These three featured FIGS are part of the broader FIG offerings for fall of 2016. To see the full list please visit the Finding the FIG For You page.

Face to Face is a course designed to help students improve direct verbal communication skills by understanding elements of various audiences, whether talking to friends, team mates, professors, bosses, co-workers, strangers, class mates, special interest groups or potential employers.

This FIG emphasizes Native American and Pacific Island peoples’ lives while exploring the ways indigeneity, race, and gender shape our world.

When whole peoples have to move, what cultural markers (religion, literature, ideas) do they take along? In a new place, how do they “fit in” and maintain their identity at the same time? Are they more or less accepting of the new “guests”?