ACE First Year Seminars

Step 1: Select your ACE First Year Seminar

This course provides first year students with an overview of the African American struggle for freedom, justice and equal opportunity from colonial times to the present. By exploring the African origins of African American and the legacies of slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, migration/ black urbanization, and the Civil Rights/Black Power movements the course connects ideas of personal freedom and justice to the lives of today’s students. While studying these issues, students will also develop key skills, including critical inquiry, effective writing, communication, peer collaboration, and planning and goal setting.

ANT 100 Course Description: This First Year Seminar will examine the tensions around justice that exist between young people in New York City and the wider society in which they live. We will ask questions such as: What does it mean to grow up in a world with changing freedoms, restrictions, opportunities and expectations? How do young people try to achieve justice for themselves and others when the rules and the outcomes sometimes seem unfair? We will explore the dynamic of justice and freedom through topics such as sexuality, labor, violence and drugs. In this class you will learn in theory and use in practice the skills that it takes to be a researcher, skills that will be useful for your school years and in your future professional career.

Want to know why everyone feels so screwed over? Take this First Year Seminar, we’ll learn about the law and Political Economy to help us figure it all out. We’ll examine the connections between capitalism and the criminal justice system in the United States. It investigates the relationships among economic injustice, poverty, wealth, anti-social behavior, crime and the criminal justice system. The course studies how the criminal justice system shapes the lives of individuals from a variety of socioeconomic classes.

How do ideas about gender affect our daily decisions and interactions? How does gender affect the way college students select majors and specific career fields? How does gender affect power and leadership roles? This course will explore how different forms of media reproduce gender concepts into our consciousness and its real-world implications. Students will understand how to advocate and promote equity, justice and inclusivity to enhance the campus learning community and their own academic and career experience.

Ethics is the discipline that asks the questions: “what is goodness?” “what is the right thing to do?” and “how do we know it is right?” The course looks at some of the most influential theories of rightness and goodness, and then applies these theories to questions of relevance to the creation and maintenance of a modern, just society, such as: How do we educate people to be good? Is goodness something all humans hold in common, or is it merely the name we give to whatever cultures, groups, societies or individuals judge to be good? Has there been moral progress? And have theories of goodness been properly inclusive of or fair to those who don’t have access to the power to distribute their ideas?

Step 2: Select your ENG 101 Course

ENG 101 FY02, Mon, Wed 8:00-9:15am | Registration Code: 35810
ENG 101 FY07, Mon, Wed 9:25-10:40am | Registration Code: 36463
ENG 101 FY54, Mon, Wed 4:30-5:45pm | Registration Code: 36817
ENG 101 FY57, Tue, Thu 8:00-9:15am | Registration Code: 36499
ENG 101 FY15, Tue, Thu 9:25-10:40am | Registration Code: 36474
ENG 101 FY51, Mon, Wed 12:15-1:30pm | Registration Code: 36335
ENG 101 FY25, Tue, Thu 12:15-1:30pm | Registration Code: 36486

Instruction Mode: In Person

ACE First Year Seminars

Step 1: Select your ACE First Year Seminar

Step 2: Select your ENG 101 Course

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