Freshman Seminars

Freshman Seminar Topics: A Few Topics Taught or Presented by Andy Jones

University of California, Davis

Introducing Today’s Speaker (Spring 2010)

Writing About the Future: A Freshman Seminar for the Davis Honors Challenge (Spring 2003, Winter 2010)

The Beat Generation in Literature and Film (Fall 2003, Fall 2008)

Writing for the Wiki: Publishing in an Age of Ubiquitous Authorship (Spring 2008)

Becoming Borg: Ubiquitous Communication and Techno-Addiction (Winter 2008)

The Cultural Offerings of the City of Davis (Summer 2007)

Three Poems a Week: A Writing Workshop (Spring 2007)

Crash Course in Creativity: A Freshman Seminar (Winter 2007)

Responding to the Times: A Freshman Seminar (Fall 2005)

Jazz and Literature: A Freshman Seminar (Spring 2005)

Future Seminar Topics

“Bring Out Your Dead”: Assessing Lives and Writing in the Week’s Obituaries

“Davis Idol”: Performing Poetry and Other Acts of Bravery on the UC Davis Quad

Bravery Studies: Understanding and Exemplifying Academic Bravery