Ancient Near East 19, Seminar 1

Magic and Mystery from Ancient Egypt to Harry Potter

Jacco Dieleman

This course is a survey of the roles and functions of magic and magicians in the ancient and modern world. We will read ancient magical texts, anthropological accounts of magical practices, and novels about wizards and sorcery. To many in modern-day U.S. society magic is nothing but superstition based on irrational beliefs about the workings of nature, not worthy of any serious scholarly attention. However, magic appears to be of all times and places and should therefore not be dismissed as an object of study. It is apparently a very human thing to believe in, or practice magic. In this class, we will approach magic as a logical system of thought, a theory of causality, which must be studied and valued in its own terms in order to be understood properly. Through class discussions, we will try to acquire a better understanding of why people make use of magic and the occult in their lives and why many people of today are still fascinated by stories and movies about sorcery.

Jacco Dieleman is Assistant Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. He is a specialist on the occult sciences in the ancient world. He wrote his dissertation on two Egyptian-Greek magical handbooks and is currently working on a number of astrological handbooks from ancient Egypt.

Applied Linguistics 19, Seminar 1

Cavemen Walking

John Schumann

This course will take advantage of the recent publication of two books, Walking with Cavemen and The Journey of Man, and accompanying videotapes on the evolution of humans and their early migrations. The course will begin with the first book and will examine the 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. The second

book presents genetic research on the Y chromosome tracing human migration out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, first to Australia, then to the Middle East, from there to India, East Asia and eventually to Europe and the 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 16 years.

Comparative Literature 19, Seminar 1

Love Poems from around the World and

through the Ages

Lucia Re

Comparative reading and discussion of a variety of short love poems written by great male and female authors of different ages, cultures, ethnicities, and sexual orientations, ranging from Sappho and Catullus to Petrarch, Christina Rossetti, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Kazuko Shiraishi, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Amelia Rosselli. There will be an emphasis on esthetic and emotional power and uniqueneness of poetic discourse on/of love. Themes include: poem as revelation of self; relationship between self and other in poem; relationship between content and form; cultural and historical differences; differences between male, female, and transgender voices; power of poetic language; and imagery, musicality, passion, rationality, seduction, eroticism, irony, spirituality, transgression, betrayal, separation, narcissism, dream, oblivion, forgetting, melancholy, and ecstasy.

Professor Lucia Re received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale. She specializes in modern Italian literature and culture, comparative literature and gender studies. Her recent work includes the edition and translation (with Paul Vangelisti) of Amelia Rosselli's volume of experimental poetry, "War Variations", winner of the 2005 PEN USA translation award.

English 19, Seminar 1

Romeo and Juliet: From Page to Stage,

Film, and Beyond

Stephen Dickey

This seminar will undertake an intensive study of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with particular emphasis on performance choices- ways the text has been interpreted and reinterpreted, and played and parodied in various media. The story of Romeo and Juliet was an international bestseller in 16th-century Europe. We will explore Shakespeare's transformation of a narrative poem called The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet into drama. There will also be an examination of transformation of Shakespeare's script into performance, using resources of stage history, directors' and actors' commentaries, and selection of films and excerpts including 1936 and 1968 films, as well as recent Romeo + Juliet and Shakespeare in Love. Students will attend a production of Romeo and Juliet at A Noise Within, a distinguished repertory company in Glendale.

Stephen Dickey is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, teaching courses in Shakespeare, drama, and poetry, among other topics. He received a Distinguished Teaching Award at UCLA. He has published on Romeo and Juliet, and in recent years he sponsored a Shakespeare Offshoot Film Festival on campus.

English 19, Seminar 2 (Canceled)

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. Toward the end of the 19th century, black authors began to turn back to oral expression for thematic and formal models, and this trend has continued to the present day. In this seminar, we will consider how African American writers have adapted sermons, folktales, and other vernacular forms in their work and how they drew as well upon black music (specifically, blues, spirituals, and jazz) for inspiration. Although our primary focus will be on Langston Hughes, we will also look at such authors as Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Walker, and Gil Scott-Heron, and at contemporary rap and spoken word poetry.

Richard Yarborough is an Associate Professor of English and a Faculty Research Associate in the Center for African American Studies. He is also Associate general editor of the Heath Anthology of American Literature and 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.

English 19, Seminar 3

Lies, Frauds, and Hoaxes in American Literature

Blake Allmendinger

This course will examine famous lies, frauds, and hoaxes in American literature, and the ethical and aesthetic issues they raise for readers. We will consider the controversy over James Frye's alleged non-fiction book, A Million Little Pieces, which turned out to be partly fictional. We will also read The Education of Little Tree, an autobiography supposedly written by a Native American, which was in fact authored by a Southern white man who was a member of the KKK. We will examine the Howard Hughes' diaries "hoax," in which Clifford Irving claimed to have discovered the private writings of the world's greatest recluse. And we will conclude by looking at examples of literary plagiarism, involving some of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

Professor Blake Allmendinger is a Professor of American Literature. He is the author of four books of scholarship on the American West. He specializes in American and Western American literature and popular culture.

English 19, Seminar 4

National Poetry Month- and Beyond!

Reed Wilson

In 1996, the Academy of American Poets established April as “National Poetry Month.” During this month, readings, exhibitions, and events occur throughout the U.S. "to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture." In this seminar, we will attend readings and events during April, May, and June, study carefully the work of poets whose voices we encounter, and discover ways to stay tuned to the art of poetry throughout the year. Enrollees must be at UCLA on the weekend of April 28-29 to attend readings at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

Reed Wilson teaches in the English Department and directs the Undergraduate Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences. His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Natural Bridge, Paper Street and other magazines.

Ethnomusicology 19, Seminar 1

Music from the Roof of the World: Tibet

and Her Neighbors

Helen Rees

Familiar from SUV commercials and soundtracks to films such as Kundun and Seven Years in Tibet, Tibetan sacred music has entered Western popular culture as the ultimate embodiment of mysterious, lost paradise. This seminar will examine the Buddhist music behind the commercial front with which we are all familiar, and will go further by introducing the wonderful but little-known secular musical traditions of Tibet. Students also learn simple Tibetan folk dance. Musical presentation of Tibet by Tibetan and Chinese musicians within and outside People's Republic of China is given special emphasis.

Helen Rees is a specialist in the music of China. For many years now her research has focused on music from the far southwestern province of Yunnan, which borders on Tibet and has a substantial Tibetan population. Her first book, Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China (2000), explores music of the Naxi, a Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority in this region, and investigates the way performing arts are used within China to articulate the identity of ethnic minority groups. She has interpreted several times for southwest Chinese musicians performing at festivals in Europe and the U.S.

Film and Television 19, Seminar 1

Documentary and Society

Marina Goldovskaya

This course will introduce students to the rapidly developing genre of documentary film. In the past decade, big changes took place in this field: non-fiction films are not only shown on TV, but screened theatrically and attract big audiences. Now it is evident that documentary can not only inform and educate, as it was before. It became a very special art form, especially powerful as it tells true stories with real characters. It continues to be an important medium in exploration of social issues and provoking a dialogue in the society. The growth and development of non-fiction is directly connected with the digital revolution in contemporary world. In this course, new opportunities in representing reality will be discussed. Do films matter? Can they make a difference? And if they can, in what way? Five films recently created in the United States and other countries of the world will be screened and analyzed. The course will expose students to the most innovative and inaccessible documentaries to help broaden their world view and evoke interest.

Professor Marina Goldovskaya is a filmmaker with 34 documentaries to her credit. She is a director, producer, cinematographer and a script writer. Russian by origin, she came to the U.S. in 1992. During her long teaching career she taught in Moscow State University, in UCSD (San Diego), Vassar College, and Northridge. Since 1995, she has bee running the documentary program at the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media. She continues her filmmaking career, producing, shooting, and directing films for European, American and Russian Television.

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 B.S. 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

Pirkei Avot: The Foundation of Jewish Ethics

Jonathan Zasloff/Chain Seidler-Feller

Pirkei Avot is one of the central ethical treatises of

the Jewish tradition, a combination of theology, moral philosophy, legal theory, and Jewish history. It is also the most accessible tractate of the Mishnah, the codification of Jewish law redacted about 200 C.E. In this course, we will engage in a close reading and

discussion of Pirkei Avot, granting us a window both into ancient Jewish civilization and our own futures. The course requirements are careful reading of the text, a willingness to discuss, debate and listen, and the maintenance of a sense of humor at all times.

Jonathan Zasloff is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law.

Chain Seidler-Feller is director of UCLA Hillel

Music History 19, Seminar 1

Orpheus: Musics, Myths, and Metaphors

Mitchell Morris

The classical Greek myth of Orpheus, the singer so skilled that he could move the underworld, has embodied fantasies about the power of music for centuries. This course takes up several rich instances of the myth as represented in music, literature, dance, painting, and film. At stake are a multitude of questions important to cultural interpretation. What kind of power does music really have in our worlds? What kind of power do we wish that it had? Orpheus has usually been presented in complex relations with men and women, situated idiosyncratically between masculine and feminine worlds. Does this liminal position say something about music? About its performers? About its audiences? Given the variety of manifestations of this story, is there anything about the myth that persists across media, across historical times and places?

Mitchell Morris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Musicology at UCLA. He researches and teaches on a wide range of musical topics, including music, gender, and sexuality; opera; film music; American popular song; questions of musical ethics; and whale songs. He received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCLA Alumni Association in 2003.

Scandinavian 19, Seminar 1

Short, Short Stories of Scandinavia

Mary Norseng

Reading and discussion of short fictional texts by Scandinavian writers from the middle ages to the present. Topics include the power of "the short."

Mary Norseng has been a member of the Scandinavian faculty at UCLA since 1973. She teaches courses on Scandinavian literature, primarily of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including many of the short stories that will be discussed in this seminar.

World Arts & Cultures 19, Seminar 1

Photography as Magic: Visuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Allen F. Roberts

Photographs seem so real. How could they not be, when they result from mechanics of camera and chemistry of film and darkroom: isn't this simply science? Recent breakthroughs like Photoshop suggest how easy manipulation can be, and such devious arts have always been a factor in photographic production. Of more interest are culturally-constructed understandings of what photography is and does, in our own circumstances and in societies very different from most of our backgrounds. How did early 20th-century spirit photography challenge understandings of medium in the U.S.? Why are you unlikely to tear up a photo of your mom? When looking at photograph, is it looking back at you? Can a photograph exist of someone who lived centuries before photography was invented? Can a photograph magically protect, promote, and heal a person showing it devotional respect? Case studies from around the world make us wonder about our own notions of photographic “reality.”

Anthropology 19, Seminar 1

The Ecology of Crime

Paul Brantingham

Crime thrives in large urban settings, leading one to think it is natural and normal feature of modern life. This seminar examines the causes of crime from an ecological perspective, asking questions about the role of environment and the behaviors of criminal offenders, victims, and law enforcement in generation and control of crime patterns. Specific topics include minimal constituents of crime, criminal foraging, crime niche, crime and competition, and evolution of criminal strategies. Discussions will emphasize parallels between crime and examples will be drawn from classical ecology.

Paul Brantingham is an Anthropologist interested in the ecology and evolution of hunter-gatherers. He conducts archaeological fieldwork in Tibet and runs a collaborative project on the mathematical and simulation modeling of crime at UCLA.

Anthropology 19, Seminar 2

The Origins of War

Charles Stanish

This seminar examines the enduring debate about whether war is inherent in human nature or is a product of our recent (last 5000 years) historical past. We will read both sides of the debate and focus discussion on contemporary issues facing our world.

A professional archaeologist since 1985 and holder of UCLA's Lloyd Cotsen Chair in Archaeology, Charles Stanish and his students work in South America on the evolution of complex societies. He currently serves as Director of the Cotsen Institute at UCLA.

Anthropology 19, Seminar 3

Animals in Translation: Evolutionary Approach

to Animal Thinking and Autism

Daniel Fessler

How do animals experience the world? Adopting an evolutionary psychological approach, this seminar will examine the book Animals in Translation, an attempt by noted autistic author Temple Grandin to explore and explain the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings of many nonhuman animals. Along the way, we will discuss the

tenets of evolutionary psychology, Grandin's theory of autism, and the insights that cross-species comparisons can provide.

Daniel Fessler approaches a variety of aspects of human behavior, experience, and physiology from an integrative perspective in which humans are viewed as both the products of complex evolutionary processes and the possessors of acquired cultural idea systems and behavioral patterns. His research focuses on a number of domains including: emotion; sex and reproduction; food and eating; violence and risk-taking; and conformity and cooperation. For a fuller treatment of his research interests, please see http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fessler/

Asian American Studies 19, Seminar 1

Glimpses of Pre-Olympic China

King-Kok Cheung

In an interdisciplinary fashion, this course will look at the impact of globalization on China and on U.S.-China relations. Focusing on Beijing, we will explore what is globalization and its effects; how does globalization affect U.S.-China relations; what are mutual images of Chinese and Americans; is the nation-state declining--being supplanted by international organizations--or is globalization fueling nationalism and terrorist violence; who are winners and losers in globalization; how does globalization affect culture, family, and education; and what are the responsibilities of and opportunities for (Asian) Americans in globalized China?

King-Kok Cheung is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa (Cornell,1993); editor of Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers (U of Hawaii Press, 2000), An Interethnic Companion to Asian American literature (Cambridge, 1996), Seventeen Syllables (Rutgers, 1994), Asian American literature: An Annotated Bibliography (MLA, 1988) and a co-editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature (Houghton Mifflin, 2005. She has received an ACLS fellowship, a Mellon fellowship, a Fulbright lecturing and research award, and a resident fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. She has been appointed as the Director of the University of California Study Center in Beijing.

Communication Studies 19, Seminar 1

The Hidden Side of Female Desire

Martie Haselton

Theories in evolutionary biology predict that men will be more open to low-cost mating opportunities than will women, and women will be more cautious in mating than will men. Abundant evidence across social and biological sciences supports these predictions. Does this mean that women are monogamous and men are not? No. There is another side of female desire that can also be understood from an evolutionary perspective--one that predicts that women will stray from their long-term relationships in predictable circumstances. This course will explore the facets of female sexuality that have previously been hidden from view. We will also discuss other hidden aspects of women's desires, including control, power, and possibly food.

Martie Haselton is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Psychology. He is also an Associate Director, UCLA-NSF Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program, 2006-Present; Co-Editor in Chief: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2006-present; Governing Board Member, UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture.

Economics 19, Seminar 1

Bargaining, Haggling, and Fairness Across Cultures

Naomi Lamoreaux

This seminar will explore the nature of trust and fairness in bargaining situations through simple ultimatum bargaining game. This game is useful for exploring how self-interested individuals behave 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 an obviously commercial setting like haggling, is rare. In addition to bargaining, some time is devoted to experimental analysis of public good contributions and wage setting, and in general to exploration of extent of motives such as fairness, trust, and reciprocity versus pure self-interest in economic decisions.

Professor Lamoreaux holds a joint professorship with the departments of History and Economics at UCLA, where she has been professor since 1994.

Economics 19, Seminar 2

Winner's Curse in Common Value Auctions

John Riley

This seminar will explore the well-known phenomenon of "winner’s curse" when people bid in certain kinds of auctions. Winners curse occurs when a person who won at an auction wishes he had not won. Since many other interesting phenomena have the 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.

Professor Riley's main areas of research are in Microeconomic Theory; and the Economics of Information.

Economics 19, Seminar 3

Human Nature and Economic Experiments

Earl Thompson

Laboratory and field experiments done by students are used to test the most basic preference assumption of standard economic theory. It is expected that experiments will be consistent with thousands of others, telling us that humans make decisions that are very different than what traditional economics predicts. Exploration of a large variety of such deviations can lead us to a more accurate view of human nature than is represented in traditional psychology and economics. These results are important because of what they can teach us about the nature of social interaction, welfare consequences of certain social policies, and the reason why traditional economics has been so predictively successful despite failure of its most basic assumption.

Professor Thompson received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and served as an assistant professor in Stanford University before joining the faculty of the UCLA Economics department. He specializes in microeconomic theory, government policy, and monetary theory, and his research interests include social organization, industrial organization, labor, and public choice. In addition to his extensive publications in professional journals, Professor Thompson is also the author of two books: "Ideology and the Evolution of Vital Institutions: Guilds, the Gold Standard and International Cooperation" (with C. Hickson), and "A Reconstruction of Economics".

History 19, Seminar 1

The Spectacle of Flight: How Aviation

Transformed Western Culture

Robert Wohl

It is generally understood today when the majority of us have access to the airplanes as a source of transportation and are condemned to fly whether we like it or not, is that powered flight was at first experienced as an aesthetic phenomenon and that during its first four decades most people experienced flight vicariously, primarily as a public spectacle. This seminar will explore some of the many ways that powered flight transformed Western culture during the 20th century. It will consider the impact of aviation in literature, visual arts, design, architecture, advertising, music, and mass entertainment, especially radio and film. In addition to assigned readings from two books by the instructor; students will watch and discuss documentaries such as “Lindbergh's Great Race” and William Wyler's Memphis Belle; Walt Disney's first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Plane Crazy; and feature films such as Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings. We will also listen to excerpts from Bertolt Brecht's “The Lindbergh Flight”.

Robert Wohl is a Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA, where he has taught for over four decades. The holder of a B.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. from Princeton, he specializes in modern European intellectual and cultural history and is generally recognized as a pioneer in the cultural history of aviation. In addition to A Passion for Wings and The Spectacle of Flight, he is the author of many books and articles, among them The Generation of 1914 (Harvard University Press, 1979), which won the American Book Award for history. Professor Wohl was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979-1980, a Senior Getty Fellow in 1993-1994, and subsequently served as the Charles A. Lindbergh Professor at the National Air and Space Museum in 1994-1995.

History 19, Seminar 2

Hot American Indian Issues Today

Melissa Meyer

We will look at hot American Indian issues such as casino gaming, sports mascots, repatriation of skeletal remains and sacred objects, sacred sites on public lands, the use of peyote by Native American Church, land claims, hunting and fishing rights, and tribal enrollment and blood quantum requirements. Each meeting involves a PowerPoint presentation, and questions and answers.

Melissa Meyer is a specialist in American Indian History. She has published books and articles dealing with the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota, western Great Lakes history, blood rituals and symbols. She is also working on American Indian tribal enrollment and blood quantum requirements. Large research issues involve how "the language of blood" was used in court to mediate questions of slavery vs. freedom for African-Americans, access to allotments of land for American Indians, Jim Crow restrictions, anti-miscegenation laws, and immigration restriction of Mexicans and Asian-Americans.

History 19, Seminar 3

Abraham Lincoln's Historical Legacy

Joan Waugh

“Abraham Lincoln,” writes one noted historian in the World Book Encyclopedia, “was one of the truly great men of all time.” The 18-page account of Lincoln's life and times that follows this statement, by Professor Gabor Boritt of Gettysburg College, is one of the longest biographical entries in encyclopedia and reflects the continuing and intense interest in the life of the 16th president of the United States. A large part of that interest springs from the dramatic nature of the Civil War (1861-1865), during which, as President of the Union and Commander-in-Chief of the largest army in history, Lincoln ended slavery and reunited the North and South. His tragic assassination just days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox plunged the country into a paroxysm of mourning, and ensured his apotheosis as martyr for cause of freedom and union. The purpose of the seminar is to discuss and analyze the Lincoln legacy in four parts.

Joan Waugh of the UCLA History Department researches and writes about nineteenth-century America, specializing in the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Professor Waugh's first book, Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Harvard University Press, 1998) is a biography of an important social welfare figure in 1880s New York City. Waugh has published several essays on Civil War topics and her next book is a study of the myth and memory of General Ulysses S. Grant. Her most recent book is The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). Professor Waugh is often invited to give public lectures about the Civil War. She has been interviewed for many documentaries, including the PBS series, "American Experience" on Ulysses S. Grant first shown in 2002. Waugh teaches the "Civil War and Reconstruction," and "America from 1865-1900" undergraduate lecture courses at UCLA. Waugh has been honored with three awards for her teaching, including UCLA's Distinguished Professor award.

History 19, Seminar 4

The Sahara in Western Imagination

Ghislaine Lydon

After discussing and hopefully dispelling the prevailing stereotypes about the Great Sahara Desert and its inhabitants, we will examine excerpts of classic works that have influenced ways in which Americans and Western Europeans have conceived of this mysterious land and its fabled city of Timbuktu. Through lively discussion and viewing of audio-visual materials (photographs, films, music, and song) students should gain general understanding of what Sahara is really like and why it has held fascination of the western public for so long. We will consider the history of the Sahara in the long run, from when it was lush, green, and humid region where elephants and hippopotami wandered, to its gradual desertification and the introduction of the camel. We will discuss the spread of Islam in Africa, trans-Saharan caravans, and “Golden Trade of the Moors.” We will also pay attention to the role of the U.S. in the Sahara, from the Barbary War to the more recent War of Terror.

Professor Lydon just completed a book on the history of the trans-Saharan camel caravan trade, after extensive research in West and North Africa. Her passion for African history began in her first year as an undergraduate student. Since then, she has lived in West Africa for a total of three years, and recently returned from a month-long stay in Libya where she attended a history conference on Caravan Trade. One of the readings that she will assign is a nineteenth-century slave narrative by an American who shipwrecked on the western Saharan shores, which is said to be one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite books. She is very eager to engage students in a conversation about the Great Sahara Desert and its place in world history.

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 1

The Muslim Experience at UCLA

Susan Plann

This seminar will explore the Muslim experience at UCLA, through discussions, readings, and interviews with Muslim students on campus. Students will learn to master the basics of conducting oral interviews. Muslim and non-Muslim students are all welcome- let's learn together.

Susan Plann is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese. Her research interests include oral history and the Arabic speaking community of Madrid.

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 2

The American Dream: Perspectives of

Immigrant Students

Carol Petersen

This seminar will focus on examining immigrant students' experiences in California and at UCLA. Reading and discussion of family immigration histories written by transfer summer program students and journals written by seminar participants. Viewing of short films by UCLA students and others that give insight into their own lives and cultures. Consideration of these works in context of Sarah Mahler's analysis of Immigrants and the American Dream.

Carol Petersen is a Los Angeles photographer and writing teacher who focuses on artistic, cultural, social, and educational activities directed toward social justice. Petersen serves as Faculty in Residence at UCLA, where she teaches in the Transfer Summer Program and the Fiat Lux program. In July 2004 she retired from the position of UCLA's Director of Faculty Equity. Earlier, she held positions as vice provost of UCLA's College of Letters and Science (1986-96) and director of UCLA Writing Programs (1982-85).

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 3

LGBT is Not a Sandwich: Straight Talk on the Effects of Silence on Sexual and Gender Minorities in Los Angeles

Ronni Sanlo and Suzanne Seplow

This seminar informs students through active discussion and participation about the myriad ways in which people and communities are affected by issues of sexual orientation and gender identity. Topics include the history of sexual orientation issues, health and legal issues of sexual and gender minority people, sexual/gender identity development, and legal issues directly affecting UCLA and Los Angeles.

Ronni Sanlo is the director of the UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center and a 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 4

The Black Student Experience at UCLA

Kelly Lytle-Hernandez and La'Tonya Rease-Miles

This seminar examines the social, academic, and political concerns facing Black Bruins, and explores how Proposition 209 has affected the UCLA black student community. It asks the question, how can students affect change at UCLA?

La'Tonya Rease Miles is Associate Director of AAP and Director of the AAP Mentoring Programs.

Professor Kelly Lytle-Hernandez is an Assistant Professor of History. Both participate in the Faculty In Resident Program.

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 6

Civic Engagement in Los Angeles

Laura C. Romero

This seminar will examine civic engagement in Los Angeles. Invited guest speakers from public and private sectors--including city government, corporations, and community-based organizations discuss the impact of their work on society. By focusing on different types of civic engagement, we will analyze how individuals contribute to Los Angeles. This seminar also encourages students to become civically engaged during their college careers.

Laura C. Romero is an Assistant Director of Local Government and Community Relations at UCLA. Romero has worked in the Office of Government & Community Relations for over seven years. As Assistant Director, she serves as a liaison between UCLA and government, business and community leaders in greater Los Angeles. Before assuming the role of Assistant Director, Dr. Romero worked within the private and public sectors as Acting Director of Public Affairs at KMEX-TV Channel 34, and National Mentoring Coordinator of the award winning Univision/Communities In Schools, Inc. Mentoring Initiative. Laura C. Romero received her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from UCLA. Dr. Romero's area of academic expertise is mentoring.

Information Studies 19, Seminar 1

Asians in Latin America: Constructing and

Representing Community and Identity

Clara Chu

Contemporary migration of Asians to Latin America dates back to early 1800s. Increasing globalization and transnational migration is reshaping current society. This course examines the categories, stories, and voices that represent contemporary and historical constructions of identity and community. Examination of diverse narratives and modes of building community help us to understand how migrants to specific locations and at particular times have been defined and considered within community and in national discourse (by dominant society/culture). Students will examine ethnicity as notion of national identity in Latin America, thus, as part of the national imaginary and discourse (i.e., Latin America as a “multicultural society,” how are Asians integrated in the social fabric of society?), and understand Asian Latino groups as transnational communities and their notion of identity and nationhood, and explore the real-world and cyber space.

Clara M. Chu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Studies, UCLA, specializes in the social construction of information systems, institutions, and access in order to understand the usage of and barriers to information in multicultural communities. Her other interests include the representation and information resources on the Chinese in Latin America, Education for Multicultural Library and Information Science, and International and Comparative Information Services. Her current research projects focus on immigrant children mediators and multiple literacies, multicultural information and communities on the Internet, and the critical study of multicultural library and information practices. She has held Visiting Professor/Researcher positions at the University of Puerto Rico (Summer 2004) and University of Valencia (2005-06). She is recipient of the 2002 ALA Equality Award and was selected a 2005 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, which recognizes people who are shaping the future of libraries.

Information Studies 19, Seminar 2

"Just Google It": What It Is and When It's Appropriate

John Richardson

Google, the world's most popular search engine, indexes more than eight billion Web pages. This seminar explores the rise of the Internet and the World Wide Web as an important, if not authoritative, source of information for facts, news, shopping, and geography. Description of Google's features, compared and contrasted with other Web resources. Exploration of the evaluative criteria including issues of authority, believability, and trust.

Management 19, Seminar 1

Modern Project Management

Bennet Lientz

Look around you and what do you see? Projects. You cannot accomplish major things without projects. Most graduates become involved in projects and project management as it is a key vehicle for improving work, processes, and organizations. This seminar will explore modern techniques of project management. Topics include examples of project failure and success and elements of project success; how to define a project; how to establish a project plan; monitoring work in projects; evaluating project milestones; establishing effective project teams; closing projects. Issues encountered in projects are discussed in teams: work, project leaders, methods and tools, quality, organization involvement, multiple projects, and other areas. Examples considered in engineering, business, medicine, science, construction, real estate, and other areas. No technical background is required.

Management 19, Seminar 2

Information Technology

Bennet Lientz

This seminar is an introduction to information technology (IT). We will discuss hardware, software, communications, and networking from practical point of view. No previous technical background assumed. Discussion of technology trends and implementation. Discussion of issues and problems including management, organization, and technical problems. Examples include Vista operating system, wireless networking, radio frequency identification (RFID), integrated software for enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, and customer relationship management. Example system areas include government, manufacturing, distribution, health care, transportation and logistics, banking and finance, and other areas. Discussion of roles in IT. Examination of variety of Web sites. Presentation of guidelines for evaluation and assessment of new technology.

Dr. Lientz is a Professor in the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. He has served as director of Administrative Information Services and managed 7 IT groups over the years. He has written over 10 books and over 35 articles on different areas of IT. He was one of the team leaders in the development of ARPANet, the predecessor to the Internet.

Management 19, Seminar 3 & 4

Psychology of Investing

Shlomo Benartzi

This seminar will provide an overview of psychological factors involved in saving and investing behavior of individual investors.

Professor Shlomo Benartzi is a leading authority on behavioral finance, with a special focus on individual investors and participants' behavior in defined contribution plans. He is one of the first researchers to apply behavioral economic concepts to retirement plan participants' behavior, seeking to develop behavioral "prescriptions" that improve investors' outcomes.
One of his most significant contributions in this area has been the development of "Save More Tomorrow?" or "SMarT", a behavioral prescription designed to help participants increase their savings rates gradually over time. Along with Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago, he was recently recognized by Money as one of 2004's "Class Acts" for SMarT's success--increasing savings rates in one plan from 3.5% to 13.6%.

Political Science 19, Seminar 1

A Connecticut Yanqui in Lenin's Tomb

Richard Anderson

In his time-travel fantasy of a visit by a Connecticut engineer to early medieval England, Mark Twain presents an explicit model of how leadership can transform a dictatorship into democracy, a topic much on the minds of social scientists since the fall of Soviet Union in 1991 triggered the so-called third wave of democratization. Does Twain's model recur in David Remnick's account of how the last Soviet dictator Gorbachev engineered his country's transformation? And what does that have to say about Americans' receptivity toward migrants speaking languages other than English?

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 transferred Dr. Anderson’s specialty of Soviet politics to the Department of History and also severely impaired his ability to read Russian newspapers. Such an extreme shift in the Russian of daily printed communication drew his attention to the topic of political linguistics, which became the lasting focus of his research and teaching. Before returning to Berkeley for the Ph.D., he spent four years working for the Congress, three for the CIA, and two for the Department of Defense, jobs in which political communication occupied much of his daily round. Now he tries to communicate to students, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

Social Welfare 19, Seminar 1

The World of Children

Duncan Lindsey

This seminar examines children's issues around the world. It looks at the state of children and examines particular children's issues in the United States and around the world.

Duncan Lindsey is a professor in the School of Public Affairs. Several members of the Faculty-in-Residence program will also participate in the class and provide instruction, including Dr. Georgiana Galateanu, Dr. Marjorie Orellana, and Dr. Edith Omwami.

Social Welfare 19, Seminar 2

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. Understanding nuances of interpersonal communication as it applies across various age groups.

Lené Levy-Storms' core research concerns communication issues between health care providers and older adults in long-term care settings. She is particularly interested in health care providers' "bed-side manner" and how it affects satisfaction with care and the quality of life of the older adults. 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 measuring the quality of communication between nursing home staff and frail, older residents during mealtime.

Sociology 19, Seminar 2

Sociology of Cinema: Hit Movies, 1920 to 2007

David Halle

This seminar examines the relationships between dominant themes in hit movies and the features of American society at the time movies were released. We will study main topics/themes in hit movies and investigate ways in which these topics/themes resonate with society in that period. We will also explore how central topics/themes in these movies change from one period to next (if they do) and how these changes relate to changes in American politics, society, and culture (if they do).

David Halle studies popular culture. His most recent book is New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society and Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2003).

Chemistry & Biochemistry 19, Seminar 1

Making Viruses

William Gelbart

Viruses are widely appreciated, and greatly feared, as one of most insidious disease agents. Indeed, as long as there have been bacteria, plants, and animals there have been viruses that infect each and every of these widely-varying forms of life. In this seminar, we consider a range of basic questions: In what sense are viruses “living” versus inanimate objects? To what extent is it possible to make viruses “from scratch” (i.e., from purified components) in laboratory? How simple can virus be? Why (and how) have most viruses evolved to have essentially perfect (i.e., cylindrical, or “spherical” [icosahedral]) symmetry? How can viruses be used in helpful ways to deliver drugs and genes?

William Gelbart is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. After more than 25 years of research as a theorist working on various physical chemical phenomena, he joined forces a few years ago with his experimentalist colleague Professor C. M. Knobler, in an effort to design, perform, and interpret a wide variety of experiments intended to expose the physical aspects of virus particles and their "life cycles" (infectivity).

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 as earthquakes, blast and impact. At UCLA, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on solid and structural mechanics.

Community Health Sciences 19, Seminars 1 and 2

Cosmo Says You're Fat? I Ain't Down with That: Nutrition and Body Image Life Skills

Jill De Jager and Pamela Viele

This seminar will examine the personal, social, and environmental factors that influence college students' eating behaviors and body image. Students will learn to apply these theories in developing an individualized plan to eat well, be active, and feel good about their bodies. Students will also learn practical skills with applications to stress management, positive body image, and nutrition as they participate in a critical evaluation of popular diets, healthy body weights, sports nutrition, fitness, supplements, muscle builders, media body ideals, and self-destructive thoughts.

Jill DeJager, MPH, RD is a registered dietitian with a background in exercise physiology and public health. In addition to her current role as UCLA's Nutrition Education Coordinator, she functions as an Adjunct Professor of nutrition at Mount San Antonio Community College. She is currently the chair of UCLA's Eating and Activity Task Force which seeks to maximize the success of students by minimizing modifiable nutrition and fitness-related health threats.

Pamela Viele, PhD, MPH holds dual appointments at UCLA as the Director of Health Education in the Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center and as a faculty lecturer in the School of Public Health. Since joining the UCLA staff in 1976, Pam's professional and teaching activities have focused on helping students to manage the challenging transitional issues of the college years, including coping with stress, managing emotions, and developing social and cultural competence.

Earth & Space Sciences 19, Seminar 1

Water Resources of the World: A Question of

War and Peace

An Yin

Some experts suggest that by 2015, 40% of the world’s population will not have enough water to meet basic needs. The availability of potable water may be further attenuated by near-future climate change, preventing the recharge of rivers and underground aquifers. Many water bodies and underground water have already become unavailable as a source of drinking water due to contamination. Disputes on water rights are common at all levels of civic society and government agencies, nationally and internationally. The course will begin by describing the basic sources of fresh water on earth, water cycle, and various forms of water on land. We will briefly describe the chemical composition of surface and subsurface water and the process of drinking water accumulation, depletion, and pollution. Cases of national and international disputes of water rights will also be discussed.

Earth & Space Sciences 19, Seminar 2

The Physics of Toys and Games

Mark Moldwin

Many toys (from yo-yos to swing sets) and games (from baseball to hockey) have a small set of underlying physical principles that give a toy or game its unique character. These concepts include the conservation of angular momentum, the conservation of energy, and the concept of force. Students in this seminar will play with many toys and play a variety of games with the purpose of identifying and understanding the underlying physics. The goal is to open up a whole new way of viewing play, by understanding how things work.

Mark Moldwin is a professor of Space Physics within the Earth and Space Sciences Department and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. His research involves understanding how the Sun influences the Earth's Space Environment. He is active in pre-college science education and is an avid collector of fun toys.

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 5

How to Stop Just Googling and Find

the Really Good Stuff!

Amy Chatfield and Joan Kaplowitz

Google indexes over 25 million web pages, and each day 1.5 million pages are added to World Wide Web. With so much information online, how can one be sure that searches are finding information that is recent, reliable, accurate, complete, and authoritative? Search engines like Google and Yahoo find websites in visible Web; some are useful, many are not. Materials that make up the invisible Web are harder to find and search, but include indexes of scholarly research materials and unique databases like PubMed (free) and Web of Science (subscription). Secrets, tips, and tricks to help students save time while performing research, prepare better papers, and become powerful information researchers. Focus on locating, evaluating, and using scientific information; but techniques and skills learned are helpful for research in any discipline. Supports GE80 sciences-oriented research papers.

Joan Kaplowitz, MLS, Ph.D., Head Research, Instruction and Collection Services UCLA Biomedical Library. She has a doctorate in Psychology as well as a master's in library science and has published several books and many articles on information literacy and has been heavily involved in the field at the local, state and national level for over 20 years.

Amy Chatfield, MLS, is a Research, Instruction, and Collection Services librarian at the UCLA Biomedical Library. She is an alumnus of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, and is a new librarian at UCLA.

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 19, Seminar 1

Energy and the Environment

Anthony Mills

This seminar will address one of the most critical problems facing state, nation, and world in the 21st century--that is, conflicting demands of adequate energy supply and protection of the environment. Students will be given opportunities to investigate and discuss a broad range of current and potential energy sources, as well as their impact on the environment and potential methods for mitigating degradation of the environment. Students will discuss quantitative assessments of various issues that have potentially different viewpoints/conclusions, allowing them to gain accurate and practical viewpoints. In addition, career opportunities and required education will be discussed.

Anthony Mills is a Professor in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, 1965. He has been at UCLA from 1966 – present. University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1983-85. His research areas: Convective heat and mass transfer, condensation heat transfer, ablation and transpiration cooling, perforated plate heat exchangers, aerosol transport. Publications - textbooks: Mills, A.F. Heat Transfer 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1999. Mills, A.F. Basic Heat and Mass Transfer 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1999, Mills, A.F. Mass Transfer, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 2001.

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 19, Seminar 2

Everyday Science - From an Engineer's Viewpoint

Yongho Ju

The 21st century requires engineers well-versed in diverse disciplines rather than those with very narrow and limited focus areas. This seminar will take a fresh look at everyday science from the perspective of an engineer. The goal is to use "mundane" everyday life as a source of rich examples to expose students to the power of systematic analyses as well as creative thinking.

Professor Ju obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999. He worked as a research staff member for IBM Research Division before joining UCLA in 2003. He is the founder of the Multiscale Thermosciences Laboratory and advises Ph.D. students in MEMS/Nanotechnolgy areas.

Medicine 19, Seminar 1

The Magic of Medicine

Neil Parker

This seminar will introduce students to the translational medicine- medical research that is applied to the practice of healing and treatment, illustrated by extraordinary discoveries, treatments, and surgeries conducted in UCLA Medical Center. Students will engage in critical discussions of the potential for cutting-edge scientific discoveries and applications of those discoveries to medical treatment. For example, what is nanomedicine and what does it promise in cures for cancer and the repair of muscle and nerve damage? Vaults- mysterious sub-microscopic hunks of protein found in every cell in the body- are explained and their application to treatment explored. What is the potential for new medical treatments using stem cells? Each two-hour session will be conducted by UCLA medical researchers and physicians.

Neil H. Parker is a Professor of Internal Medicine, and Senior Associate Dean in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Parker completed his undergraduate studies at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in chemistry. He attended medical school at SUNY, Downstate in Brooklyn before coming to UCLA for his postgraduate training. His internship and residency were 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 Fulltie Faculty Award, Department of Medicine and the UCLA Medical Staff Service Award.

Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics 19, Seminar 1

Bird Flu: What Is It? Is It Dangerous?

Lawrence Feldman

This seminar will provide a brief description of what a virus is, followed by how human influenza virus infects our cells, how human influenza and avian influenza differ in their attachment to cells, and what this means for potential human infection.

Lawrence Feldman is a Professor in the department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics. He is also a co-chair of Foundations of Medicine II, for second year medical students. He teaches half of MIMG 102, a class of some 250 juniors in his department. His research focuses on herpes viruses and influenza viruses.

Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics 19, Seminar 2

Genomics, Genetic Engineering, and You

Donald Nierlich

The genome of an organism is collectively all of its genetic (hereditary) information. Since the discovery that genes are encoded in DNA, there has been steady progress in understanding and manipulating the genomes of organisms from microbes to mammals. This knowledge has led to new drugs, new diagnostic tools, and new industrial processes. It has also led to a new class of altered plants and animals, and the "promise" of gene therapy and the alteration of the human germline. The green man of the comics is well within reach.
In this course we will learn about current technology, and then examine our thoughts as to what limits, if any, should be placed on this R&D. Topics include cloning and gene therapy; DNA sequencing; medical and forensic DNA testing; individual human genomes; race-related features; modern man's predecessors and their global migration; and the genomes of bacteria, yeast, primates and (wo)men.

Donald Nierlich is an Emeritus Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics. He studied biology at Caltech and medical microbiology and molecular biology at MIT and Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. Besides courses in microbiology, he has taught Genes, Genomes and the Internet (HC), and Computer Analysis of Genetic Organization. His interest is in sequence-based regulatory elements in diverse biological systems. He has served as Editor of the Journal of Bacteriology, published 50 research papers and edited one book, Molecular Mechanisms in the Control of Gene Expression.

Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology 19, Seminar 1

Science and Coffee

John Merriam

The New York Times Science section (published each Tuesday) is a premier way to get in the habit of reading and keeping up with science developments particularly, but not limited to, life and medical sciences. Once-a-week we will review the Science section; we will discuss articles of interest and identify topics for further exploration on the Internet. Coffee will be served.

John Merriam is Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology. His main teaching interest is in the area of human genetics and introductory genetics. His research uses Drosophila as a model organism to determine the function of specific genes.

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 led 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

The Big Bang and Black Holes

Per Kraus

Our modern understanding of gravity is based on Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes gravity as warping of space-time. When we run the current universe backwards in time, matter becomes more and more compressed, leading to greater and greater space time curvature, eventually becoming infinite--at which point Einstein's theory breaks down. This is the Big Bang. Similarly, sufficiently-massive star can undergo complete gravitational collapse, leading to the formation of a black hole. A black hole is surrounded by region of space time from which nothing can escape. Anything thrown into the black hole eventually reaches the “singularity”, a place where Einstein's theory breaks down, much like at the Big Bang. In this seminar we will discuss the history and current state of these ideas.

Per Kraus is an associate professor in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy who works on string theory, a candidate for a unified theory of the forces of nature.

Psychology 19, Seminar 1

The Psychobiology of Stress Resilience

Thomas Minor

Feeling stressed, fatigued, a bit anxious? Not sleeping well? Suffering from decreased libido? Have your eating habits changed--eating too much (hyperphagia) or too little (anorexia)? These are all symptoms of psychological stress and are common in college students during midterms and finals, and in the face of other challenges. Long-term effects of stress, particularly chronic stress, can be physically damaging. Recent research, however, suggests that you can use life's small stresses to increase your stress resilience, or the ability to resist and recover from stress. This seminar will address brain, endocrine, and autonomic nervous system mediators of stress resilience and recovery, as well as how rest, exercise, and psychological attitude influence hardiness and feelings of well-being.

Dr. Minor is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. He is a leading researcher on brain and endocrine mechanisms of psychological trauma, stress resilience, and stress recovery. Dr. Minor also works with the Army and Department of Homeland Security to develop training programs that increase stress resilience in first-responders, EOC, and military personnel.

Psychology 19, Seminar 2

The Psychology of Personal Control

Richard S. Marken

Our human propensity to control the world around us has produced our greatest human achievements (such as Beethoven's 9th) and our worst human failures (such as oppression and war). This seminar will examine human controlling from the point of view of a theory of human behavior called control theory. Why personal control is essential for our psychological wellbeing and why it can also create problems that can actually lead to loss of control. Presentation of new approach to studying behavior (test for controlled variable) and to answering familiar questions about behavior, such as what is effect of divorce on children or how can I reduce the level of stress I feel. Consideration of how scientific understanding of personal control might help us find ways to improve human condition for ourselves as well as for society as a whole.

Richard S. Marken, Ph.D., is a research psychologist and human factors engineer. Dr. Marken was Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and consulted at Honeywell on statistical, methodological,

and human factors issues related to workspace design and human-computer interface technology. He is currently a lecturer in psychology at UCLA and the author of three books, Methods in Experimental Psychology, Mind Readings: Experimental Studies of Purpose, and More Mind Readings: Methods and Models in the Study of Purpose, as well as over 50 papers on control theory and psychology.

Psychology 19, Seminar 3

Speaking, Listening, and Connecting: How

Humans Interact

Thomas Bradbury

As social beings, humans spend a great deal of time in conversation with others: friends, roommates, parents, children, strangers, doctors, intimate partners, and therapists. What happens in these conversations? What are the psychological tasks that social interaction demands of us? What are the verbal and nonverbal cues that people pick up on -- and fail to pick up on -- in their social interactions? Why is it that we really 'hit it off' in some conversations but fail to do so in others? What has to happen in a conversation between strangers so that it evolves to a deeper level of connection? How do people communicate respect, support, love, and forgiveness? By viewing and analyzing a variety of examples of social interaction, students will develop a deeper appreciation for these questions and for the complex role of social interaction in their daily lives.

A UCLA professor since 1990, Thomas Bradbury was trained as a clinical psychologist and now conducts research on how intimate relationships form, develop, and change. He relies heavily on observational methods to study the longitudinal course of relationships and family functioning. Dr. Bradbury is the author of a forthcoming textbook, Intimate Relationships, and he is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCLA Department of Psychology. In 1998, Bradbury was awarded the Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology by the American Psychological Association.

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