Seminar Topics 2006-2007
We don’t get to them all, but
we try to…
1. MOCK TRIALS:
Real legal issues, real settings,
2. DEBATES: A variety of topics, including this “off year” November
election.
3. DEATH PENALTY: Can judicial killings be judicious?
4. DANCE: Shake your Seminar groove thing.
5. DREAMS: What do they all mean, if anything?
6. INTERNATIONAL CUISINE: Weinerschnitzel pho with a side of raita and baba
ghannouge
7. CREATIONISM V. EVOLUTION:
Are the ideas mutually exclusive?
8. SPORTS: From the New York Yankees to Manchester United to pick-up
rugby games and tiddly-winks.
9. PARANORMAL PHENOMENON: Some things just can’t be explained. And we explain them.
10. VIDEO GAMES: Too violent, too
time-consuming, too much?
11. TERRORISM/9/11/01: Where are we on the
subject as we reach the Fifth Anniversary?
12. STANDARDIZED TESTING: The pros and cons of No Test Answer-Sheet Left Unbubbled.
13. FASHION: An exploration of
sartorial grooviness.
14. WORLD RELIGIONS: Oh my God(s)!
15. COMEDY & CARTOONS: What’s so
funny?
16. HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE: It’s not just eating chocolate, we’re studying HISTORY. Really.
17. STEM CELL RESEARCH: That’s not a petri
dish, it’s my new spleen.
18. GAY RIGHTS/GAY MARRIAGE:
The State of the
19. ABORTION: Nobody can say we don’t
tackle the tough ones.
20. NEW SCIENTIFIC THEORIES:
We chaotically string together a multi-dimensional look at Science.
21. DEATH & DYING: Comparing cultural
attitudes toward the last thing we want to think about.
22. MUSIC: Asking the eternal
question: what makes it swing?
23. HOLOCAUST: Understanding
genocides and attempting to prevent their recurrence.
24. EPIDEMICS & EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Pathways of disease and how to
cut those pathways
25. GLOBAL WARMING: Science and Politics in a steamy, tropical
mix.
26. RACISM: The 64,000 lb.
elephant we frequently ignore.
27. TACTICAL WEAPONRY: What’s new in blowing
stuff up, big time?
28. VEGETARIANISM V. OMNIVORISM:
29. GENETIC ENGINEERING: The grass is always greener on
the other side of the DNA.
30. POLITICAL CLIMATE IN THE