Applied Linguistics/TESL 19, Seminar 1
Putting Language Tests to the Test
Lyle Bachman
Language tests are a pervasive part of our education system and society, used for identifying and tracking achievement of English language learners in schools, making admissions decisions to universities, placing students into language programs, screening potential immigrants, and selecting employees. In this course, we will read and discuss selected articles that address how useful language tests are for making these high-stakes decisions, what standards we can use to evaluate their usefulness, and by what standards we can evaluate how fair these decisions are.
Lyle Bachman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL. His current professional interests include the nature of the interactions between test takers and assessment tasks, validity theory, language issues in large-scale educational assessments, the technologies of test design and development, and the interfaces between language testing research and other areas of applied linguistics research. His publications include Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing, Language Testing in Practice (with Adrian S. Palmer), Interfaces between Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing Research (co-edited with Andrew D. Cohen), and Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment. He has also published numerous articles in the area of language testing and evaluation. He is currently co-editor of the Cambridge Language Assessment Series. He has received the MLA's Mildenberger Award for Outstanding Research Publication.
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Art History 19, Seminar 1
Identity and Meaning in Renaissance Portraits
Joanna Woods-Marsden
The concept of a portrait of a living person -- as distinct from an image of a holy personage -- was invented in Italy in the 1430s. This seminar will explore the development and major types of this new genre in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy, focusing on the works of such famous artists as Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Titian. The last class will be a field trip to the Getty Museum, during which we will ponder identity and meaning in portraits by Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Pontormo.
Professor Joanna Woods-Marsden was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, the University of London, and Harvard University. By 2005 she will have taught at UCLA for 21 years. An expert in Italian Renaissance Art, Professor Woods-Marsden has recently specialized in portraiture (Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist, Yale, 1998). She is currently working on: Portrait of the Renaissance Lady: Visual Construction of Gender Difference.
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Art History 19, Seminar 2
Visual Culture and War on Terror
Saloni Mathur
The horrifying image of the collapse of the World Trade Center; disturbing photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison; impact of Michael Moore's film, Farenheit 9/11; and the flood of unofficial images on the Internet -- these examples make it abundantly clear that visual culture has a powerful role in the current conflict known as "war on terror." But what exactly is the nature of its power? Why do images become bearers of truth during time of conflict or war? The course, Visual culture and war on terror encourage students to consider the ways in which images help shape our understanding of contemporary events. The course includes an examination of media images, films, videos, the Internet, and visual interventions of contemporary artists to understand the complex relationship between people, pictures, and politics of the present.
Saloni Mathur is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History. Her research and teaching areas include museum studies, ethnography, the visual cultures of South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, colonial history, and postcolonial criticism.
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Asian 19, Seminar 1
Translating Universals: Theory Moves Across Asia
Namhee Lee
How are terms such as gender, sexuality, and post modernity translated in East Asian languages? What may be at stake, intellectually and politically, in transforming these western concepts into eastern counterparts? Examination of various intellectual, political, and cultural issues involved in process of borrowing, adapting, or rejecting western theories in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. These issues are considered in larger sociopolitical and cultural context in three different historical time periods: from the 19th century through 1945, Cold War era, and post-1968 era.
Namhee Lee is an Assistant Professor of Modern Korean History. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled, Minjung, History, and the Politics of Representation: The South Korean Democratization Movement and Intellectuals, 1960-1987, which concerns the relationship between intellectuals, social movement, and the politics of representation in South Korea. In addition to her research on the South Korean democratization movement, she is working on a project to reassess the modernization project of the Park Chung Hee era (1961-1979) of South Korea, particularly the (often complicit) relationship between the oppositional discourse of minjung (common people) with the state discourse of modernization and nationalism.
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Design | Media Arts 19, Seminar 1
Screen Time Machines: Origins of Moving Image
Erkki Huhtamo
We watch movies and TV programs every day, but how much do we know about their origins? This course offers a rare trip back in time to the origins and early developments of moving image. We revisit fascinating devices like magic lanterns, peepshow boxes, dioramas, zoetropes, and praxinoscopes used to show moving images centuries before movies or television even existed. Study of principles of these devices using actual examples from professor's collection and by watching films. Discussion of their cultural meanings in different times and places. Discovery that culture of moving image is older and much more varied than most of us would believe. Appreciation of today's moving pictures from movies and television to video games and interactive multimedia.
Erkki Huhtamo is Associate Professor of Media History and Theory at Department of Design | Media Art. He specializes in media archaeology and media arts. He has published extensively on these topics, lectured worldwide, directed television programs about media culture and curated exhibitions of media art. He has also been in many media-related committees and festival juries around the world. He is currently working on two books, one on the moving panorama as a mass medium of the 19th century and the other on the archaeology of interactivity.
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English 19, Seminar 1
Hoffmann's Golden Pot and Tales of Madness
Frederick Burwick
Hoffmann's tales of hallucination and delusion are so detailed that even Freud made use of them as "case studies." In this seminar, attention will be given to five of Hoffmann's weird tales of hallucinatory experience and the breakdown of "normal" behavior. Emphasis will be given to the ways in which Hoffmann's characters become entrapped in their own fantasies, how they confound the real and the imaginary, and whether they manage to regain sanity.
Frederick Burwick is a Professor in the Department of English. With an interdisciplinary approach to literature, he explores the interactions of literature with art, science, music, and theater. Author and editor of twenty five books, one hundred articles and twenty reviews, his research is dedicated to problems of perception, illusion, and delusion in literary representation and theatrical performance. His essay, Edgar Allan Poe: The Sublime and the Grotesque, appeared in Prisms (2000), and his book, Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination (1996) received the Outstanding Book of the Year Award presented by the American Conference on Romanticism. He has been named Distinguished Scholar by both the British Academy (1992) and the Keats-Shelley Association (1998).
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English 19, Seminar 2
Origins of Identity: History and Memory in Women's Poetry
Karen E. Rowe
Who we are or may become originates in a history, each unique by virtue of ethnic heritage, gender, sexuality, spirituality, and individual talent. In personal writings and poetry, women voice maternal stories that also recollect a communal history replete with images of homelands, political struggle, and ancestral rituals. This seminar studies how memory and history imprint identity, how the past suffuses our present. By heeding truths gleaned from the ancestral past, each woman comes to know her "Self" and infuses her poetry with a distinctive vision and voice that makes lives, both old and new, into poetic memoirs. Remember, Audre Lorde proclaims, "poetry is not a luxury" but a "litany of survival."
Karen E. Rowe is a Professor in the Department of English. Her research ranges from Renaissance and early American literatures to later British and American women writers, from continental fairy tales to women's education and curriculum reform. She was the Founding Director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Women and teaches courses cross-listed through the Women's Studies Program. She received a Distinguished Teaching Award and has been active in curriculum transformation and general education reform.
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English 19, Seminar 3
Beating time through time: the changing forms of English verse
Donka Minkova
The seminar will explore the connections between language change, demographic and cultural change, and the changing modes of poetic composition in English. The themes and the form of the earliest English verse, 7th -11th c., are characteristic of the entire ancient Germanic alliterative tradition: Christian and heroic subjects, no syllable counting, no rhyming, full reliance on the prosodic properties of the spoken language. Verse was composed for oral delivery and the matching between language form and verse structure was perfect. Verse structure was uniform across the genres: there were no special verse forms used for special purposes, nothing comparable to the variety of forms we find in art verse, the folk ballad, the nursery rhyme, or the limerick of later times.
Donka Minkova is Professor of English Language in the English Department of UCLA. She has published over sixty research articles and reviews in the areas of English historical linguistics, with emphasis on phonology and meter. She is Vice-President of the Society for Germanic Linguistics. She has been Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Edinburgh, UC President's Research Fellow in the Humanities, and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Among her books are: The History of Final Vowels in English, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, (1991); English Words: History and Structure, CUP (2001), with Robert Stockwell, Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English Verse, CUP (2003), and co-editor of Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, (2002), with Robert Stockwell, and Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism Bern: Peter Lang Verlag (2003).
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English 19, Seminar 4
Reading Emily Dickinson Reading Us
Thomas Wortham
Language as metaphor, language as riddle, language as truth, language as void, language as seeing and unseeing ourselves. What does it ever/always/never mean? Does language enable or disable? In ourselves do we find a community of others? In reading Emily Dickinson do we read ourselves? What is "poetic" language? How does it work? Do we exist outside, apart of it? Do we create it or does it create us? Are we the unanswered question it asks or the mystery it hides by revealing? "What nonsense!" Let's see. At least it might be fun. What else is there?
Thomas Wortham is a Professor and Chair in the Department of English. He really believes poetry makes a difference; otherwise he is considered harmless by most people. He likes to see students think. (Perhaps he isn't so harmless after all.) He read Emily Dickinson's poems first when he was thirteen years old and has not yet recovered.
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Ethnomusicology 19, Seminar 1
Iconic Meanings in Film Music
Roger Kendall
Use of icons is a pervasive technique in combining music and visuals in film, video, and animation. Icons are patterns of pitch, loudness, timbre, and tempo in musical domain, and changes of position, color, shape, and perspective in visual domain wherein its pattern suggests a connection across modalities. For example, we say "weeping willow" because pattern of tree branches suggests weeping, this is a psychological concept known as physiognomic. Similarly, a cartoon character falling from cliff (as in Roadrunner) is often accompanied in music by descending pitch pattern. The objective of this course is to create an expansion of horizons on multidisciplinary study combining music, film, and cognitive psychology through readings of perceptual research and in-class presentation of excerpts from film with discussion.
Roger A. Kendall is professor of systematic musicology in the department of Ethnomusicology. Professor. Kendall has an international reputation in music cognition as well as the scientific aspects of music including acoustics and psychoacoustics. His current area of research explores how music functions within multimedia contexts as connected to a model of musical meaning. His Music Experiment Development System (MEDS) software is used internationally.
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Film and Television 19, Seminar 1
Introduction of Film Making: So you want to make a movie? Literary Visual Relation
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 is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Film, Television & Digital Media. In addition, she is a professor in the Producer's Program. She has also produced motion pictures for major studios and for independent distribution. She has served as the head of production of companies. Films she has been involved with have 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 and Television 19, Seminar 2
Introduction to Contemporary Non-Fiction Film
Marina Goldovskaya
The course will introduce the students to the exciting domain of 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 stimulate interest towards documentary genders in contemporary media.
Marina Goldovskaya is an award-winning documentary filmmaker internationally renown for risk-taking films of artistic achievement and historical significance (Solovky Power, Shattered Mirror, The Prince Is Back, L.A. Diary with Peter Sellars, 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/video production.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 3
Stage and Screen: Works by UCLA Students
Carol Petersen
This seminar will focus on works created by students in the Department of World Arts and Cultures, Film, Television & Digital Media, and Theater. Student choreographers and directors will visit our class to discuss their artistic processes, media, and purposes and to show clips of their performances and films. We will also view and discuss photos I have taken during rehearsals and production. Class members will make journal entries responding to each session and to readings suggested by our presenters.
Carol Petersen is a photographer and Faculty in Residence in Canyon Point. She recently retired from the position of Director of Faculty Equity. Earlier she held positions as Vice Provost of the College of Letters and Science and Director of UCLA Writing Programs.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 4
Black Nerds in Popular Culture
La' Tonya Rease Miles
This course examines the prevalence of black nerd figure in contemporary popular culture, including literature, television, film, and music video. Do contemporary black nerds thwart past stereotypes about black intelligence? Do these figures challenge our notions of black masculinity? Discussion of representation of African Americans and science and technology.
Limited to first-year transfer students.
Dr. La'Tonya Rease Miles received her PhD in English, from UCLA. An award-winning teaching assistant, she is the project coordinator for AAP Graduate Mentor Program and the McNair Research Scholars Program. Her research interests include a wide spectrum of sports, music and other cultural forces that shape contemporary youth.
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Scandinavian 19, Seminar 2
"The Fellowship of the Ring": Tolkien's View of Good and Evil in the Community
Jules Zentner
The Fellowship of the Ring will be read and analyzed in terms of J.R.R. Tolkien's view of the battle between Good & Evil in the world, the individual, and the community.
Dr. Zentner received his doctorate from UC Berkeley after doing much of his preparation at the University of Uppsala and University of Stockholm in Sweden. He has taught at Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, and UCLA.
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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 Stockholm in Sweden. He has taught at Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, and UCLA.
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Theater 19, Seminar 1
Performances of Gender and Sexuality in the U.S. from 1969-Present
Sue-Ellen Case
Review of how issues of gender and sexual practices have inspired new forms of performance in the U.S., from wildly controversial production of Dionysus in 1969 to contemporary underground performances that explore issues surrounding nudity, sexual minorities, and transgender performance.
A past editor of Theatre Journal, Professor Case has published widely in the fields of German theatre, feminism and theatre, performance theory, and lesbian critical theory. She has published over thirty articles in journals such as Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, differences, and Theatre Research International and in many anthologies of critical works. Her books include Feminism and Theatre and The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture. She has edited several anthologies of critical works and play texts, including The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays; Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance; Performing Feminisms, and many others. Along with Philip Brett and Susan Leigh Foster, she edits a book series with Indiana University Press entitled Unnatural Acts. Professor Case has been an invited professor in residence at Swarthmore College, Stockholm University, and the National University of Singapore. Her work has received several national awards.
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Anthropology 19, Seminar 1
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 10% 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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Anthropology 19, Seminar 2
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.
Russell Thornton is professor of anthropology at UCLA. Before coming to UCLA he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Minnesota, the University of California at Berkeley and Dartmouth College. He has published six books and over 100 scholarly papers on Native American topics, including that of repatriation. For ten years he chaired the Smithsonian Institution's Native American Repatriation Review Committee. He is a registered member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and participates extensively in tribal affairs.
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Economics 19, Seminar 1
Financial Crises
Aaron Tornell
We will analyze the determinants of financial crises as well as the boom cycles experienced by middle income countries. We will study in detail the experience of Mexico between 1980 and 2004.
Aaron Tornell is a Professor in the Department of Economics. He received his BA from ITAM, Mexico Ph.D. from MIT.
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Economics 19, Seminar 5
Recession, Depression and Coordination Failure
Christian Hellwig
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 Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and joined the Department of Economics at UCLA in 2002.
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Economics 19, Seminar 7
Winner's Curse in Common Value Auctions
Hugo Hopenhayn
Exploration of the well-known phenomenon of "winners curse" when people bid in certain kinds of auctions. Winners curse occurs when person who won auction wishes he had not. 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. This is a one-credit course meeting in two four-hour sessions, five weeks apart. Session I is an introduction to laboratory methods in economics where students participate in experiments and learn about experimental design. During the five-week period between sessions, students will design their own experiment. Session II will be devoted to conducting the student experiments, as well as a lecture on the economic significance of the experiments conducted.
Professor Hugo Hopenhayn received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and is interested in microeconomic theory, industrial organization, and macroeconomic theory. He joined the department of economics at UCLA in 2003, after teaching at the University of Rochester since 1994. Professor Hopenhayn has done research and published extensively on entry and exit of firms, labor market dynamics, and repeated interactions under asymmetric information such as auctions.
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Education 19, Seminar 1
School Interventions for Children with Emotional Disturbance
Jeffrey Wood
Investigation of status of mental health practice in school setting: Which children receive services at school? How are they identified and what is the scope of services they are entitled to? And, what services do they typically receive? Identification of components of well-designed school intervention study. Comparison and contrast of advances made in interventions for children with specific emotional disorders in clinic setting versus school setting. For instance, effective programs have been developed to treat disruptive behavior disorders in community clinics; to what extent have comparable programs been developed for school setting? Familiarization with science of modern intervention research, development of knowledge of specific evidence-based intervention programs in school settings, and identification of areas in school intervention research that are in need of further development.
Jeffrey Wood is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS). His research program focuses on the emotional and social development of children with emotional disturbance. In the first year of his appointment in GSE&IS, he has focused on three areas of study: interventions for children with emotional disturbance, children's relationships with parents and peers, and measurement/assessment. These areas of study are timely and relevant in educational research for two reasons. First, children with emotional disturbance are at risk for academic underachievement and failure to complete high school. Yet, no interventions have been identified for children with anxiety disorders that are effective in schools, resulting in a pressing need for intervention development. Second, the nature-nurture controversy continues to be hotly debated in modern developmental psychology, with significant implications for social and educational policy. Several of his recent studies have been designed to inform the nature-nurture debate by illustrating the effects of parenting on child anxiety.
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Geography 19, Seminar 1
American Rivers: History of Environmental Change
Stanley Trimble
The objective of this course is to offer students with a basic understanding of rivers and how human agency has changed them, especially since European settlement.
Stanley W. Trimble is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Institute of Environment, UCLA. His interests include historical geography of the environment and especially human impacts on hydrology including soil erosion, stream and valley sedimentation, and stream flow and channel changes. His regional interests are the humid U.S. and western and central Europe. Trimble was a research hydrologist with USGS 1973-84, and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago, Vienna, Oxford, London (University College), and Durham. He is joint editor of CATENA, an international journal of soils, hydrology, and geomorphology and Editor of the Dekker Encyclopedia of Water Science.. His research grants include a Fulbright to the U.K., and his publications are diverse including several in SCIENCE. Most recently, he served on the NRC Committee on Watershed Management, and continues to serve on committees concerned with the Upper Mississippi River where he has done research for three decades.
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History 19, Seminar 1
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 2
Women, Crime, and Law in European History
Stephen Frank
An introduction to the historical study of women and crime from the early modern era to the 20th century. The seminar focuses in particular on what contemporaries viewed as the "nature" of "female criminality," and on the peculiar, often changing position given by law and legal codes to women criminals over the course of several centuries.
Stephen Frank is an Associate Professor in the department of History. She specializes in: Russian History, 18th-20th centuries. Her areas of interest include: History of crime and criminal justice; social history; peasantry; legal anthropology; and popular culture.
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History 19, Seminar 3
Do Civilizations Go Bump in the Night?
James Gelvin
Are the "West" and "Islam" doomed to conflict? This course examines the current theory of a "clash of civilizations." It traces the theory historically from the Romantic Period to the present, looks at contemporary Middle Eastern conceptions of the West (and vice versa), and wil offer alternative conceptual frameworks to understand contemporary events.
James L. Gelvin is an Associate Professor of modern Middle Eastern History. An award-winning teacher, he is author of Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (1998), The Modern Middle East: A History (2004), and numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes.
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History 19, Seminar 4
Crisis in Darfur: The Debate Over Genocide and International Intervention
Edward Alpers
In this course I seek to engage students in the messy details of the current crisis in Darfur by examining the historical context of the modern history of the Sudan and the place of Darfur in the modern Sudanese state, the relationship of this conflict to the longer civil war focused on Southern Sudan, the United Nations definition of genocide, the larger African context of international inaction to stop the Rwanda genocide (as opposed to UN and NATO action in Bosnia), and how all of this plays out in American and international politics, including the roles of the African Union and Arab League. I hope that students will learn something about both the politics and ethics of genocide and international intervention from this course.
Professor Alpers has been teaching at UCLA since 1968 and is constantly astonished by the diversity of experiences of our undergraduates. He enjoys the less formal contact with students and the opportunity to explore issues that link more directly to students' lives than is normally the case in many undergraduate teaching. The crisis in Darfur is especially significant for Africa scholars like himself who has witnessed the way in which the world at large ignored the clear case of genocide in Rwanda a decade ago and raises a host of moral issues at both the state and personal level that he want students to consider.
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History 19, Seminar 5
Middle East Conflict in Arabic and Hebrew Literature
Gabriel Piterberg
Humanization of Arab-Israeli dispute by presentation of personal experiences of it through various literary genres such as short stories, diaries, and poetry. Emphasis is laid upon heart of this conflict, namely, Palestine/Israel. All readings are in translation; knowledge of Arabic or Hebrew is welcome but not required.
Gabriel Piterberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Israel. He studied and taught in Israel (Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion universities) and England (Oxford and Durham). He has been teaching middle east history at UCLA since 1999.
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History 19, Seminar 6
Rise and Fall of Communism: Marx to Gorbachev
J. Arch Getty
Rise and fall of communism beginning with Marx and ending with Gorbachev. Topics include differences between socialism and communism; ways Lenin, Stalin, and Gorbachev modified Marx's theories; role of communism in 20th-century geopolitics, and reasons for collapse of USSR. Evaluation of changing ways in which communism has been viewed after its collapse.
Arch Getty is a Professor in the Department of History. He specializes in the history of the Soviet Communist Party. He seeks to understand how the greatest experiment of the 20th century, led by a movement that grew out of rational, enlightened, egalitarian, and democratic traditions, resulted in dictatorship and the deaths of millions of its own people. His books and articles on the Stalin period of Russian history have been published in the US, England, France, Germany, Japan and Russia. Getty has been Research Fellow of the Russian State Humanities University (Moscow), Senior Fellow of the Harriman Institute (Columbia University) and the Davis Center (Harvard University), and Visiting Scholar at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
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History 19, Seminar 7
Violence and Nonviolence in Modern World
Vinay Lal
Many commentators agree that the 20th century was exceptionally violent. Estimates of people killed in violent conflicts during the 20th century run as high as 225 million. These estimates do not include victims of Stalinism, including collectivization of agriculture and famine in Ukraine; nor do they include the 25-30 million people killed in the so-called Great Leap Forward in Mao's China; nor do they include victims of allegedly benign and progressive forms of development such as construction of large dams which, according to International Commission on Dams, have displaced 60 million people worldwide since 1945. Introduction to more nuanced conceptions of violence, violence that is not even recognized as such. Exploration of irony that most violent century also produced most creative responses to violence, from Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King to Cesar Chavez and the Dalai Lama.
Vinay Lal is Associate Professor of History. He writes widely on modern Indian history, contemporary global politics, the Indian diaspora, Indian cinema, the politics of culture and sexuality, and modern knowledge systems. His most recent books include Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (London: Pluto, 2002); Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture (Seagull Books, 2003); The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (Oxford, 2003); The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-first Century (co-edited with Ashis Nandy, Penguin 2004); and Introducing Hinduism (with Borin van Loon, forthcoming Feb 2005).
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History 19, Seminar 8
History of Science of Sex Differences
Mary Terrall
History of philosophical and scientific discussions of sex differences, going back to ancient Greeks and ending with contemporary debates about male and female brains. Reading of short selections from Aristotle, Descartes, some early feminists (17th and 18th centuries), Darwin, sociobiologists, cultural critics of reductionist biological schemes, and popular press. Placement of current debates about biological basis of sex differences into historical context. Questions include: What have writers in different time periods had to say about physical, moral, and intellectual differences between men and women? How have these differences been conceptualized, challenged, and revised over centuries? Class sessions focus on detailed analysis of primary source readings.
Professor. Mary Terrall is Associate Professor of History, specializing in the history of science. She has written on gender and science, and the history of 18th-century science. She has taught courses in the history of gender and science, and in the history of childbirth and midwifery.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 1
Perceptions of Americans Abroad: Discussions with Visiting Fulbright Scholars
Ann Kerr
In post 9/11 world, there is greater need than ever for Americans to know more about the rest of world and to understand how we are perceived abroad. This course will provide an opportunity to see ourselves as others see us by hearing visiting Fulbright scholars from around world speak about their countries and perceptions of America there and have chance to ask them questions. Scholars speak informally for 10-15 minutes. The remainder of the class time will be hour is devoted to class discussion.
Ann Zwicker Kerr, a native of southern California, has spent a total of 15 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 serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut, the American University of Kuwait, the President's Council of EARTH University in Costa Rica and the Advisory Board of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. She is the author of Come with Me from Lebanon, An American Family Odyssey and 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 Seplow
Exploration of ways in which American culture is affected by sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Topics include overview of historical perspective, legal and political issues specifically relating to education, sexual identity development, impact of bullying and harassment in schools and colleges, relationship between sexual orientation discrimination and all other forms of discrimination, how to be an ally, and impact of sexual orientation issues on all people regardless of their sexual orientation.
Ronni Sanlo is the Director of the UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center and lecturer in the Graduate School of Education. Her three books - Working with LGBT College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators; Unheard Voices: The Effects of Silence on Lesbian and Gay Educators; and Our Place on Campus are published by Greenwood Press. She is the originator of the award-winning Lavender Graduation, an event that celebrates the lives and achievements of LGBT students. She lives on the campus at UCLA as a member of the Faculty-in-Residence program.
Suzanne L. Seplow, Ed.D., is a graduate of the GSEIS Educational Leadership program at UCLA. Her focus is on maintaining living/learning communities that foster positive impacts on student learning. She specializes in learning communities, environmental influences and student development theory.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 5
Radical Cheerleaders: History of UCLA Cheerleaders and Social Activism
La'Tonya Rease Miles
Role of cheerleading within American culture. We will focus on UCLA Spirit Squad and Cheer LA teams. Discussion of how this sport can be used as avenue for cultural resistance and social activism. Students learn how to use university archives and how to conduct interviews.
Dr. La'Tonya Rease Miles received her PhD in English, from UCLA. An award-winning teaching assistant, she is the project coordinator for the AAP Graduate Mentor Program and the McNair Research Scholars Program. Her research interests include a wide spectrum of sports, music and other cultural forces that shape contemporary youth.
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Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 6
Political Poetry of Pablo Neruda and Political Narrative of Eduardo Galeano
C. Adolfo Bermeo
Analysis of political, social, and economic context of political poetry of Pablo Neruda and political narrative of Eduardo Galeano, focusing on impact of broader historical experience of Latin America on their individual work. Students write weekly journal responses to readings in preparation for in-class discussion. Enrollment restricted to transfer students only.
C. Adolfo Bermeo is the Associate Vice Provost for Student Diversity and Community College Partnerships and Director of the Academic Advancement Program and on the faculty of the Cesar Chavez Center for Chicano/a Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Latin American History from UCLA and is particularly interested in the underlying causes for Latin American immigration to the United States and the impact of that experience on the Latino/a population, both in Latin America and the United States.
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Law 19, Seminar 1
Law and Lawyers in The Movies
Paul Bergman
This course will examine the images of law, lawyers and the legal system as presented in popular courtroom films. Because law-related films and television shows are for most people the most frequent source of information about the legal system, such films are legal texts deserving of study along with statutes and appellate court cases.
Paul Bergman began teaching at the UCLA School of Law in 1970, and has been a tenured Professor of Law since 1978. Professor Bergman teaches courses in Evidence, Trial Advocacy, Legal Communication and Law and Popular Culture. He is the author or co-author of about 15 books, including Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies. He lectures frequently to groups of lawyers and judges on the images of law and lawyers in popular films. Professor Bergman is a recipient of a University Distinguished Teaching Award.
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Law 19, Seminar 2
Origins of the Federal Income Tax
Steven Bank
This course surveys the political, social, economic, intellectual, and legal origins of the federal income tax. The advent of this tax alternatively has been hailed as "one of the most progressive achievements in the making of modern America," derided as "class legislation" of the worst sort, and dismissed as "a means of limiting dissent" in the course toward true revolution and redistribution. We will review both modern and contemporary perspectives as we trace the origins of the federal income tax from its status as a temporary tax during the Civil War and Reconstruction, to its brief reinstatement in the 1890s before being struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional, and finally through the adoption of the 16th amendment and the enactment of the first modern federal income tax in 1913.
Steven Bank is a Professor of Law. He teaches Federal Income Tax and Taxation of Business Enterprises. His primary research specialty is the history of tax law between the Civil War and World War II.
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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 delegations.
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Sociology 19, Seminar 1
AIDS and Social/Behavioral Sciences
Oscar Grusky
What is HIV/AIDS? Why has this disease been described as a "real weapon of mass destruction"? Why are social and behavioral sciences important for understanding and helping to prevent this epidemic? We will discuss the use of social and behavioral research
and theory to improve understanding of HIV/AIDS
and to develop interventions that can prevent its spread. We will explore and discuss selected HIV/AIDS social and behavioral science research.
Oscar Grusky is a Professor of Sociology at UCLA. His research and teaching interests focus on HIV/AIDS. He serves as Co-Director of the Administrative Core of the UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services (CHIPTS), Director of the NIMH-sponsored research training program on service systems for people living with HIV/AIDS, and Principal Investigator of the HIMH-supported study of "Organizational Factors in the Early Detection of HIV".
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Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 19, Seminar 1
Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, and Typhoons
Robert Fovell
This course will explore how severe storms such as thunderstorms and hurricanes form and evolve, why they exist, what role they serve in nature, and how successfully they can be simulated and predicted using computer models.
Robert Fovell is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and specializes in studying and simulating severe storms.
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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 a 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 Orthopedics and Biomedical Engineering: U. Southern Calif. (bone circulation, fracture healing, blood/bone altering cytokines, erodible polymer cytokine carriers), 1980-1998 Adjunct Prof. Orthopedic Surgery
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Chemistry & Biochemistry 19, Seminar 1
Chemistry and Art: A dialogue
David Scott
This seminar explores the relationships between chemistry and art and how modern chemical knowledge can be used to analyze the composition of artifacts, ranging from ancient pigments to Renaissance metals. The ability to authenticate works of art is an important part of chemical investigation of antiquities which will be discussed in this seminar. Examples of the scientific investigation of art objects will be discussed and the examination of samples of ancient metals will form some laboratory work for the participants. The course will also explore how pigments and minerals play an important role in the production of art, the history of synthetic chemistry, and the corrosion of ancient art objects.
David A. Scott is a Professor in Art History and Archaeology and Chair of the UCLA/Getty Program in archaeological and ethnographic conservation. He was a lecturer in conservation at University College London from 1981-87 and Head of the Museum Research Laboratory at the Getty Conservation Institute from 1987-2003. He joined the faculty of UCLA in 2003. His main research interests are in the characterization and technology of works of art.
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 1
Evolutionary Medicine: How Natural Selection
Helps Us Understand Why We Get Sick
Peter Nonacs
Why do we grow old and die? Why do our own cells sometimes become cancers that grow wildly until they kill us and themselves? Why are plant poisons designed to kill insects such as caffeine, nicotine and chocolate some of our favorite substances to eat? Questions like these have long puzzled medical science. An exciting new approach to these "why" questions involves the application of evolutionary principles. In this course we will look at disease, illness and human behavior not as constant phenomena, but as having evolved and continuing to evolve through Natural Selection. Evolution is the fundamental concept that unifies all of modern biology and, perhaps very soon, modern medicine as well.
Peter Nonacs is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
His interests are in behavioral ecology and the evolution of social behavior. Although most of his research is on insects, he is interested in general questions about evolution and the ecological interactions between organisms.
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 2
Biodiversity Now and in Future: Is There Hope?
Kenneth Nagy
Species Homo sapiens 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? Discussion of these and other issues will take place while reading Ed Wilson's The Future of Life.
Ken Nagy is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology where he teaches animal physiology and herpetology. His research concerns the survival mechanisms of animals living in difficult environments, especially deserts. He has studied reptiles, birds and mammals on all seven continents, and his current research is on the Threatened desert tortoise in the Mojave Desert of California.
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Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 19, Seminar 1
Nanotechnology -- Small World, Big Future
Yong Chen
Nanotechnology is developing quickly from research labs into marketplace. During the next decade, the National Science Foundation estimated the U.S. will need 800,000 to 1 million nano technology workers. In this course, we will show you how nanotech works, why it's so exciting, what's new, and what's next. The course contents will include multidisciplinary areas: the basic physical, chemical, and biological principles in nano-areas; nanoscale materials prepared by various methods; top-down and bottom-up (self-assembly) nanofabrication; nano-characterization; nanoscale electric and optical devices, nano-biodetection, and biomedical applications. The goal of the course is to introduce huge vistas in this small world.
Dr. Yong Chen is currently a Professor at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and also a member of California NanoSystems Institute. His research is focused on nanofabrication, nanoelectronics, and nanosensors. Before he joined UCLA in 2003, he was a Scientist in Quantum Science Research at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories since 1996.
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Medicine 19, Seminar 1
Discussing Debate about Darwin
Rene Chun
Dealing with opposing ideas and interacting with people who hold differing views is part of life. This tension is obvious in politics, business, law and science. Opportunity to experience this tension by examining the controversy around Darwinian biological origins and how it is taught. Competing arguments are explored and implications for science and society are discussed.
Dr. Chun is an Adjunct Assistant Professor doing research on intracellular transport of vitamin D at UCLA/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He did post-doctoral research at San Francisco VA Medical Center/UCSF and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at NIH. He obtained his PhD in molecular biology at UC Irvine and did his undergraduate studies in biochemistry at UCLA.
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Nursing 19, Seminar 1 (Seminar Canceled)
STDs and Human Cancers: A Viral Connection
Dorothy Wiley
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Pediatrics 19, Seminar 1
Gender, Genomics, and Society
Edward McCabe and Linda McCabe
Internationally renowned speakers discuss many different ways to define gender. Some methods are based on biology: genes, chromosomes, hormone levels, reproductive organs, and physical characteristics. Other methods are based on social factors such as gender role and gender identification.
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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Pediatrics 19, Seminar 2
Pediatric Cardiology: Approach to Heart Disease in Children
John W. Moore and Daniel Levi
Why wait for medical school? If you are interested in medicine or even becoming a doctor, you'll probably enjoy this class. Biweekly sessions focus on basic cardiac anatomy, doctor's basic approach to any given patient and fundamental pathophysiology that forms basis for treatment of pediatric heart disease. Medical ethical issues surrounding heart transplantation and resource allocation are discussed, and medical topics in news are also addressed. Students are treated as if they were medical students or residents. To expose students to realities of pediatric medical center, class features trips to cardiac catheterization laboratory, echocardiogram laboratory, intensive care unit (ICU) and possibly even operating room. Actual cases of patients from Mattel Children's Hospital are used as basis for discussions of fundamentals of diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in children.
John W. Moore, MD, MPH will be co-teaching this class with Daniel S Levi, MD. Both Dr Levi and Dr Moore are Pediatric Cardiologists at UCLA. Dr Moore has been a Professor in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at UCLA for 3 years. He is Director of the Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and has been a pioneer in the development of catheter-based devices used to close holes and unwanted vessels in pediatric patients. He has active research interests in the development of new pediatric devices and interventional techniques. Both Dr Moore and Dr Levi regularly attend on the Pediatric Ward, in the ICU, in the Pediatric Cardiology Outpatient Clinic and in the Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. Dr Moore is a consultant for AGA Medical
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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 will also be discussed.
Thomas Minor is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. . His research is in the field of biological psychiatry with a focus on psychological, neurobiological, and neuroendocrine reactions to traumatic life events and how to alleviate related behavioral disorders. He has published numerous research articles on the psychobiology of helplessness, anxiety, and depression.
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Psychology 19, Seminar 2
Health Disparities in African Americans: Impact of Racism on Brain and Body
Vickie Mays
Examination of factors related to physical and mental health disparities of African Americans. Focus on impact of racism, discrimination, prejudice, and/or social exclusion on brain and body. Examination of how experiences of racism/discrimination result in changes to brain, to body's physical response, and how these experiences may play a role in accounting for health status of African Americans. Cardiovascular disease and obesity serve as examples of physical health responses to long-term experiences of discrimination.
Professor Vickie M. Mays is the Director of the UCLA Center on Minority Health Disparities, a Professor of Psychology and Professor of Health Services in the School of Public Health. For more information, please visit her website: (www.MinorityHealthDisparities.org)
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Statistics 19, Seminar 1
Data Mining: Finding Knowledge in Sea of Information
Hongquan Xu
Data mining is emerging field on interface between artificial intelligence (machine learning) and statistics. The goal is to discover hidden facts contained in large databases. Application areas include marketing and sales, finance and credit industry, pharmaceutical research and development, manufacturing, and scientific research. Introduction to data mining concepts, methods, and applications. Data mining techniques such as classification, clustering, association rules, decision trees, and statistical modeling are also introduced.
Hongquan. Xu joined UCLA Department of Statistics as an Assistant Professor in July 2001, after getting his Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Michigan. His research interests include experimental design, data mining, computational and applied statistics. He has published 15 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, and is active in teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses.
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