Welcome! Here you’ll find a full list of all Fall 2024 First-Year Seminar (FSEM) offerings. Browse through the pages of classes, select a course from the first drop down menu, or browse by subject area. Please note that this site shows the FSEMs regardless of whether or not they are full, so there is no guarantee that a course will still be open at the time of your registration
This course examines how commerce has been conducted in the past and present. Students will review the evolution of commerce and will review, discuss, and theorize how it will change in the future. Students will evaluate historic and current patterns of trade, research the potential of expected changes to the business environment, and summarize the advantages and disadvantages of a potential change.
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To survive today’s increasingly complex and volatile world, we each should develop financial literacy. While auditing was originally the sub-discipline of accounting dedicated to expressing an opinion as to the fairness of corporate financial statements, it has now become the art and science of gathering evidence for a host of different disciplinary objectives.
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As consumers, we like more goods and services at lower prices, but as workers and as citizens, we oppose globalization. How do we make sense of this apparently contradictory behavior?
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Students will be introduced to the culture of UMW to help set them up for collegiate success, all while developing community and global leadership skills, empathy, critical thinking, and communication skills through an experiential learning, academic class based on the impact of leadership on social justice issues. Students will conduct research during the semester on a variety of social justice issues, which will culminate in a written “change the world” proposal.
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