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General Education Seminar (GESM)

Instructions on how to obtain department authorization (d-clearance) for GESM courses are available at dornsife.usc.edu/2015ge/gesm-registration/. Course descriptions are available at dornsife.usc.edu/2015ge/course-descriptions/

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
Modern Russian Art
35290D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	16 of 18	John Bowlt	THH214
Comedy of Difference: Jewish Humor in 20th Century
35291D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	David Kaufman	VKC254
Mixed Media in Early Modern Europe
35292D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Hector Reyes	VKC200
Soundscapes
35294D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	16 of 17	Eric Rawson	GFS229
Looking at Language
35295D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Alice Gambrell	VKC151
Listening and Making: Poetry and Its Forms
35296D	001	Lecture	12:00-12:50pm	MWF	17 of 17	Molly Bendall	VKC254
Six Feet Under: Death and Dying in Contemporary American Fiction
35298D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Susan Segal	GFS228
Scripture and Script: the Bible in Modern Literature and Film
35299D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	12 of 17	Leah Hochman	WPH203
Surrealism in France, Spain and Mexico
35300D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Marie Enright	VKC201
Creating Art for Real Life
35301D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Michael Bunn	LVL3Y	Word (23772 KB)
Medieval Art and Christian Ritual
35302D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	8 of 17	Carolyn Malone	VKC206
Interpreting American Humor
35303D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Jennifer Greenhill	GFS229
Pioneers of the Impossible: Poetry and Fiction Forging New Borders and Boundaries
35304D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Mark Irwin	GFS212

GESM 111g: 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. Offered by a USC professional school.

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
Shelter
35305D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:20am	Mon, Wed	11 of 17	Lauren Matchison	HAR115A	PDF (108832 KB)
On Creativity and Collaboration in Storytelling
35313D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	David Weber	SCA258
The Actor at Work
35314D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:50am	Mon, Wed	14 of 17	Randy Mell	MCC108
Performing Revolutions: Global History of Theatre and Social Change
35315D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	12 of 17	Brent Blair	MCC102	PDF (408868 KB)
Stages of Healing: The World of Theatre and Therapy
35316D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	16 of 18	Brent Blair	MCC102	PDF (406572 KB)
I Too, Am American: Theatre and Cultural Literacy
35317D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	3 of 17	Anita Dashiell-Sparks	MCC102
Putting Documentary to Work
35318D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Paula Cizmar	MCC102	PDF (225888 KB)
Asian and Asian American Culture on Stage and Film
35319D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Paula Cizmar	MCC102	PDF (204436 KB)
Health and Fitness through Dance
35321D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:40pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Margo Apostolos	KDC241
Making Paintings
35306D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 15	Karen Liebowitz	WAH118
Music as Politics
35307D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Joanna Demers	KDC236
Photography, Art and the Landscape
35308D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	8 of 13	Caroline Clerc	HAR220
The Holocaust and the Creative Impulse
35309D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 17	Nick Strimple	KDC241	Word (130048 KB)
From Bebop to Doo Wop to Hip Hop
35310D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	15 of 17	Ron Mc Curdy	MUS319
California's Modern Masters of Housing Design
35311D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 17	Victor Regnier	VKC254	PDF (792363 KB)

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.
Note: Instructions on how to obtain department authorization (d-clearance) for GESM courses are available at dornsife.usc.edu/2015ge/gesm-registration/.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Conceptions of God and Self
35325D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Mon, Wed	15 of 17	John Dreher	VKC200	Word (78336 KB)
Trauma and Memory in Latin American and Spanish Cinema and Literature
35326D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Julian Gutierrez-Albilla	VKC254
Literature and Culture in the Age of Copies
35327D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Karen Tongson	LVL3Y
Democracy, Dissent, and Assimilation: 19th and 20th Century Catholic Immigrants in the U.S.
35328D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	13 of 17	James Lewis Heft	VKC255
Strangers and Strange Lands
35329D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	15 of 18	Emily Zeamer	WPH106
Language, Law and Literature
35331D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Sandra Disner	GFS229	PDF (132813 KB)
Renaissance Italy
35332D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Margaret Rosenthal	VKC256
Language, Rationality and Culture
35333D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Robin Jeshion	GFS228
Plants Attack! : Botany and the Uncanny Plant in Fiction, Film and Ecological Thought
35336D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	13 of 16	Antonia Szabari	VKC254	PDF (136902 KB)
Self Portraits: Exercises in Introspection.
35337D	001	Lecture	10:00-10:50am	MWF	16 of 18	David Albertson	GFS229
Epidemics and Disasters in History
35342D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Elinor Accampo	VKC256
Masterpieces of the Short Story
35343D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Alexander Zholkovsky	VKC157
Types and Stereotypes in Films of the American Western Genre
35344D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Percival Everett	VKC200
Death and Gender in Media and Society
35345D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Diana Blaine	GFS229
Strangers and Strange Lands
35346D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 18	Emily Zeamer	GFS228
Gore and Spectacle on Stage and Screen
35347D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Natalia Perez	VPD107
Biblical Protagonists
35348D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 18	Kristine Garroway	VKC255
Adolescence in Hispanic Literature and Film
35350D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Leah Kemp	LVL3Y
Culture, Conformity, Revolt
35354D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	David Rollo	VKC200
Homer, Virgil, and Dante
35355D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Stefano Rebeggiani	VKC160
On Beauty
35357D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Daniel Tiffany	VKC255
Adapting Cervantes' Don Quixote to Film
35358D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Sherry Velasco	VKC254
Literature of Resistance
35359D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Yaffa Weisman	LVL3Y
Understanding the Scientific Method
35360D	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	MWF	16 of 18	Leif Hancox-Li	LVL3Y
Transforming Italy: Italian Literature Today
35362D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 17	James Fortney	THH108	PDF (370935 KB)
The German Experience
35363D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 17	John Arensmeyer	VKC200	Word (52224 KB)
Self-Construction: Fictions of the First Person
35365D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Naomi Greenwald	VKC157
Cleopatra's World
35366D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 17	Christelle Fischer-Bovet	LVL3Y
Being Black in Britain, 1500-2000
35367D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 17	Lindsay O'Neill	VKC256
Conflict and Competition in Ancient Greece
35368D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 17	Susan Lape	VKC151	Word (103182 KB)
Tell Me a Story: American Novels that Made a Difference
35369D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 19	Jessica Cantiello	GFS228	PDF (107710 KB)
Reality Bites: The Short Fiction of Everyday Life
35373D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Naomi Greenwald	GFS205
Eastern European Crime Stories: Legal Fiction from Crime to Punishment
35374D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	Anna Krakus	VKC200
The Uncanny and the Otherworldly
35376D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	Guilan Siassi	GFS228
The Poetics of Loss
35377D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	David St John	VKC258
On Beauty
35378D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Daniel Tiffany	VKC255
Kings and Heroes, Villains and Saints
35379D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Hani Khafipour	VKC254
Mindfulness in Cultural Practices
35380D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Thomas Ward	GFS220
Yesterday's Tomorrows
35381D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 17	Richard Berg	SOSB47
Daughters of Africa: Black Women in U.S. History
35383D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 17	Francille Wilson	KAP166
On Beauty
35384D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 18	Daniel Tiffany	VKC255
Christianity in the Roman Empire
35386D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 17	Sheila Briggs	VKC161	Word (240128 KB)
Girls Gone Wild: a Century of Bad Behavior
35388D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 19	Jeffrey Solomon	LVL3Y	PDF (134513 KB)
Christianity in the Roman Empire
35390D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	10 of 17	Sheila Briggs	VKC161	Word (241152 KB)
Slavery and the Atlantic World
35391D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 17	Nicholas Radburn	VKC111
Japanese Fiction and Film
35392D	001	Lecture	6:30-7:50pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	David Bialock	LVL3V

GESM 121g: Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry (4.0 units)

Critical appreciation of various forms of human expression, evaluating works of literature, philosophy, and the arts to enable informed opinions about ideas and values. Offered by a professional school.

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	Info
American Spirituality: Radical, Rebels and Freethinkers
35400D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Diane Winston	ANN408

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
Sociology of Youth, Culture and Society
35427D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Elaine Bell Kaplan	LVL3V
Alternative Futures, Alternative Histories
35428D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Philip Ethington	VKC255	PDF (150789 KB)
Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective
35431D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 17	Erin Moore	GFS201
Language, Race and Identity in the United States Today
35432D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Sarah Benor	LVL3V
The Psychology of Racial Bias
35433D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Stanley Huey	VKC255

GESM 131g: Seminar in Social Analysis (4.0 units)

The causes and consequences of social phenomena; quantitative and qualitative methods of the social sciences; how people behave and influence the world through cultural forms. Offered by a professional school.

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
Introduction to Education: Examining Critical Issues
35440D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Paula Carbone	LVL3V
Introduction to Education Inquiry through the Study of Inequities in Education
35441D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Briana Hinga	LVL3Y
Managing Stress for a Better Life
35442D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Elahe Nezami	SOSB37
The Art and Science of Decision Making
35443D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Chris Bresnahan	LVL3Y
The Art and Science of Decision Making
35444D	001	Lecture	6:30-7:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Chris Bresnahan	LVL3Y
Technology and Society
35445D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	John Slaughter	VKC207
Prosperity Across the Lifespan
35447D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Aaron Hagedorn	GER224
Engineering Diplomacy: Fusing Engineering with Foreign Policy and International Development
35448D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Najmedin Meshkati	VKC206

GESM 141g: Seminar in the Life Sciences (4.0 units)

Scientific understanding of living systems from molecules to ecosystems; how data is generated and interpreted; how scientific discovery spurs technological growth and impacts society. Offered by a professional school.

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	Info
Aging and the Human Brain
35465D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 17	Allison Ponzio	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.
Note: Instructions on how to obtain department authorization (d-clearance) for GESM courses are available at dornsife.usc.edu/2015ge/gesm-registration/.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
Population and Social Change
35480D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 18	Emily Smith-Greenaway	LVL3Y
Elementary Mathematics for Teaching
35481D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Cymra Haskell	WPH103

GESM 161g: Seminar in Quantitative Reasoning (4.0 units)

Logical or statistical inference, probability, or mathematical analysis used as tools to evaluate hypotheses, claims, questions, or problems within a formal mode of thought. Offered by a professional school.

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
Mind, Belief and Behavior: Learning about Learning
35487D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Patricia Tobey	LVL3V
Wireless Computing Technologies for Medicine with Legal and Ethical Implications
35488D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	7 of 17	Mary Eshaghian	KDC236
Statistical Analysis for Games: Storytelling with Numbers
35489D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Wednesday	12 of 17	Dennis Wixon	SCA258	Word (59495 KB)
			11:00-12:20pm	Friday			SCIL104
Technologies that Change the World
35490D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Michelle Povinelli	GFS228	PDF (192889 KB)
Statistics and Quantitative Literacy
35485D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Abbass Sharif	VHE217
Statistics and Quantitative Literacy
35486D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Abbass Sharif	LVL3Y

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