FYS: Natural Sciences
The First-Year Seminar topics in the College of Natural Science (CNS) offer exciting subjects that invite you to think like a scientist. How do researchers come up with a hypothesis? What are some ways they test it? How can we separate real discovery from junk science? In addition to introducing you to a subject, these courses will help you adjust to life at UMass.
Natural Sciences Seminars for Fall 2023:
- RAP First Year Seminar (FYS 191CNS01)
- The Dark Side of Science (FYS 191CNS04)
- Demystifying Mental Health: Fact or Fiction? (FYS 191CNS13)
- The Addicted Mind (FYS 191CNS14)
- Rethinking Intelligence (FYS 191CNS15)
- Rethinking Intelligence (FYS 191CNS15)
- Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare? The Amazing & Terrifying Uses of Big Data inToday's World (FYS 191CNS16)
- Emotions: Inside Out or Outside In? (FYS 191CNS18)
- Marvels of Memory (FYS 191CNS19)
- Say Hello to What's in Your Stomach (FYS 191CNS22)
- Green Prescriptions (FYS 191CNS26)
- Experiments You Can Do in the Kitchen: Unveiling the Science of Everyday Food (FYS 191CNS27)
- Poison Fruit: True Crime and Nutrition in the Media (FYS 191CNS28)
- You Are What You Eat: Hands-on Exploration of What's in Your Food (FYS 191CNS29)
- Biology but Make it Gay (FYS 191CNS33)
- All for One, One for All: Cooperation in the Animal Kingdom (FYS 191CNS35)
- The Unseen Sidekicks of Superheroes: Incredibles Tales of Microbial Symbiosis (FYS 191CNS36)
- Secret Sensory Worlds (FYS 191CNS37)
- Earthworms, Fungi, Bacteria, Oh My! Discover the Magical World of Soil (FYS 191CNS42)
- There's a Volcano Under the Town Hall!: A Roleplaying Game (FYS 191CNS43)
- Puzzles, Games and Proofs (FYS 191CNS53)
- How Games Hook Us: The Science of Game Design (FYS 191CNS54)
- Lasers: Beyond Their Beautiful Colors (FYS 191CNS55)
