The second semester of FYE continues to focus on key texts and coordinated cultural events but places additional emphasis on research and documentation. Students read first-person accounts and modern commentaries on events that have shaped our understanding of the tension between unity and diversity in modern civilizaton.

Use of Stereotypes in Bamboozled and Smoke Signals
Argument Against the Conservation and Reinvestment Act
Gender Crisis Precipitated by Roe v. Wade and Invention of Birth Control

Alexie, Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
McPhee, John. The Control of Nature.
Singh, Simon. The Code Book.
Wilson, James. The Earth Shall Weep: a History of Native America.