Classics 19, Seminar 1
The Emperor and the Slave: The Stoic Philosophy
of Life According to Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
David Blank
How should I live? How can I control my life in a world, which often seems to be against me? Two men of very different backgrounds, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the Roman slave Epictetus, shared the same Stoic philosophy, and their answers to these questions have been the subject of much interest recently. Their books are reported to be on the bedside tables of magnates and politicians. Their philosophy of Stoicism has also been revived as a respectable option for the modern philosopher. This seminar will examine the Stoicism of Marcus and Epictetus to understand its principles and to see how satisfactory it would be as a way to govern one's life today. Topics of particular interest will be: knowing what is up to us and what is not; the place of the individual and of moral responsibility in a world ruled by fate; moral virtue as the sole good; ethical writing and spiritual exercise.
David Blank studies ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy. His particular interests lately have been in the philosophy of language and in the reconstruction of the papyrus rolls from Herculaneum.
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Comparative Literature 19, Seminar 1
Love and Heroism. Learn about Islam
and Middle East Politics through Novels
Katherine King
We will explore Islamic culture by reading one or two contemporary novels. We will look at issues of gender and imperialism through the eyes of two bi-cultural writers: Anglo-Egyptian Ahdaf Soueif and Anglo-Iraqi Betool Khedairi. Because they know both English and Egyptian society well, and because they know how to write a thrilling story in English, they are perfect guides to a history and culture that is often misunderstood in America.
Katherine Callen King is professor of Comparative Literature and Classics. She also teaches in the Women's Studies program and the Honors Collegium. She received a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992.
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Design/Media Arts 19, Seminar 1
The Origins of the Culture of Moving Image
Erkki Huhtamo
Moving images are all around us, but where did they come from? Trip back in time to origins and early developments of moving image culture. Participants learn about fascinating devices like magic lanterns, peepshow boxes, dioramas, zoetropes, and praxinoscopes that were used to animate images years, and sometimes centuries, before cinema existed. Approach is media-archaeological: discussion of meaning of these devices in context of their own times and seeing them working.
Professor Huhtamo is a researcher on the field of media history and media arts. He has had highly influential writings published in twelve languages. He has also curated exhibitions on media art and directed television programs about media culture. He is a collector of items related with the earliest history of the moving image. Some of these items will be demonstrated to the seminar participants.
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English 19, Seminar 1
Tales of Madness by Edgar Allan Poe
Frederick Burwick
Students will read accounts of mental pathology familiar to Poe, and will discuss how Poe's study of cognitive and aberrational psychology informed his representation of delusion and hallucination in his short stories. One short story will be assigned for discussion each week.
Frederick Burwick is a Professor in the Department of English. With an interdisciplinary approach to literature, he explores the interactions of literature with art, science, music, and theater. Author and editor of twenty-five books, one hundred articles and twenty reviews, his research is dedicated to problems of perception, illusion, and delusion in literary representation and theatrical performance. His essay, Edgar Allan Poe: The Sublime and the Grotesque, appeared in Prisms (2000), and his book, Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination won the Outstanding Book of the Year Award of the American Conference on Romanticism. He has been named Distinguished Scholar by both the British Academy (1992) and the Keats-Shelley Association (1998). His Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination (1996) received the Outstanding Book of the Year Award presented by the American Conference on Romanticism.
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English 19, Seminar 2
The Joy of Reading: Great Books and Reading for Life
Robert Maniquis
This is an introduction to books that have had and will probably continue to have -- for better or worse -- a significant effect on Western Culture. The point of the seminar is to provide a specific reading guide for
any educated person for at least the next twenty years. At the same time, we shall read two of these books. The first of these shall be "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville. The second book will be chosen individually by the seminar participant, who will write a brief journal tracing his or her reading and reflections.
Robert M. Maniquis is a Faculty-in-Residence in Canyon Point and a professor in the English Department, where he teaches late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British literature.
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Ethnomusicology 19, Seminar 1
Imagination and Political Resistance
Roger Savage
Cultural works play a vital role in contesting legitimacy of the status quo. The seminar will be an exploration of aesthetic and political dimensions of the creative impulse that resists and subverts accepted standards within serious and popular culture. Through readings in philosophy, music, and literary criticism and cultural studies, discussion of how imagination empowers individuals to surpass established conventions and to forge new identities.
Roger Savage is an Associate Professor in the systematic musicology program. He teaches courses in the aesthetics, philosophy and sociology of music, and he has special interests in hermeneutical philosophy and music criticism. His research focuses on intersections between musical aesthetics, politics and questions of personal, social and cultural identity.
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Ethnomusicology 19, Seminar 2
Musical Revitalization in Native America
Tara Browner
Over the past 500 years, as settlers moved onto their lands, Native North Americans ceased performing many of their traditional songs, dances, and ceremonies. In some cases tribal peoples abandoned their music when they converted to Christianity, while in others, American and Canadian governmental policies discouraged, and even outlawed, practice of social and religious music and dance, forcing them underground. Demographic changes, such as forced migrations and deaths due to disease further eroded pre-European musical practices.
Tara Browner (Choctaw) is an Associate Professor who holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Ethnomusicology and the Interdepartmental Program in American Indian Studies. Her research specialty is Native North American music and dance, and she is a pow-wow dancer in the Women's Southern Cloth and Jingle Dress styles.
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Film & Television 19, Seminar 1
Introduction to Film Making:
So You Want to Make a Movie
Barbara Boyle
Three screenplays will be read by the students without disclosing the title of the screenplay. The students will analyze and discuss the visual style, the cast, the director, music, and other essential elements to be used to convey the tone and the "message" of the movie to be made from the script. The films actually made from the screenplays will then be shown so that the relationship between the literary (the screenplay) and the visual (the movie and all its components) is understood. The course will introduce a glossary of basic film industry terms.
Barbara Boyle has recently been named Chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media. In addition to being a Professor in the Producers' Program, she has spent the previous decades producing motion pictures both for major studios and for independent distribution. She has been involved with Films that received 20 Academy Award nominations, 6 Academy Awards, as well as Golden Globe nominations and/or IFP Spirit Awards. She has been honored by IFP with a Vision Award, Women in Film with a Crystal Award and UCLA Law School as Alumni of the Year.
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Film & Television 19, Seminar 2
Introduction to Non-Fiction Film
Marina Goldovskaya
The course will familiarize the students with the exciting domain of contemporary non-fiction cinema. New opportunities in representing reality which came into being due to the achievements of digital technology will be discussed. Five films recently created in the United States and other countries will be screened and analyzed. This course will help to broaden the students' world view and evoke interest towards documentary genres in contemporary media. Students are required to actively participate in the discussions after the screenings.
Marina Goldovskaya is an award-winning documentary filmmaker internationally renowned for risk-taking films of artistic achievement and historical significance (Solovky Power, Shattered Mirror, House on Arbat Street, etc). Born in Russia, she earned her bachelor of arts, masters and doctorate degrees at Moscow State Film School (VGIK). She is now a Professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where she teaches documentary history and film production.
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Film & Television 19, Seminar 3
American Film History: 1960’s and After
Nick Browne
The course is concerned with the form and significance of major works of American film made from 1967 to 1990, considered in their social contexts.
Professor Nick Browne's diverse list of publications includes Coppola's The Godfather; Refiguring American Film Genres: History and Theory; New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics (co-editor); Cahiers Du Cinema, 1969-1972: The Politics of Representation; and The Rhetoric of Filmic Narration. Professor Browne is currently studying violence in contemporary American film.
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Linguistics 19, Seminar 1
(Seminar Canceled)
South Asia: Linguistic Diversity
Anoop Mahajan
South Asia is known for its linguistic diversity. The 114 major languages spoken within India alone come from four major languages families: Indo-European, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan, and Austroasiatic. This seminar will cover the outline of distribution and major linguistic properties of languages of South Asian linguistic area. Discussion of issues such as language contact, language planning, status of English, and linguistic identity within context of South Asia.
Professor Anoop Mahajan specializes in Formal Syntax and South Asian linguistics. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1990 and has taught at UCLA for the last 11 years.
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Linguistics 19, Seminar 2
(Seminar Canceled)
Traveling between Worlds -- Science Fiction Meets Philosophy of Language
Daniel Buring
Learning to understand one of the most influential and mind-boggling concepts in linguistics and philosophy by talking about science fiction will be explored. Philosophers and linguists use 'possible worlds' when analyzing causation, flow of information, hypothetical statements, and much more. The same concept is found in many science fiction books, movies, and TV shows (for example, Fox's "Sliders"). Reflections on possible worlds in science fiction help students understand their use in philosophy of language.
As an Associate Professor in Linguistics, Daniel Buring teaches, researches and publishes in the general area of language and meaning (semantics/pragmatics).
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Music 19, Seminar 1
Producing the Ring: Opera Stage
and Physical Limitations
Robert Israel
Investigation of Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle" from the point of view of the director and the designer. Exploration of the limits of interpretation and the physical limits of the opera stage in this most ambitious of all Western works of opera theater.
Professor Robert Israel, has designed ten productions of Wagner's operas, including the Ring Cycle in major opera houses in the United States and Europe.
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Musicology 19, Seminar 1
Staging Race in the American Musical
Raymond Knapp
A consideration of how race and ethnicity have been depicted and embodied on the American musical stage, from blackface minstrelsy and The Mikado to Show Boat, Porgy and Bess, The King and I, West Side Story, and Fiddler on the Roof.
Raymond Knapp is an Associate Professor in Musicology, specializing in the symphonic tradition from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, and, more recently, in the American Musical. He is currently working on projects ranging from Haydn, Beethoven, and Mahler, to a textbook based on his course on the American Musical.
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Musicology 19, Seminar 2
Vocal Cross-Dressing in Popular Music
Mitchell Morris
What is the relationship between the sound of your voice and the kind of person you are? How much can we tell about people from their singing? In this class, we'll consider songs from popular-music repertories in which vocal characteristics lead us to wonder about the gender assignment and sexual identities of the songs' characters as well the singers who sing them. Toward the end of term, we will broaden our discussion to consider matters of racial/ethnic ambiguity, as well.
Professor Morris, who has taught innovative courses in the Department of Musicology for six years, including his path-breaking course on Gay and Lesbian Popular Song, won the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003. He has recently completed a book entitled The Persistence of Sentiment: Essays on Display and Feeling in '70s Pop Music.
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Near Eastern Languages and Cultures 19, Seminar 1
Western Scholarship for the Independence of Central Asia During the Soviet Era
Andras J. Bodrogligeti
Central Asian minorities constituted an aggravating problem for the Soviets. Since the sixties American social scientist and cultural historians followed "the rise of national awareness" in this region and reported their findings in numerous publications. Irritated, the Soviets mounted an attack against the "lackeys of American imperialism"." With the advent of Gorbachev their tone mellowed: In 1985 a secret symposium was held in Moscow with five American scholars invited to debate the nationality issue. You will learn what happened there and after.
Andras J. Bodrogligeti is a Professor of Central Asian Languages and Cultures, specializing in Classical (Chagatay) and Modern Uzbek Language and literature. He is an active teacher at UCLA and received his Ph.D. in Turkish and Iranian in Budapest. He is a Unesco Fellow [East-West Major Project in Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan], Guggenheim Fellow [The Chagatay Language, as well as a member of: Council of the Hungarian Academy; Honorary Member: Turk Dil Kurumu, and Former Director of the John D. Soper Central Asia Language Institute. Recent publ.: Chagatay Grammar (450pp), Academic Reference Grammar of Modern Literary Uzbek (1347pp)..
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Near Eastern Languages and Cultures 19, Seminar 2
The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?
Ismail Poonawala
Are Islam and the West on a collision course, as the author of the "Clash of Civilizations," claim? The image of Islam as militant, fundamentalist, and anti-American religion, as portrayed by the mass media, has gripped the minds of our government. But these monolithic perceptions about Islam stem from a long history of mutual distrust and hostility. This seminar will examine the West's relation with Islam from the very beginning, dispel the stereotypical images, and demonstrate the vitality and the diversity of the Islamic revival.
Ismail K. Poonawala is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. His books and articles deal with various aspects of Islam. He also teaches "Contemporary Islamic Thought."
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Near Eastern Languages and Cultures 19, Seminar 3
Violence in the Bible
Carol Bakhos
In the wake of current events, the topic of violence in the Bible has received renewed attention. This course will therefore provide an opportunity to grapple with various dimensions of biblical violence. What violent images and notions do we find in the Bible? Why does God permit humans to commit violence, and to endure it? In order to address these questions, we will analyze several biblical texts of terror, and then we will examine scholarly views on the issues at hand.
Carol Bakhos is Assistant Professor of Late Antique Judaism and Jewish Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Her research interests are comparative ancient biblical interpretation and late antique Judaism.
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Philosophy 19, Seminar 1
What Are Numbers? Why Does 2+2=4?
Terence Parsons
Reading of sections 1 through 54 of Gottlob Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic, raising questions about foundations of simple arithmetic principles like 2+2=4 (and why such questions are so difficult to answer). What are numbers? Are they subjective things? If so, what makes arithmetic objective? Are they objects in the world? If so, where? What are they like? The goal is for students to get a hands-on feel for such questions by trying to answer them for themselves.
Professor Parsons received a BA degree in Physics at the University of Rochester, and a PhD in Philosophy at Stanford. He has taught at the University of Illinois, University of Massachusetts, UC Irvine, and UCLA. He works in linguistics/philosophy of language and metaphysics, and in the History of Logic. He also worked on Frege's writing in semantics and in the foundations of mathematics.
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Scandinavian 19, Seminar 1
Urban Legends: The Politics of Narrative
Timothy Tangherlini
Ghosts, UFOs, psychopaths, evil corporations, Satanists, serial killers, wild conspiracy theories, unlikely ways to be killed, and even more unusual ways to survive. These are but some of the topics that come up time and again in "Urban legends." But the stories are not only told to entertain. In this course we explore the ideological positions endorsed by such narratives, and see how these narratives have been deployed in popular film. The goal is to develop an understanding of how narratives can be used for political (local or global) ends.
Timothy Tangherlini is a folklorist whose work includes studies of storytelling among paramedics, the political uses of storytelling in 19th century Denmark, and the uses of storytelling in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. He is an Associate Professor in the Scandinavian Section and the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
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Scandinavian 19, Seminar 2
"The Fellowship of the Ring": Tolkien's View of Good and Evil in the Community
Jules Zentner
The Fellowship of the Ring will be read and analyzed in terms of J.R.R. Tolkien's view of the battle between Good & Evil in the world, the individual, and the community.
Dr. Zentner received his doctorate from UC Berkeley after doing much of his preparation at the University of Uppsala and University of Stockhom in Sweden. He has taught at Berkeley, the Univ. of Minnesota, and UCLA.
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Scandinavian 19, Seminar 3
"The Hobbit": Tolkien's View of Good & Evil in the Community
Jules Zentner
The Hobbit will be read and analyzed in terms of J.R.R. Tolkien's view of the battle between Good & Evil as it affects the world, individuals and members of communities.
Dr. Zentner received his doctorate from UC Berkeley after doing much of his preparation at the University of Uppsala and University of Stockhom in Sweden. He has taught at Berkeley, the Univ. of Minnesota, and UCLA.
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Slavic Languages and Literature 19, Seminar 1
Politics and Literature
Georgiana Galateanu
This seminar explores the impact that politics has on literature -- on form, content, literary techniques. Short stories from East-European countries and the Middle East are analyzed. Students are encouraged to share their thoughts and their own experiences of politics affecting everyday life and culture.
Georgiana Galateanu has a Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest, Romania (1984), and for the last twelve years has taught Romanian language, culture, and literature at UCLA. Besides Politics and Literature, Dr Galateanu is also interested in Women and Literature in Eastern Europe, and has taught this class in the Women's Studies Program. Dr. Galateanu has translated Romanian short prose and poetry into English and has co-authored a variety of language textbooks.
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Anthropology 19, Seminar 1
Who Owns Our Past?:
Repatriating Native American Human Remains
Russell Thornton
In 1990, Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection Act (NAGPRA). The Act mandates the repatriation--to lineal descendants or culturally-affiliated tribes--of human remains and funerary objects (and also objects of cultural patrimony and sacred objects) held by any federal agency or institution receiving federal funding. The law has generated considerable controversy, including that surrounding the discovery of "Kennewick Man." The seminar will examine this law and its effect on Native Americans and museums and other educational institutions.
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Anthropology 19, Seminar 2
Endangered Languages and You
Paul V. Kroskrity
This seminar treats the topic of language endangerment by identifying a worldwide problem and examining the possible responses which might partially rectify the situation. By some estimates, less than 20% of the world's languages will survive beyond the present century. Global economic forces and other political economic factors are clearly responsible for a pattern of language shift which threatens most of the world's indigenous and sub-national languages which are not identified with particular nation-states or which lack international currency. But what is the human cost of such language death both to the speakers of these languages and to us as thoughtful world citizens? In this seminar we will discuss what the consequences of language death are and what can be done to provide alternatives for those communities who seek to preserve their distinctive linguistic resources. By examining case studies of language death and language renewal we obtain a ground level view of the processes which lead to language death and those that are involved with language revitalization. The seminar will examine several different responses to the need for revitalization including the use of so-called master-apprentice programs and the application of media technology.
Professor Paul Kroskrity has conducted long term field work in two Native American communities--the Western Mono of Central California and the Arizona Tewa over the past 30 years. This research has lead to body of original research on such topics as language ideology, language and identity, and language revitalization. His publications include Language, History and Identity (1993), Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory (coeditor, 1998), Regimes of Language (editor, 2000) and Western Mono Ways of Speaking (2002) -- a CD-ROM. Kroskrity is a Professor of Anthropology and has served as the chair of UCLA's Interdepartmental Program in American Indian Studies since 1985.
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Economics 19, Seminar 1
(Seminar Canceled)
Buying Risk and Selling Ambiguity
William Zame
Why are stocks cheaper than bonds? What do hedge funds hedge? Does ambiguity matter? These are among the questions studied experimentally by economists. Experimental economics is a rapidly growing and cutting edge tool in studying economic problems in the social sciences. This is an intensive, hands-on introduction to the subject. This course focuses on markets. What should you buy and what should you sell?
William Zame is a Professor in the Departments of Economics and of Mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he has been on the faculty since 1991. He has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1994. He is the current primary investigator of a large grant in experimental finance, interests in the cross-cultural study of mental health, illness, and healing and an advocate of
person-centered ethnography.
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Economics 19, Seminar 2
Markets and Efficiency
William Zame
Class meetings: Fridays, 9:00am-1:00pm,
Week One, January 16th, and Week Six, February 20th
Location: 2400G Public Policy
Are markets efficient? Is information reflected in prices? How can insiders benefit from private information? These are questions that economists have traditionally addressed by theorizing and by analyzing historical data, but are now addressing in laboratory experiments. Laboratory experiments represent a cutting-edge tool for studying these and other questions from economics and other social sciences. (Laboratory experiments in economics were recognized by the award of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Science to Daniel Kahnemann and Vernon Smith.)
William Zame is a Professor in the Departments of Economics and of Mathematics at UCLA, where he has been on the faculty since 1991. Before coming to UCLA he held appointments at Rice University, Tulane University, SUNY/Buffalo and Johns Hopkins University. He has written over 30 papers in mathematics and over 35 papers in economic theory, finance, and experimental economics. He has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1994.
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Economics 19, Seminar 3
The Winners Curse in Common Value Auctions
Hongbin Cai
Class Meetings: Fridays, 9:00am- 1:00pm,
Week Two, January 23rd, and Week Seven, February 27th,
Location: 2400G Public Policy
This course explores the well-known phenomenon of a 'winners curse' when people bid in certain kinds of auctions. The winners curse occurs when the person who won the auction wishes he didn't. 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 is important, such as in political contests and voting behavior, jury decisions and companies racing to discover and patent and invention.
Hongbin Cai received his PhD from Stanford University and joined the Department of Economics at UCLA in 1999.
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Economics 19, Seminar 4
Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Leeat Yariv
Class Meetings: Fridays 9:00am - 1:00pm,
Week Three, January 30th, and Week Eight, March 5th,
Location: 2400G Public Policy
Everyday decisions are always made in the presence of uncertainty, and so are always inherently risky. How individuals respond to risk is an issue long studied by economists, with important ramifications in finance, insurance markets and politics. Do people behave according the standard rationality model that economists have long assumed when analyzing risky decisions? The ability to test risky decisions in the laboratory has thrown new, and sometimes surprising, light on this question.
Leeat Yariv received her PhD from Harvard University and joined the Department of Economics at UCLA in 2002.
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Economics 19, Seminar 5
Recession, Depression and Coordination Failure
Christian Hellwig
Class Meetings: Fridays, 9:00am- 1:00pm,
Week Four, February 6th, and Week Nine, March 12th
Location: 2400G Public Policy
This course examines the problem of coordination failure by getting students to play coordination games in the laboratory. Coordination failures in the macro economy have long been seen as a prime cause of recessions and even depression. Laboratory experiments now provide a valuable tool with which to study the problem of expectational convergence that has long been suspected by economists as underlying the ups and downs of the business cycle.
Christian Hellwig received his PhD from the London School of Economics and joined the Department of Economics at UCLA in 2002.
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Economics 19, Seminar 6
Bargaining, Haggling and Fairness across Cultures
Naomi Lamoreaux
Class Meetings: Fridays, 9:00am- 1:00pm,
Week Five, February 13th, and Week Ten, March 19th
Location: 2400G Public Policy
This course gets students to explore the nature of trust and fairness in bargaining situations via the 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 (the only exception are certain very primitive cultures). That is, rigorous self-interest, even in an obviously commercial setting like haggling, is rare.
Professor Lamoreaux holds a joint professorship with the departments of History and Economics at UCLA, where she has been professor since 1994.
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Education 19, Seminar 1
Student Activism from the Sixties to the Present
Robert Rhoads
This course explores student activism from the 1960s to the present. The central concern is understanding the role that students play in creating campus and social change. Beginning with student movements such as the Free Speech Movement, the Peace Movement, and the Civil Rights Movement, the course examines the social, political, and cultural factors that have contributed to a rise and fall in levels of student activism. In examining contemporary activism, the course centers on multicultural student movements of the 1990s.
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. His most recent research interests center on student-initiated retention efforts, graduate student unionization, and the effects of globalization on higher education.
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Education 19, Seminar 3
International Development Aid to Education Sector
Edith Mukudi
Politics and economic and sociocultural dimension of development aid, with focus on education sector development to delineate what constitutes aid, what influences decisions to provide development aid, and dynamics field experiences in field of international development. Consideration of case studies from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Designed for students considering professions in field of international and community development.
Edith Mukudi is an Assistant Professor in GSEIS, UCLA. Previously taught at Kenyatta University, Nairobi- Kenya. She has field research and intervention programming experience in Africa. Worked as Field Coordinator for a UCLA/ USAID Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program Child Nutrition Research and Intervention project before joining UCLA Faculty.
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Geography 19, Seminar 1
Remembering through Landscape -Place
and Memory in Los Angeles
Denis Cosgrove
Debate over reconstructing the 9/11 attack site in New York has foregrounded the tensions between honoring memory in place and continued everyday use of location. The seminar explores the relations between place and memory, using a number of specific sites in
Los Angeles.
Denis Cosgrove is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography. His writings explore the making and meanings of landscape and the ways that actual and imagined places express ideas, ideals and cultural values. He teaches the introductory Cultural Geography 3 course at UCLA and Upper Division courses on Cultural Geography, and the history of geographical maps and images. His latest book: Apollo's Eye (Johns Hopkins UP, 2001) explores the history and meaning of 'seeing' the whole earth as a globe.
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Geography 19, Seminar 2
American Rivers; History of Environmental Change
Stanley W. Trimble
This course will seek to give a basic understanding of rivers and see how the agency of humans has changed them, especially since European settlement.
Professor Stanley W. Trimble is a hydrologist/fluvial geomorphologist/historical geographer who specializes in streams and the historical American landscape. He has taught at UCLA (since 1975), Oxford, Vienna, and Chicago.
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History 19, Seminar 1
A History of Private Life: From the Village Community to the Global Village?
Peter Baldwin
We now guard our privacy jealously, but until recently this was not possible. Peasants and the urban poor used to live in horribly cramped circumstances, unable to shield themselves from others. And even the early modern kings conducted their most intimate behaviors in a public gaze almost inconceivable to modern humans. We will explore the development of this sense of privacy as a concept that emerges at a certain moment in history. And we will look at how modern technology may once again be undermining it.
Professor Peter Baldwin teaches modern European history. He has written books on the history of modern social policy and on the history of public health. His latest book deals with the way the response to the AIDS epidemic has been determined by long pre-existing historical developments. He is interested in the history of public policy, very broadly defined, including, as in this course, the history and development of relations between public and private.
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History 19, Seminar 2
Re-Reading Democracy in America:
Politics Before and After 9/11
Vinay Lal
Nearly every student of American society is agreed that almost 200 years after Tocqueville's Democracy in America first appeared, it offers remarkable insights into American history and politics. This course will attempt a critical reading of Tocqueville; however, the "Democracy in America" of this course signifies not only the text, but the phenomenon that goes by the same name. Though many commentators have unthinkingly rehearsed the cliché that after 9/11 all is changed, our other principal text comes from one of the most respected scholars of American history, who inclines to the view that nothing has changed, insofar as the US remains on course in exercising its ruthless dominance over the rest of the world.
Vinay Lal is an Associate Professor of History, and he writes widely on colonialism, modern Indian history, public and popular culture in India, the Indian diaspora, historiography, American politics, and the politics of modern knowledge systems. His most recent books include The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (Delhi: Oxford, 2003), Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture (Calcutta: Seagull, 2003), and Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (London: Pluto, 2002).
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History 19, Seminar 3
Honor & Shame in the Clash of World
Cultures & Religions
Scott S. Bartchy
Honor and shame are core cultural values for the vast majority of human beings, including most Muslims. Ignoring this fact has led to serious (and avoidable) mistakes in USA's foreign policies, when based on the values of achievement and guilt.
S. Scott Bartchy earned his Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University and taught at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, before coming to UCLA in the early '80s. He is especially interested in comparison of basic cultural values and their impact on male and female socialization in various religious traditions. His current research focuses on the relation of concepts of Ultimate Reality to social structures and problem solving.
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History 19, Seminar 4
Global Feminism Past and Present
Ellen Dubois
This seminar will address feminism around the world, especially outside of the US and Europe. Focus will be on 1975 to present. Some guest speakers.
This seminar will meet two hours a week for the first five weeks of the quarter.
Professor Dubois is an historian of women's rights in the United States. She has recently shifted to examine the history of women's rights in a more international perspective to reflect the recent resurgence of global feminism.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 1
Perceptions of America from Abroad: Discussions
with Visiting Fulbright Scholars
Ann Kerr
In the aftermath of September 11, Americans have come to realize that we do not know enough about the rest of the world. We know that the attacks on our country were the acts of sinister and fanatical extremists, but what conditions in the world are they feeding off of - from what wellspring does their following come? We will have the opportunity to hear a different Fulbright Scholar each session speaking briefly about his or her country with the goal of helping us understand how Americans are perceived in their country.
Ann Zwicker Kerr, a native of Southern California, has spent a total of fifteen years living, studying, and teaching in the Middle East. She was educated at Occidental College, the American University of Beirut, and the American University of Cairo. She is currently at the University of California in Los Angeles where she coordinates the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Enrichment Program for Southern California. Ann is the author of Come with Me from Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey and the forthcoming book Painting the Middle East.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 2
LGBT is Not a Sandwich, or Straight Talk about Gay Issues in America
Ronni Sanlo and Suzanne L. Seplow
The course explores the ways in which American culture is affected by sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Topics include an overview of the historical perspective; legal and political issues specifically relating to education; sexual identity develop; the impact of bullying and harassment in schools and colleges; the relationship between sexual orientation discrimination and all other forms of discrimination; how to be an ally; and the impact of sexual orientation issues on all people regardless of their sexual orientation.
Ronni Sanlo is the director of the UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center and lecturer in the Graduate School of Education. Her three books - Working with LGBT College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators; Unheard Voices: The Effects of Silence on Lesbian and Gay Educators; and Our Place on Campus are published by Greenwood Press. She is the originator of the award-winning Lavender Graduation, an event that celebrates the lives and achievements of LGBT students. She lives on the campus of UCLA as a member of the Faculty-in-Residence program.
Suzanne L. Seplow, Ed.D., is a graduate of the GSEIS Educational Leadership program at UCLA. Her focus is on maintaining living/learning communities that foster positive impacts on student learning. She specializes in learning communities, environmental influences and student development theory.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 3
(Seminar Cancelled)
Deconstructing Our Reactions to Disability and Difference: Brain, Body and Society
Jayne Spencer
Diversity in the human experience is a theme of our era, especially in the realm of disability differences. Social policy dictates values of equality and inclusion, but the daily reality of interpersonal relationships is complicated. How can we view disability in its context that reconciles emotional responses with cultural values? We look closely at the interface of social justice, community customs, and personal reactions, and discuss how culture, family, peers, and environment inform our understanding and reactions to difference.
Jayne Spencer lectures in History and Latin American Studies, and is a faculty member of the Tarjan Center for Developmental Disabilities at UCLA. As Chair of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Disability, she currently works with UCLA faculty on the initiative to create a Disability Studies minor at UCLA. She conducted a field study in Venezuela in 1990 on independent living strategies for people with limited mobility.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 4
(Seminar Canceled)
From Kindergarten to College: Understanding
Our Own Educational Journeys
Karen Jarsky
Every college student has made use of a unique combination of resources and overcome particular obstacles to negotiate the journey from elementary school to higher education, and educational researchers offer diverse theories to explain these paths. In this seminar, we will draw on educational sociology to understand broad patterns in who goes to college and why. More importantly, in our conversations we will identify connections between sociology and real life as we use our own stories to expand on, challenge, and even dismiss these theories.
Karen McClafferty Jarsky is a qualitative researcher whose work focuses broadly on the experiences of students and teachers at all educational levels. She is the Evaluation Coordinator of the UCLA Freshman Cluster Program, and her current and past projects examine higher education curriculum issues, interdisciplinary teaching and research, college access and choice, university outreach and K-16 collaborations, and the social and political contexts of education.
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Information Studies 19, Seminar 1
(Seminar Canceled)
Introduction to Oppositional New Media
Leah A. Lievrouw
Oppositional new media use Internet and other media technologies to respond and resist popular culture and politics dominated by consumerism, apathy, and cultural and economic oppression. Review of history of oppositional media. Examination, evaluation, and discussion of contemporary uses of new media technologies by artists, activists, and cultural critics.
Professor Leah A. Lievrouw joined the Department of Information Studies at UCLA in 1995. She is also affiliated with UCLA's Communication Studies Program. Her research and writing focus on the social and cultural changes associated with information and communication technologies and the relationship between ICTs and knowledge. She is the co-editor and contributing author for the Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs.
(London: Sage, 2002, with Sonia Livingstone.)
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Law 19, Seminar 1
The Dispossession and Political Resurgence
of California Indians
Carole Goldberg
California's Native Nations were enslaved, massacred, and dispossessed of their lands during the nineteenth century. Today many of these same Nations are enjoying economic success and political influence through tribal gaming and other enterprises. What happened to this diverse group of indigenous Californians in between? How did the law impede or contribute to this remarkable resurgence? This seminar provides a legal history of Native California, leading up to current events such as the negotiation of state gaming compacts.
Professor Carole Goldberg directs UCLA's Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies, and founded UCLA's Tribal Legal Development Clinic. She is Faculty Chair of the Native Nations Law & Policy Center, and serves as the UCLA campus repatriation officer. She has co-authored one of the two major teaching casebooks in the field of American Indian Law, and has been co-author and co-editor of the major treatise in the field. Her current research is on law enforcement in Indian country, and she is writing a legal history of Native California.
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Management 19, Seminar 1
An Introduction to Human Resource Management
(This course will be team-taught by five faculty from the Anderson School)
Sanford Jacoby, Samuel Culbert, Chris Erickson,
David Lewin, Daniel Mitchell
Human resource management (HRM) is the study of
the employment relationship in private and public organizations. It ranges from a focus on interpersonal interactions at work, to the administration of employment, to the interaction of organizations with government and the labor market. This Fiat Lux course is intended to provide an introduction to some key topics and concepts in HRM. Topics include the origins of HRM; pay practices; HRM and business performance; diversity; and negotiations.
This course is team taught by five full professors from The Anderson School of Management. Each faculty member has done extensive research in their area of specialization, which are: history of management (Jacoby); pay practices (Mitchell); human resources and business performance (Lewin); diversity (Culbert); and negotiations (Erickson). For more complete information, go to the department's site.
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Policy Studies 19, Seminar 1
Rethinking National Security
Albert Carnesale
As the post-war reconstruction of Iraq continues, and the war against terrorism wages on, national security remains at the top of the American political agenda. In a post-Cold War, post-9/11 environment, two fundamental questions regarding national security arise: (1) what are the near-term threats to the security of the U.S. and other nations?; and (2) how might those threats best be met? Topics include: national interests; national security organization and strategy; weapons of mass destruction; terrorist threats; Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and the “Axis of Evil”; and the tension between national security and civil liberties.
Albert Carnesale is Chancellor of UCLA. He holds faculty appointments in the School of Public Policy and Social Research and in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. An expert on foreign and defense policy, Mr. Carnesale has co-authored six books, and has authored or co-authored more than 50 articles. He has consulted regularly for several U.S. Government agencies, and has led or participated in numerous high-level U.S. diplomatic delegation.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 1
Between Nation and Empire: Citizenship &
Incorporation of Nonwhites to the U.S.
Cesar Ayala
In course of its expansion, the U.S. encountered settled territories populated by "nonwhites." A number of divergent, and often contradictory, decisions were made concerning annexation and granting or denial of citizenship and statehood to New Mexico, Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii, with long-term consequences. Role of "race" in these decisions and incorporation (or not) of territories and populations into U.S. polity.
Cesar Ayala was born in Puerto Rico and is interested in the comparative history of United States colonialism in the Caribbean. He is the author of American Sugar Kingdom: the Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934. (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina Press, 1999).
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Biomedical Engineering 19, Seminar 1
Truth and Questions in Orthopedics
Howard Winet
Demand for solutions to fracture healing problems has spawned variety of orthopedic devices. Rush to application has outrun scientific evidence for effectiveness. Exploration of how needs for scientific rigor and clinical application can come into conflict, beginning with Bacon's separation of religion from science. Examination of orthopedic medicine and biomaterials with respect to Scholasticism and science. Essay on how students would bring a given orthopedic device to market required.
Howard Winet is an Adjunct Professor in Henry Samuel School of Engineering & Applied Science. He received his Ph.D.from UCLA (Cell Physiology, biophysics, history of science), 1969 Postdoctoral Fellowship: Caltech (fluid transport in male/female reproductive tracts, lungs, GI tract), 1970-1974. Research Engineer: Caltech, 1974-1977 Associate Prof. Physiology: Southern Ill. U. (mucociliary transport), 1977-1980 (tenure 1979) Associate Prof. Research Orthopaedics and Biomedical Engineering: U. Southern Calif. (bone circulation, fracture healing, blood/bone altering cytokines, erodible polymer cytokine carriers), 1980-1998 Adjunct Prof. Orthopaedic Surgery
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Chemistry & Biochemistry 19, Seminar 1
Why We Are Who We Are: Learning from Flies
Albert Courey
Studies of the lowly fruit fly may have revealed more about the relationship between our genes and who we are than studies of any other organism. Heredity, how embryos develop, influence of genes on learning and behavior, and how much we have in common with the fruit fly.
Albert Courey is a Professor of Biochemistry. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and carried out post-doctoral research at UC Berkeley before joining the UCLA faculty in 1990. His research group in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry uses the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism to address questions about the biochemical basis of cell differentiation and development.
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Civil & Environmental Engineering 19, Seminar 1
Much Ado about Water
Terri Hogue
As we enter the 21st century, the world is entering a new era of water scarcity. However, many of us take for granted the seemingly endless supply of water flowing from our faucets. This seminar is centered around readings (and video) from the thought-provoking treatise, Cadillac Desert. We will dive into water development in the west, with a special focus on the tremendous thirst that California has developed during its rapid and illustrious growth. Can our thirst continue? How does California, and the arid West, live within its "water limits"?
Terri Hogue is an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, and focuses her teaching and research interests in the area of Hydrology and Water Resources.
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Civil & Environmental Engineering 19, Seminar 2
(Seminar Cancelled)
Calculating Our Ecological Footprint:
How Our Choices Impact Environment
Jennifer Jay
The study of the concept of an ecological footprint, a measure of environmental resources required to support an activity, population, or individual. Using available methods to calculate our personal ecological footprints, discussion of how choices we make as individuals and as cultures (e.g., housing, consumption, transportation, and diet choices) affect calculations. An in-depth exploration of specific areas of interest in adding a new dimension to or evaluating the validity of ecological footprint calculations.
Professor Jenny Jay is a second-year faculty member in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. She teaches Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment, Aquatic Chemistry, and Environmental Microbiology. Her research focuses on the cycling of toxic elements such as mercury and arsenic in the environment and bacterial survival in sediment.
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Earth and Space Sciences 19, Seminar 1
Science of the Times
Jonathan Aurnou
The New York Times masterfully presents most recent and exciting scientific discoveries in its weekly 'Science Times' section. Review of major articles of the week's 'Science Times.' By the end of the quarter, broad overview of present state of science to be had by all. Excellent for non science and science majors alike.
Assistant Professor Jon Aurnou studies geophysical and planetary fluid mechanics in the department of Earth and Space Sciences. e is presently building an experimental device to study how planetary magnetic fields are generated.
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Earth and Space Sciences 19, Seminar 2
Gems and Crystals
Abby Kavner
Learn about the science and lore surrounding crystals and gems. What are crystals and how are they formed? What makes a gem, and where are they found? What gives certain gems their distinctive colors? We will learn about a variety of gems such as diamond, emerald, ruby, sapphire, opal, and others. We will combine science and lore, aesthetics and quantification. Classes will include short lectures, lots of hands-on laboratory exercises, museum and collecting field trips and opportunities to grow your own crystals.
Abby Kavner is an Assistant Professor in the Earth and Space Science Department and the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics. She studies the interior of the Earth and other planets. She gets to work with diamonds every day in her laboratory, since she uses them to study the behavior of gems and minerals at very high pressures and temperatures.
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Earth and Space Sciences 19, Seminar 3
Past, Present, and Future of Human Space Exploration
Mark Moldwin
As we approach the 50th anniversary of Space Age, we will examine the impact of space exploration on our society and study of history and future of manned spaceflight. Will space colonies, human exploration of solar system, and interstellar travel remain science fiction or is its human destiny to spread to the stars? Topics include search for extraterrestrial intelligence and UFOs.
Mark Moldwin is an Associate Professor of Space Physics within the department of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. He is a Cottrell Scholar and a NSF CAREER awardee. His research involves understanding the Earth's space environment and how the variable Sun impacts technological society.
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Epidemiology Sciences 19, Seminar 1
Deadly Terror -- Anthrax and Public Fear
Ralph R. Frerichs
Anthrax in the US is typically rare in occurrence. Yet in 2001 the disease gripped the world stage as an agent of bioterror. Different from biologic warfare which attempts to kill, bioterrorism thrives on public fear, potentially immobilizing or demoralizing a population. The seminar will focus on anthrax, including the pathogen, outbreak of 2001, impact on patients, and potential threat to the well-being of our society. The discussion will address ways to counter fears through public knowledge, and purposeful scientific and political action.
Ralph R. Frerichs is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, first coming to UCLA in 1978. He has long been interested in the interface between epidemiology and public policy, and more recently in the use of biological agents to induce harm and terror in military and civilian populations. His main academic interests have been problems of developing countries. More recently he has developed several public interest websites and an internet-based introductory epidemiology course (EPI 100) offered in the Summer Session.
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Epidemiology Sciences 19, Seminar 2
Deadly Medicine: An Exploration of the Epidemic
of Medical Miscues in the United States
Eric L. Hurwitz
Imagine a packed commercial airliner crashing every day of the year and killing everyone aboard every time. 98,000 casualties. Because of medical mistakes, as many as 98,000 people are killed annually in U.S. hospitals. More people die each year from medication errors than from motor-vehicle accidents or workplace injuries. This seminar will (a) explore why U.S. health care is so dangerous, (b) compare and contrast the safety profiles of health care and other industries, and (c) address strategies for reducing harm and improving health-care effectiveness. Readings from the scientific and popular press will be discussed and critically appraised.
Eric Hurwitz is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Epidemiology. His research focuses on psychosocial and behavioral factors in pain and depression, and the benefits and risks of conventional and alternative health care for spinal pain and associated disorders.
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Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology 19, Seminar 1
(Seminar Cancelled)
Challenges to and Contributions
of Underrepresented Scientists
Judith Lengyel
How do stereotypes of what a scientist is and does intersect with stereotypes about underrepresented groups? Discussion of challenges that various underrepresented groups (women, African Americans, Latinos/Latinas, LGBTs, and disabled) have faced and continue to face in becoming scientists, and whether such individuals can make unique contributions. In addition to reading and discussing biographies of important historical figures, students discuss these issues with successful scientists who represent a number of minority groups.
Professor Lengyel is a senior faculty member in the Department of Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology. She is also a research scientist who studies genes that control organ development.
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Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution 19, Seminar 1
Biodiversity Now and in the Future: Is There Hope?
Kenneth A. Nagy
The species Homo sapiens (us) is so successful on planet Earth that it is taking away limited resources from other species and causing them to go extinct at faster and faster rates. Should this be stopped? Can it be stopped? Or are humans unable to change their ways of life enough to make a difference? We will discuss these and other issues while reading Ed Wilson's small book about The Future of Life.
Ken Nagy is a Professor in the Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution where he teaches animal physiology and herpetology. His research concerns the survival mechanisms of animals living in difficult habitats, especially deserts. He has studied birds, mammals or reptiles on all seven continents, and his current research is on the Threatened desert tortoise in the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada.
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Pediatrics 19, Seminar 1
Nurturing Our Nature: Genetics, Diet, and Nutrition
Edward McCabe and Linda McCabe
Symposium to be offered all day Sunday, February 8, 2004, with nationally known speakers, panel discussion, and questions from audience. In preparation for symposium, class meets on Wednesday, January 21, from 5 to 7 p.m. in 4303 Gonda Center. On Monday, February 9, there are several two-hour roundtable discussions. Students select and attend one of these. In conclusion, class meets on Wednesday, February 11, from 5 to 7 p.m. in 4303 Gonda Center.
Edward R.B. McCabe, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, Executive Chair of Pediatrics, and Physician-in-Chief of the Mattel Children's Hospital. He is the Director, of the UCLA Center for Society, the Individual and Genetics.
Linda McCabe, Ph.D., is an Associate Adjunct Professor of Human Genetics and Pediatrics.
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Physiological Science 19, Seminar 1
Animal Communication: A Fieldtrip Experience
Peter Narins
Why does a bird sing? Why do frogs call? What is the purpose of the peacock's feathers? Animals display to attract mates, defend territories, to signal aggression, etc. In this course, we shall learn the fundamentals of animal communication. Using portable equipment we will record a wide variety of communication signals (acoustic, seismic, visual, etc.) produced by animals in their natural habitat. Analysis of these signals using state-of-the-art programs will provide insight into the function, meaning and evolution of the animal's signaling behavior.
Professor Narins is a Professor in the Departments of Physiological Science and Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution. His research combines field studies of animal vocal behavior with lab experiments designed to understand the physiological mechanisms underlying the behavior. He has studied animals on all seven continents and is currently studying aggression in South American poison-dart frogs. He has won the UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize.
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Physiological Science 19, Seminar 2
Biology of Sex Differences in Brain
Art Arnold
Brains of males and females differ, not only in regions specialized for reproduction, but also in other regions (controlling cognition, for example) where sex differences are not expected. Moreover, males and females are differentially susceptible to neurological and psychiatric disease. What are origins of these sex differences?
Dr. Arnold has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology and then Physiological Science since 1976. He is an expert in neuroendocrinology, how hormones act to organize brain circuits, especially those that differ in males and females. He also is an expert on sex chromosomes and their effect on the brain.
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Psychology 19, Seminar 1
Psychological Trauma and its Effects on Mental
and Physical Health
Thomas Minor
Unexpected, uncontrollable aversive life events can have serious emotional side-effects that adversely impact our interactions with others, as well as our physical health. This seminar provides an overview of psychological and biological reactions to trauma, including changes in brain, endocrine, and immunological function. Psychological interventions that mitigate the impact of and facilitate recovery from trauma also will be discussed.
Dr. Thomas Minor is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. He has published numerous research articles on the psychobiology of helplessness, anxiety, and depression.
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Psychology 19, Seminar 2
Dating and Marriage: Current Controversies
Letitia Anne Peplau
Many controversies surround love and relationships in the 21st century. Can men and women be 'just' friends? Is living together a good preparation for marriage? Can long-distance relationships be successful? Does the Internet help or hurt relationships? Is divorce harmful to children? Should same-sex marriage be legal? This seminar will examine eight current controversies, drawing on findings from scientific research to inform our analysis. A debate format will be used to stimulate class discussion. Short weekly readings will be assigned from a recently published anthology.
Anne Peplau is a Professor of Social Psychology. Her research concerns dating, friendship, marriage and lesbian/gay relationships. She is particularly interested in the many ways that gender and culture influence contemporary relationships.
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Statistics 19, Seminar 1
(Seminar Canceled)
Chance or Necessity?
Juana Sanchez
In this seminar, we will cover the following topics: (a) how the idea of chance develops in children; (b) how chance has been perceived through history and science; (c) how we can clarify some misconceptions about chance described in (a) and (b) with simple simulations with dice, spinners or computer. We will read three small books to address the first two topics, and we will use handouts I made, randomizers like dice or coins and
computers to address the third.
Juana Sanchez, Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis, 1989. She taught at the University of Missouri before coming to UCLA, Department of Statistics. Her research interests include Statistics Education, Time series, Bayesian Probability Theory, and applications of Statistics in Diabetes Research. She has published in several journals, such as the Journal of the American Cancer Institute, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, and Advances in Econometrics.
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Statistics 19, Seminar 2
Vision for the Blind: Artificial Intelligence and Neural Prosthesis to Help the Visually Disabled
Alan Yuille
Over four million people in the US suffer from severe visual disabilities which make it hard for them to perform everyday tasks such as navigation and reading. This course describes two strategies to help the visual disabled. The first is to design artificial intelligence
systems, implemented on computers, which perform these tasks and use speech synthesis to convey the results to the users. The second is by developing neural prostheses, for example by placing arrays of stimulating electrodes in the visual cortex to bring vision to the blind.
Alan Yuille did his B.A. in Mathematics at Cambridge University and his Ph.D. in Physics on Quantum Gravity. He worked at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and was a Professor in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard. He worked on developing computer vision systems for the blind at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute before joining UCLA.
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