First-Year Studies, formerly Freshman Studies, lectures serve two purposes, in addition to providing a context for class discussions, lectures help to create a sense of intellectual community among the students and teachers at Lawrence. Students take First-Year Studies in their first two terms on campus. Each section of the course includes about fifteen students, allowing for close relationships between students and teachers. Because each section uses the same reading list, First-Year Studies also helps students to join in the life of a larger intellectual community, one that now includes generations of Lawrentians. There is a separate lecture for every work on the syllabus, and the lecturers are chosen for their expertise in the fields covered by particular works.

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Lectures from 2004

 

Lila Abu-Lughod: Veiled Sentiments, Carla Daughtry

 

Plato: The Republic, John Dreher

 

Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Jerzy Jura

 

Zhuangzi: Basic Writings, Frank Doeringer

 

Hiroshige: Visions of the Floating World, Michael Orr

 

Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, Jodi Sedlock

 

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Karen Hoffman

 

Milgram: Obedience to Authority, Matthew Ansfield

 

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Peter Blitstein

Lectures from 2003

 

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Anthony Padilla

 

Bishop: The Complete Poems, Catherine Hollis

 

Lila Abu-Lughod: Veiled Sentiments, Carla Daughtry

 

Plato: The Republic, Randall McNeill

 

Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto, Paul Cohen

 

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart, Lifongo Vetinde

 

Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground, Rebecca Matveyev

 

Hiroshige: Visions of the Floating World, Michael Orr

 

Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac, Peter Fritzell

 

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, Brian Rosenburg

Lectures from 2002

 

Duke Ellington: Concerto for Cootie, Fred Sturm

 

Bishop: The Complete Poems, Catherine Hollis

 

Plato: The Republic, Randall McNeill

 

Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto, Paul Cohen

 

Zhuangzi: Basic Writings, Frank Doeringer

 

Interpreting Gender, Frank Lewis

 

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart, Lifongo Vetinde

 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground, Rebecca Matveyev

 

Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Matthew Stoneking

 

Galileo Galilei: Siderus Nuncius, Jeffrey Collett

 

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, Brian Rosenburg

Lectures from 2001

 

Zhuangzi: Basic Writings, Dirck Vorenkamp

 

Book of Job, Kathryn Kueny

 

Plato: The Republic, John Dreher

 

Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto, Paul Cohen

 

Transforming Gender/ Picturing Difference, Frank Lewis

 

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart, Lifongo Vetinde

 

Woolf: A Room of One’s Own, Wendy Nicholson

 

Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolution, Matthew Stoneking

 

Mary Shelley' Frankenstein, Brian Rosenburg

Lectures from 2000

 

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Bridget-Michaele Reischl

 

Kurosawa: Rashomon, Birgit Tautz Ramsey

 

Zhuangzi: Basic Writings, Dirck Vorenkamp

 

Plato: The Republic, John Dreher

 

Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto, Michael Hittle

 

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, Howard Niblock

 

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart, Lifongo Vetinde

 

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Brian Rosenburg

 

Woolf: A Room of One’s Own, Wendy Nicholson

 

Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolution, John Dreher

 

Jonathan Weiner: The Beak of the Finch, Beth DeStasio

Lectures from 1999

 

Zhuangzi: Basic Writings, Dirck Vorenkamp

 

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Bridget-Michaele Reischl

 

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Bertrand Goldgar