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General Education Seminar (GESM)

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GESM 110g: Seminar in the Arts (4.0 units)

The multifaceted history of the creative act, its analysis, production, and context as a representation of human experience. (Satisfies GE-A, The Arts) Open only to Freshmen.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Looking at Language
35290D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Alice Gambrell	THH214
Modern Russian Art
35291D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	John Bowlt	VKC209
Scripture and Script: The Hebrew Bible in Modern Literature and Film
35292D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	11 of 18	Leah Hochman	LVL3Y
World Arts, Cultures, and Empires
35293D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	16 of 18	Indra Mukhopadhyay	GFS228
How to Tell Stories with Pictures
35294D	001	Lecture	2:00-2:50pm	MWF	19 of 19	Hector Reyes	VKC209
Designing Things for Kids
35295D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 18	Amy Ogata	LVL3Y
Soundscapes
35296D	001	Lecture	12:00-12:50pm	MWF	18 of 18	Eric Rawson	VKC260
Creating Art for Real Life
35297D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Michael Bunn	LVL3Y	PDF (304323 KB)
Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales
35298D	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	MWF	19 of 19	Aimee Bender	VKC255
Imitation of Life: Art in the Twentieth Century
35299D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Megan Luke	LVL3Y
Medieval Art and Christian Ritual
35300D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 18	Carolyn Malone	VKC200
The Art of Autobiography: Just Because It Happened To You Doesn't Make It Interesting
35302D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 19	Marianne Wiggins	GFS104
Making Paintings
35305D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	15 of 15	Karen Liebowitz	HAR202
Exile and Identity--Modern Israeli and Palestinian Artists
35306D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Yaffa Weisman	LVL3V
The Modern Movement in Architecture
35307D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	James Steele	WAHB1
Architectural History, Prehistory to the Present
35308D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Kenneth Breisch	GFS228
Photography, Art, and the Landscape
35309D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 15	Caroline Clerc	WAH6
L.A. Culture Behind the Scenes: Process Storytelling About Art and Entertainment
35310D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Sasha Anawalt	ANN209
Masks, Puppets, and the Manipulation of the Human Form
35312D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Christina Haatainen-Jones	PED114E	PDF (123294 KB)
Performing Revolutions: Global History of Theatre and Social Change
35313D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Brent Blair	MCC102
Eco-Theatre
35314D	001	Lecture	10:30-11:50am	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Paula Cizmar	DRC120	PDF (203996 KB)
The Actor ar Work
35315D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Sharon Carnicke,Mary-Joan Negro	MCC102	Word (70144 KB)
The Theatre Scene
35317D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	13 of 17	Carla Della Gatta	LVL13
Stages of Healing: The World of Theatre and Therapy
35318D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Brent Blair	MCC102
Music as Politics
35319D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Lisa Vest	MUS213
From Bebop to Doo Wop to Hip Hop
35320D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Ron Mc Curdy	MUS204
Jazz: America's Music
35321D	001	Lecture	4:00-5:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	John Thomas	TMCG156
Music and Performance Art
35322D	001	Lecture	4:00-5:50pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Veronika Krausas	UUCB3
Pioneers of the Impossible: Poetry and Fiction Forging New Borders and Boundaries
35323D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 18	Mark Irwin	THH121
Secrets of the American Short Story
35324D	001	Lecture	6:30-7:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 18	Jeffrey Solomon	LVL3V

GESM 120g: Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry (4.0 units)

Interpretation and analysis of works of the imagination, exploring language, thought, and cultural traditions in relation to one another. (Satisfies GE-B, Humanistic Inquiry) Open only to Freshmen.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Representing the Global War on Terror
35332D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Alexander Young	THH106
Trauma and Memory in Spanish and Latin American Cinema and Literature
35334D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Julian Gutierrez-Albilla	VKC256
Adolescence in Hispanic Literature and Film
35335D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	Canceled	Leah Kemp
Self and Society in Ancient Athenian Drama
35336D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 17	Vincent Farenga	GFS228
The Uncanny in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
35337D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Thea Tomaini	WPH206	Word (100498 KB)
Conceptions of Space from Zeno to Einstein
35338D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	15 of 18	Thomas Pashby	VPD107	PDF (138386 KB)
Poetry, Evidence and Methods of Reading
35339D	001	Lecture	10:00-10:50am	MWF	17 of 19	Joseph Dane	VKC255
Time and Time Travel
35340D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	19 of 19	James Van Cleve	GFS228
Being Black in Britain: 1500-2000
35341D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	18 of 18	Lindsay O'Neill	LVL3Y
Epidemics and Disasters in History
35342D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Elinor Accampo	WPH103	PDF (513664 KB)
Representing the Holocaust
35343D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Sharon Gillerman	VKC258
The Russian Novel
35344D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Greta Matzner-Gore	VKC252
The Power of Stories: Tribal Identity in Contemporary America
35345D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Antonio Idini	VKC211	Word (86528 KB)
Philosophy of Religion
35346D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	John Hawthorne	VKC200
The New Vietnam: Arts, Culture, Diaspora
35347D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Janet Hoskins	GFS229
Tell Me a Story: American Novels that Made a Difference
35348D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	Jessica Cantiello	GFS228	PDF (112701 KB)
Art and Text in Imperial Rome
35349D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Claudia Moatti	VPD107
The Theater of Ancient Rome
35352D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Anthony Boyle	THH106
Brazil and Its Others in Literature and Film
35353D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Brenno Kaneyasu Maranhao	LVL13
Islam and the West
35354D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Olivia C Harrison	VKC256
Arabs and Turks: History and Theory
35355D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 18	Veli N Yashin	GFS229	PDF (160618 KB)
Southeast Asian Literature and Film
35356D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Brian Bernards	VKC200
Ecstasy: The Forbidden Emotion
35357D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Mar Gomez Glez	VKC210
Living Morally
35362D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Sharon Lloyd	VKC255
Italianisms: Introduction to Modern Italy
35363D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 19	Gian-Maria Annovi	SOSB41	Word (1148821 MB)
The Story of the Chinese Language
35364D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Audrey Li	WPH206
Modern Korean Literature and Thought
35365D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Sunyoung Park	THH213
Women in Literature and Film
35366D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 19	Tania Modleski	VKC158
Gender, Race and Knowledge
35367D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Bihui Li	VKC155
On Beauty
35368D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Daniel Tiffany	VKC200
Strangers and Strange Lands
35369D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 19	Emily Zeamer	GFS229
Race and Upward Mobility in U.S. Fiction and Media
35370D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Elda Maria Roman	MRF206
The New Frankenstein
35371D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Karina Eileraas	GFS228
Eastern European Crime Stories: Legal Fiction from Crime to Punishment
35372D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Anna Krakus	VKC255
Transforming Italy: Italian Literature Today
35374D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	James Fortney	VKC211	PDF (363253 KB)
Russia and the Soviet Union the Many Faces of Dissent
35376D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 18	Azade-Ayse Rorlich	VKC157
Language, Law and Literature
35378D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Sandra Disner	GFS229
Varieties of Love and Literary Form
35379D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Joseph Boone	VKC255
On Beauty
35380D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Daniel Tiffany	VKC200
Strangers and Strange Lands
35381D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 18	Emily Zeamer	GFS229
Protest and Revolt in French Literature and Film
35382D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Anna Rosensweig	GFS228
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Magical Realism
35383D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Marjorie Becker	THH209
Eastern European Crime Stories: Legal Fiction from Crime to Punishment
35384D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Anna Krakus	VKC255
Poetry of Resistance
35385D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Beatrice Sanford	VKC200	PDF (359871 KB)
Human Reason: Its Scope and Limits
35386D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Janet Levin	GFS229
Women Writing Diaspora
35387D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Karina Eileraas	GFS228
Kings and Heroes, Villans and Saints
35390D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Hani Khafipour	THH211
Girls Gone Wild--A Century of Bad Behavior
35391D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Jeffrey Solomon	LVL3V
The Cultural Politics of Broadway
35394D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	David Roman	VKC254
Messiah: The History of the Idea
35395D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Joshua Garroway	LVL3V

GESM 130g: Seminar in Social Analysis (4.0 units)

Individual and collective human action as it shapes and is shaped by economic organizations, political institutions, and broad social and cultural settings. (Satisfies GE-C, Social Analysis) Open only to Freshmen.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Introduction to Education: Examining Critical Issues
35425D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	18 of 19	Paula Carbone	VKC109	PDF (205393 KB)
Los Angeles as a City
35426D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Martin Krieger	VKC254	Word (66130 KB)
Music and Class in American Society
35427D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Daniela Levy	VKC255
Mexican American Places in Literature and Film
35430D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Laura Pulido	VKC254
Health, Humanity and the Healing Arts
35431D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Robert Chernoff	VKC255	Word (36540 KB)
Language, Race and Identity in the United States Today
35432D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Sarah Benor	VKC255
Gender, Sexual Orientation and Families
35433D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Tim Biblarz	OFFICE
Infrastructure, Energy, and Society
35434D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Edward Maby, Julie Albright	VKC157	PDF (144839 KB)
Introduction to Educational Inquiry through the Study of Inequities in Education
35435D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Briana Hinga	WPHB30
Education and Social Justice
35436D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Lynne Goldfarb, Paula Carbone	WPH205
The Health Populations: Epidemics and Their Causes
35441D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Jonathan Samet, Richard Watanabe	VPD107
Social Analysis of Mexican Immigration
35442D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 18	Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo	GFS228
Ethnography at Work: Anthropology and the Corporate Encounter
35443D	001	Lecture	6:30-7:50pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Jennifer Cool	GFS204
Witnessing -- Visual Culture and Social Justice
35444D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Christopher Smith	ANN211	PDF (443971 KB)

GESM 140g: Seminar in the Life Sciences (4.0 units)

Scientific understanding of a full range of living systems from molecules to ecosystems, prokaryotes to humans, past and present. (Satisfies GE-D, Life Sciences) Open only to Freshmen.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
The Physics of Life
35464D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	James Boedicker	WPHB36	Word (90112 KB)
Language and the Age of Internet
35465D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Elsi Kaiser	VKC254
The Mind and Body Connection Through the Lifespan
35466D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:30pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Aaron Hagedorn	GER224
Personality Across the Life Span
35467D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:30pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Aaron Hagedorn	GER224

GESM 160g: Seminar in Quantitative Reasoning (4.0 units)

Analysis and manipulation of data and information related to quantifiable objects, symbolic elements, or logic; formal reasoning, abstract representation, and empirical analysis. (Satisfies GE-F, Quantitative Reasoning). Open only to Freshmen.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Taming the Infinite--How Math Came to Be
35482D	001	Lecture	9:00-9:50am	MWF	4 of 18	Zlatan Damnjanovic	VKC200	Word (41472 KB)
Elementary Mathematics for Teaching
35483D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 18	Cymra Haskell	LVL3V
Science as Dectective Work
35486D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Deborah Natoli	LVL3V
Numbers and Narrative in Community
35487D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	8 of 18	Lavonna Lewis	LVL3V
Technologies that Change the World
35489D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	7 of 18	Michelle Povinelli	LVL3V
From Euclid to Einstein - Conceptual Foundations of Geometry
35490D	001	Lecture	10:00-10:50am	MWF	4 of 18	Zlatan Damnjanovic	VKC205	Word (30037 KB)
Mind, Belief and Behavior: Learning about Learning
35491D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Patricia Tobey	LVL3Y

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