Spring Quarter 2005 Arts & Humanities Culture & Society Science and Technology

Ancient Near East 19, Seminar 1 Exhibit Preparation/Visit "Mummies: Death and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt" Willemina Wendrich Bowers Museum has regular cooperation with British Museum, which gives students at UCLA a unique resource to see important objects from a world-renowned collection in real life. In April 2005, exhibition "Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt" will open at Bowers Museum. Requirements: Four two-hour lectures for thorough introduction to Ancient Egyptian mortuary practices, in preparation for informed visit to exhibition; discussion of development and physical aspects of mummification in Egypt in different periods; religious reasons for mummification in relation to burial and afterlife; gender, age and social position; as well as the role that burial and afterlife had in daily life in ancient Egypt. Group will visit the exhibition together in the first week of May. Willemina Wendrich is an Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the Department for Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. She directs the UCLA excavations in the Fayum Oasis in Egypt, and teaches a graduate level field work class there. She has worked as an archaeologist in Egypt for 17 years, participating in expeditions in several regions, working on a wide range of periods of Egyptian history. Arts 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. Comparative Literature 19, Seminar 1 Poets and Desire Ross Shideler Representations of desire in poetry take many forms and the object of desire ranges from standard love poems to the "ideal" that haunts Mallarmé or Yeats and Wallace Stevens. We will read poems by 19th and 20th-century European and American poets such as: Baudelaire, Valéry, Södergran, Ekelöf, Tranströmer, Cavafy, Eliot, H.D., and Rilke as well as other more contemporary poets ranging from Rukeyser to Gluck and Fulton. While, there will be an emphasis on close reading of poetry, we may read essays that will illuminate the problem of "desire." Ross Shideler is a professor of Comparative Literature who works on 19th-20th-century Swedish, French, English and American literature. He has published many articles, translations of plays by the Swedish author Per Olov Enquist and of Swedish poets as well as poems of his own. His books include: Voices Under the Ground: Themes and Images in the Early Poetry of Gunnar Ekelöf, Per Olov Enquist: A Critical Study; and Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy as well as having and edited with Kathleen Komar, Lyrical Symbols and Narrative Transformation. English 19, Seminar 1 The Great Gay Novel Christopher Looby In 2001 the Irish writer Jamie O'Neill published an extraordinary novel called At Swim, Two Boys. Long and lyrical, densely historical yet timelessly romantic, emotionally transporting as well as politically trenchant. The book is both complex and challenging and repays close study. Set against the backdrop of World War I, and in the year leading up to the ill-fated Easter Uprising of 1916 when Irish rebels tried to throw off British rule, O'Neill's tale knits together a story of friendship and love between two young Dublin men, on the one hand, and dramatic events in Irish history on the other. In this novel, sexual discovery and political education are so tightly joined as to merge inextricably: Irish national emancipation and gay freedom are wed to one another. In this seminar we will try to unpack as many of its historical referents as possible. Those historical referents pertain equally to Irish history and to the history of sexuality. Christopher Looby is a Professor in the Department of English. His research and teaching is principally in American literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as in gay and lesbian studies. He has a particular interest in the historical emergence of gay and lesbian identity, and the role that imaginative literature has played in that process. He taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the UCLA faculty in 2001. English 19, Seminar 2 Sex and Violence in the Narrative Art of William Hogarth Charles Lynn Batten "I have endeavoured," wrote William Hogarth (1697-1764), "to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer: my picture is my stage, and men and women my players." This seminar will explore Hogarth, the most important engraver of England's 18th century, and examine how he uses his visual art to tell stories--similar to plays and novels--that convey social, moral, and political lessons relevant to today. Professor Batten is currently Vice Chair for undergraduate Studies in the English Department. He has written on eighteenth-century travel literature and is currently attempting to complete a book on the literary and cultural importance of deism. He has won the campus Distinguished Teaching Award. English 19, Seminar 3 Hoffmann's Golden Pot and Tales of Madness Frederick Burwick Hoffmann's tales of hallucination and delusion are so detailed that even Freud made use of them as "case studies." In this seminar, attention will be given to five of Hoffmann's weird tales of hallucinatory experience and the breakdown of "normal" behavior. Emphasis will be given to the ways in which Hoffmann's characters become entrapped in their own fantasies, how they confound the real and the imaginary, and whether they manage to regain sanity. 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 (1996) received the Outstanding Book of the Year Award presented by the American Conference on Romanticism. He has been named Distinguished Scholar by both the British Academy (1992) and the Keats-Shelley Association (1998). English 19, Seminar 4 Mystery, Detection, Horror, Suspense Blake Allmendinger In this course we will study: The relationship between several different types of popular literature; classic British murder mystery and its American counterpart, hard-boiled detective novel; how mystery and detective traditions evolve into literature of horror and suspense; way in which these works address moral and ethical issues, and reflect traditions and changes in modern society, represented by such characters as amateur sleuth, private eye, and serial killer. Blake Allmendinger is a Professor in the English Department. He is the author of three books, an edition of essays, and numerous articles on American literature, popular culture, and the American West. English 19, Seminar 5 Palestine/Israel: Roots of Conflict Saree Makdisi This seminar gives students a firm understanding of contemporary realities of Israeli-Palestinian struggle as well as an effective grasp of its historical origins. Saree Makdisi is Professor of English. In addition to his work on British literature, he has written extensively on the question of Palestine in venues from Critical Inquiry to Counter Punch and the Los Angeles Times. English 19, Seminar 6 Dis/Abilities: Language Breakdown in Literary Texts Katherine N. Hayles "Within every disability lies an ability"--this slogan finds creative application in literary texts that use language to describe breakdown of normal linguistic usage. Three texts explore narrator with Tourette's syndrome (Motherless Brooklyn), autistic fifteen-year-old savant who does not understand emotions (Curious Incident), and narrator who has volunteered for a space mission in which his brain has been extracted from his body, leaving him language that has no connection with everydayness of normal embodied life (Plus). Yet paradoxically, literary language describing breakdown of normal linguistic processes must be especially well-crafted to convey this failure of language--hence ability that lies with disabilities portrayed in these texts. We will focus on strategies whereby language can function ambiguously and simultaneously as expertly-crafted discourse and linguistic breakdown. Katherine N. Hayles is a Professor in the Department of English. Her interests are in contemporary American literature, electronic textuality, and literature and science. Her books focus on the materiality of literature ("Writing Machines") and the ways in which contemporary science and technology become important in literary texts. She is especially interested in the transformations of subjectivity, including ideas of what it means to a person and to be a human, in the postmodern era; her book exploring these questions appeared in 1999, entitled How We Became Post human: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Her most recent research focuses on the ways in which digital technologies are changing ideas about agency, language, and literary discourse, explored in my forthcoming book: My Mother Was A Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.    Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 2 (Canceled) Early Seins: The Medieval Roots of Modern Standup Sharon D. King A solo performer's standup routine is a touchstone of comedy in contemporary Western society. Except for a few vague references about the performances of bards and jugglers in history texts, however, there has been little examination of the rich background of solo standup performance from the early modern period. This course will affirm the traditions of modern performance comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, Lily Tomlin, and the late Spalding Gray. We will then compare their comedic techniques and subjects to those used in several representative extant comic monologues from Europe circa 1500. Techniques of comedy to be discussed include misdirection, fast changes, running gags, and wordplay; subjects include quackery and charlatanry, domestic disputes, war and its societal impact, and marriage and procreation. In addition to doing the readings and participating in discussion, class members will be expected to attend one live standup performance and to produce one short project based on readings and their own research of standup routines. 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). Iranian 19, Seminar 1 Consciousness and Intuition: A Study of Persian Philosophical Texts Hossein Ziai This seminar will focus on a 12th century philosophical text (available in a bilingual Persian-English edition), and each week one of the ten sections of the text will be read and examined in detail. Special attention will be placed on the Aristotelian principles expressed in the text. A major question addressed in the seminar will be: "How are the Aristotelian principles refined in their Persian expression." Hossein Ziai is a Professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies & Director of Iranian Studies. Professor Ziai holds a BS from Yale University in Intensive Mathematics and Physics, 1967. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Islamic Philosophy, 1976. Jewish Studies 19, Seminar 1 In the Beginning: Reading the Book of Genesis Carol Bakhos In this seminar, we will read the major stories of the first book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis, and focus on literary, theological and historical issues. We will pay special attention to the creation story, Adam and Eve, the call of Abraham, the binding of Isaac, the expulsion of Ishmael, the live of Jacob and the Joseph cycle. Topics include the role of women, the idea of covenant, and the characterization of God. We will also examine the role these stories play in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Carol Bakhos, Assistant Professor of Late Antique Judaism, is a member of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. She is also the undergraduate advisor of Jewish Studies. Professor Bakhos is a graduate of Harvard Divinity and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Her book, Ishmael on the Border: Rabbinic Portrayals of the First Arab is forthcoming (SUNY Press). Linguistics 19, Seminar 1 Why We Talk Michel Melkanoff Human language is a unique cultural trait which is at the basis of human civilization. In this seminar we shall consider, from evolutionary point of view, origins, purpose, and acquisition of language. We will discuss basic methods used to characterize language including syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and examine written versus spoken language. Professor Melkanoff is an Emeritus Professor in the UCLA Computer Science Department which he created some 35 years ago and was its first chairman. He holds a BS in aeronautical engineering and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics. He has done research in the field of human and computer languages for the past 40 years. Linguistics 19, Seminar 2 Headlines and Recipes: The Grammar of Abbreviated English Timothy Stowell This course will introduce students to the scientific study of Abbreviated English, as used in newspaper headlines, diaries, recipes and instruction manuals, and point-form note-taking. The course will discuss systematic properties of this written register of English, including omissions of pronouns, definite and indefinite articles, and the verb "be", as well as the use of the present tense to report events in the recent past. We will examine and dispel some widely held popular misconceptions about these processes. In addition, we will examine some fascinating parallels between Abbreviated English and the neutral register of some foreign languages as well as facets of English as spoken by young children in English and other languages. This course will also introduce students to some of the analytical tools of the field of modern Linguistics. Students will be encouraged to gather their own data from actual newspaper headlines, instruction manuals, and recipe books, and to think about these in terms of the linguistic analyses discussed in class. Tim Stowell earned a BA and MA in Linguistics at the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT, where he studied with Noam Chomsky. His 1981 dissertation argued for the elimination of phrase structure rules from the theory of generative grammar, a view that is now widely accepted. He continued to work on various topics relating to the theory of phrase structure through the 1980s; over the past fifteen years or so his work has been more concerned with the interface between syntax and semantics, addressing topics such as the syntax and semantics of tense and aspect (how time is represented in language), quantification (how numerical and set-theoretic concepts are represented in language), and adverbs. His interest in the syntax of Abbreviated English dates back to 1991 when he gave a series of lectures on the topic at Linguistics conferences in Europe and elsewhere. He has served for six years as Chair of the UCLA Linguistics Department (1994-1998, and 2004-present) and is currently co-editor of the journal SYNTAX, published by Blackwell. Scandinavian 19, Seminar 1 "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. Theater 19, Seminar 1 (Canceled) Gender and Body in Japanese Performance Carol Sorgenfrei Cross dressing and gender representation in theatrical genres in Japan, in aesthetic, cultural, social, historical and political context: all-male kabuki (created in early 17th century by woman), all-female takarazuka (created in early 20th century by man), and mixed genders in angura (underground) theater and butoh dance. By viewing videos and reading scripts and articles, we try to answer questions about how women and men are imagined at different moments in Japanese cultural history. What is ideal for each gender, and who determines that ideal? Who are performers, spectators, patrons? What are aesthetic, cultural, or social meanings attached to exclusion of one gender from a specific type of performance? What does it mean to represent gender in a different body? Are bodies and culture part of the human condition, or defined by nation and race? Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei is a scholar of Japanese and cross-cultural performance, a playwright focusing on Asian-Western "fusion" theater, a stage director, and a translator of contemporary Japanese plays. Her book Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan will be published by the University of Hawaii Press in July, 2005. Among her fifteen original fusion plays are the award-winning Media: A Noh Cycle Based on the Greek Myth and the highly acclaimed Blood Wine/Blood Wedding, which fused kabuki and flamenco. Anthropology 19, Seminar 3 Fantastic Archaeology Charles Stanish Several case studies in the world of non-mainstream archaeology such as Atlantis, Goddess Cults of Europe, Ancient Astronauts, Piltdown controversy, Scientific Creationism, and others. Intent 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. Charles Stanish is a Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archeology. He has conducted archaeological research for 25 years in Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia. Anthropology 19, Seminar 4 Food, Culture and Identity Monica L. Smith A hundred years ago, the U.S. government's "food pyramid" contained 12 items; now there are just 4. How did this change come about? How do ideas about food differ from one era to the next and from one culture to the next? How does food serve as both an integrative and divisive social category? In this course, we'll use readings and discussion to look at the social construction of food categories, cuisine, and the politics of food to understand the role of food in creating and maintaining culture. Monica Smith is an anthropologist who is interested in the relationship between humans and material objects starting in the deep archaeological past. Her current research on food and consumption addresses the role of ordinary goods in the formation of culture and identity. Economics 19, Seminar 1 Winner's Curse in Common Value Auctions John Riley Exploration of well-known phenomenon of winner's curse when people bid in certain kinds of auctions. Winner's curse occurs when person who won auction wishes he had not. Since many other interesting phenomena have same basic structure as common value auctions, insights learned about auctions in the laboratory have significance for other areas where unhappy winners are important, such as in political contests and voting behavior, jury decisions, and companies racing to discover and patent an invention. John G. Riley is a Professor in the Department of Economics. He specializes in Microeconomic Theory; and the Economics of Information. Economics 19, Seminar 2 Bargaining, Haggling, and Fairness Across Cultures Jean-Laurent Rosenthal This seminar will explore the nature of trust and fairness in bargaining situations via a simple ultimatum bargaining game. This game is useful for exploring how self-interested individuals are in bargaining situations (and many others). It has been conducted in many countries (rich and poor) over the last decade with the discovery that most cultures appear to have strong norms of fairness (only exceptions are certain very primitive cultures). That is, rigorous self-interest, even in obviously commercial setting like haggling, is rare. Jean-Laurent Rosenthal is a Professor of Economics, UCLA July since 1996. She specializes in Economic History and Institutions; Property Rights; and Game Theory. Education 19, Seminar 1 Student Activism from the Sixties to the Present Robert Rhoads This course explores student activism at colleges and universities in the United States from the 1960s to the present. Primarily, we will engage in a comparative analysis between student activism of the 1960s and contemporary forms of campus activism. The course will be interdisciplinary in nature, stressing sociological, historical, and cultural understandings. It includes key readings and documentary films. Professor Robert Rhoads is a Sociologist of Higher Education, specializing in student movements and the democratization of colleges and universities. He has published several books on student activism and social change, including Freedom's Web: Student Activism in an Age of Cultural Diversity and Community Service and Higher Learning: Explorations of the Caring Self, and The Policitcal Economy of Globalization (with Carlos Alberto Torres). His most recent research interests center on student-initiated retention efforts, graduate student unionization, and the effects of globalization on higher education. Education 19, Seminar 2 (Canceled) Community-Based Education Intervention Design, Implementation, and Evaluation Edith Mukudi This seminar draws on UCLA Residential Life programming "Knots of Love" project to teach about considerations in education intervention programming. Areas explored include needs level determination, project design and implementation, and project evaluation within aid to education relationship in development programming. This seminar will cover both theory and practical components. Involves working in collaboration with one of the communities with partnership relationships with UCLA Office of Residential Life. Edith Mukudi is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. She teaches courses in International Education Development, including education and national development, aid to education sector development and the African Education seminar. She has background experience in community development project planning, management and research in Kenya. Edith Mukudi is also Faculty in Residence for Rieber Hall. Geography 19, Seminar 1 Land and Society in Latin America Stephen Bell Access to land has long been a key issue in Latin America, a region with many famous examples of inequitable land distributions. There will be an examination of a series of very different forms of land organization and their social consequences. Cases for discussion range from utopian experiments (Jesuit mission experience in Paraguay) to sources of explicit conflicts (political struggles over land in El Salvador). Attention will also be given to contemporary land issues of development in Brazil. Discussions will include Brazilian Amazon and Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement (MST), which has recently become one of the largest social movements in world. Stephen Bell is a historical geographer with extensive field experience in southern South America. He is interested in the transformation of South American landscapes resulting from the lateral spread of North Atlantic capitalism, beginning in the early nineteenth century. Stephen Bell's first book treated the transformation of the distinctive ranching culture along Brazil's southern frontiers. A leading current interest of his is scientific travellers in South America. Geography 19, Seminar 2 Space Imaging of Earth's Environment Laurence Smith Exciting new satellite technologies are now being used to study Amazon deforestation, hurricanes, climate change, natural disasters, melting of polar ice caps, and other dynamic phenomena. Digital images obtained by satellites represent one of fastest growing applications in environmental science. This seminar is an introduction to an exciting field of the space technology and its applications for study of Earth. Following introductory lecture and slide show at UCLA, we will visit NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to learn more about satellite imaging of Earth and other planets. After the field trip, there will be one meeting to discuss what students saw and learned. Laurence Smith joined the faculty of UCLA's Department of Geography in 1996, upon completion of the Ph.D. in Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University. He received a joint appointment with UCLA's Department of Earth & Space Sciences in 2000, and earned tenure in 2002. Current interests include Arctic hydrology, glaciology and satellite remote sensing, particularly using SAR and SAR interferometry. Recent projects include study of the climatic sensitivity of Arctic Russian rivers, field and interferometry studies of glacier outburst floods in Iceland, satellite-based studies of lake dynamics, river flooding and ice breakup in Arctic Russia, and a major field and remote sensing study of Holocene carbon cycling in West Siberian peatlands. History 19, Seminar 1 Fast Food Nation Jessica Wang We will read Eric Schlosser's best-selling expose, Fast Food Nation, in order to consider questions about food and politics that often go undiscussed. Why do we eat what we eat? Who provides our food? How is American food production organized, and why is it structured the way it is today? Who benefits and who loses? What are the consequences--to human health, to the environment, to the economy--of the American way of eating and the American way of life? Jessica Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, where she pursues various interests in the history of the United States since 1865, including political and intellectual history, history of U.S. foreign relations, and the history of American science and technology. She is the author of American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War (1999), as well as a number of articles on various aspects of modern U.S. history. Her current research focuses on the New Deal and the influence of science and technology on public policy in the 1930s. History 19, Seminar 2 Important Ideas in American History Richard Weiss This seminar provides an examination of certain salient ideas in American experience from the 17th century to the present. Richard Weiss is a Professor of History. His primary area of concentration is twentieth - century social and cultural history. He is currently working on a book on the influence of Alfred Adler's ideas in the late 20th century. His earlier writings focused on the success myth and on race and culture in American life. His teaching career has been at Hunter College, Columbia University and UCLA. History 19, Seminar 3 Seeking Los Angeles: Fear and Fantasy in Suburbia Valerie Matsumoto This course will consider the dynamics of race, suburbanization, and popular culture in Los Angeles during decades following World War II. This seminar also provides an examination of Hollywood and film noir, Disneyland, Dodger Stadium, and (in) famous freeway system as sites that have reflected and shaped development of race relations, urban imagery, and contours of the Southern California landscape. Backbone reading is Eric Avila's recent historical study Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, along with several short essays. Valerie Matsumoto teaches US history and Asian American Studies. Her current project is a study of Japanese American youth culture in Los Angeles during the Jazz Age and the Great Depression. History 19, Seminar 4 Romanovs: Europe's Last Autocrats Stephen Frank Examination of Russian Empire's last dynasty, focusing in particular on the reigns of Emperor Peter I ("the Great"), Catherine II ("the Great"), the last three Emperors (Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II) and the collapse of the 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. History 19, Seminar 5 (Canceled) Early Modern Travel and Travellers Sanjay Subrahmanyam This seminar studies early modern travellers in different parts of the world. These include classic accounts of Iberian travels and materials from the Islamic world (North Africa to India). The emphasis is on travellers who crossed conventional cultural boundaries and thus created a new sense of globe in the period. Materials include primary travel texts (in English translation) and some chosen monographs. Treatment is both historical and literary, and the role of the traveller as an ethnographer is stressed. Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor and Doshi Chair of Indian History in the Department of History at UCLA. Earlier he has taught in Delhi, Paris and Oxford. His work encompasses various aspects of early modern history. His publications include The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (1997), Textures of Time (2001), and Explorations in Connected History, 2 Volumes (2004). History 19, Seminar 6 Sheepdogs and Shepherding in History: the British Border Collie, Past and Present Albion Urdank The course will focus on the history of Border Collies in Britain, as this pertains to their roles in work and folklore, as the hill shepherd's helper, and in sport through the sheepdog trial. We will address the following questions: How were Border Collies trained for both work and sport? What are their unique natural abilities that make them the world's premier sheepdog? What is the nature of the sheepdog trial? How does it test the abilities and training of the dogs? How and why is it a sport that mirrors the work experience of the dog while establishing a standard of excellence for its performance? How does the trial differ from the "dog show?" How and why did the image of the Border Collie enter deeply into popular culture on the Anglo-Celtic borders between 1750 and the present? The course will culminate with a campus demonstration of a sheepdog trial, using real Border Collies and real sheep. Albion Urdank is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. He is a historian of British rural history and popular culture, with a Ph.D. earned from Columbia University (see faculty web at www.history.ucla.edu). The course is related to his new research project titled: "Shepherds on the Anglo-Celtic Borders: Craft, Family and Community, 1750-1965." He trains border collies as an avocation and run them competitively in sheepdog trials throughout the western part of the U.S, including Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and the Dakotas, besides of course California. He has also served as a resident "expert" on a web site dedicated to advising novice border collie handlers in the art of running a sheepdog. History 19, Seminar 7 The History and Present of the European Union, a Rising 25 Countries Superpower Ivan Berend The seminar analyses the causes of the emergence of the European integration after WWII; its progress from a customs union via a single market and common currency towards joint military forces; its permanent and gradual enlargement process from the community of six to the union of twenty-five countries; its current problems and controversies; and its impact on history. Ivan Berend is a Professor of History, Director of the Center for European and Eurasian Studies. Member of six European Academies. Author of twenty-four books. 1995-2000: President of the International Committee of Historical Sciences. History 19, Seminar 8 Utopia: Origins and Threats Russell Jacoby This course will read the founding text of the utopian tradition, Thomas More's Utopia, and selections from a biography of More. We will attempt to figure out the appeal of utopianism--and its dangers. Russell Jacoby is a Professor in the Department of History. He specializes in modern intellectual history. He is the author of The Last Intellectuals, The Repression of Psychoanalysis, and other books. Two of his books deal with the utopian tradition, including Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age, to be published in the Spring 2005 by Columbia University Press. History 19, Seminar 9 Terrorists and Door Kickers: Terrorism and Counterterrorism Past and Present Patrick Geary Since September 11 enormous attention has been focused on the ability of small, non-state organizations to inflict tremendous damage on powerful states, but such Asymmetric Warfare is hardly novel. This seminar will look at the development of terrorism as a tactic and the means being developed to defeat it. Professor Patrick Geary is a medieval historian who has written on conflict, violence, ethnicity, and nationalism in early Europe. He has recently been involved with the US Special Operations Command and the US Army Special Forces as they determine how to educate military elites for the future. History 19, Seminar 10 Enlightenment: How We Got to Be Modern Margaret Jacob Examination of 18th-Century European thought with an eye to understanding some of basic values that shape our society: freedom of expression, religious toleration, intellectual creativity, and a willingness to give and take criticism. None of these values just happened; they had to be put in place historically, remain fragile, and are easily contested. We will read among famous as well as clandestine writers from period between roughly 1680 and 1780. Margaret Jacob is a Professor in the Department of History. She has written extensively on the Enlightenment, on freethinking and freemasonry, as well as on the impact of science in the period. History 19, Seminar 11 Fashion in the Age of Louis XIV Kathryn Norberg This course deals with fashion at a critical place and time in its development: court of French King Louis XIV during the years 1661-1715. Students will study extravagant clothing of this period through art, films, and readings. Topics considered: king's clothes, men's lacey but macho clothing, uniforms and what they mean, costume's influence on gesture and movement, fashion print and dissemination of fashion, birth of man's tie, and advent of woman's dress. Discussion focuses on these questions: does fashion confine or liberate the individual? Is fashion subversive or does it reinforce status quo? What is the relationship between power and dress? This seminar coincides with exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art entitled "Fashion at the Court of Louis XIV." LACMA curator Sandra Rosenbaum will visit and discuss the exhibition. Kathryn Norberg is a specialist in seventeenth-century French history. She is the coeditor of a forthcoming book on material culture, Furnishing The Eighteenth Century (Routledge, 2006). She is completing a book on prostitution in seventeenth-century France and embarking on a study of gender at Versailles. She is also coorganizer of a conference sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies entitled "Fashion in the Age of Louis XIV" which will be held June 10-11 at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. History 19, Seminar 12 Love and Death in 12th-Century Europe Teofilo Ruiz This class will consist of a close reading of Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan, in early 13th-century romance. We will discuss the meaning of courtly love, role of women in medieval society, birth of etiquette, and nature of education and chivalry. Teofilo Ruiz is a Professor and Chair in the Department of History. He is the author of nine books and numerous articles on late medieval topics dealing with medieval and early modern Spain. He has taught five previous Fiat Lux seminars. The first one was on September 11. Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 1 Global Souls: Exploring Identity in Age of Globalization Paula Zeszotarski Notions of identity stem from an individual's connection to both formal (i.e., nation) and informal (i.e., family, ethnic group) communities. Traditional theories explore the relation between the individual and one or more of these communities. The legacy of colonialism, increasingly global economy, and new communication and transportation technologies challenge the ability of the individual to locate him/herself in our globalizing world. To understand identity issues in contemporary society, we ask: What are possible forms of global identity? What is the relationship between place (especially nation) and identity? How do immigration and emigration challenge traditional measures of citizenship and belonging? What is globalization and what impact can it have on an individual's identity? Paula Zeszotarski is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCLA Office of Undergraduate Evaluation and Research with dual responsibilities for the assessment activities of the Freshman Cluster Program and the Blended Instruction Case Studies (BICS). She earned her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA. She has been a Teaching Fellow in UCLA Writing Programs and the School of Education and an Adjunct Instructor at Santa Monica College. This seminar on global identity arises from her research interest in the impact of globalization on individual identity and opportunity and the possibility of global citizenship.    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 overview of historical perspective, legal and political issues specifically relating to education, sexual identity development, impact of bullying and harassment in schools and colleges, relationship between sexual orientation discrimination and all other forms of discrimination, how to be an ally, and 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. Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 5 How I Learned to Stop Just Googling... and Find the Really Good Stuff! Esther Grassian Google: 6,360,000 results; Yahoo: 3,530,000?-this is what you get when you search HUMAN AGING in popular Web search tools. A search on "HUMAN AGING" brings Google results down to 62,800 and Yahoo's to 37,300. That helps, but even with just hundreds of results, important questions remain: Are these items accurate, complete, authoritative, and up to date? What is their purpose and point of view? Who is the intended audience? General web search tools like Yahoo and Google find free sites in the "visible web," some useful, many not. Hiding in the "invisible web" are important databases like "PsycINFO" (licensed/subscription) and "PubMed" (free), listing scholarly research materials which may support or refute what you find through general Web search tools. This course will help you save time, prepare better papers and become powerful information researchers. You will learn researching secrets, tips and tricks, so you can identify, locate, evaluate and use quality research materials effectively and responsibly. (Supports GE80 social-sciences-oriented research papers.) 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), an article entitled Do They Really Do That? Librarians Teaching Outside the Classroom, and a forthcoming co-authored book, Learning to Lead and Manage for Information Literacy Instruction (expected publication: March 2005). Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 7 How I Learned to Stop Just Googling... and Find the Really Good Stuff! Stephanie Brasley Google: 55,900 results; Yahoo: 56,300? This is what you get when you search INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS in popular Web search tools. A search on "INTERRACIAL DYNAMICS" brings Google results down to 797 and Yahoo to 266. Even with just hundreds of results, important questions remain: Are these items accurate, complete, authoritative, and up to date? What is their purpose and point of view? Who is the intended audience? General web search tools like Yahoo and Google find free sites in the "visible web," some useful, many not. Hiding in the "invisible web" are important databases like Social Sciences Citation Index and Sociological Abstracts (licensed/subscription) and "ERIC" (free), listing scholarly research materials which may support or refute what you find through general Web search tools. This course will help you save time, prepare better papers and become powerful information researchers. You will learn researching secrets, tips and tricks, so you can identify, locate, evaluate and use quality research materials effectively and responsibly. (Supports GE20 social-sciences-oriented research papers.) Stephanie Sterling Brasley is an Information Literacy Coordinator at UCLA's College Library. She coordinates the development of information and technology literacy sessions for undergraduate students. As a member of the UCLA Library's Information Literacy Program, she is a leader of the Measuring group which is responsible for developing program evaluation and classroom assessment tools for information literacy. Her main research interests include information literacy programmatic and classroom assessment, instructional uses of technology and active learning. She has published lesson plans related to information literacy instruction for K-20 students in several publications, such as Empowering II; Teaching Information Literacy Concepts with Hands-on and Minds-on Activities (2004). Stephanie has developed and led two information and technology literacy professional development programs for K-12 teachers in Southern California. The purpose of these programs was to help teachers incorporate information and technology skills into their curriculum. Law 19, Seminar 1 Great Trials in American History Clyde Spillenger This seminar will look at some of the most celebrated judicial trials in American history. (Note that "trials" is not the same as "cases." These are not U.S. Supreme Court cases, although one or two of them ultimately reached the Supreme Court; the emphasis here is on trials that captured the popular imagination or that otherwise reveal something important about the larger culture.) We will look at some of the legal aspects of these trials, but our main emphasis will be on "reading" them, as reflections of contemporary American society. Thus, this is a course in cultural, intellectual, social, and political history, as well as in legal history. In addition to the readings for the seminar, which are substantial, students will be required to view several films based on the cases studied in the course. Obviously, no special background in law is either required or expected. Clyde Spillenger joined the UCLA Law faculty in 1992 and has been Professor of Law since 1999. He received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1982, his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1987, and an M.Phil. in History from Yale University in 1988. Since joining the UCLA faculty, Professor Spillenger has taught Civil Procedure, American Legal History, Conflict of Laws, and Constitutional Law; he has also taught an undergraduate history seminar on "Great Trials in American History." His research interests focus on topics in American legal and constitutional history. Among his publications are Louis Brandeis, the early twentieth-century lawyer and Supreme Court justice. He is currently at work on a manuscript analyzing the early history of the American doctrine of conflict of laws. In his spare time, Professor Spillenger is a jazz guitarist who performs with the quartet Half Step Down. Management 19, Seminar 1 University Scientist-Entrepreneurs and the Formation of High-tech Industries Michael Darby Most economic growth is concentrated in relatively few firms in a relatively few industries experiencing metamorphic progress. Fast growing, high-tech industries are concentrated around major research universities such as Stanford, UCSF, Berkeley, UCSD, Texas-Austin, Harvard and MIT. This seminar explores the process by which breakthrough discoveries become commercial technologies, sometimes by transfer to existing firms and often through new firms created to exploit a major discovery. Topics for discussion include: perfective and metamorphic progress; key characteristics of scientific discovery and knowledge and technology; learning by doing with; entry and success or failure of firms in high-tech industries, policies which enhance or retard commercialization of university discoveries. Michael R. Darby is the Cordner Professor of Money & Financial Markets in the Anderson School and Economics & Policy Studies Departments, Associate Director of SPPSR's Center for International, Science, Technology & Cultural Policy, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology. He was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (1986-89), Member of the National Commission on Superconductivity (1988-89), Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs (1989-92), and Administrator of the Economics and Statistics Administration (1990-92) in the U.S. government. Darby authored 11 books & monographs and over 100 other publications. He was Editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance Policy (1980-86) and serves or served as President of the Western Economic Association and as editorial board member for American Economic Review, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economic Inquiry, and International Reports. Darby received the Alexander Hamilton Award in 1989. Management 19, Seminar 2 & 3 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. Management 19, Seminar 4 Inequality in World Economy Sebastian Edwards This course will discuss the implications of globalization for inequality around the world. We will discuss a number of important topics and review of existing evidence. Some concepts developed are: globalization, trade agreements, inequality, and poverty. Instruments used to measure inequality, such as Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient. Discussion of role played by international institutions, including World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization. Sebastian Edwards is the Henry Ford II Professor of International Economics at the Anderson Graduate School of Management and Professor of Economics. Public Policy 19, Seminar 1 Speculative Fiction and the Future of Human Genetics Andrew Sabl An exploration, through high-quality speculative fiction (a.k.a.) "science" fiction, of social and ethical issues surrounding possible future manipulation of human genome. The course will not assume that specific techniques portrayed in the works will in fact be used in the future but will use fictional hypotheticals to think through questions of more general significance. Questions to include: who will control genetic manipulation? What is the proper balance of corporate profit, individual choice, technical control and public regulation? Will genetics reinforce existing social inequalities? Will it create new ones? Does genetic manipulation now, and may it someday, change what it means to be "human?" Is genetics qualitatively different from other interventions or merely a continuation of existing trends in medicine, biology, and social policy? Andrew Sabl teaches political theory and ethics in UCLA's Department of Policy Studies. His interests include democratic and constitutional theory, the ethics of racial classification and affirmative action, the history of political thought, and theories of toleration. He is faculty fellow in the university-wide program at the Center for Society and Genetics. Social Welfare 19, Seminar 1 Intergenerational Communication across Life Span Lene Levy-Storms What do you say to engage your parents in conversation? How do you talk to your grandparents? Does your family talk to one another as a group well? Individuals of all ages interact with one another, and their interactions have significance throughout their lives. This seminar aids in the understanding of nuances of interpersonal communication as they apply across various age groups. Lene Levy-Storms is an Assistant Professor of Social Welfare and Medicine/Geriatrics. Her core research concerns communication issues between health care providers and patients. Older adults with their increased risk of having chronic care needs and limited social relationships may depend on formal health care providers for technical assistance as well as emotional support. In 2003, Dr. Levy-Storms received a career development award from the National Institute on Aging titled, "Therapeutic Communication during Nursing Home Care." In this five year study, she is focusing on communication issues between nursing home staff and frail, older residents during care. Sociology 19, Seminar 1 Che: A Revolutionary Life Maurice Zeitlin In his last letter to his small children, as he was again leaving for another remote battlefield against "imperialism," Che wrote: "Your father has been a man who acts as he thinks and you can be sure that he has been faithful to his convictions. Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone anywhere in the world." What did Che mean by "injustice"? What were his "convictions"? How did he "act" so as to be "faithful" to them? The answers that Che gave to these questions, and how we assess his answers, are as critical to understanding the world today as they were when Che was captured and assassinated 37 years ago. Maurice Zeitlin is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA. His latest book is Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions (with Judith Stepan-Norris). His other books include Cuba: An American Tragedy (with Robert Scheer); American Society, Inc (edited); and The Civil Wars in Chile. He is the winner of two Project Censored journalism prizes for reportage on inequality in America and a Guggenheim fellowship, two Ford fellowships, and other awards for distinguished scholarship, as well as the UCLA Mortar Board (National Senior Honors Society) Faculty Award. Zeitlin interviewed Che in the fall of 1961 shortly after the failure of the U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba and again in the fall of 1962 on the eve of the Missile Crisis. 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. The retreat will take place in April. Peter Kollock is a 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. Sociology 19, Seminar 3 Coyotes and Borders: Migration Industry in Global Perspective Ruben Hernandez-Leon This seminar deals with the burgeoning global migration industry. The migration industry is the complex of profit-motivated services that foster, facilitate, and sustain international migration. Migration industry includes services of smugglers (coyotes), labor contractors, transportation companies, travel agencies, communication and remittance businesses, mail-order bride services, false and valid documentation procurement, and legal and paralegal consulting, among others. This seminar evaluates the role of migration industry in variety of international migratory flows, in context of Mexico-U.S. stream and specific case of Los Angeles. Professor Hernandez-Leon's current areas of research are new destinations of Mexican immigration in the United States, the migration industry between these two countries, urban and metropolitan origins of Mexico-US migration and the social and political management and construction of the US-Mexico border. He has also conducted research on youth issues and urban poverty in Mexico. The results of his research have been published in Work and Occupations, Social Science Quarterly, International Migration Review, Southern Rural Sociology, Ciudades and in several edited books. He is co-editor of New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States (Russell Sage Foundation) and is working on a book on the causes and social organization of U.S.-bound migration in a large metropolitan setting in Mexico. Sociology 19, Seminar 4 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. Internet is a giant network. There have been some recent exciting developments in the study of large networks that characterize our particularly connected age. This seminar will provide an examination of some of these new models and ways in which they can be used to understand network phenomena in 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. 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? Many urban areas, in the U.S. and elsewhere, are growing rapidly at their peripheries, with new residential, commercial, and industrial developments gobbling up undeveloped land, or smaller towns, often at a startling pace. Even some cities losing population are expanding physically as families shrink in size, generating more households per capita, and the demand for space continues to rise with income. And so? Some evidence indicates that this pattern of development is problematic for a host of reasons. Land consumption for urban development is particularly a concern when converted from potentially more valuable land uses, including land devoted to scenic, recreational, and habitat purposes. More city traffic jeopardizes our health, our sanity, and our pocketbook, as well as the environment. There is much to learn about, first, how to think about how communities form and spread and, second, what to do about it. 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). Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 19, Seminar 1 Space Weather: Impacts on Human Activities Richard Thorne Our Sun is a variable star, which occasionally develops active regions leading to solar fares and coronal mass ejections. Such solar eruptions travel outwards through the interplanetary medium and often impact the upper reaches of the Earth's space environment. This causes geomagnetic storms and pronounced variability in the Earth's radiation belts. Important consequences at the Earth are: the intensification of auroral emission, temporary decreases in our protective ozone layer, radiation hazards to spacecraft and high altitude aircraft, disruption to radio communication and the GPS navigation system, and disturbances in the Earth's electrical power transmission lines. These intriguing phenomena and our current ability to predict the impact of solar disturbances on the Earth's environment will be discussed in elementary terms, suitable for students with only high school science preparation. Professor Thorne has been active in space research for the last 37 years. His main interests are the radiation belts of magnetized planets and their effects on the upper atmosphere. He has been involved in the analysis of data from several NASA satellite missions and was a member of the Geosciences Mission Definition Team for the current Living with a Star Program. Civil & Environmental Engineering 19, Seminar 1 Learning from our Mistakes: Catastrophic Failure of Structures through the Ages Ertugrul Taciroglu Engineers constantly strive to perfect their designs by careful analysis and experimentation, and to reach new frontiers in a constant battle with the elements of nature. This constant push, and the ever-present limitations in our understanding of the physical world, occasionally leads to unfortunate and catastrophic failures. Dr. Taciroglu received a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. Prior to joining UCLA in 2001, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets at the University of Illinois. His research interests include response of structures under extreme loading such earthquakes, blast and impact. At UCLA, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on solid and structural mechanics. Communication Studies 19, Seminar 1 Use and Misuse of Graphics in Communicating Scientific Research David Schriger Tales of drugs once considered promising but now found harmful, and scientific truths now debunked, regularly appear in lay press. How is this possible? Why was presentation of findings inadequate to permit readers to identify flaws? Not long ago, limitations on article length and number of graphics constrained how science could be presented. Today, such limitations are gone. This seminar explores how data graphics can be used to improve the quality of scientific reporting of original science. We will also explore how graphics can bring readers closer to data, thereby eliminating many biases inherent in various forms of simplification including statistical analysis. Exploration of different graphic options, their use and misuse and assessment of graphical quality of scientific literature. This seminar will be of interest to those in science, communications, and graphic arts. David Schriger is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCLA and the Methodology/Statistical Editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine, the leading journal in the field. Much of his current research involves developing methods for improving the truthfulness and quality of the medical literature. An example of his work on the use of graphs for such purpose can be found here. Earth & Space Sciences 19, Seminar 1 Natural Disasters: Tsunamis, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes William I. Newman Natural disasters have been of substantial concern during recent months. In this course, we will study the physical processes that underlay tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides and avalanches, and volcanic eruptions. Our focus will be to understand why these events occur, to what extent they can be predicted, and how their effects can be mitigated and thereby save human life and property. This course will help provide students with a better understanding of how the forces that shape our planet impact our lives, and how we can anticipate and address some of nature's most dramatic events. Professor Newman's primary research interests relate to a variety of natural hazards, including their frequency and strength of occurrence, the extent to which they can be predicted or, more commonly, allow for advance preparation, and the reduction of their impact. He uses modern computational and mathematical methods in his research to approach these problems, and he is particularly interested in modeling events ranging from earthquakes to forest fires so that we can better understand how they are initiated and spread. Earth & Space Sciences 19, Seminar 2 "Bad Science" John Vidale Although most science research is conducted well (the "brethren" made me say that), in notable cases the scientific method has gone awry, sometimes with dramatic and long-lasting results. We will discuss a case a week, including these misadventures: Earthquake prediction of several flavors; the Piltdown Man; Trofim Lysenko, whose misbegotten genetic theories starved millions of Soviets; Creationist challenges to Earth Science; Creationist challenges to evolution; Homeopathy; Cold fusion, and more. John Vidale is a Professor in the Earth and Space Sciences Department, and he is also Interim Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. He studies earthquakes and Earth structure, and has both generated and tried to impede bad science. His recent projects include whether the inner core spins, how fault zones break and heal, and whether tides trigger earthquakes. For more information, please visit his website. Earth & Space Sciences 19, Seminar 3 Good to the Last Drop? How Long Will Cheap Oil and Clean Water Last? David Jackson Human civilization as we know depends upon many natural resources, most notably oil and water. Oil is clearly non-renewable and its supply is limited by geological conditions. The future of oil is hotly debated, with some contending that production has peaked and that shortages will lead to disputes and even wars in the near future. Others contend that technology will save us, extending cheap energy supplies for a century or more. How can there be such diverse estimates? Water is perhaps more important than oil. Water is often regarded as renewable, but pure water is only renewable if it is carefully protected. Much of our water is now "mined" from aquifers that will take thousands of years to recharge. Will water shortages limit our lifestyle, including what we can eat and where we can live? In this course we will consider geological, engineering, economic, and political views on resources for the future. Professor Jackson is a Seismologist and Chair of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences. He has been at UCLA since 1969. His primary research interests are earthquakes in California and the world, and natural resource adequacy. He has taught lower-division courses on Earthquakes, Environmental Geology, and the Cosmos Cluster; upper division courses on Geophysical Exploration; and graduate courses on Earth's Interior and Seismology. He has arranged professional conferences on Earth Resources. Earth & Space Sciences 19, Seminar 4 The Saturn System: Exploration by the Cassini Spacecraft Gerald Schubert The Cassini spacecraft is currently carrying out a multi-year mission of exploration of Saturn and its moons. There are dedicated observations of Saturn and flybys of the Saturnian satellites. Cassini has targeted its Huygens Probe to land on the surface of the large moon Titan on January 14, 2005. The exciting results of the Cassini mission will revolutionize our understanding of the Saturn system and the solar system as a whole. In this seminar we will review pre-Cassini knowledge of Saturn and its moons and discuss the Cassini findings from the first six months of the mission. New discoveries will certainly challenge our imagination and understanding of things never before seen. Gerald Schubert is a Distinguished Professor of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, in the Earth and Space Sciences Department and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Professor Schubert has participated in many NASA missions to the planets and moons, most recently the Galileo mission to the Jupiter system. He is President of the Planetary Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union and recipient of the Union's Hess Medal in planetary science. He is the author of two books and numerous review articles about the planets and their moons. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 1 Parasites: Eating Us Alive Donald Buth This seminar will introduce students to the parasitological half of the animal kingdom by way of popular text that emphasizes historical aspects of this biological phenomenon. Humans as hosts are emphasized. Topics include how parasites have influenced human evolution and human history. Donald G. Buth, Ph.D University of Illinois 1978. His research includes studies of population structure and phylogenetic relationships of North American freshwater fishes, and distributional patterns of helminth parasites of marine fishes. His courses include vertebrate biology (EEB 111), ichthyology (112), systematics (EEB 130), field biology of marine fishes (EEB 164), and parasitology (EEB 181). Environment 19, Seminar 1 Global Warming and Societal Collapse: Fiction or Imminent Reality? Hartmut Walter This seminar will provide students with reading and evaluation of two current non-fiction bestsellers by Michael Crichton and Jared Diamond. How accurate and appropriate is scientific evidence used by these influential authors? Can we concur with their pessimistic outlook for survival of our current western cultural and resource consumption patterns? Professor Hartmut Walter is interested in a healthy environment, other cultures, science fiction novels, history, and photography. He teaches courses on biodiversity, African wildlife, conservation, and a field course on the biogeography of Southern California. Environment 19, Seminar 2 (Canceled) California Oaks: Can Tree-Sitters and Tree-Cutters be Friends? Victoria Sork Modern oaks that appeared in California more than 20 million years ago, before Sierra Nevada and coastal ranges uplifted, were used by indigenous people for hundreds of years and now are in jeopardy. This seminar will provide discussion of evolutionary history of oaks, ecology of oak habitats, and current threat, and exploration of ecological and political landscape. What are oak ordinances? Are they effective? Why do developers hate them? Why do environmentalists sit in oak trees? Is there sustainable conservation strategy for long-term survival of oaks in California that environmentalists and developers can live with? This class provides lectures and discussion of readings and social issues of California oaks as well as development of a conservation plan and holding of a town hall hearing on its merits and limitations. Victoria Sork is a Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Department Chair in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She has conducted research on the ecology, evolution, and conservation of oaks for more than 20 years, and has worked on California oaks for the last eight years. In particular, she uses molecular markers to determine the impact of landscape change on gene movement though pollen and seed dispersal. She has also conducted work on the genetic history of valley oak in California. She has advised on oak management plans and is currently a member of the Tejon Ranch Corporation Environmental Advisory Group.    Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 6 How I Learned to Stop Just Googling... and Find the Really Good Stuff! Dominique Turnbow Google: 6,360,000 results; Yahoo: 3,530,000?-this is what you get when you search HUMAN AGING in popular Web search tools. A search on "HUMAN AGING" brings Google results down to 62,800 and Yahoo's to 37,300. That helps, but even with just hundreds of results, important questions remain: Are these items accurate, complete, authoritative, and up to date? What is their purpose and point of view? Who is the intended audience? General web search tools like Yahoo and Google find free sites in the "visible web," some useful, many not. Hiding in the "invisible web" are important databases like "PsycINFO" (licensed/subscription) and "PubMed" (free), listing scholarly research materials which may support or refute what you find through general Web search tools. This course will help you save time, prepare better papers and become powerful information researchers. You will learn researching secrets, tips and tricks, so you can identify, locate, evaluate and use quality research materials effectively and responsibly. (Supports GE80 social-sciences-oriented research papers.) 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). Her co-presentation, Dissecting a Database: Leading Students to Discovery-Based Learning was recently published in Empowering Students II: Teaching Information Literacy Concepts with Hands-on and Minds-on Activities (2004). Mathematics 19, Seminar 1 What's Math Got to Do With it? Tony Chan Mathematics is probably the least understood (and appreciated) among the hard sciences by the general public. Its public image is probably a mixture of inscrutability, fear and irrelevance to everyday life. In fact, mathematics is at the foundation of our highly technological society. The application of mathematics can be found in almost all walks of life, and often in the most unexpected places. This seminar will provide some examples of interesting applications of frontier research mathematics in areas that are quite close to everyday life. Examples include the movies, the stock market, the internet, medicine, communication, etc. No math background beyond high school is assumed or needed. Professor Tony Chan is a computational and applied mathematician. He has worked in many application areas, including image processing, computer vision, brain mapping, VLSI physical design optimization, and fluid dynamics. He has been at UCLA since 1986, was former Chair of Mathematics, former Director of the Institute for Pure and Applied Math, and he is the current Dean of Physical Sciences. Medicine 19, Seminar 1 The Magic of Medicine Neil Parker Extraordinary discoveries and methods of treatment that frequently occur in the UCLA Medical Center and the David Geffen School of Medicine are shaping the course for medicine worldwide. Computer robotic surgery, nanomedicine and exquisitely designed surgeries that separated conjoined twins are lauded in medical journals and news media. This seminar will introduce students to translational medicine...the exciting scientific discoveries that are immediately applied to clinical treatment and practice illustrated in the UCLA Medical Center. The seminar will engage students in critical discussions of the potential for cutting edge research; how discoveries are made and how they translate into medical practice and treatment. Through discussion and exposure to distinguished scientists and clinical faculty, students will learn of the tremendous potential in medical sciences and its impact on the future of health care and treatment worldwide. Dr. Neil H. Parker is a Professor in Internal Medicine, Senior Associate Dean in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He joined the faculty at UCLA in 1977 as Chief Resident in Medicine and was appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education in 1991. In 1996 he became Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Parker has earned numerous awards throughout his career including the AOA, the Outstanding Fulltime Faculty Award, Department of medicine and the UCLA Medical Staff Service Award. Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology 19, Seminar 1 Ethical Implications of Genetic Engineering Robert 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. Robert Goldberg is a Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology and has been on the UCLA faculty since 1976. He received his undergraduate degree in botany from Ohio University and his doctoral degree in plant genetics from the University of Arizona. Professor Goldberg's research focuses on the genes that control seed formation and how to use these genes to make the "super crops" of tomorrow. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to the field of plant molecular biology, including election to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Order for Scientific Merit from the President of Brazil, and being listed as making one of the "Top 20" Professors in UCLA's 75-year history. He has received Distinguished Teaching Awards from the Department of Biology and the Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, and he has received the Luckmann Distinguished Teaching Award and the Gold Shield Prize for Excellence in Research and Undergraduate Education from the Academic Senate. Nursing 19, Seminar 1 Who Wants to Live to 100? Aging in the 21st Century Janet Mentes This seminar will explore what is currently known about human aging and longevity and put it in the context of personal and family aging concerns. We will tackle questions such as, When are we old? It is fine to grow old, but do I have to get sick?, What about antiaging medicine?, How can I plan for my parents or my own aging? By the end of the quarter, students will have an appreciation of aging trends, stereotypes, common illnesses and strategies for healthy aging. Dr. Mentes is a nurse researcher and practitioner specializing in gerontology. She has taught aging coursework to nursing and social science students for 20 years. Her exploration of and personal experience with aging have lead her to the belief that healthy aging begins much earlier than age 65. Health and personal habits that are developed over a lifetime can affect personal aging and it is never too early to plan for a healthy old age. Physics 19, Seminar 1 What is Time? Michael Gutperle In this seminar we will discuss some aspects of the physical nature and properties of time, such as: How is time measured? Are time and space fundamentally different? What is the physical basis for an arrow of time (i.e. what distinguishes past and future?) Is time travel physically possible? Can there be a beginning of time? Michael Gutperle is Assistant Professor of Physics at UCLA. Before coming to UCLA he held postdoctoral positions at Princeton, Harvard and Stanford. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, U.K. Professor Gutperle's research interest lies in theoretical particle physics, string theory and mathematical physics. Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences 19 Seminar 1 Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease: Issues to Consider Christina Palmer This course focuses on topics related to genetic testing for Alzheimer disease. We will begin by reviewing what Alzheimer disease is and what it means to individuals and their family members, then progress to an overview of how genes for complex diseases like Alzheimer disease are discovered, followed by a review of genes known to be involved in Alzheimer disease. All of this fascinating material will then allow us to discuss and debate issues related to genetic testing for Alzheimer disease, in particular, presymptomatic testing, that is, finding out if you are susceptible to Alzheimer disease before you have developed any signs or symptoms. Although genetic testing may sound straightforward, you will be amazed at how complicated the topic really is! Christina Palmer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences. She is a trained genetic counselor and provides genetic counseling for neuropsychiatric conditions at UCLA. She conducts research in psychiatric genetics. Statistics 19, Seminar 1 (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. This seminar explores financial losses from Los Angeles wildfires from two-week period in 1993 exceeded one billion dollars, and similar devastation occurred in Fall of 1996 and 2004, and focuses on 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 ecological cycle of Southern California. Frederic Paik Schoenberg is an Associate 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. Statistics 19, Seminar 2 Statistics of Death Penalty Richard Berk The issues raised by death penalty in the U.S. are moral, political, and empirical. In this course the emphasis will be on empirical; what are facts about who is executed, who winds up on death row, and who is charged with capital offense. Among empirical questions considered: Is there evidence that race and gender play role? Is there evidence that death penalty deters homicides and other series crimes? Is there evidence that innocent individuals have been executed? Richard Berk is a distinguished Professor of Statistics and Sociology [ home | invitation | program | submission form | examples ] [ press release | evaluations | college | fall 04 | winter 05 | spring 05 ]