Ancient Near East 19, Seminar 1
Traveling through Ancient Egypt
Willemina Wendrich
Starting in south of Egypt, we leisurely travel north: virtual trip to introduce rich art, architecture, and history of ancient Egypt. We look at famous monuments, read what ancient Egyptians thought of their surroundings, and see what no Egyptian was allowed to see, unless he was a priest. Preparation involves checking the Atlas of Ancient Egypt for each subsequent region that we visit. Seminar provides cultural context for famous Egyptian monuments.
Professor Wendrich is an archaeologist who has participated in and directed excavations in Egypt for over 17 years. Every fall quarter she spends in Egypt with a group of UCLA students excavating in the Fayum oasis. Previously she worked on the Red Sea coast and excavated the harbor town of Berenike where spectacular evidence was found for the trade between Rome and India in the Greco-Roman period.
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Applied Linguistics/TESL 19, Seminar 1
The Creation of Icons of Popular Culture:
The Case of James Dean (1931-1955)
Roger W. Andersen
James Dean, a contemporary of Elizabeth Taylor
and Paul Newman, among others, died in a tragic car accident in 1955 at the age of 24, just as his career was taking off, which was initially built on his movie roles of a troubled teenager. This seminar examines the life and career of James Dean as depicted through numerous print, video, and film biographies. Through these media we see how his friends, family, and associates interpret his strange life and behavior, his charismatic personality, and the role played by the Hollywood studios' and agents' creation of James Dean the movie star (vs. the actor, the young man, the icon).
Roger Andersen is a Professor of Applied Linguistics. His main interest is in the study of natural spoken discourse. He has also done research and teaching in the areas of second language acquisition research and Creole linguistics. His interest in this topic dates from his fifteenth birthday, the same day in 1955 that James Dean died in a tragic accident. His current interest is in how Dean's quoted comments, biography and documentary viewpoints, commentary and portrayals by his close friends and associated, and the Hollywood star-creation machinery portray different views of James Dean.
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Applied Linguistics/TESL 19, Seminar 2
Cave Man Walking: The Evolution of Humans
and Their Early Migrations
John Schumann
This course will take advantage of the recent publication of two books: Walking with Cavemen and Journey of Man, and accompanying videotapes on evolution of humans and their early migrations. Examination in first book of evolution of humans from early Australopithecines through Homo sapiens, with special focus on Australopithecus afarensis, Paranthropus boisei, Homo rudolfensis, Homo habilis, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalis, and Homo sapiens. Presentation of genetic research on the Y chromosome in second book, tracing human migration out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, first to Australia, then to Middle East, from there to India, East Asia, and eventually to Europe and Americas.
Professor Schumann teaches courses in second language acquisition, the neurobiology of learning, and the evolution of language. His publications include The Neurobiology of Affect in Language and he is a co-author of The Neurobiology of Learning: Perspectives from Second Language Acquisition. He is currently working on a book on the evolution of language. He was the chair of Applied Linguistics for 15 years.
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Art 19, Seminar 1
Gleaning: An Introduction to Drawing
for Non-Art Majors
Barbara Drucker
Through the creative process artists attempt to glean the essence out of everything, gathering insight and information from every experience they have. "Gleaning" literally refers to harvesting and survival. It also refers to an inner process of searching and transforming. Using the concept of gleaning as its basis, this class will introduce the student to the basic concepts of visual language through the specific process of drawing. We will explore questions such as: What is "art" and Why is individual creative activity important in today's world?
A Professor of Art, Barbara Drucker is currently the Chair of the Department of Art. From 1996-2001, Drucker was the Founding Director of “The Living Room,” an alternative exhibition space in Santa Monica. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Italy, Austria, Greece, and New York. She teaches drawing and painting in the Art Department and is deeply interested in the relationship between art making, analytical psychology and religion.
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Art 19, Seminar 2
Issues in Contemporary Photography
Catherine Opie
This course will be an introduction to a group of artists working within an art world context in photographic practices. The class will examine some recent international artists working in this medium through slide lectures and discussion. Some of the artists that we will discuss will be Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, Gillian Wearing, Wolfgang Tillman, Stephen Shore and others.
Catherine Opie is a Professor of photography in the Department of Art who has shown internationally both in museums and galleries. Her recent solo shows have included the Walker Art Center, Photographers Gallery in London and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She was the recipient of the Alpert Award for visual art in 2003. She is currently working on a body of work in photography that will show in New York, London, and Los Angeles in spring 2004.
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Art History 19, Seminar 1
Renaissance Art and Society: Gender, Race
and Politics as seen in Titian's Work
Joanna Woods-Marsden
Explore the history of those issues that still plague our modern world: sexism, racism, and the "correct" relations between Church and State. The seminar will consider Renaissance ideologies of gender, race and politics by studying the paintings of the great Venetian artist Titian (c. 1490-1576). Titian's visual representations may be taken as "normative" for his period, since he was immensely successful: his beautiful paintings were admired throughout the Italian peninsula and sought after by emperors, popes, kings and dukes across Europe.
Professor Joanna Woods-Marsden was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, the University of London, and Harvard University. By 2004 she will have taught at UCLA for 20 years. An expert in Italian Renaissance Art, Professor Woods-Marsden has recently specialized in portraiture (Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist, Yale, 1998). She is currently working on: Portrait of the Renaissance Lady: Visual Construction of Gender Difference.
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Classics 19, Seminar 1
Rediscovering Pompeii
Robert Gurval
Study of archaeological evidence from buried city of Pompeii. Destroyed by volcanic eruption in 79 C.E. and forgotten for centuries before its rediscovery in the 18th century, this small but once prosperous Italian town affords most valuable testimony of urban cultural experience in ancient Rome. Pompeii serves as microcosm of Roman world to explore daily lives of ancient Romans. Overview of Pompeii, its history, destruction, and rediscovery. Topics include organization of public space, civic monuments and politics, domestic architecture, religion, and urban areas of entertainment such as baths, brothels, and amphitheater, Pompeii in modern culture.
Robert Gurval (Ph.D. in Classics, the University of California, Berkeley and B.A. in Classics, Brown University) is an Associate Professor and currently Chair in the Department of Classics at UCLA. His research focuses on Roman politics, literature and culture in the periods of the late Republic and early Empire. He is the author of Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War (Michigan Press, 1995). In 1996 he was the recipient of the Rome Prize in Classical Studies and spent his sabbatical year at the American Academy in Rome.
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English 19, Seminar 1
Word Up: The Oral Tradition in African
American Poetry
Richard Yarborough
For decades, the oral tradition was the primary mode of literary expression for blacks in the U.S. With the spread of written literacy, however, the number of African Americans producing fiction, poetry, and autobiographies grew dramatically. In the late 19th century, black writers began to turn back to oral expression for thematic and formal models. In this seminar, we will consider how African American writers have adapted blues, sermons, folktales, and other oral forms. Although our primary focus will be on Langston Hughes, we will look at the work of Nikki Giovanni and Gil Scott-Heron, among others, as well as at the current popularity of rap and spoken word.
Richard Yarborough is an Associate Professor of English and a Faculty Research Associate in the Center for African American Studies. Associate general editor of the Heath Anthology of American Literature, he is also the director of Northeastern University Press's Library of Black Literature reprint series. He received UCLA's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987, and from 1997 through 2001 he served as Director of the Center for African American Studies.
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English 19, Seminar 2
Tales of Madness by Edgar Allan Poe
Frederick Burwick
Students will read accounts of mental pathology familiar to Poe, and will discuss how Poe's study of cognitive and aberrational psychology informed his representation of delusion and hallucination in his short stories. One short story will be assigned for discussion each week.
Frederick Burwick is a Professor in the Department of English. With an interdisciplinary approach to literature, he explores the interactions of literature with art, science, music, and theater. Author and editor of
twenty five books, one hundred articles and twenty reviews, his research is dedicated to problems of perception, illusion, and delusion in literary representation and theatrical performance. His essay, "Edgar Allan Poe: The Sublime and the Grotesque," appeared in Prisms (2000), and his book, Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination won the Outstanding Book of the Year Award of the American Conference on Romanticism. He has been named Distinguished Scholar by both the British Academy (1992) and the Keats-Shelley Association (1998). His Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination (1996) received the Outstanding Book of the Year Award presented by the American Conference on Romanticism.
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English 19, Seminar 3
The Greatest American Novel? Ralph Ellison's
Invisible Man
Eric Sundquist
Since its publication in 1952, many readers have considered Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man the greatest African American novel of all time. But why not the greatest American novel of all time? Ellison disdained distinctions based on race and thought of himself as an American (even a world) writer. At the same time, his novel is a brilliant history of African American life in the first half of the twentieth century--part epic, part tragedy, part satire. The seminar will be devoted to reading the novel closely in relation to the history that it embodies and to Ellison's theories of culture, spelled out in his many excellent essays and some of his other published fiction.
Eric J. Sundquist is UCLA’s Foundation Professor of Literature and a member of the Department of English. He is the author or editor of eight books in the area of American literature and culture, including To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature, which received the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association for best book published during the year and the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa for the best book in the humanities. His other books include Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.
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English 19, Seminar 4
Myth and Popular Culture
Joseph Nagy
Examination of relevance and usefulness of scholarly concept "myth" and of study of myth to our understanding of contemporary civilizations. Consideration of some mythic narrative elements in popular culture, particularly film and literature, and of persistence of oral tradition, "orality" in literate and post literate cultures.
Professor of English, author of books and articles on ancient and medieval mythology and literature, particularly Celtic.
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English 19, Seminar 5
Representations of Middle East
Ali Behdad
Starting with Edward Said's argument that Middle East is not "free subject of thought or action" because orientalist representations have unilaterally determined what can be said about region, exploration of particular ways in which Middle East has become integral part of Western culture. Through selections from Western travel literature, consideration of how European and American cultures have been able to "produce" Middle East aesthetically, politically, ideologically, and imaginatively in the 19th and 20th centuries. Exploration of implications of such constructions by unpacking complicated relation between representation and politics, power, and knowledge. Through selections from contemporary travel writing and fiction by Middle Eastern authors, study of how they have responded to orientalist perceptions of region. Examination of predicaments of nationalism and diaspora, identity and otherness, and colonial power and anticolonial resistance.
Ali Behdad is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution, and many articles on poetics and politics
of representation.
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English 19, Seminar 6
(Seminar Canceled)
Traveling to Sodom: Stories of Lost City
Lowell Gallagher
The word "Sodom" retains lurid connotations of perverse or unnatural sexuality, but biblical scholars, cultural historians, anthropologists, poets, and philosophers have long known different, more complicated, stories about Sodom. Examination of several stories, including foundational Sodom narratives in Hebrew Bible and Christian Testament, rabbinic and Christian commentaries in medieval culture, 19th-century American expeditions to Dead Sea, and range of material from 20th-century literary and geopolitical writing on Sodom, as well as tactical uses of Sodom story in feminist and queer studies. Literary texts include landmark 20th-century novels and memoirs with deep investment in figurative power of Sodom myth: Michel Tournier's Four Wise Men and Gemini and Albert Memmi's Pillar of Salt. Examination of ethical and political interests that have shaped changing faces of Sodom over time.
Lowell Gallagher is an Associate Professor of English; his principal areas of research include the relations between literary and religious cultures in early modern England, with an emphasis on the writing and experience of English Catholics. He is the author of Medusa's Gaze: Casuistry and Conscience in the Renaissance. He has written articles on Shakespeare, Counter-Reformation missionary cultures, and postmodern ethics, and is currently completing a book on the literary and philosophical traditions attached to the biblical legend of Lot's wife.
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English 19, Seminar 7
William Blake: Art and Poetry in Age of Revolution
Saree Makdisi
Reading of William Blake's best known work, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, in context of turbulent decade -- 1790s -- in which it was first printed. Through exploration of Blake's poetry and designs and his unique method of engraving and printing, unraveling of revolutionary aesthetic of one of England's most famous, but least understood, cultural icons.
Saree Makdisi is a Professor of English. He is the author of William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (University of Chicago Press, 2003).
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English 19, Seminar 8
To Live and Die in Los Angeles
Blake Allmendinger
Examination of life in contemporary Los Angeles. Study of works that question whether the California dream still exists. Reading of three works that examine race riots, class conflicts, cultural confusions, and other forms of social upheaval. Possible viewing of one film or listening to examples of West Coast rap music.
Professor Blake Allmendinger was raised on a cattle ranch near Colorado Springs, CO. He specializes in the study of the American West. His books include The Cowboy (1992), Ten Most Wanted: The New Western Literature (1998), Over the Edge: Remapping the American West (1998), and The Black West (forthcoming 2005).
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Ethnomusicology 19, Seminar 1
From Sufi Ritual to World Music Stage: Music
of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Hiromi Sakata
How Sufi musical expression of qawwali was able to undergo dramatic transformation from traditional South Asian spiritual genre to popular commercial genre on the international world music stage. Discussions to be accompanied by examples of audio and video recordings of performances of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the late Pakistani qawwali singer.
Hiromi Lorraine Sakata is a Professor of Ethnomusicology. Her research interests include the music of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. She worked closely with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in Pakistan and the United States from 1987 until his death in 1997.
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Ethnomusicology 19, Seminar 2
World Musics on Move
Helen Rees
Transnational musical encounters and fusions have long existed, but today political, economic, and virtual globalization both speeds process and raise new issues
of authenticity, ethics, and representation. Case studies include copyright infringement case arising from sampling of Taiwanese indigenous music by European artists; music of refugee communities in the U.S.; international tours by Asian traditional musicians; colonial legacy in Asia and Africa; Western appropriations of folk and world music in art music composition; and exciting new fusions from Mongolian, Tuvan, and Tibetan artists. Theoretical implications of this phenomenon also stressed. Use of variety of readings, websites, and sound and video recordings as source material. Students keep reading diary, help lead at least one class discussion, and document "world music" performance or other event. Global pop will never seem the same again!
Helen Rees is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology. Since 1989 she has conducted research on the musical traditions of SW China near the Tibetan and Burmese borders. In addition to her books and articles on Chinese music, she interpreted for the Naxi musicians of SW China on their first international concert tour to England in 1995.
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Ethnomusicology 19, Seminar 3
Music and Science
Roger A Kendall
This course introduces the student to the profound relationship between an art, music, and scientific inquiry and technology. Explorations of how music intersects with perception and digital technology will form a core for the course. Seminar sessions will consist of multimedia presentations of music and technology intersections. Discussions of these presentations and the readings will form an important aspect of the course.
Professor Kendall has worked with scientific and technological issues and music since computing was in its infancy. He produced one of the first digital editing systems for sound on microcomputers. He continues research in the relation of technology to music with the development of the Music Experiment Development System. In addition, he has studied the relationship of music in film music using an approach based on cognitive science.
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German 19, Seminar 1
Science Fiction and Religion
Robert Kirsner
Father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, viewed religion as illusion, antithetical to science. Science fiction author Ursula LeGuin characterizes science fiction as thought-experiment: not prediction of future but description of current reality. Exploration of use of religious motifs and depiction of religion often found in science fiction. What do religion or religious themes contribute to science fiction? What attitude or attitudes toward religion are found in science fiction? What do we learn from human construction of "lifeways" (such as religions) and incorporation of or reference to these lifeways in human thought experiments constructing possible worlds and possible civilizations? Exploration of these questions and others through readings about religion and readings in important works of 20th-century science fiction.
Robert S. Kirsner is a Professor of Dutch and Afrikaans in UCLA's Department of Germanic Languages, where he teaches these two languages, the literatures written in them (from Holland, Belgium, the Caribbean, and South Africa), and also a course on Linguistic Theory and Grammatical Description. His research focuses on functional, discourse-based, and cognitive approaches in linguistics, emphasizing the use of empirical quantitative data in analyzing grammatical structures. He is most interested in the interaction of grammar and intonation.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 2
Revolutionary Consequences: The Life and Art
of Man Ray
Sharon D. King
Man Ray, one of the most significant American artists of the 20th century, spanned the cubist, Dadaist and surrealist movements, using innovative techniques to create what he called "disturbing objects" that would jar the viewer into new modes of viewing, thinking, and feeling. This course proposes to look at the development of Man Ray's art, focusing on the writings, photographs, rayographs, assemblage art, pictures, and films housed at the Getty Museum and Research Institute. Class will meet five times, two of which will be at the Getty Complex.
Dr. Sharon King holds her degree in Comparative Literature from UCLA and is an Associate at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Currently she does research and writing in 19th- and 20th-century art topics at the Getty Research Institute. She has published numerous scholarly articles as well as short fiction and nonfiction; translations include The Enduring Spirit, poetry by the inmates of World War II concentration camps. Her current book is City Tragedy on the Renaissance Stage in France, Spain, and England (Mellen Press, 2003).
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Japanese 19, Seminar 1
Contemporary Japanese Cinema and Culture
Seiji Lippit
Examination of developments in recent cultural history of Japan through analysis of works of contemporary cinema, with particular emphasis on expression of social anxiety and alienation following collapse of economic bubble. Issues include transnational dissemination of Japanese popular culture, status of ethnic minorities in Japan, and impact of globalization on representations of cultural identity.
Professor Seiji Lippit teaches modern Japanese literature and culture in the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
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Music 19, Seminar 1
Jazz Trumpet Masters of the 20th Century
Gordon Henderson
Class discussion and analysis of recordings by jazz trumpet masters of the 20th century, with focus on trumpet players from particular jazz styles beginning with King Oliver and Louis Armstrong, and moving forward through the century with Henry "Red" Allen, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan, Harry James, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Bubber Miley, Snooky Young, Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, and others.
Gordon Henderson is the Associate Director of Bands
at UCLA. Mr. Henderson directs the 250-member Bruin Marching Band, and the Varsity Band. He also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Music Technology.
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Music History 19, Seminar 1
Hitsville U.S.A.: Music of Motown
Robert Fink
Introduction to cultural and musical significance of Motown records, as evidenced by close reading of key recordings by Smokey Robinson, Temptations, Supremes, Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and others. Consideration of Berry Gordy's aspirational and assimilationist project for the label, as well as the racial impact of Motown's music in time of civil rights struggle, urban riots, Vietnam, and the "British Invasion." Listening assignments and several short readings.
Professor Robert Fink is the author of a forthcoming book on the cultural politics of American minimal music, Repeating Ourselves (UC Press, 2005). His research interests include contemporary art music, the cultural politics of classical music, postmodernism, soul and funk, and the history and practice of electronic dance music. He has taught a 500-person class on EDM, as well as courses on minimalism, experimental music, funk, opera, and technology.
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Scandinavian 19, Seminar 1
(Seminar Canceled)
"The Fellowship of the Ring": Tolkien's View of Good and Evil in the Community
Jules Zentner
The Fellowship of the Ring will be read and analyzed in terms of J.R.R. Tolkien's view of the battle between Good & Evil in the world, the individual, and the community.
Dr. Zentner received his doctorate from UC Berkeley after doing much of his preparation at the University of Uppsala and University of Stockhom in Sweden. He has taught at Berkeley, the Univ. of Minnesota, and UCLA.
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Scandinavian 19, Seminar 2
"The Fellowship of the Ring": Tolkien's View of Good
and Evil in the Community
Jules Zentner
The Fellowship of the Ring will be read and analyzed in terms of J.R.R. Tolkien's view of the battle between Good & Evil in the world, the individual, and the community.
Dr. Zentner received his doctorate from UC Berkeley after doing much of his preparation at the University
of Uppsala and University of Stockholm in Sweden.
He has taught at Berkeley, the University of Minnesota,
and UCLA.
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Theater 19, Seminar 1
(Seminar Canceled)
Reading and Discussing Italian Plays
(in English translation)
William Tom Wheatley
Students will read scenes from the works of Plautus, Seneca, a medieval writer, maybe Ariosto, Machiavelli, the commedia dell'arte, Gozzi, Goldoni, Pirandello
and Fo. The class will discuss these plays, as well
as the stages and acting styles employed. Each student (alone or with others) must contribute relevant reports
as assigned.
Dr. Wheatley is teaching an acting course in the Winter 2004, which he has done for UCLA's Theater Department since 1973. He has also taught directing, mask making and theater history. He conducts a course in such subjects in Rome and Verona for UCLA Summer Sessions. He has performed major roles in London, Rome and Warsaw. In America, he has played with Burgess Meredith and Alida Valli in Pirandello's Henry IV and with Lilian Gish in All The Way Home (On Broadway.) He's a life member of the Actors Studio & currently active with the Directors unit.
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Turkic Languages 19, Seminar 1
From Tun-Huang to Samarqand:
A Cultural-Historical Journey on the Silk Road
Andras J.E. Bodrogligeti
In recent years, the Silk Road came into vogue again, especially in tourism and light weight intellectual interest. This course takes the audience through the stations of the historical rout with stop-overs at places
of cultural and historical importance: Turfan, Kara Shahr, Beshbaliq, Kashghar, Andijon, Marghilon, Qoqand, Tashkent, Bukhara, Khiva and Samarqand. Discussion based on Reader, videos, slides and pictures. Invited guest speakers are expected.
Andras J. Bodrogligeti is a Professor of Central Asian Languages and Cultures, specialization: Classical (Chagatay) and Modern Uzbek Language and literature. Active teacher at UCLA. Ph.D. Turkish and Iranian: Budapest. Unesco Fellow [East-West Major Project in Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan], Guggenheim Fellow [The Chagatay Language. Member: Council of the Hungarian Academy. Honorary Member: Turk Dil Kurumu. Former Director of the John D. Soper Central Asia Language Institute. Recent publications: Chagatay Grammar (450pp), Academic Reference Grammar of Modern Literary Uzbek (1347pp).
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Anthropology 19, Seminar 1
Picturing the Past: Native American
Lakota Winter Counts
Russell Thornton
Winter counts are pictograph calendars depicting the most significant yearly experiences of a group. They represent Native American renditions of history, and typically span the years of the 19th century. There are more than 150 winter counts of Lakota (Sioux) tiyo/paye (extended kinship group). Originally painted on skins, most counts exist today as redrawn on muslin or paper during the late 19th century. The seminar will examine the nature of winter counts as well as specific ones, including the newly re-discovered Rosebud Reservation Winter Count.
Russell Thornton is a Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. He has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Minnesota, the University of California at Berkeley and Dartmouth College. He is the author of six books and over 100 scholarly papers on Native Americans. He is co-editor
of the book The Night the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian (in press). He is a registered member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and participates extensively in tribal affairs.
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Anthropology 19, Seminar 2
Fantastic Archaeology
Charles Stanish
Several case studies in the world of non-mainstream archaeology such as Goddess Cults of Europe, Ancient Astronauts, Piltdown controversy, Scientific Creationism, and others. Indent is not to "debunk" such alternative viewpoints. Discussion of social, political, and cultural contexts in which such viewpoints develop and are sustained. Examination of passions and underlying cultural, religious, and political motives of those who hold these views, with debate among students with professor maintaining neutral stance to encourage discussion of all viewpoints. Such debate should help to define fascinating social discourses underlying these nonscientific approaches to the past and give students exposure to different perspectives of their peers.
Stanish is a Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archeology. He has worked in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and Guatemala on the prehistoric peoples of the Americas.
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Anthropology 19, Seminar 3
Anthropology of Dreams
Douglas Hollan
All people sleep and dream at night, but dream beliefs and experiences vary widely cross-culturally. Review of contemporary research on dreams, with focus especially on anthropological perspectives.
Douglas Hollan is a Professor and Chair of Anthropology at UCLA and an Instructor at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. He has conducted extensive fieldwork on dreams and other psychological processes in Toraja, Indonesia.
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Chicana & Chicano Studies 19, Seminar 1
Gender and Sexuality in Mesomerica
Maria Pons
Exploration and discussion of gender- and sexuality-related issues in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures. Students to be exposed to series of scholarly works that analyzed gender relations and sexuality in pre-Hispanic America as it is expressed through their art, glyphs, codices, myths, deities, figures, and political and economic organization.
Maria Cristina Pons. (Ph.D. Latin American Literature) is an Assistant Professor at Cesar E. Chavez Center. Main research and teaching interests: to create a dialogue between literary studies, Chicana/o Studies,
and Latin American Studies, particularly through the examination of key cultural issues in close readings of literary and other public narratives and cultural products (i.e., subjectivity, identity construction, formation of the national subjects, otherness, race, and gender issues). Main publications: Memorias del olvido (Siglo XXI, 1996), and Mas alla.
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Chicana & Chicano Studies 19, Seminar 2
Equal Opportunity in California Public Education: Scrutinizing a Pending Lawsuit
Otto Santa Ana
Study of legal and educational positions in pending Superior Court class-action lawsuit that will decide whether all California public school children currently enjoy equal educational opportunities. Critical comparison of claims of opposing sides to learn what defendant (State), and some of its least-privileged citizens, think about schooling, meritocracy, justice,
and individual rights.
Professor Otto Santa Ana is a linguist and critical discourse analyst. He wrote Brown Tide Rising: Metaphoric Representations of Latinos in Contemporary Public Discourse (Texas, 2002), in which he analyzed mass media news reports to understand how the voting public misunderstands Latino political issues. He also edited Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in the Public Schools (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). Now he focuses on legal discourse to make sense of
the kind of society that the US courts visualize for us all.
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Economics 19, Seminar 1
Napster, AIDs and Intellectual Property
David K. Levine
Controversy surrounds the downloading of music over the internet, and the aggressive response of the RIAA to protect their copyrights. Included in this is the lawsuit against Napster, and more recently the bringing of lawsuits against individual music lovers. Also controversial is the patent protection afforded AIDs drugs, resulting in such high prices that they are unavailable in Africa, the area most devastated. Copyrights and patents are justified in the U.S. Constitution by Article I Section 8: "The Congress shall have Power To... to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." The goal of this seminar is to examine from an economic perspective to what extent modern intellectual property law does in fact promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." To colonial conquest and the slave trade; the Africans' fight against ecological degradation; their battle for economic, social and political justice; and the war against AIDS.
David K. Levine is the Armen Alchian Professor of Economic Theory at UCLA. He is co-director of CASSEL, co-editor of Econometrica, co-editor of NAJ Economics, a fellow of the Econometric Society, member of the American Economic Association Honors and Awards Committee and member of the Sloan Research Fellowship Program Committee. Professor Levine's current research interests include the study of intellectual property and endogenous growth in dynamic general equilibrium models, the endogenous formation of preferences, institutions and social norms, learning in games, and the application of game theory to experimental economics.
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Education 19, Seminar 1
International and Community Aid to Education
Edith Mukudi
Designed for students considering professions in the fields of international and community development. Discussions about politics, economic and sociocultural rationales, and practices in development aid disbursement. Topics include delineating what constitutes aid, what influences decisions to provide aid, and dynamics in field experiences for development workers. Consideration of national level and local case studies of aid programs from Western Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Class meets for two hours every other Tuesday.
Edith Mukudi is an Assistant Professor in GSEIS, UCLA. She previously taught at Kenyatta University, Nairobi- Kenya. She has field research and intervention programming experiences in Africa. She has worked as the Field Coordinator for a UCLA/ USAID Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program Child Nutrition Research and Intervention project before joining the UCLA Faculty
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Geography 19, Seminar 1
Sex in Space: Geographies of Sexuality
Mary Thomas
Sexuality is often considered inherent personal identity. But have you ever thought about how sexual practice and identity vary over space or how sexual behavior changes in different places? Exploration of geographies of sex by asking how sexuality is spatially contingent. Focus on how certain sexual identities become associated with specific spaces and places (like "gay neighborhood"), how sexual practice is determined in part by spatial norms (you can't have sex in public!), and how identity changes according to place and space you occupy at certain time (you're different at home with your parents than you are hanging with your friends). Introduction to social geography through example of sexuality and reexamination of sexual norms by bringing space into analysis of sexual practice.
Mary Thomas is an Assistant Professor in Geography. Her research explores young women’s gender, racial, and sexual identities. As a social-cultural geographer, she is interested in how girls use space and place in order to express identity, and how they learn about social difference through urban space.
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Geography 19, Seminar 2
River Runs through It: Cultural Geography
of the Los Angeles River
Judith Carney
Most people living in Los Angeles take for granted the river that runs through it. The L.A. River flows more than 51 miles from its source in the San Fernando Valley to the Pacific Ocean. Today it presents itself as concrete gash in urban landscape. A river that once served Native Americans defined location of original Spanish settlement and remained the city's source of drinking water for over 100 years. The river attracts more than 50 bird species and advocates of public space and environmental groups seeking to 'green' L.A. Efforts are apace to extend bicycle paths, parks, and public space along its corridor. Examination of cultural-ecological history of the L.A. River and re-envisioning of its role in the future. Field trip to key historical sites along its path and places of public use. Discussions with advocacy groups involved in its rebirth.
Professor Judith Carney has conducted research on environment and development issues in West Africa and Latin America over the past 20 years. Her research specialization is ecology and agriculture, gender issues in development, biodiversity and natural resources. Her publications include a book Black Rice, Harvard, 2001,
a monograph, and nearly 50 journal articles. She received two national book awards, UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award, a University of California President’s Research Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and grants.
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Geography 19, Seminar 3
Space Imaging of Environment
Laurence Smith
Ever wonder how those satellite images of California fires, breaking Antarctic ice shelves, and hurricanes are acquired? In last 20 years, imaging satellite technology has changed from technological demonstration to primary way we observe changes to our environment. Demonstration of some leading environmental science applications of imaging satellites, including field trip to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Professor Laurence Smith’s interests are in the area of satellite imaging of climate-change induced changes to dynamic, high latitude regions such as Iceland, Alaska and the High Arctic. Together with his graduate students, he seeks to understand changes in snow cover, sea ice, glacier melting, river flooding, and other phenomena associated with global warming, through a combination of field work and new satellite technologies.
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History 19, Seminar 2
European Union: Its History and Impacts on History
Ivan T. Berend
Analysis of causes of emergence of European integration after World War II; its progress from customs union via single market and common currency toward joint military forces; its permanent and gradual enlargement process from community of six to union of 25 countries; its central problems in controversies at present; and its impact on history.
Ivan T. Berend, Professor of History and Director of the Center for European and Eurasian studies; author of 24 books; working on an economic history of 20th-century Europe; member of the British Academy, and five other European academies.
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History 19, Seminar 3
Men of Honor: Sicilian Mafia, 1860 to 1960
Geoffrey Symcox
Examination of origins, rise, and growing influence of Mafia in Sicily from unification of Italy to circa 1960.
Geoffrey Symcox is a Professor of History. Specializing
in Italy.
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History 19, Seminar 4
Utopias in Early Modern Europe
Teofilo Ruiz
Examination of Thomas More's Utopia and its role
in shaping European imagination about New World
and ideas about property, politics, work, and equality.
Teofilo Ruiz is a Professor and Chair of History. He
is the author of seven books and numerous articles on late medieval Castile.
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History 19, Seminar 5
On Margins: Intellectuals in Exile
Gabriel Piterberg
One of modernity's products is unique perspective of exiled intellectuals who are integral part of hegemonic culture in which they find themselves, but at same time sufficiently excluded from it to be critical. Two outstanding examples -- Hannah Arendt and Edward Said -- are explored.
Gabriel Piterberg is an Associate Professor of History at UCLA. His book on the Ottoman Empire has recently appeared from the UC Press. He is now writing his second book in which both Arendt and Said figure prominently.
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History 19, Seminar 6
Romanovs: Europe's Last Autocrats
Stephen Frank
Examination of Russian Empire's last dynasty, with focus in particular on reigns of last three Tsars (Alexander II, Alexander III, and Nicholas II) and collapse of monarchy in 1917.
Stephen Frank is an Associate Professor of History. He received his M.A., Ph.D., Brown University, 1983, 1987.
B.A., State University of New York, Plattsburg, 1978.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 1
"They Just Don't Understand": Intergenerational Conflict in Immigrant Families
Kumiko Haas
In the eyes of immigrant parents, their children have "become too American." In the eyes of the children, parents retain outmoded traditional values and are "too set in old ways." Each feels that "they just don't understand." "They" can be either parents or children. When immigrants start lives in new country, they often encounter many difficulties. But the difficulty they are often not prepared for is conflict within family that arises because parents and children adapt to new environments at different rates. Families may experience intergenerational and intercultural conflicts over issues like personal expression, dating, career goals, and family responsibilities. Integration of scholarly readings, personal life experiences, and other sources of information and exploration of possible causes, sources, and consequences of intergenerational and intercultural conflict among immigrant families.
Kumiko Haas is the Associate Director of Instructional Improvement Programs at the Office of Instructional Development at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from UC Berkeley. Her research interests include the influence of culture and family dynamics on adolescent and young adult development.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 4
LGBT is Not a Sandwich, or Straight Talk about Gay Issues in America
Ronni Sanlo and Suzanne L. Seplow
The course explores the ways in which American culture is affected by sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Topics include an overview of the historical perspective; legal and political issues specifically relating to education; sexual identity develop; the impact of bullying and harassment in schools and colleges; the relationship between sexual orientation discrimination and all other forms of discrimination; how to be an ally; and the impact of sexual orientation issues on all people regardless of their sexual orientation.
Ronni Sanlo is the Director of the UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center and lecturer in the Graduate School of Education. Her three books - Working with LGBT College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators; Unheard Voices: The Effects of Silence on Lesbian and Gay Educators; and Our Place on Campus are published by Greenwood Press. She is the originator of the award-winning Lavender Graduation, an event that celebrates the lives and achievements of LGBT students. She lives on the campus of UCLA as a member of the Faculty-in-Residence program.
Suzanne L. Seplow, Ed.D., is a graduate of the GSEIS Educational Leadership program at UCLA. Her focus is on maintaining living/learning communities that foster positive impacts on student learning. She specializes in learning communities, environmental influences and student development theory.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 5
How I Learned to Stop Just Googling... and Find the Really Good Stuff!
Esther Grassian
Limited to students in GE Cluster 80CW, with social sciences focus. Google: 2,900,000 results; Yahoo: 2,060,000 results -- this is what you get when you search HUMAN AGING in popular Web search tools. Are these items accurate, complete, authoritative, and up to date? General web search tools find free sites in "visible web," some useful, many not. Hiding in "invisible web" are databases like "PsycINFO" (licensed/subscription) and "PubMed" (free), listing scholarly research materials. Course helps students save time, prepare better papers, and become powerful information researchers. Consideration of researching secrets, tips, and tricks to identify, locate, evaluate, and use quality research materials effectively and responsibly.
Esther Grassian, MLS (UCLA, 1969), teaches Information Literacy & Research Skills (EC 123) in the UCLA Writing Programs, as well as a graduate course, Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Technique (IS 448) in the UCLA Department of Information Studies. She is also the Information Literacy Outreach Coordinator and a reference/instruction librarian in the UCLA College Library, where she has held various positions since 1969. Her publications include a co-authored book, Information Literacy Instruction:
Theory and Practice (2001).
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Information Studies 19, Seminar 1
(Seminar Canceled)
Records, Redress, and Reconciliation
Anne Gilliland-Swetland
Records can serve as collective memory, document our identities and ensure that our rights can be established and secured. They can also be used as instruments of oppression. This seminar will explore the concept of records as instruments of power and empowerment, drawing upon examples of how the records were originally created and used and then how they have subsequently been used as "witnesses" in redress movements and "truth and reconciliation" hearings to redress genocide, war crimes, and discriminatory practices, and to re-establish identity.
Gilliland-Swetland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies and Director of the Center for Information as Evidence. Her research and teaching interests are in archives and recordkeeping, and the impact of technology upon these; as well as with notions of evidence and power as they relate to records and recordkeeping.
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Management 19, Seminar 1
Understanding and Influencing Consumer Behavior
Aimee Drolet
Contemporary approaches to business emphasize the importance of adopting a customer orientation. And, business itself can be viewed ultimately as an attempt to influence consumers. This course seeks to provide insights into consumer psychology and into ways of influencing consumer behavior. While one benefit of the course is that students will come to better understand themselves as targets of marketing influence, the primary goal is to show how an understanding of consumer psychology and behavior can be used to develop powerful marketing techniques and tactics.
Aimee Drolet is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. She received her B.A. in classical history at The University of Chicago (1991), her M.A. at The Harris School of Public Policy Studies at The University of Chicago (1993), her A.M. in cognitive psychology at Stanford University (1997), and her Ph.D. at Stanford University (1997). She has been a member of the faculty at UCLA from 1997 to the present. She is the author of several scholarly articles on consumer and business psychology, including Indifference Curves That Travel with the Choice Set. Inherent Rule Variability: Changing Rules for Change's Sake, and The Art of Multiple-Item Measure Use: Often Less is More.
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Management 19, Seminar 2
Psychology of Investing
Shlomo Benartzi
Application of basic concepts in behavioral decision making to individual investors in attempt to understand how individual investors make financial decisions, what mistakes they make, and how we can apply principles of behavioral decision making to help people make better decisions.
Dr. Shlomo Benartzi is an Associate Professor at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management.
Dr. Benartzi received his Ph.D. from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research investigates participant behavior in defined contribution plans. In particular, his current work examines how do individuals make financial decisions
in retirement saving plans? In addition, he is developing “behavioral prescriptions” to assist employees make better financial decisions including the ‘Save More Tomorrow’ program.
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Management 19, Seminar 3
Fitness and Exercise: The Missing Perspective
Martin Greenberger
Other things equal, who has best chance of living longest? Fit fat person? Unfit fat person? Unfit lean person? Or fit lean person? Surely the fit lean person. Who has worst chance? Just as surely the unfit fat person. How about the other two? Their relative life expectancies are not as clear without careful studies. What does it mean to be fit? What are different kinds
of fat? Is exercise good thing? Can it be harmful? How often should we exercise and how? Are there no cosmetic reasons for exercising? What shifts have occurred in views of exercise over time? What are
the myths?
Martin Greenberger is IBM Professor of Technology and Information Systems. He teaches two graduate seminars at UCLA: "Frontiers in Biotechnology" and "Investing in Health: Nine Perspectives." Greenberger is President of Council for Technology and the Individual, a nonprofit foundation concerned with the human and organizational side of technology. He has been on the faculty of the Anderson School since 1982.
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Management 19, Seminar 4
Microfinance: Enabling Poor to Escape Poverty
and Manage Risks
Bhagwan Chowdhry
In recent years, set of unusual institutions -- microfinance institutions -- have been increasingly visible and influential in helping poor of world who have been excluded by formal banking sector to fight poverty and manage life uncertainties by offering them financial services, including loans as small as $100, savings products, and insurance products to manage life risks caused by death, illness, or weather uncertainties. Reach of such microfinance institutions has been relatively modest -- roughly 10 to 20 billion households have
been able to take advantage. Goal is to reach 100 million households by 2005. What are difficulties in achieving this goal? What creative and innovative solutions can surmount these difficulties? Students required to propose innovative methods and strategies that can be employed by microfinance industry.
Bhagwan Chowdhry is a Professor of Finance, Chair
of the Global Economics and Management Area, and Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at The Anderson School at UCLA where he has held an appointment since 1988.
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Management 19, Seminar 5
Understanding Financial Markets
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
An increasing proportion of the population is investing in financial markets (such as those for stocks and bonds). These markets serve as primary capital-raising source for corporations. Consideration of paradigms of modern finance that are relevant to understand how financial markets function and how securities are valued. Broad topics include discounting and present values, bond and stock valuation, corporate investment decisions, risk and return, constructing optimal portfolios, and introduction to options and futures markets. Balance to be sought between theoretical paradigms, empirical literature, and their applicability to real world. Emphasis on principles as well as applications. Consideration of both quantitative and conceptual foundations.
Professor Subrahmanyam is currently a Professor of Finance at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. in finance
from the Anderson School in 1990. He was previously employed at Columbia University. His current research interests range from the relationship between the trading environment of a firm's stock and the firm's cost of capital to behavioral theories for asset price behavior to empirical determinants of the cross-section of equity returns. Professor Subrahmanyam is the author or coauthor of numerous refereed journal articles on these and other subjects.
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Management 19, Seminar 6
Model-Based Decision Making
(This course will be team-taught
by five faculty members from the
Anderson School)
Donald Erlenkotter, Arthur Geoffrion,
Donald Morrison,John Mamer,
William Pierskalla
There are many ways to make decisions. Common sense is one, but there are many situations where it fails miserably. Sheer brainpower is another, but then why did Newton believe in alchemy and why did Aristotle believe that moon was perfect sphere? Experience seems appealing until we remember that world is changing so fast that no one has any experience relevant to many current decision problems. Your gut? Pray that it won't conflict with your head. A committee? Once you get past a couple of people, committees seem to get more and more stupid. Despair not: model-based decision making is proven way to make excellent decisions in wide variety of situations. Exploration of some foundations of topic, including such concepts as decision analysis, optimization, and pareto optimal trade-offs. Presentation of applications in such areas as business management, health care, and sports.
This course is team taught by five full professors from The Anderson School of Management. Each faculty member has done extensive research in their area of specialization. For more complete information, click here.
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Management 19, Seminar 7
Operations Management in the 21st Century
(This course will be team-taught by five faculty members from the Anderson School)
Reza Ahmadi, Scott Carr, Charles Corbett,
Uday Karmarkar, Kumar Rajaram
Operations management is at heart of all businesses; coverage of collection of topics relevant to operations of today's firms. Review of some basic issues in operations management, including process analysis and coordination between manufacturing and marketing. Examination of some broader issues that are increasingly affecting how companies operate, including role of operations in economy, advent of information economy, and impact of environmental issues on business.
This course is team taught by five full professors from The Anderson School of Management. Each faculty member has done extensive research in their area of specialization. For more complete information, click here.
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Political Science 19, Seminar 1
China in the New Millennium
Richard Baum
This course will examine the rise of China both as an economic power and a major player in regional and global politics in the new millennium. It will deal with both domestic and foreign policy issues, including globalization; human rights; the HIV/AIDS epidemic; the prospects for political reform; US-China relations, and the Taiwan Question.
Richard Baum is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. His books include Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping, Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen; and China's Four Modernizations: The New Technological Revolution.
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Political Science 19, Seminar 2
Logic of Political Strategy: Making
and Breaking Coalitions
Kathleen Bawn
If you want to be effective in politics, you need to understand strategy of coalitions. Effective politicians know how to form coalitions by linking their goals to the goals of others. They know how to disrupt rival coalitions by introducing new divisive issues. Effective politicians know how to assess political environment -- what other players want and how goals are achieved. Study of examples of how effective politicians have used logic of coalitions to further their goals and to thwart their rivals.
Kathleen Bawn (Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 1992) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA. She uses game theory and other mathematical modeling to understand how coalitions are shaped by institutions and interests. Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the British Journal of Political Science.
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Political Science 19, Seminar 3
Playing Politics
Michael Thies
Study of strategic behavior, coalition building, party politics, and policy-making through participation in games designed to "bring out politician in everyone." Each game session to be followed by "debriefing" in which principles and lessons of game are analyzed in theoretical and comparative perspective. Grades to be assessed as function of active participation in games
and discussions, and very brief analysis memos.
Michael Thies is an Associate Professor of Political Science, in his tenth year at UCLA. He has published numerous articles on comparative political institutions, electoral systems, party politics, and Japanese politics and policy. His recent work studies the logic of delegation in coalition formation. In 1999-2000, he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and in 2001-03, he served as a member of the executive committee of the American Political Science Association's Section on Political Economy.
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Political Science 19, Seminar 4
Media Bias
Tim Groseclose
Does Fox News have a conservative bias? Does the CBS Evening News have a liberal bias? Which news outlet is closer to the central U.S. voter? Reading of arguments from both sides of the aisle, including recent books by Bernard Goldberg and Eric Alterman, who respectively claim that mainstream media is liberal and conservative. Focus on adoption of social science perspective to examine above questions, including constructing numerical measures of bias and using them to examine various news outlets. Students help gather data (primarily from Lexis-Nexis) to construct these measures and by listening to KPFK and Rush Limbaugh, respectively left-wing news station and right-wing talk-radio host. Discussion of biases of these two shows and other news outlets.
Tim Groseclose is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA. Much of his research has focused on measuring the ideologies of politicians. He is currently involved in a research project that uses similar techniques to measure the ideology of news outlets. It will attempt to answer such questions as "Is the New York Times more liberal than Tom Daschle?" and "Is Fox News more conservative than Bill Frist?"
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Social Welfare 19, Seminar 1
How Society Responds to People with Disabilities
A.E. Benjamin
Growing numbers of people with disabilities of all ages are leading active and productive lives in American communities. Others are struggling to lead such lives. How has the U.S. responded over time to needs and aspirations of people with disabilities, young and old? How has government addressed demands of advocates for various disability populations? How do we assess extent to which public policies and programs are responsive to people in need? How do demographics, economics, and politics continue to influence evolving public policy response? How are other developed and developing countries dealing with these policy challenges?
A.E. Benjamin is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Social Welfare, School of Public Policy and Social Research. He has a joint Ph.D. from Michigan in political science and social work, and his interests involve long-term services for people with chronic disabling conditions, particularly comparative access, services design and quality issues. His research has involved the elderly, younger adults with disabilities, people with HIV disease, and children with special health needs.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 1
The New Science of Networks: Social, Economic, Terrorist, and Disease Networks
Phillip Bonacich
Networks are fundamental to the study of social and economic behavior. Information, influence, and disease all spread through networks. The internet is a giant network. There have been some recent exciting developments in the study of the large networks that characterize our particularly connected age. We will examine some of these new models and the ways in which they can be used to understand network phenomena in the real world.
Phillip Bonacich, Professor of Sociology, has long been an active researcher in the area of social networks. Although his primary interest has been the experimental study of how power develops in networks, he has collaborated on studies of the biotechnology industry, family networks, interlocking directorates, American social clubs and policy groups, urban networks, and UN voting patterns.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 2
Zen and the Art of Cooperation: Buddhist Approaches to Peacemaking
Peter Kollock
This seminar examines Zen Buddhism, not in the context of religion, but as a system of social psychology that has evolved over 2500 years. We will examine Zen Buddhist practices for developing cooperation and peace in one's self, one's relationships, and the larger society. A key element of the seminar will be a weekend retreat at a Zen Buddhist monastery in Southern California.
Peter Kollock is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. His research focuses on cooperation, trust, and risk in groups. He studies a wide range of situations in which group members gain by cooperating but where a temptation to behave selfishly exists, examining the factors that encourage or discourage the emergence of cooperation, community, and trade. His recent work has concentrated on studies of online communities and markets. He received UCLA's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 3
(Seminar Cancelled)
Individual and Society: Competing Perspectives
David Lopez
An introduction to the theories of "individual and society" from the Enlightenment through the early 20th century.
Professor Lopez received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and his B.A. from the University of Chicago.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 4
Learning to Smoke: The Cigarette War and Western Civilization
Nicky Hart
"Lighting up" was one of the striking gestures of the 20th century, the way to be cool, adult and free for generations who learned to smoke before cigarettes became a medical risk factor number 1. Before this ignominous fate, tobacco secured the colonial economy, became a billion dollar industry, an essential tool of military discipline, an instrument of temperance reform and the most effective narcotic for a bureaucratic age. This course explores the rise and demise of the cigarette and its lasting contribution to industrial civilization.
Professor Hart was educated at the Universities of London and East Anglia. Her interests are sociology of health and medicine, gender, and the family; diet, drink and drugs.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 5
Border Crossings: The Sociology of the US-Mexico Border
Ruben Hernandez-Leon
The U.S.-Mexico border is the longest land boundary between a developed and an underdeveloped country in the world. This fundamental asymmetry makes it the most economically, socially and demographically dynamic border in the globe. During the late 20th century, the U.S.-Mexico border became the subject of increased political and scholarly attention, reflecting its importance as a site of economic growth, destination and transit point of large population flows and location of stark inequalities between Mexico and the United States and within each of these two countries. This seminar provides an understanding of borders and borderlands as a sociological subject, introducing students to the now substantial body of research on the U.S.-Mexico border and addressing the cultural and social variation along the international boundary.
Ruben Hernandez-Leon is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He was a Fogarty Postdoctoral Fellow with the Mexican Migration Project at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania (2000-2002). He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He was a member of the faculty in the Department of Humanities at Universidad de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico (1997-1999), and a research associate with the Center for Immigration Research at the University of Houston (1995-1999).
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Sociology 19, Seminar 6
Sociological Approach to Modern History of Iraq
Andreas Wimmer
Introduction to major developments of the 20th-century history of Iraq from the Ottoman period to American occupation. Sociological perspective to look at changing constellations of power among various groups and their respective basis of support. Some key concepts of political sociology (power, nationalism, modernization, state building) help to understand these developments and put them into broader context.
Andreas Wimmer is a Professor of Sociology at UCLA. In recent years, he has been working on nationalism and ethnic conflicts in the modern world, giving special attention to Mexico, Iraq and Switzerland. He visited Iraq on five different field trips during the nineties.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 7
Postzionism
Aziza Khazzoom
Postzionism is body of work produced by left-leaning Jewish Israeli academics who are in dialogue with Palestinians. It is critical of Zionist ideology, but asserts the right of Israel to exist. Attempt to provide specifically Jewish Israeli answers to the following questions: Is Zionism racism? Are Palestinians in Israel oppressed? Is it morally right for Israel to be a Jewish state? Following of postzionist agenda to critically examine Zionist ideology and postzionism: Is postzionism anti-Semitic? Does it oppress diaspora
and religious Jews? Or does it not go far enough? Appropriate course for students who identify with Palestinian/Israeli conflict and want to find compromises that retain both sides' dignity. Use of Israel to ask basic questions like how do groups form, what is identity, and how does it lead to conflict? What are subtle ways that democratic societies create inequality?
Aziza Khazzoom is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. He is an American Israeli Iraqi Jew who grew up mostly in the US but spent summers with his family in Israel. After finishing his dissertation in Israel, he was at Tel Aviv University, where he taught a course on Israeli identity. At UCLA, he teaches a course on Israeli society, and one on gender from a cross cultural perspective. Most of his research is on the formative period of Israeli society. Right now, he is interviewing Jewish women who immigrated to Israel from Iraq and Poland in the 1950s.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 8
AIDS and Social/Behavioral Sciences
Oscar Grusky
What is HIV/AIDS? Why has this disease been described as "real weapon of mass destruction"? Why are social and behavioral sciences important for understanding and helping to prevent this epidemic? Discussion of use of social and behavioral research
and theory to improve understanding of HIV/AIDS
and to develop interventions that can prevent its spread. Exploration and discussion of selected HIV/AIDS social and behavioral science research.
Oscar Grusky is a Professor of Sociology at UCLA.
His research and teaching interests focus on HIV/AIDS. He serves as Co-Director of the Administrative Core of the UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention
and Treatment Services (CHIPTS), Director of the NIMH-sponsored research training program on service systems for people living with HIV/AIDS, and Principal Investigator of the HIMH-supported study of "Organizational Factors in the Early Detection of HIV".
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Sociology 19, Seminar 9
New York and Los Angeles: Computer Mapping
of Census Data for These Regions
David Halle
Students learn how to produce maps of New York and Los Angeles that display 2000 census data. Data topics include income levels, ethnic and racial groups, crime data, and data on occupations.
David Halle is a Professor of Sociology. He was born in England and has degrees from Oxford University and Columbia University. He is the author of several books on urban studies including New York and Los Angeles (2003); Inside Culture (1994); America's Working Man (1984). His interests include politics, urban studies, culture and class studies.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 10
Immigration to Los Angeles, 1970 to 2000
Ivan Light
Examination of immigration of Asian Indians and Mexicans to Los Angeles and the U.S. between 1970 and 2000.
Ivan Light is a Professor of Sociology, interested in immigration.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 11
Baby Selling or Giving Gift of Life?
Zsuzsa Berend
There is no cultural consensus on what surrogate mothers do. Some call it baby selling, commodification of women, and new market in reproductive services. Others celebrate it as altruistic act of helping infertile couples to become a family, as "giving gift of life." What do surrogates say? How can we make sense of this new practice? Reading of some scholarly works to help think about issues. Reading and analysis of some samples of surrogate mothers' narratives to identify cultural patterns that informs them. Surrogate mothers stories are good examples of how people make sense of new social phenomena when meaning of new practice is being contested.
Zsuzsa Berend has received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1994. She has been teaching at UCLA since 1996. Her main interest has been historical and cultural sociology. In her work on 19th-century American women she combined these two perspectives to explore ideals of love and marriage and how they influenced decisions to marry, and how conceptualizations of work, usefulness, and money informed women's behavior. Her new research on surrogacy is also informed by both history and cultural anthropology.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 12
Demographic Underpinnings of Politics in the U.S.
Donald J. Treiman
Examination of such issues as why Republicans control congress and presidency when majority of population claims to be Democrats, rise of religious conservatism and its impact on what issues become politically salient and who gets elected, dramatic increase on number of people convicted of felonies and its impact on who gets to vote, changing ethnic composition of California's electorate, and sources of support for antitax measures (such as California's Proposition 13) and anti-immigrant measures (such as Proposition 187).
Professor Donald J. Treiman is a sociologist and social demographer (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1962) who has done extensive research on social inequality in many countries around the world, including South Africa, former communist Eastern European nations, and China. The central question of his research is "who gets ahead"-what factors explain who gets well educated and who doesn't, who gets the good jobs and who gets the undesirable ones, and who makes the most money-and on variations in patterns of social inequality across countries. For example, why are chances for social mobility greater in some countries than in others? He also has done research on ethnic differences in income in Los Angeles, and regularly teaches a course on the social structure and social demography of Los Angeles.
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SSEALC 19, Seminar 1
"Lessons" of Vietnam and War in Iraq
George Dutton
Are there lessons to be learned from Vietnam? If so, what are they and can they be applied to the U.S. war in Iraq? Examination of various interpretations of "lessons" learned from the American War in Vietnam to understand them in light of the current war in Iraq. Readings from a wide range of perspectives focus on different "lessons" learned from Vietnam and ways in which these are being invoked at present by politicians, historians, and others.
Professor Dutton is a specialist in Vietnamese history, with a background in international relations. He has taught several courses on the American war in Vietnam, and on all aspects of Vietnamese history. He is particularly interested in historiography and the ways
in which history is invoked to produce interpretations
of the past for use in the present.
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Urban Planning 19, Seminar 1
Sprawl: The American Dream, or Nightmare?
Randall Crane
What is sprawl, is it good or bad, and what should be done? Complaints center on the loss of open space and natural habitat, and the associated traffic, pollution, and traffic. Suburbs are also considered lonely. Perhaps most plainly, sprawling areas are both unattractive and uninspiring. We will read some provocative accounts of life in the suburbs, and how cities do and should grow. The idea is to better understand how confusing a set of issues this is - especially in the LA region - and why that matters.
Randall Crane is a Professor of Urban Planning and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the School of Public Policy & Social Research. His research interests include urban environmental and development problems in the U.S. and abroad, with a focus on behavior/built environment interactions. Among his current projects, he is studying the causes and impacts of "sprawl" and is co-author with Marlon Boarnet of Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel (Oxford, 2001).
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Earth and Space Sciences 19, Seminar 1
Speaking Truth to Power: Science and Politics
in the US Government
Ashwin Vasavada
Major national issues such as climate change, stem cell research, and energy policy have broad social, economic, or environmental impacts. Yet, they are inherently science-based. Does science, then, inform the political process? We will examine a few current issues, developing an understanding of both the policies and the underlying science. Along the way, we will see how science policy decisions are made, how science and scientists influence (or fail to influence)
decision-making, and how the cultures of scientists
and policymakers sometimes clash.
Ashwin Vasavada is planetary scientist in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences. His research interests range from polar ices on Mercury and the Moon, the weather on Jupiter, to the climate history of Mars. In 2001- 02 he was a Science Fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives, working on issues including Federal R & D funding, climate change, environmental management, and science education.
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Engineering and Applied Science 19, Seminar 1
Neuroengineering: The Technology that Could
Enable "The Matrix" in the Future
Jack W. Judy
The brain-computer interfaces portrayed in "The Matrix" movies make use of neuroengineering technologies, many of which already exist. Implantable devices that interface directly with the human senses, such as allowing the deaf to hear, are a commercial reality. Research efforts are now underway that will enable
the blind to see and the paralyzed to move. Direct
brain-computer interfaces are a future goal. Topics
to be discussed include past, present, and future neuroengineering technologies and devices and their possible social implications.
Dr. Judy is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. He is also the co-director
of the UCLA NeuroEngineering Program, an NSF-funded training program in the Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience Programs. His interests include a variety of neuroengineering research projects: electrode arrays for retinal prosthetics, wireless neural transceivers, microprobes for Parkinson's disease research, and MEMS-enabled hydrocephalus shunts, as well as neural control systems for spinal cord injury, ocular motility, and deep brain stimulation.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 3
Advanced Life Support Systems for Space Travel
Audrey E. Cramer
Occupying space for an extended period of time on a lunar base, the International Space Station, or a mission to Mars, requires the development of Advanced Life Support Systems (ALS). ALS systems will produce food, purify water, detoxify waste, and re-supply oxygen in an enclosed, controlled bioregenerative system. This seminar will discuss and explore the unique problems that arise with the long-term occupation of space, including gray water use, carbon dioxide recycling, plant growth and production, protein consumption, sodium recycling, and hydroponics agriculture.
Audrey E. Cramer is the Director of the Undergraduate Research Center for the Life and Physical Sciences and the Center for Academic and Research Excellence in the College. Her research interests are two-fold. Her primary research focuses on the cognitive processes used in the choice of foraging routes by vervet monkeys. She has also conducted research for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center on Bioregenerative Systems for long-term space missions. She is currently a member of the Science and Technical Advisory Panel for the Air and Space Gallery at the California Science Center.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 6
How I Learned to Stop Just Googling... and Find
the Really Good Stuff!
Dominique Turnbow
Limited to students in GE Cluster 80CW, with science focus. Google: 2,900,000 results; Yahoo: 2,060,000 results -- this is what you get when you search HUMAN AGING in popular Web search tools. Are these items accurate, complete, authoritative, and up to date? General web search tools find free sites in "visible web," some useful, many not. Hiding in "invisible web" are databases like "PsycINFO" (licensed/subscription) and "PubMed" (free), listing scholarly research materials. Course helps students save time, prepare better papers, and become powerful information researchers. Consideration of researching secrets, tips, and tricks to identify, locate, evaluate, and use quality research materials effectively and responsibly.
Dominique Turnbow, MLIS, is a Reference Librarian
at the UCLA Biomedical Library. She teaches various library classes in the Health & Life Sciences. Her research interests include Information Architecture and Information Literacy assessment. She has presented
her research at various events such as the Learning Conference (an international educator's conference),
The American Society for Information Science & Technology, SCIL (Southern California Instruction Librarians, a subdivision of the American Library Association).
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Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 19, Seminar 1
Energy and Environment
Anthony F. Mills
The conflicting demand of adequate energy supply and protection of environment is one of most critical problems facing state, nation, and country in the 21st century. Broad overview of current and potential energy sources, their impact on environment, and methods for mitigating degradation of environment. Quantitative assessments of various issues to allow students to gain accurate and practical viewpoints. Discussion of career opportunities and required education.
Professor Anthony F. Mills, Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 1965.
He has been teaching at UCLA since 1966. He taught
at University of Auckland, New Zealong, 1983-1985.
Research areas: Convective heat and mass transfer, condensation heat transfer, ablation and transpiration cooling, perforated plate heat exchangers, aerosol transport.
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Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology 19, Seminar 1
Ethical Implications of Genetic Engineering
Bob Goldberg
This seminar will form part of the HHMI series of courses taught by Dr. Robert Goldberg, and will examine the ethical implications of genetic engineering in medicine, agriculture, and law.
Bob Goldberg is a Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology who has been on the UCLA faculty since 1976. The goal of his research is to understand how genes are regulated during plant development. In collaboration with a biotechnology company, Professor Goldberg utilized genes identified in his laboratory to develop a novel system to genetically engineer for male fertility control in crop plants. Professor Goldberg has given hundreds of lectures on his research world-wide, and has received several awards recognizing his research accomplishments and his contributions to the fields of plant molecular biology and agriculture.
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Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution 19, Seminar 1
Does the Biosphere Have a Future?:
If It Does Not, Do We?
Malcolm S. Gordon
Physical destruction of the natural environment, spreading of exotic and invasive species, human-induced global climate change - what can we do to avoid ecological catastrophe for the living world, including us?
Professor Gordon has been a birdwatcher and fishwatcher since he was a teenager. He has made his professional career by doing both in organized and systematic ways. He has spent a great deal of time and effort, since he first came to UCLA, on helping to make UCLA and our students more aware of and involved with environmental issues. This course is another part
of that effort. Help yourself, and the environment, by learning more about current issues and problems.
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Physiological Science 19, Seminar 1
Shall We Dance? How the Brain Controls
Movement in Health and Disease
Scott H. Chandler
When we get up to dance, shake someone’s hand or perform most movements, the brain performs flawlessly allowing us to perform our task. However, as a result
of injury to the brain or spinal cord, or a genetic defect, such movements are difficult if not impossible to perform. In this seminar we will investigate how the brain controls movements during health and disease states.
Scott H. Chandler is a Professor and Chair of the Undergraduate Neuroscience program. He has been a member of the faculty for over 23 years. His research involves elucidating the cellular mechanisms controlling pattern generated movements such as locomotion, mastication and respiration. A recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award in (2000), the Alumni Ebby Award for the Art of Teaching (2000) and recently the Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching award in Neuroscience (2003). He is very enthusiastic about teaching students at all levels and try to motivate them to achieve beyond their potential.
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Statistics 19, Seminar 1
(Seminar Canceled)
Playing With Fire
Frederic Paik Schoenberg
Wildfires are known to have raged through Southern California for at least 100,000 years, destroying property and threatening public safety while playing a pivotal role in the region's ecological cycle. Financial losses from LA wildfires from a 2-week period in 1993 exceeded 1 billion dollars, and similar devastation occurred in the Fall of 1996. This course focuses on the ways in which Los Angeles County wildfire data are analyzed using point process methods, and what such methods reveal
in terms of causes and catalysts of wildfires, forecasts
of future wildfire hazard, and impacts of wildfires
on the ecological cycle of Southern California.
Frederic Paik Schoenberg is an Assistant Professor
of Statistics at UCLA. He earned his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1997 and specializes in point processes
and their use in the analysis of wildfires and earthquakes.
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Statistics 19, Seminar 2
Playing with Chance
Juana Sanchez
Playing games of chance (widely understood) with computers in laboratory. We can't predict for sure
the outcome of many things, but in many cases we
can predict how often some outcomes may happen. Probability theory is field that teaches us how to make those predictions. Computer simulations using random numbers allow us to make them easily without having
to learn all mathematics involved in probability course. Goal is to acquire hands-on experience at self-discovering answers to probabilistic prediction questions and laws of chance using random numbers in laboratory. Different question is proposed at beginning of each session, and its answer is found during session, both by all students working individually with computer and by instructor who demonstrates her work on data projector.
Juana Sanchez, Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis, 1989. She taught at the University of Missouri before she came to UCLA, Department of Statistics. Her research interests include Statistics Education, Time series, Bayesian Probability Theory, and applications of Statistics in Diabetes Research. She has published in several journals, such as the Journal of the American Cancer Institute, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, and Advances in Econometrics.
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