Students participating in UConn First Summer will take two General Education courses during the 5-week residential program. Each course fulfills one or more UConn General Education Content Area requirement; which is included in each course description below. See https://catalog.uconn.edu/general-education/http://catalog.uconn.edu/academic-regulations for a full description of Content Area requirements at UConn.
Honors students will take a General Education course that serves as an "honors core" course (HDFS 1060) in addition to another course. See the Honors First Summer page for more details.
2023 Course Offerings
Course Modality: All courses will be delivered in an In-Person (P) format - These classes will meet in person during all scheduled class times.
ANTH 1000: Peoples and Cultures of the World
3.0 credits
Course Description: An introduction to the anthropological understanding of human society through ethnographic case studies of selected peoples and cultures, exploring the richness and variety of human life. Encourages students to learn about different cultures and to apply their knowledge to make sense of their own society.
Schedule: Mondays and Wednesdays | 1:30pm - 5:00pm
This course meets the following Content Areas from the General Education Requirements:
- Content Area 2: Social Sciences
- Content Area 4: Diversity and Multiculturalism – International
ECON 1202: Principles of Macroeconomics
3.00 credits
Course Description: The organization and function of the economic system as a total unit. Economic decisions, institutions, and policies that determine levels and rates of growth of production, employment, and prices. Topical subjects (e.g., government budget deficits and current interest-rate policy).
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays | 1:30pm-5:00pm
This course meets the following Content Areas from the General Education Requirements:
- Content Area 2: Social Sciences
HDFS 1060: Race, Class, and Gender
3.00 credits
Course Description: Theory and research on topics in the close relationship literature including attraction, relationship development, and maintenance, friendship and social support, love, sexuality, intimacy, power, communication, conflict, dissolution and divorce and bereavement.
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays | 9am - 12:30pm
This course meets the following Content Areas from the General Education Requirements:
- Content Area 2: Social Sciences
MUSI 1003: Popular Music and Diversity in American Society
3.00 credits
Course Description: An introduction to popular music and diversity in America: jazz, blues, Top-40 pop, rock, hip-hop and other genres. Musicians and their music studied in the context of twentieth-century and contemporary American society, emphasizing issues of race, gender, class, and resistance. No prior musical training or knowledge required.
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays | 1:30pm-5:00pm
This course meets the following Content Areas from the General Education Requirements:
- Content Area 1: Arts and Humanities
- Content Area 4: Diversity and Multiculturalism
PHIL 1104: Philosophy and Social Ethics
3.00 credits
Course Description: Topics may include the nature of the good life, the relation between social morality and individual rights, and practical moral dilemmas.
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays | 9:00am-12:30pm
This course meets the following Content Areas from the General Education Requirements:
- Content Area 1: Arts and Humanities
PSYC 1100: General Psychology I
3.00 credits
Course Description: Basic principles that underlie mental processes and behavior; research methodology, biopsychology, sensation, perception, learning, memory and language. Ordinarily this course should be taken in the fall semester.
Schedule: Mondays and Wednesdays | 9:00am-12:30pm
This course meets the following Content Areas from the General Education Requirements:
- Content Area 3: Science and Technology
2023 Program Schedule
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PSYC 1100
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PHIL 1104 HDFS 1060
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ANTH 1000 | ECON 1202
MUSI 1003 |
ANTH 1000 | ECON 1202
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The program will host a check-in, student orientation, and social programming on Sunday, July 10th. More information will also be available for weekend activities.