates in Public Policy and Racial Inequality | 3 |
| PLCY 76 |
First-Year Seminar: Global Health Policy H | 3 |
| PLCY 79 |
First-Year Seminar: Issues in Science and Technology Policy | 3 |
| PLCY 80 |
First-Year Seminar: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth H | 3 |
| PLCY 81 |
First Year Seminar: America's Labor Market | 3 |
| PLCY 85 |
First-Year Seminar: Reforming America's Schools H | 3 |
| PLCY 87 |
First-Year Seminar: Education in a Multicultural Society | 3 |
| PLCY 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| POLI 50 |
First-Year Seminar: Movies and Politics | 3 |
| POLI 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Friendship in Political Thought H | 3 |
| POLI 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Democratic Governance in Contemporary Latin America | 3 |
| POLI 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Revolution, America in 1776 and France in 1789 | 3 |
| POLI 63 |
First-Year Seminar: Social Movements and Political Protest and Violence | 3 |
| POLI 66 |
First-Year Seminar: The United States and the European Union: Partners or Rivals? | 3 |
| POLI 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Political Conflict in the European Union and the United States | 3 |
| POLI 72 |
First-Year Seminar: Entrepreneurship in Community and Economic Development | 3 |
| POLI 74 |
First-Year Seminar: Introduction to Constitutional Conflicts | 3 |
| POLI 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Thinking about Law | 3 |
| POLI 76 |
First-Year Seminar: The Obama Presidency | 3 |
| POLI 77 |
Immigrants and Refugees in World Politics | 3 |
| POLI 79 |
First-Year Seminar: Global Politics of Climate Change | 3 |
| POLI 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| PSYC 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Families and Children | 3 |
| PSYC 58 |
First-Year Seminar: The Psychology of Mental States and Language Use H | 3 |
| PSYC 62 |
First-Year Seminar: Positive Psychology: The Science of Optimal Human Functioning | 3 |
| PSYC 63 |
First-Year Seminar: Use, Misuse, and Addiction to Drugs in the 21st Century | 3 |
| PSYC 66 |
First-Year Seminar: Eating Disorders and Body Image | 3 |
| PSYC 67 |
First-Year Seminar: The Senses of Animals | 3 |
| PSYC 68 |
First-Year Seminar: Psychology of Emotion | 3 |
| PSYC 89 |
First Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| PWAD 69 |
First-Year Seminar: Wars and Veterans: Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan | 3 |
| PWAD 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| RELI 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Religion and Racism | 3 |
| RELI 61 |
First-Year Seminar: Religion, Magic, and Science | 3 |
| RELI 62 |
First-Year Seminar: A History of Heresy: Christian Dissent from the Gnostics to the Pentecostals | 3 |
| RELI 63 |
First-Year Seminar: The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls | 3 |
| RELI 64 |
First-Year Seminar: Reintroducing Islam | 3 |
| RELI 65 |
First-Year Seminar: Myth, Philosophy, and Science in the Ancient World | 3 |
| RELI 66 |
First-Year Seminar: Buddhism in America: From the Buddha to the Beastie Boys | 3 |
| RELI 67 |
First-Year Seminar: Nature/Culture/Self-Identity: Religion in the Construction of Social Life | 3 |
| RELI 68 |
FYS: Charisma in Religion, Science, and Poetry Studies in the Entrepreneurial Imagination H | 3 |
| RELI 69 |
First-Year Seminar: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Judaism | 3 |
| RELI 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Jesus in Scholarship and Film | 3 |
| RELI 71 |
First-Year Seminar: The Spirit of Capitalism | 3 |
| RELI 72 |
First-Year Seminar: Apocalypse Now? Messianic Movements in America | 3 |
| RELI 73 |
First-Year Seminar: From Dragons to Pokemon: Animals in Japanese Myth, Folklore, and Religion H | 3 |
| RELI 74 |
First-Year Seminar: Person, Time, and Religious Conduct H | 3 |
| RELI 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Sacrifice and Surrender | 3 |
| RELI 76 |
First-Year Seminar: Money and Morality: Divining Value in Social Life | 3 |
| RELI 77 |
First-Year Seminar: Martyrs and Warriors: Religion and the Problem of Violence | 3 |
| RELI 78 |
First-Year Seminar: Reading the Bible: Now and Then | 3 |
| RELI 79 |
First-Year Seminar: Human Animals in Religion and Ethics | 3 |
| RELI 80 |
First-Year Seminar: Religion and Writing in the Ancient World | 3 |
| RELI 85 |
First-Year Seminar: Sex, Marriage, and Family in Religion | 3 |
| RELI 87 |
First-Year Seminar: Confessions | 3 |
| RELI 88 |
First-Year Seminar: Religion and Society in Historical Novels | 3 |
| RELI 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| ROML 50 |
First-Year Seminar: The Art and Science of Language: Orality and Literacy in the Information Age | 3 |
| ROML 51 |
First-Year Seminar: National and Cultural Identities in the Romance Areas H | 3 |
| ROML 52 |
First-Year Seminar: The Value of Language in Identity: Hispanics in the United States | 3 |
| ROML 53 |
First-Year Seminar: Oral Histories of Our Local Hispanic Community | 3 |
| ROML 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Issues in Francophone Literature | 3 |
| ROML 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Writing with an Accent: Latino Literature and Culture H | 3 |
| ROML 56 |
First-Year Seminar: Italians in Search of Harmony | 3 |
| ROML 58 |
First-Year Seminar: Mexican Women across Borders and Genres | 3 |
| ROML 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Spanish and Entrepreneurship: Language, Culture, and North Carolina Communities | 3 |
| ROML 61 |
First-Year Seminar: Language in Autism and Developmental Disorders | 3 |
| ROML 62 |
First-Year Seminar: What Happened to Latin? | 3 |
| ROML 63 |
First Year Seminar: Forging Alliances: Religion, War, and Cultural Transference on the Camino | 3 |
| ROML 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Jewish Spain: History and Culture Across the Hispanic World | 3 |
| ROML 71 |
First-Year Seminar: Asia in Iberian Converso Literature, 1500s-1650s | 3 |
| ROML 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Discovering Animals: Culture and Creativity | 3 |
| ROML 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| SCLL 85 |
First-Year Seminar: What Does it Mean to be a Good Citizen? | 3 |
| SCLL 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| SOCI 53 |
First-Year Seminar: The Consequences of Welfare Reform and Prospects for the Future | 3 |
| SOCI 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Rationalization and the Changing Nature of Social Life in 21st-Century America H | 3 |
| SOCI 58 |
First-Year Seminar: Globalization, Work, and Inequality | 3 |
| SOCI 69 |
First-Year Seminar: Human Societies and Genomics | 3 |
| SOCI 71 |
First-Year Seminar: The Pursuit of Happiness H | 3 |
| SOCI 72 |
First-Year Seminar: Race and Ethnicity in the United States | 3 |
| SOCI 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| SOWO 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| SPHG 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| STOR 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions | 3 |
| STOR 53 |
FYS: Networks: Degrees of Separation and Other Phenomena Relating to Connected Systems | 3 |
| STOR 54 |
First-Year Seminar: Adventures in Statistics | 3 |
| STOR 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Risk and Uncertainty in the Real World | 3 |
| STOR 56 |
First-Year Seminar: The Art and Science of Decision Making in War and Peace | 3 |
| STOR 60 |
First-Year Seminar: Statistical Decision-Making Concepts | 3 |
| STOR 61 |
First-Year Seminar: Statistics for Environmental Change | 3 |
| STOR 62 |
First-Year Seminar: Probability and Paradoxes | 3 |
| STOR 63 |
FYS: Statistics, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics: An Introduction to the Ongoing Evolution | 3 |
| STOR 64 |
First-Year Seminar: A Random Walk down Wall Street | 3 |
| STOR 66 |
First-Year Seminar: Visualizing Data | 3 |
| STOR 72 |
First-Year Seminar: Unlocking the Genetic Code | 3 |
| STOR 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics | 3 |
| WGST 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Race, Sex, and Place in America | 3 |
| WGST 56 |
First-Year Seminar: Writing Women in Modern China H | 3 |
| WGST 64 |
Plantation Lullabies: Literature by and about African American Women | 3 |
| WGST 66 |
First-Year Seminar: Growing Up Girl, Globally | 3 |
| WGST 67H |
First-Year Seminar: Sexuality and Salvation | 3 |
| WGST 68 |
First-Year Seminar: Assumed Identities: Performance in Photography | 3 |
| WGST 89 |
First-Year Seminar: Special Topics H | 3 |
| H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
First-Year Launch
Not all sections of these courses are offered as First-Year Launch classes. Please check to be sure they are scheduled with section number 01F, 02F, etc. or search for available FY Launch sections using the FC-LAUNCH class attribute.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Approved Courses | ||
| APPL 110 |
Design and Making for Engineers: Developing Your Personal Design Potential | 3 |
| BIOL 101 |
Principles of Biology H | 3 |
| BIOL 103 |
How Cells Function | 3 |
| BIOL 104 |
Biodiversity H | 3 |
| BIOL 202 |
Molecular Biology and Genetics H | 4 |
| CHEM 101 |
General Descriptive Chemistry I H | 3 |
| CHEM 102 |
General Descriptive Chemistry II H | 3 |
| COMM 120 |
Introduction to Interpersonal and Organizational Communication H | 3 |
| COMM 140 |
Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism H | 3 |
| DRAM 120 |
Play Analysis H | 3 |
| ECON 101 |
Introduction to Economics H | 4 |
| EDUC 181 |
Introduction to Human Development and Family Science | 3 |
| EDUC 309 |
Foundations of Leadership | 3 |
| EMES 101 |
Planet Earth | 3 |
| EMES 103 |
The Marine Environment | 3 |
| ENEC 201 |
Introduction to Environment and Society H | 4 |
| ENGL 121 |
British Literature, 19th and Early 20th Century H | 3 |
| ENGL 129 |
Literature and Cultural Diversity H | 3 |
| EXSS 155 |
Human Anatomy and Physiology I H | 3 |
| EXSS 175 |
Human Anatomy | 3 |
| GEOG 130 |
Development and Inequality: Global Perspectives | 3 |
| GLBL 221 |
The Migratory Experience | 3 |
| MATH 130 |
Precalculus Mathematics | 3 |
| MATH 152 |
Calculus for Business and Social Sciences | 3 |
| MATH 231 |
Calculus of Functions of One Variable I H | 4 |
| MATH 232 |
Calculus of Functions of One Variable II H | 4 |
| MATH 233 |
Calculus of Functions of Several Variables H | 4 |
| MATH 347 |
Linear Algebra for Applications | 3 |
| MNGT 120 |
Introduction to Interpersonal and Organizational Communication H | 3 |
| MUSC 120 |
Foundations in Music | 3 |
| NSCI 175 |
Introduction to Neuroscience H | 3 |
| PHYS 114 |
General Physics I: For Students of the Life Sciences | 4 |
| PHYS 115 |
General Physics II: For Students of the Life Sciences | 4 |
| PHYS 118 |
Introductory Calculus-based Mechanics and Relativity H | 4 |
| PHYS 119 |
Introductory Calculus-based Electromagnetism and Quanta H | 4 |
| POLI 100 |
American Democracy in Changing Times H | 3 |
| POLI 130 |
Introduction to Comparative Politics H | 3 |
| POLI 150 |
International Relations and Global Politics H | 3 |
| PSYC 101 |
General Psychology | 3 |
| PWAD 150 |
International Relations and Global Politics H | 3 |
| SCLL 201 |
Practice of Civic Life and Leadership | 3 |
| SOCI 101 |
Sociological Perspectives H | 3 |
| STOR 120 |
Foundations of Statistics and Data Science H | 4 |
| STOR 155 |
Introduction to Data Models and Inference H | 3 |
| H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
