Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roles

Catalog description

Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roles - The First Year Seminar focuses on transitions. You are all in the process of undergoing a major transition in your life, going to college. When we go to new places, it provides us opportunities in the examination of ourselves. It makes more visible who we are and who we want to be. It also sometimes provides the opportunity for us to reinvent ourselves and become someone new. You are all engaged in self development, resocialization, and transition. This is taking place in a broader context of transitions from politics, the economy to family and education, media and popular culture. The world is becoming a new and different place! Although as we will see with Bartleby, sometimes the more we change, the more we stay the same. In addition to helping us transition to college, we will use the ideas of self and identity through the lens of marginalization and acceptance to think about change and transition in the contemporary world.