In this class we will explore how video games are related to our shared cultural values and beliefs. We will approach these questions centered as humanists and as cultural critics who rely on models of analyzing culture that have long been established in literary discourse, cultural theory, philosophy, and art. As such, our primary methodological aim will be interdisciplinary. By the end of the term we will be able to articulate how a background in the humanities prepares us to both play and think more dynamically.

This interdisciplinary First Year Seminar is designed to introduce students to the concept of a globalized America which encompasses Latin America and Latinos in the United States.

Through scholarly studies, fiction, and film, this three-unit seminar explores the contested meanings of World War II in American history, culture, politics, and memory. How have Americans remembered the war? What war-related stories have been forgotten, distorted, or ignored? What have been the dominant American narratives of WWII and how are they complicated or contradicted when we focus on women, people of color, and others whose experiences and memories are often excluded from museum exhibits, popular culture, and state- or corporate-sponsored commemorations and memorials?

This course seeks to determine what it has meant over time to be truly healthy and to pursue with vigor the advancement of the public's health in the United States. It will examine the nutritional motives of programs such as the Strive for Five, kinesiological programs following the polio outbreak of the 1950s, how vaccinations seek to reduce infectious and chronic disease in the United States, and the role of your behavior in college in predicting your future life.

Illustrate the remarkable power of patient advocacy and the power individuals can have when they work together. In the United States, a rare disease is defined as having less than 200,000 cases, together there are over 7,000 such conditions that impact nearly 30 million Americans and millions more worldwide! This seminar will explore how patients have worked with allies in government, the medical community, industry, and their counterparts internationally, to improve the lives of the individuals living with these complex medical conditions.

The purpose of this course is to prepare exploratory track students to achieve academic success at UMass. The curriculum will aim to orient students to the health science fields and the major options within, assist students with major exploration outside of the health sciences, create strategies for academic success, transition to campus life and learn how to effectively navigate and utilize campus resources.

This interdisciplinary First Year Seminar is designed to introduce students to the concept of a globalized America which encompasses Latin America and Latinos in the United States.

As members of our society, we make many decisions that affect the environment and our natural resources. As consumers, employees, managers, voting members, or firm owners, our choices affect others around us, the environment and firm decisions. In this seminar, we will introduce a number of problems related to consumer choices, markets, firm and government decisions and the impacts of those choices on the environment, our natural resources and society in general.

As members of our society, we make many decisions that affect the environment and our natural resources. As consumers, employees, managers, voting members, or firm owners, our choices affect others around us, the environment and firm decisions. In this seminar, we will introduce a number of problems related to consumer choices, markets, firm and government decisions and the impacts of those choices on the environment, our natural resources and society in general.