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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conquest and Revolution in 20th Century Mexican Literary and Visual Texts | |||||||||
| 35325D | 001 | Lecture | 8:00-9:20am | Mon, Wed | 17 of 18 | Liana Stepanyan | GFS229 |   | |
| Democracy, Dissent, and Assimilation | |||||||||
| 35327D | 001 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 15 of 18 | James Lewis Heft | VKC255 | Word (22600 KB) | |
| Are Corporations People? | |||||||||
| 35328D | 001 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 17 of 17 | Kenneth Silver | THH117 | PDF (133472 KB) | |
| A Sea of History Writing the Caribbean | |||||||||
| 35329D | 001 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 14 of 17 | Ronald Mendoza-De Jesus | VPD107 | PDF (739356 KB) | |
| Kings and Heroes, Villains and Saints | |||||||||
| 35330D | 001 | Lecture | 9:00-9:50am | MWF | 17 of 18 | Hani Khafipour | GFS228 | | |
| Culture, Conformity, Revolt | |||||||||
| 35331D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | David Rollo | VKC207 | | |
| Adolescence in Hispanic Literature and Film | |||||||||
| 35332D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 17 of 18 | Leah Kemp | VPD107 | | |
| Political Philosophy Meets Reality | |||||||||
| 35334D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 19 of 19 | Sharon Lloyd | GFS228 | Word (35018 KB) | |
| Utopianism and the History of "Progress" | |||||||||
| 35335D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 12 of 18 | Nina Eliasoph | VKC256 | | |
| The Power of Place | |||||||||
| 35336D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 17 of 18 | Karen Halttunen | VKC255 | | |
| What is a Good Life? Foundations of Western Ethics | |||||||||
| 35339D | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-10:50am | MWF | 17 of 18 | David Albertson | VKC255 | | |
| The Ways of Paradox | |||||||||
| 35341D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-11:50am | MWF | 19 of 19 | James Van Cleve | VKC255 | | |
| America and France--Literary and Visual Representations of Turbulent Times | |||||||||
| 35343D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 12 of 17 | Panivong Norindr | VKC207 | | |
| Women in Ancient Literature | |||||||||
| 35345D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 18 | Kristine Garroway | MRF229 | | |
| Types and Stereotypes in Films of the American Western Genre | |||||||||
| 35346D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 19 | Percival Everett | VKC200 | | |
| Women and Revolution in the Middle East | |||||||||
| 35347D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 18 | Sarah Gualtieri | GFS229 | | |
| Eastern European Crime Stories: Legal Fiction Crime to Punishment | |||||||||
| 35352D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 18 | Anna Krakus | WPH205 | | |
| Masterpieces of the Short Story | |||||||||
| 35353D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 19 | Alexander Zholkovsky | WPH106 | | |
| Health and the Body Politic in African Literature and Film | |||||||||
| 35354D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Julie Van Dam | GFS107 | PDF (1016729 MB) | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35357D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 15 of 17 | Daniel Tiffany | GFS228 | | |
| Borderland Encounters--Haitian and Dominican Literature and Culture | |||||||||
| 35358D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 12 of 17 | Nathalie Bragadir | VKC200 | | |
| Literature of Resistance | |||||||||
| 35359D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Yaffa Weisman | VKC255 | | |
| The Uncanny in Medieval and Renaissance Europe | |||||||||
| 35360D | 001 | Lecture | 1:00-1:50pm | MWF | 18 of 18 | Thea Tomaini | LVL3Y | | |
| The Hebrew Bible, New Testament and the Qur'an in Dialogue | |||||||||
| 35362D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 13 of 18 | Reuven Firestone | WPHB26 | | |
| Unorthodox Jewish Writing in the Americas | |||||||||
| 35363D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 6 of 17 | Erin Graff Zivin | VKC155 | PDF (222940 KB) | |
| Representing the Holocaust | |||||||||
| 35364D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 18 of 18 | Sharon Gillerman | VKC154 | | |
| Scandalous Ethics | |||||||||
| 35365D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 19 of 19 | Stephen Finlay | VKC252 | | |
| Traditional Chinese Stories to Awaken the World | |||||||||
| 35366D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 17 of 18 | Mengjun Li | SOSB48 | | |
| Kurosawa's Cosmos:from Noh to Dostoevsky | |||||||||
| 35367D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 17 of 17 | Kerim Yasar | WPH203 | | |
| Faith and Doubt in the Secular Age | |||||||||
| 35369D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 18 of 19 | Beatrice Sanford | VKC200 | | |
| Transforming Italy: Italian Literature Today | |||||||||
| 35372D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 18 | James Fortney | VKC210 | PDF (270929 KB) | |
| The Japanese Warrior in War and Peace | |||||||||
| 35375D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 18 | Dan Sherer | VKC200 | | |
| Time in Culture and Social Experience | |||||||||
| 35376D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 13 of 18 | Emily Zeamer | GFS229 | | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35377D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 18 | Daniel Tiffany | GFS228 | | |
| The Poetics of Loss | |||||||||
| 35378D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 14 of 16 | Marci Vogel | VKC255 | | |
| Italianisms: Introduction to Modern Italy | |||||||||
| 35380D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 18 of 18 | Gian-Maria Annovi | GFS228 | | |
| Sites of Memory in Modern Arabic Letters | |||||||||
| 35381D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 8 of 17 | Veli N Yashin | VKC255 | Word (84260 KB) | |
| Christianity in the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| 35382D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 11 of 17 | Sheila Briggs | VKC254 | | |
| Mindfulness in Cultural Practices | |||||||||
| 35383D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 19 of 19 | Thomas Ward | GFS229 | | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35384D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 17 | Daniel Tiffany | GFS228 | | |
| The Corporation: An Intellectual History | |||||||||
| 35385D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 17 of 17 | Asheesh Siddique | LVL3Y | Word (109798 KB) | |
| Christianity in the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| 35389D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Mon, Wed | 11 of 17 | Sheila Briggs | VKC254 | | |
| Girlhood: Twentieth Century Perspectives | |||||||||
| 35390D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Dana Johnson | THH117 | | |
| The Autobiographical I(mpulse) | |||||||||
| 35391D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 17 | David Ulin | VKC108 | | |
| Reading Black Love | |||||||||
| 35395D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 19 | Lanita Jacobs | KAP167 | PDF (597216 KB) | |