Below is a sample of the tutorials offered during Fall Term 1. In response to the coronavirus pandemic, classes during this 7.5-week term were offered remotely.
![Silhouhette of a Black person's profile laid over a monorchome image of prisoners](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-10/gcac_2006-026-013.jpg?h=3f4ab7f8&itok=oUrpGmeU)
Envisioning Identities: Self, Subgroups, “The Other,” and Belonging
Taught by Jeremy Chen, assistant professor of studio art
![Part of a mural from the Mogao Caves in China](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-11/Shea_Hero_1440x500.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=QdUCN_qt)
Arts of the Silk Road(s)
Taught by Eiren Shea, assistant professor of art history
![Close-up of a Black woman shaving under her arm](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-11/Bailey_Hero_1440x500.jpg?h=14616492&itok=QvbyM1qs)
Gender, Body Hair, and Hairlessness: Constructing the Feminine Woman
Taught by Charvann Bailey, assistant professor of biology
![Red room at the Palace at Knossos, Crete](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-10/Mercado_Hero_2.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=nuNV1zkY)
Epic Heroes’ Journeys
Taught by Angelo Mercado, associate professor of classics
![Silhouhette of a man and woman on an ancient Greek piece of pottery](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-10/Cummins_hero_1440x500-1.jpg?h=50f93e67&itok=EWnXrKIK)
Humanities I: The Ancient Greek World
Taught by W. Joseph Cummins, associate professor of classics and philosophy
![Statue of Robert E. Lee on a horse](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-11/Byrd_1440x500_Lee.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=IycrWe-2)
The Politics of Commemoration
Taught by Vance Byrd, associate professor of German studies
![George Grosz, Manner vor einer Stadtlandschaft (Men in Front of a Cityscape), 1920-22 (detail)](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-10/Javier_1440x500.jpg?h=0c01bf61&itok=xbBr8-es)
Babylon Berlin
Taught by Javier Samper Vendrell, assistant professor of German studies
![huge piles of trash at a landfill](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-11/Maynard_Hero_1440x500.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=5X2sRVU5)
Stuff
Taught by Kelly Maynard, associate professor of history
![A pond in the background at the green prairie at the Jacob Krumm Nature Preserve](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-10/Jones_1440x500.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=jO8ZO-ht)
Far from Flyover: The Literature of Iowa
Taught by Phillip Jones, associate professor, library
![Close-up of Black people's raised, clasped hands](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-11/Perman_1440x500.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=8eLNohh2)
Songs of Hope
Taught by Tony Perman, associate professor of music
![Serena Willams holding a tennis racket](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-10/Hamilton_Williams_1440x500.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=TTH69ohy)
The Black Athlete: Changing 20th- and 21st-Century Society?
Taught by Andrew Hamilton ’85, associate professor of physical education
![Four guitar heads in wild colors](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-12/Roberts_guitar_1440x500.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=uHLw2mcC)
Words and Guitar: From Rock ’n’ Roll to Hip-Hop
Taught by Tyler Roberts, professor of religious studies
![ghostly image seen through a window at night](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-12/Kapila_ghost_1440x500.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=wMUy2DlD)
Ghost Stories
Taught by Shuchi Kapila, professor of English
![A cup of hot chocolate](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2020-12/Lyons_1440x500.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=3C9LZ3uC)
Food: Rituals, Technologies, and Policies
Taught by Leslie Lyons, professor of chemistry
If You Had to Choose
During the summer of 2020, incoming first-year students received a list of the fall tutorials and chose their top 5. Each student was assigned to a tutorial based on their chosen few. Which would you choose? And remember, next year they'll be different.