070 [006D] First Year Seminar: One Billion Years of Change: The Geologic Story of North Carolina (3). A field-based course focused on the geologic story of North Carolina. Includes local field trips and weekend trips to the coast and mountains.

072 [006C] First Year Seminar: Field Geology of Eastern California (3). This seminar provides a hands-on introduction to active geologic and environmental processes in eastern California, including active volcanoes, earthquake-producing faults, and extreme climate change.

073 [006D] First Year Seminar: Global Warming and the Future of the Planet (3). Global warming is the most important environmental problem of the twenty-first century. This seminar explores geologic history of global warming, its physical principles and prospects for future societies.

074 [006D] First Year Seminar: Geology of Climate Change (3). Examination of the problem of natural versus human-induced climate change from the perspective of the geologic record of Earth history. Field trips to coast, Piedmont, and Blue Ridge.

075 [006D] First Year Seminar: Waste in the Environment (3). Origins and effects of waste in the environment. Introduces natural wastes and ecosystem recycling, but focuses on case studies of generation, environmental impacts, and remediation of anthropogenic wastes.

076 [006D] First Year Seminar: Energy Resources for a Hungry Planet (3). Discussions are centered on the most pressing issues of our time: environmental deterioration and construction of a sustainable (livable) world during and after the depletion of traditional energy resources.

077 [006C] First Year Seminar: Volcanoes and Civilization: An Uneasy Coexistence (3). Volcanoes provide a breathable atmosphere, a habitable climate, and precious ores, but they have the potential to destroy civilization. This seminar will explore the uneasy coexistence of volcanoes and civilization.

078 [006D] First Year Seminar: Time: Meanings, Uses, and Experiences (3). Time: how it is viewed by different cultures; different ways of measuring, describing, and using time; how we sense time biologically and psychologically.