TFY | Students' presentations | 2020

Topics of the First Year (TFY) is a core course, which all SAS BA students must take in the 4th quarter of their 1st year, aims to give them an opportunity to revisit themes they have studied in different courses over the academic year and connect them with each other, thereby developing individual cross-disciplinary agenda needed to make an informed choice of major after the 2nd year.

To do so, students will pick up a topic among those addressed during the first year and work to connect it with themes, ideas and insights from other courses they have taken.

“How could ideas from a class in stem cell biology help solve problems from a social media class? How might philosophers from Great Books, like John Stuart Mill or Max Weber, help reframe a question in the design of Artificial Intelligence? But as students began to work at their projects, they began to find some surprising connections." — Peter Jones writes about the course “Topics of the First Year”.