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1. Exploring Your Major (I)
EDUC-X150 Managing Resources for Learning
PHIL-P105 Thinking and Reasoning
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
2. Exploring Your Major (II)
EDUC-X150 Managing Resources for Learning
PHIL-P105 Thinking and Reasoning
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
FIGs 1 and 2 are intended for exploratory students undecided about their major, who intend to explore the culture of Indiana University, the full range of academic opportunities at IU.
3. Fashion and Retail Industry of Tomorrow
AMID-R100 Introduction to Apparrel and Textiles
PSY-P101 Introductory Psychology
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
Recommended for students interested in trends in retail industry and consumer behavior, including prospective majors in apparel merchandising and business (major and minor) among others.
4. The Lively Art of Acting
THTR-T121 Acting I for Majors
CMCL-C290 Hollywood I
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
Intended for students interested in acting and performing arts. Prospective majors include arts and sciences, secondary education, journalism, business, and SPEA.
5. Fine Art of Fine Arts
FINA-F100 Fundamental Studio-Drawing
FINA-A102 Renaissance through Modern Art
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
Intended for students with interests in studio art and/or art history, including prospective majors in arts and sciences, art education, and journalism.
6. Get Your Game On
TEL-T160 History & Effects of Video Games
EDUC-F401 Survey of Serious Games: History , Industry, and Instructional Design
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
For students interested in video game design. Prospective majors include telecommunications, fine arts, informatics, and computer science.
7. Exploring Psychology (I)
PSY-P155 Introduction to Psychological and Brain Sciences
COLL-E103 Who Am I?
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
8. Exploring Psychology (II)
PSY-P155 Introduction to Psychological and Brain Sciences
COLL-E103 Who Am I?
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
FIGs 7 and 8 are recommended for students interested in exploring the science of psychology-the field that seeks to understand human behavior and the thoughts and emotions that underlie it. Students will explore the core of instruction in psychology at Indiana University, research on mind and brain, and will have an opportunity to learn how to get involved in psychology outside of class.
9. Teaching Young Children
EDUC-G203 Communication in the Classroom
EDUC-Q200 Introduction to Scientific Inquiry
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
Intended for students exploring Elementary Education, Special Education, and Early Childhood Education.
10. So, You Want to be a Science Major (I)?
BIOL-L111 Evolution and Diversity
COLL-E104 Evolution, Religion, and Society
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
11. So, You Want to be a Science Major (II)
BIOL-L112 Biological Mechanisms
COLL-E104 Evolution, Religion, and Society
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
FIGs 10 and 11 are intended for students considering science majors, and students interested in medicine, dentistry, optometry, and other health professions. These FIGs are appropriate for students interested in majors in biology, history and philosophy of science, and education as well as minors in animal behavior and biology. FIG 11 is especially recommended for students considering microbiology, biotechnology, biochemistry, and human biology majors, and for preparation for pharmacy and veterinary schools.
12. Exploring Medical Sciences
MSCI-M131 Disease and the Human Body
SOC-S101 Medicine in America: Physicians, Patients and Their Problems
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
For students interested in health-related careers such as medicine, physical therapy, or occupational therapy; or for those interested in majors like biology, respiratory therapy, nuclear medicine, exercise science, applied health, and similar majors.
14. Sports Medicine
HPER-P280 Principles of Athletic Training
PSY-P101 Introductory Psychology
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
For students interested in athletic training, exercise science, physical education-teacher education, coaching, careers in medicine and/or in becoming a fitness specialist.
15. Crime and Punishment
CJUS-P100 Introduction to Criminal Justice
HIST-A200 Crime and Punishment
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
Intended for students interested in criminal law and in the history and the role of law in the United States as well as the administration of of criminal justice and the working of the court and judicial systems. Related majors include criminal justice, history, political science, public affairs, sociology, and other social sciences, business, and journalism.
16. The Criminal Mind
CJUS-P200 Theories of Crime and Deviance
PSY-P101 Introductory Psychology
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
Recommended for students interested in law, criminal justice, social, economic, and psychological causes of crime. Related majors include criminal justice and other social sciences, journalism, and business.
17. Media-How do they Work and Why?
CMCL-C190 Introduction to Media
JOUR-J110 Foundations of Journalism and Mass Communications
*JOUR-J160 The Media Village
*Students in this FIG do not take the FIGs Seminar, instead they take JOUR-J160.
Recommended for students interested in how media (television, film, radio, Internet) affect social, political, and economic life, and how media products are designed to make them artistically and financially successful. Related majors include telecommunications, communication and culture, journalism, public affairs, sociology and other social sciences, liberal arts, and business.
18. How do we Communicate?
CMCL-C205 Introduction to Communication and Culture
JOUR-J210 Visual Communication
*JOUR-J160 The Media Village
*Students in this FIG do not take the FIGs Seminar, instead they take JOUR-J160.
Intended for students interested in how communication shapes human culture and how culture, in turn, crafts the ways in which we communicate. Related majors include communication and culture, journalism, linguistics, anthropology, speech and hearing, sociology, political science, and other social sciences.
19. One World, After All?
INTL-I100 Introduction to International Studies
ANTH-E105 Culture and Society
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Recommended for students interested in contemporary economic, political, and cultural transformations, including majors in international studies, anthropology, political science, economics, communication and culture, sociology, history and other social sciences as well as business, journalism, and public affairs.
20. Marketing and Managing Sport (I)
HPER-P211 Introduction to Sport Management
BUS-X100 Business Administration: Introduction
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21. Marketing and Managing Sport (II)
HPER-P211 Introduction to Sport Management
BUS-X100 Business Administration: Introduction
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FIGs 20 and 21 are intended for students interested in the sports business, including prospective majors in business (non-accounting) and HPER sport marketing and management.
22 .Taking Care of Business (I)
BUS-A100 Basic Accounting Skills
BUS-K201 The Computer in Business
BUS-X104 Business Presentations
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
23. Taking Care of Business (II)
BUS-A100 Basic Accounting Skills
BUS-K201 The Computer in Business
BUS-X104 Business Presentations
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
FIGs 22 and 23 are intended only for those students who have been directly admitted to the Kelley School of Business.
24. The Ins and Outs of Finance
BUS-A100 Basic Accounting Skills
BUS-K201 The Computer in Business
BUS-F260 Personal Finance
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
25. So, You Want to be a Business Major?
BUS-A100 Basic Accounting Skills
BUS-K201 The Computer in Business
BUS-X100 Business Administration: Introduction
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FIGs 24 and 25 are recommended for students who are considering a degree in any business field offered at IU. Prospective accounting majors should be advised that BUS X100 will count as a business elective.
26. Be an Entrepreneur
BUS-A100 Basic Accounting Skills
BUS-K201 The Computer in Business
BUS-W212 Exploring Entrepreneurship
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
Recommended for creative students who are exploring business degrees at IU and who are interested in innovations in the corporate world, or starting and managing their own business, including college-based business start-ups.
27. Jewish Studies
COLL-E103 Power, Politics and Peity: The Struggle for the Holy Land in Israel/Palestine
HIST-H251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to the Spanish Expulsion
COLL-X111 FIGs Seminar
Recommended for students with strong interests in Jewish studies, including prospective majors in Jewish studies and other humanities and social sciences, journalism, business, SPEA, social work, and secondary education.
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