General Education Seminar 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 | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | |