The First-Year Tutorial introduces students to academic work at Grinnell through many different lenses and disciplines. Here's a sample from the 35 or so options available in fall 2021.
Fall 2021 Tutorials
![A collage showing a 1963 "March on Washington for jobs and freedom" button and part of a book cover with the title "Racecraft" over historic images of people of color](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/racecraft_collage.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=nHOZ7CD3)
Racecraft
Taught by Katya Gibel Mevorach, professor of anthropology and American studies
![Illustration of a giant rabbit in a white uniform chasing a man across the desert](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/Moebius%20bunny.jpg?h=23561b7a&itok=lQFJxUtM)
Alien Anthropology: Where Social Science and Science Fiction Intersect
Taught by Joshua Marshack, assistant professor of anthropology
![Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1963–64. One panel of Four, head and shoulders](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/ART_Warhol_single.jpg?h=11a7a630&itok=0B1BiqMl)
The Pre-History of the Selfie
Taught by Michael “Mac” Mackenzie, professor of art history
![Illustration of a Chinese woman in a garden, reading](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/Hongloumeng3.jpg?h=b4b3663f&itok=-WJF5z2_)
Love, Loss and Enlightenment: Reading the Dream of the Red Chamber
Taught by Qiaomei Tang, assistant professor of Chinese
![Greek goddess Athena holding the goddess Nike on a 3rd century BCE coin](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/femalesideofcoin.jpg?h=c3415619&itok=dRSEpCSY)
Immortality
Taught by Dustin Dixon, assistant professor of classics
![a random graph showing points scattered around and connected by red lines and blue lines](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/Eikmeier_graph_grey_1440x500.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=carQcicf)
Contagion
Taught by Nicole Eikmeier, assistant professor of computer science
![busy, semi-abstract illustration showing gears, arrows, water](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/memory%203.jpg?h=cd9e8a72&itok=u_JNx5e4)
The Art of Memory
Taught by John Garrison, professor of English and chair of peace and conflict studies
![Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur and Betty White in The Golden Girls. Photograph: ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/Golden%20Girls%20on%20set.jpg?h=b038bf4d&itok=Gcs1Z4Io)
Sitcoms
Taught by Makeba Lavan, assistant professor of English
![Sigmund Freud](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/Freud_2.jpg?h=0f2fca5c&itok=KuDpyphr)
Sigmund Freud, Cultural Critic
Taught by Dan Reynolds, professor of German studies
![A grassy path winds through recently burned prairie and trees.](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/Elfenbein_2.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=_12yMYl1)
Our Habits, Ourselves
Taught by Caleb Elfenbein, associate professor of history and religious studies, director of the Center for the Humanities
![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
![Illustration of the Cheshire Cat in a tree from Alice in Wonderland](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/Alice%20in%20Wonderland.jpg?h=28091b1d&itok=i5d5RTzz)
Escapism
Taught by Elizabeth Prevost, professor of history and chair of studies in Africa, Middle East, and South Asia
![16th-century painting showing people doing different kind of measuring and the tools for it](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/The%20Measurers%2C%20second%20half%20of%2016th%20cent%2C%20Flemish.gif?h=efc33788&itok=mvphyuiu)
Measuring the World
Taught by Michael Guenther, associate professor of history, chair of science, medicine, and society
![A scene from Wagner's Das Rheingold. People walking toward a rainbow with a mountain or castle in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/rheingoldrainbowscene.jpg?h=3cf5c8be&itok=mxnx8zAl)
The Ring of the Nibelung
Taught by Eugene Gaub, professor of music
![Painting of a peasant wedding feast outdoors](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/Ethics%20of%20Eating.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=wQbZmGjT)
The Ethics of Eating
Taught by John Fennell, professor of philosophy
Journeys: Life is a Road Trip
Taught by Will Freeman, associate professor of physical education
![Photo illustration of a flat Earth as seen from space](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/Flat%20Earth.jpg?h=57013b68&itok=aEVIfMMQ)
Flat Earth, Ancient Aliens, and Science Denial
Taught by Leo Rodriguez, assistant professor of physics
![Large wind turbine is first in a series of them with a green field and forest in the background](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/Climate%20Change.jpg?h=5088a608&itok=rcreZy1M)
Coping with Climate Change: How Science, Politics and Ethics Interact
Taught by Wayne Moyer, professor of political science and policy studies
![drops of water on a green stem, extreme close-up](/sites/default/files/styles/gen_block/public/images/2021-07/drops.jpg?h=2943b85a&itok=Xaa4d0M4)
Mindfulness: The Art of Living
Taught by Dixuan Yujing Chen, assistant professor of religious studies
Self and Social Change
Taught by Ross Haenfler, professor of sociology