LSA has been involved in theme semesters with topics ranging from food to Detroit, from gender to the environment, from diversity to comedy. As the College participates in new theme semesters in coming years, information on old theme semesters will be found here.
Theme Semesters Before 2006-2007
Winter 2006 Explore Evolution
Sponsored by the Exhibit Museum of Natural History
Fall 2005 100 Years Beyond Einstein
Sponsored by the Department of Physics
Winter 2005 Cultural Treasures of the Middle East
Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Winter 2004 - Brown vs. Board of Education: Fulfilling the Promise
Sponsored by the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, the Program in American Culture, and the Departments of History, Psychology, and Sociology
Fall 2003 - Celebrating St. Petersburg: 300 Years of Cultural Brilliance
Sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies
Winter 2002 - Women Who Ruled: Gender, Power and Representation
Sponsored by the Program in Women's Studies in collaboration with the University of Michigan Museum of Art
Fall 2001 - Detroit 300 Theme Semester
Sponsored LSA with additional help from the Arts of Citizenship Program, the Edward Ginsberg Center for Community and Service Learning, and the University Library
Winter 1999 - Diversity: Theories and Practices
Sponsored by the Office of Dialogues on Diversity
Winter 1998 - The Environmental Theme Semester: Rethinking the Relationship
Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program and the School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Fall 1997 - Genders, Bodies, Borders
Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Women's Studies Program
Winter 1996 - Death, Extinction, and the Future of Humanity: Approaching the Millennium
Sponsored by the Program on Studies in Religion
Fall 1996 - Food Theme Semester
Fall 1993 - Working in a Multicultural Society: The Changing Face of Labor
Sponsored by the American Culture Program and the Center for Research on Social Organization
Winter 1992 - The Comedy Semester
Sponsored by the Department of English and the School of Music
Fall 1992 - The Americas, Then and Now: Beyond 1492
Sponsored by the American Culture Program
Winter 1984 - Patriarchs, Prophets, Demons: The Major Victorians Revisited (A Victorian Semester)
Sponsored by the Departments of History and English and the Center for Western European Studies
Winter 1980 - Experiment in Education: The Eighteenth-Century Semester
Sponsored by the LSA and the School of Music
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