Tag: first-year seminar

  • Nation & World

    Art and the history of indigenous America

    In a first-year seminar, students study portraits of indigenous American leaders to learn about art, identity, and the history of indigenous peoples.

    6 minutes
    Professor looks up from papers on her desk; a portrait is behind her
  • Nation & World

    Dealing with disaster

    As part of the class “GeoSciFi Movies: Real vs. Fiction,” students took part in a role-playing game that had them play the parts of the government and citizens of the island of Montserrat, as well as a group of scientists monitoring the island’s volcano.

    4 minutes
    Jania Tumey speaks in the Harvard class “GeoSciFi Movies: Real vs. Fiction.”