Ancient Near East 19, Seminar 1

Archaeology and Virtual Reality: The Greco-Roman Village of Karanis in Egypt

Willemina Wendrich

In this course, we will explore the use and usefulness of virtual reality in order to understand archaeological sites in dimensions of time and space.

Willemina Wendrich is an Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the Department for Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. She directs the UCLA excavations in the Fayum Oasis in Egypt, and teaches a graduate level field work class there. She has worked as an archaeologist in Egypt for 18 years, participating in expeditions in several regions, working on a wide range of periods of Egyptian history.

Comparative Literature 19, Seminar 1

The Short Works of Franz Kafka, or How

the Modern World Works

Kathleen Komar

An examination of the short works of one of the world's most famous and puzzling authors, Franz Kafka. Kafka has been labeled everything from Existentialist to Realist, from mystic to comic. This seminar will examine the implications that Kafka's unique perspective has for our own times. Students write three questions based on readings to shape each class discussion. Readings of several Kafka short fiction pieces including The Metamorphosis, The Country Doctor, An old Manuscript, In the Penal Colony, Report to an Academy, A Hunger Artist, and The Judgment. These pieces help us understand why Kafka remains so timely despite having lived in context very different from our own.

Kathleen L. Komar is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of California, Los Angeles. She won UCLA's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989. She served as Chair of Comparative Literature, as Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, and as Chair of the Academic Senate at UCLA. Komar has published on a variety of topics from Romanticism to the present in American and German literature; and she has written on the works of Hermann Broch, Rainer Maria Rilke, Alfred Döblin, Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann, among others. Her books include Reclaiming Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation (2003), Transcending Angels: Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies" (l987), Pattern and Chaos: Multilinear Novels by Dos Passos, Faulkner, Döblin, and Koeppen (1983), and the collection Lyrical Symbols and Narrative Transformations, co-edited with Ross Shideler, (1998).

is the author of several books.

Comparative Literature 19, Seminar 2

Poets and Desire

Ross Shideler

Representations of desire in poetry range from blatantly sexual to the esthetic ideal, and the object of desire might be person or painting. Poems by Sappho, Catullus, Mallarme, Yeats, and W. Stevens will be studied to see how they express or approach desire. Other international poets read include C. Baudelaire, C.P. Cavafy, P. Valery, and G. Ekelof, and some contemporary American poets such as Louise Gluck, Sharon Olds, and Alice Fulton. This seminar will be conducted within a context in which students wary of or unfamiliar with poetry can do close reading and participate in open discussions.

Ross Shideler is a professor of Comparative Literature who works on 19th-20th-century Swedish, French, English and American literature. He has published many articles, translations of plays by the Swedish author Per Olov Enquist and of Swedish poets as well as poems of his own. His books include: Voices Under the Ground: Themes and Images in the Early Poetry of Gunnar Ekelöf, Per Olov Enquist: A Critical Study; and Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy as well as having written and edited with Kathleen Komar, Lyrical Symbols and Narrative Transformation.

Design | Media Arts 19, Seminar 1

What Is Interactive Media?

Erkki Huhtamo

Interactivity and interactive media have been among the most repeated buzz-words of media culture for more than a decade. Still, their actual meaning is far from clear. There is not a single theoretical book fully devoted to interactivity, exploring its theoretical, cultural and historical underpinnings. In this seminar, we will develop a broader understanding of interactivity, particularly in relation to media, art, and design. We will discuss different definitions of interactivity and explore its relationship to earlier phenomena like mechanization and (full) automation. We’ll review a wide variety of interactive applications, ranging from interactive media art and interactive entertainment to cinema and design. The goal of this seminar is to lead its participants to a more critical understanding of the concept and its uses.

Erkki Huhtamo is a Professor at the Department of Design | Media Arts. He is a media archaeologist, writer, and exhibition curator. He has published extensively on media archaeology and media arts, lectured worldwide, created television programs, and curated media art exhibitions. His research deals with topics like peep media, Marcel Duchamp's optical experiments, the use of 3-D imaging by media artists, the pre-history of the screen, and the archaeology of mobile media. He is currently working on two books, one about the 19th century moving panorama, and another on the archaeology of interactivity.

English 19, Seminar 1

Sex and Violence in the Narrative Art

of William Hogarth

Charles Batten

"I have endeavoured," wrote William Hogarth (1697-1764), "to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer: my picture is my stage, and men and women my players." The most important engraver of England's 18th century, Hogarth uses his visual art to tell stories- similar to plays and novels- that convey moral, social, and political lessons. His satiric views of sex and violence continue to have relevance in the modern world. This seminar’s primary focus will be on reading Hogarth's most famous narrative sequences- "The Harlot's Progress," "The Rake's Progress," "Marriage-a-la-Mode," and "Industry and Idleness." It will examine individual plates such as "Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism."

Charles Batten is an Associate Professor in the Department of English. He is the author of Pleasurable Instruction: Form and Convention in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature.

English 19, Seminar 2

Words, Feelings, Things: How to Read a Poem

Paul Sheats

An informal weekly hour of reading and discussing a few poems, bringing our collective experience together in appreciation and understanding. In this seminar we will examine such questions as What makes a group of words a poem? How can poetry illuminate our individual lives and also our society? How does a poem survive its own historical time? What happens to ordinary language when it is made into a good poem? What is metrical language and poetic form?

Paul Sheats is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of English. He has taught English poetry at UCLA, Haverford, and Harvard, and has published books, editions, and articles on the poetry of the English romantic period.

English 19, Seminar 3

Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and New Worlds of Possibilities

Jenny Sharpe

In this seminar, we will explore contemporary retellings of ancient stories inhabited by werewolves, trolls, magicians, and genii. What relationship do fantasy and fairy tales have to the real world? How does its narrative perspective transform telling of a tale? Does magic still have place in the modern, technological world? We will explore how writers reinvent the folk tale for the modern world by reading their reinterpretation of traditional stories like Red Riding Hood, Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Gingerbread Boy, Arabian Nights, and The Ballad of Fa Mu Lan, among others.

Jenny Sharpe is a Professor of English who specializes in postcolonial literature, postmodern fiction, and magical realism. She has published books and essays on film, fiction, and poetry from the Caribbean and India.

English 19, Seminar 4

Medieval Trial by Combat: Law, Chivalry,

Theology, and Spectacle

Eric Jager

In this seminar, we will consider one of the most controversial practices of medieval Europe: trial by combat, also known as "the judgment of God." The seminar consists of a study of the judicial duel through an actual legal case that unfolded in 14th-century France, reading a short historical account of the notorious Carrouges-Le Gris affair (1386), emphasizing the legal, military, religious, and social aspects of judicial duel.

Professor Jager earned his Ph.D at the University of Michigan and taught at Columbia University before joining the UCLA faculty in 1996. He specializes in medieval literature and is the author of three books, including The Last Duel, the basis for a recent BBC television documentary.

English 19, Seminar 5

The Satan Seminar

Henry Kelly

In this seminar, we will review all of the references to Satan (Devil) in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament, and analyze the various functions assigned to Satan in each instance.

Henry Kelly is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of English. He has been a Professor of English and Medieval-Renaissance Studies at UCLA since 1967; he has published many writings on religious studies.

Ethnomusicology 19, Seminar 1

The Cognitive Science of Music in Science Fiction Film

Roger Kendall

In this course, we will view such films as Metropolis, Forbidden Planet, and excerpts from others such as Star Trek and Star Wars. In addition, vintage TV shows such as Time Tunnel are incorporated. Discussions and analyses will center on how the music incorporated in these films exhibits elements of experimental semiotic theory and aspects of meaning that have percolated through decades of science fiction in media. Connections of visual and musical elements will be a focus of the analysis.

Roger A. Kendall is a Professor of Systematic Musicology in the Department of Ethnomusicology. His research interests include the psychoacoustics of timbre in natural versus synthetic contexts, the tunings of the Gamelan, and the cognitive processes in musical expression and communication. He was a consulting editor for Music Perception for 15 years. Recently, he has built a model of musical meaning in film and animation. He tests his experiments using an original computer program, MEDS (Music Experiment Development System) that is used internationally.

Film and Television 19, Seminar 1

The Art of Cinematography

William McDonald

Who is responsible for the camera and lighting decisions on feature films? The cameraperson? The cinematographer? The director of photography? All of them, for they are the same person. This seminar, will survey the technological and artistic developments of cinematography within the Hollywood film industry. Beginning with silent films and moving toward today's latest developments in digital imagery, it will capture a broad conceptual understanding of one of the most influential art forms in history. Students enrolled will see screenings of clips from films under discussion.

William McDonald is a veteran cinematographer whose credits include dramatic and documentary films. He is head of the Cinematography Program in the School of Theater, Film and Television and is the recipient the UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award. As a documentary producer and cinematographer, his work has focused on portraits of writers and artists in such films as Women of Mystery: Three Writers Who Forever Changed Detective Fiction and Funny Ladies: A Portrait of Women Cartoonists.

Film and Television 19, Seminar 2

Introduction to Film Making: So You Want

to Make Movies?

Barbara Boyle

Three screenplays are read without disclosing the title of screenplay or resulting movie. Analysis and discussion will center on visual style, cast, director, music, and other essential elements used to convey tone and message of movie made from script. Films actually made from screenplays are then shown so that the relationship between the literary (screenplay) and the visual (film and all its components) is understood. This course will also introduce a glossary of basic film industry terms. Three feature length motion pictures will be viewed.

Barbara Boyle is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Film, Television & Digital Media, and a

film and television producer. Boyle's credits include Phenomenon, Instinct, Bottle Rocket, Eight Men Out, Mrs. Munck, and The Hi-Line. Her company, Sovereign Pictures, has financed and distributed internationally 25 films, including My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso, Reversal of Fortune, Impromptu, Hamlet, and The Commitments. Sovereign's films were nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won four. While president of Valhalla Motion Pictures, the company produced 22 episodes of Adventure, Inc., the documentary, True Whispers, and the feature films, Clockstoppers, and The Hulk. She serves on the board of Project: Involve, and is a past president of IFP/West and Women In Film. Boyle has received the Crystal Award and the Alumni of the Year from UCLA Law School.

French 19, Seminar 1

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman!

Jean-Claude Carron

The title of this seminar is borrowed from a Cannes Festival Award-winning 1971 film by Brazilian author Nelson Pereira dos Santos, telling us of the surprising treatment of a 16th-century French explorer by a tribe of cannibals. This encounter with the New World raised the question of others for Europeans and of the acceptance of a totally different civilization by a world centered on Christian and Greco-Roman values. The seminar will look at this encounter at a specific moment in time-middle of the 16th century- when French Catholics and Protestants settled in Rio de Janeiro and came into contact with the Topinanba Indians, people at the center of the movie of same title and known then as cannibals. French Christians, divided by the rise of Protestantism, discovered in these so-called savages examples of values that put them to shame. How this encounter with the New World helped early modern writers reassess their sense of moral certitude in ways that could be exemplary for us today.

Jean-Claude Carron is a Professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies. He has published books on French Renaissance poetry and on François Rabelais, as well as articles on history of ideas, philosophy and literature, rhetoric, poetry, dialogues, theater, Montaigne, Mallarmé, etc. He is currently working on the history of gastronomy. The Fiat Lux seminar is related to his interest in 16th-century philosophy and the birth of skepticism in Europe.

German 19, Seminar 1

Three Penny Opera: John Gay, Bertolt Brecht,

and Kurt Weill

Wolfgang Nehring

A discussion of Brecht's most famous work, based upon John Gay's “Beggar's Opera” and was particularly successful through the music of Kurt Weill. In this seminar, we will examine the questions What did Brecht find in the old play? What did he do with it? What is the role of Brecht’s team? Discussion topics include entertainment vs. politics, theater as means of criticism of bourgeoisie and capitalism, and ideas and music.

Wolfgang Nehring has been a Professor of German for 35 years at UCLA. His expertise is German Culture and Literature from the 18th Century to the Present

German 19, Seminar 2

Writing about Love in the High-Middle Ages

James Schultz

This seminar will focus on two great love stories of the Middle Ages: Abelard and Heloise, and Tristan and Isolde. The former historical figures struggle over the nature and meaning of their love in a series of brilliantly-crafted letters. The latter fictional characters achieve their supreme literary representation in the romance of Gottfried von Strassburg. These two texts- letters of Abelard and Heloise and Gottfried's Tristan romance-provide opportunity to consider how medieval ideas of love differ from ours as well as how medieval writing about love differs from ours.

Dr. Schultz received his BA from Harvard in 1969; and his PhD from Princeton University in 1977. He has held faculty positions at Columbia, Yale, the University of Illinois at Chicago and UCLA. He is a Professor of German (specialty, medieval German literature) and director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program. He has published books on the narrative structure of Arthurian romance, childhood in the middle ages, medieval sexuality, and courtly love.

Music 19, Seminar 1

Global Rap: Hip-Hop Outside of the USA

Robert Walser

Rap music emerged from New York City in the 1970s but it quickly spread to the rest of world, speaking for many communities in many different languages. In this seminar, we will examine one or more musical examples from a different country each week, concentrating on how local scenes adapt and customize musical and lyrical resources that circulate globally, how people use rap to mark their cultural distinctiveness and connect to worldwide hip-hop identity, how their uses of rap relate to music's origins among African-Americans and Latin-Americans. No technical knowledge of music required, although we will analyze not only lyrics, but also music, video, and arguments about genre's meanings and worth.

Robert Walser is a Professor of Musicology at UCLA. He is the author of Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, and editor of Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History. His groundbreaking analysis of a song by Public Enemy was published in the Journal of Ethnomusicology in 1995 and has since been reprinted in five books.

Philosophy 19, Seminar 1

Faith, Reason, and Politics: Shaping the

Medieval World

Calvin Normore

Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux represent two poles of thought- Christianity and politics in the 12th century. Famous as lover, poet, and philosopher, Abelard (1079-1142) got in on the ground floor of contemporary conceptions of all three. Equally famous as theologian, founder of a new kind of more austere monastery, impetus behind the Second Crusade, and architect of centralized late medieval Church, Bernard (090-1153) had enormous influence inside and outside the medieval church. The two confronted one another at a council called (under Bernard's influence) at Sens in 1140, at which Abelard's work was condemned. This seminar explores the lives and central ideas of each, the environment in which they worked, the way they were regarded by their contemporaries, and the way they are regarded today.

Calvin Normore is Professor in the Philosophy Department at UCLA. His research is largely in medieval and early modern philosophy and he has written several articles on Peter Abelard but, as yet, none of Bernard.

Scandinavian 19, Seminar 1

Scary Movies: Film, Folklore, and Ideology

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 topics that come up time and again in both urban legends and popular film. Sometimes, popular films are based entirely on these legends (“Scream,” “Urban Legend,” “Men in Black”); other times, they simply make use of similar motifs. Although they keep us entertained and frightened, there is more to these stories and their presentation than simple entertainment. Exploration of how the storytelling of legends can be used to endorse ideological positions. This seminar will focus on how this process translates into popular film. Its goal is to develop an understanding of how narratives, particularly those that aim to create fear, can be used for local or global political ends.

Timothy Tangherlini is a Professor of folklore in the Scandinavian Section and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. His research interests span from Old Icelandic morphology to Korean punk rock. He has written several books on storytelling, and the ideological uses to which people put stories. His books include, Interpreting Legend and Talking Trauma: Paramedics and Their Stories.

Theater 19, Seminar 1

Medicine in the Arts and Humanities

Shelley Salamensky

Medicine is much more than simple biology. In this seminar, we will explore a wide variety of lively materials concerning patient, doctor, body, mind, and the magic of science.

S.I. Salamensky is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, and also teaches European Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. She is working on a book entitled Immaterial Science: Pain, Cure, and the Staging of Knowledge.

Anthropology 19, Seminar 1

American Indian Population Decline from

Circa 1492- 1900: Was it Genocide?

Russell Thornton

The American Indian population of what is now the United States declined from 5+ million circa 1492 to a mere 250,000 by 1900. This seminar will examine this decline, its pattern and its underlying causes. Particular attention will be devoted to the nature of genocide and whether the decline actually could be characterized as genocide.

Russell Thornton is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. He is a registered member of the Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma). He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota, Dartmouth College and the University of California at Berkeley. He has lectured widely in the United States and other countries. A world-recognized authority on American Indian historical demography, his interests also include epidemiology, revitalization movements, and repatriation of human remains and cultural objects.

Anthropology 19, Seminar 2

Stone-Age Hunting from A to Z

P. Jeffrey Brantingham

Hunting of small and large game animals has been a key feature of human adaptations for more than 2 million years. This seminar surveys archaeological evidence for key behavioral, technological, and ecological features of Paleolithic (Stone Age) hunting adaptations. Topics include hunting, scavenging in competition with large-bodied predators, and the role that human hunting may have played in several large-scale animal extinctions.

P. Jeffrey Brantingham is a Paleolithic archaeologist specializing in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of East Asia. His current research is focused on investigating the timing of the human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau.

Asian 19, Seminar 1

Crisis in Northeast Asia: Nuclear North Korea

John Duncan

Readings and discussions on the North Korean nuclear crisis and a consideration of the historical context and contemporary implications for Northeast Asia and the world.

John Duncan is a historian of Korea, the Director of the Center for Korean Studies, and Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA.

Chicano Studies 19, Seminar 1

After the World Trade Center: The Politics of

Rebuilding at Ground Zero

Eric Avila

In this seminar, we will study public debates about the effort to rebuild at ground zero in New York City. What should be built? Who should decide? What are the contending visions? Since this unprecedented act of violence upon the New York landscape, architects, planners, politicians, developers, academics, artists, activists, and grieving families are engaged in intense debate about how to rebuild and what principles should guide that effort: economic value, global peace, civic unity, public memory, social welfare, aesthetic design, and monumental grandeur. This seminar will focus upon that two-acre parcel of lower Manhattan real estate, now known as ground zero, and will consider the past, present, and future of that site to understand broader dynamics of urban transformation.

Eric Avila is an Associate Professor of History and Chicano Studies at UCLA and he is the author of Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles He is a historian of twentieth century America, and his teaching and research interests center upon issues related to ethnic studies, urban history and cultural history.

Economics 19, Seminar 1

How Rational Are You?

William Zame

An exploration of the idea that human decision-making is not by rational utility-maximizers in the traditional sense. Many behavioral theories suggest that in each human there is not a unique agent that makes economic decisions; rather, there are many selves with contradictory preferences. Thus, self-control is important in making of economic decisions and factors that affect self-control may play a vital role in the rationality of economic choices of agents. These factors can be systematically examined in the laboratory, and results have wide-ranging applications for economic policy because consequences of this policy depend critically on degree of rationality of economic decisions.

William Zame received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Tulane University and is a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Economics and Mathematics at UCLA, where he has been on the faculty since 1991. He is also the Director of the California Social Science Experimental Laboratory (CASSEL). Before coming to UCLA, he held appointments in the Mathematics Departments of Rice University, Tulane University and the State University of New York at Buffalo, and in the Economics and Mathematics Departments at The Johns Hopkins University.

Economics 19, Seminar 2

The “Winner's Curse” in Common Value Auctions

Hugo Hopenhayn

This seminar examines the phenomenon of “winner's curse.” Winner’s curse occurs when a person who wins at an auction wishes he or she had not won. Since many other interesting phenomena have the same basic structure as common value auctions, insights learned about auctions in the laboratory have significance in other areas where unhappy winners are important, such as political contests and voting behavior, jury decisions, and companies racing to discover and patent an invention.

Professor Hopenhayn received his PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1978, was on the faculty of Stanford University, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, and Rochester University, before coming to the UCLA economics department in 2003. He specializes in microeconomic theory, contract theory, macroeconomics, and industrial organization. His research interests include the study of labor markets, contracts, industry dynamics, auctions, and innovation. Professor Hopenhayn has published extensively in professional economics journals.

Education 19, Seminar 1

The Possibilities and Difficulties of

Urban K-12 Public Education

Eloise Metcalfe

This seminar will examine and discuss what is happening in Los Angeles K-12 public schools in low income areas, using a social justice framework.

Dr. Metcalfe has extensive public school experience in Los Angeles County public schools. She has taught Pre-Kindergarten through Eighth Grade and she has held numerous school and district level positions of leadership. She has served as a California State Mentor Teacher and a School Improvement Coordinator. Dr. Metcalfe was responsible for state and federal projects for the Beverly Hills Unified School District and has been at UCLA since 1993, where she has been the Director of the Teacher Education Program since 1997.

Education 19, Seminar 2

Education and Globalization: Critical Concepts

Carlos Torres

This seminar will analyze the implications of globalization in education with specific focus on what is happening in Los Angeles, addressing in particular the voices of teachers and how they see the processes of globalization affecting teaching, instruction, curriculum, and policy.

Dr. Torres is a political sociologist of education, who is Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at GSEIS. He is the Director of the Paulo Freire Institute at GSEIS, and a Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, with Paulo Freire. He is currently the President of the Research Committee of Sociology of Education, International Sociological Association, and past president of Comparative and International Education Society. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 50 books and 190 research articles.

Geography 19, Seminar 1

American Rivers: History of Environmental Change

Stanley Trimble

The objective of this course is to offer students a basic understanding of rivers and how human agency has changed them in the United States.

Stanley W. Trimble is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Institute of Environment at 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 the USGS from 1973 to 1984, 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.

Geography 19, Seminar 2

Hammer of the Gods: Climate Change and

Human History

Glen Macdonald

Today we face the specter of rapid climate change caused by increased greenhouse gasses. However, this is not the first time such challenges have confronted humans. This seminar explores the nature and causes of past episodes of rapid climate change and evidence of their impact upon prehistoric humans and historic civilizations, including those in the Near East, Egypt, India, Mesoamerica, and California. It examines the premise that in addition to negative consequences, rapid and unexpected environmental changes may also contribute to increasing innovation and societal complexity.

Glen MacDonald is a Professor of Geography and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He has published over 100 articles on environmental and climatic change and also an award-winning book on Biogeography. In addition to awards for his research, he has won the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and has appeared on the Discovery Channel, as well as national and regional news programs.

History 19, Seminar 1

How We Remember the Bomb

Ludwig Lauerhass

The first military use of atomic bombs devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It precipitated the end of World War II, and ushered in the new Atomic Age. Since then, the event has been subject to widely divergent interpretations in the U.S., Japan, and the world at large. This seminar highlights the bombing's remembrance and commemoration from 1945 through it’s 50th anniversary in 1995, focusing on sources from documentary and feature films to journalistic accounts, and from artistic renderings to museum exhibitions. Analysis will emphasize how debates have continued to this date, without resolution.

Ludwig Lauerhass, Lecturer Emeritus in History, has taught and researched widely on themes of nationalistic and national identity in Latin America and the United States. Since retirement from full-time service, he has taught annually either at UCLA, in Brazil, or in UCLA's Center for American Politics and Public Policy in Washington, DC. He is writing a book on American Memory, Monuments, and National Identity.

History 19, Seminar 2

Terrorists and Door Kickers: Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Past and Present

Patrick Geary

Since 9/11, enormous attention has been focused on the ability of small, non-state organizations to inflict tremendous damage on powerful states, but such asymmetric warfare is hardly novel. This seminar looks at a variety of approaches to understanding terrorism, as well as efforts in the past and present to defeat it.

Although a professor of history since 9/11 Dr. Geary has become involved in assisting the US Joint Special Operations University and the Naval Postgraduate School in developing approaches to teaching elite special operations officers how to face the challenge of the new terrorist environment. This seminar is a way for Professor Geary to share what he has learned with UCLA students.

History 19, Seminar 3

The Rise and Fall of Communism

Arch Getty

A survey of the rise and fall of communism, from Marx's original theories to the collapse of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev, with emphasis on theory and its application in practice in a variety of historical settings. This seminar is conducted in a discussion-type format.

A specialist in the history of the Soviet Communist Party, Dr. Getty is the author of five books and more than 40 research articles, mostly on the Stalin period of Soviet history. He is a professor of history at UCLA, a University of Moscow Fellow of the Humanities, and a Visiting Scholar of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

History 19, Seminar 4

Political Documentaries in American Society

Vinay Lal

Among the most remarkable aspects of contemporary American life is the recent efflorescence of the political documentary. Though the tradition of political documentaries first gained prominence in the 1960s, the last decade has witnessed an extraordinary revival of the documentary form. Participants in this seminar will view important documentaries such as “The Fog of War,” “The Corporation,” and “Why We Fight,” with the intent not merely to understand the phenomenon of the documentary, but to also ask certain questions, such as What exactly is a documentary form? What does it document? What is its relation to other archives? and How can one distinguish between documentaries and propaganda films?

Vinay Lal is an Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies, and Chair of the South Asia IDP. He writes widely on Indian history and politics, the Indian Diaspora, Indian cinema, and also on contemporary American politics. He has a column on American affairs in the Economic and Political Weekly, India's leading journal for public intellectuals. His books include Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy, and Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture. He has two forthcoming books:one on the Indian city, to be published by Oxford UP, and another on political trials in colonial India.

History 19, Seminar 5

“No Pasaran”: The Spanish Civil War in

Music and Cinema

Gabriel Piterberg

The Spanish Civil War was an early and tragically unsuccessful attempt to nip fascism in the bud in the 1930s. It gave rise, however, to an unprecedented international solidarity at the level of common idealist people. This seminar analyzes the revival of spirit and lore of that era through contemporary popular song and film.

Gabriel Piterberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at UCLA. He was born in Buenos Aires, and the Spanish Civil War songs were his childhood songs, those that he heard at bedtime. He teaches Middle Eastern history.

History 19, Seminar 6

Los Angeles: Architecture and Ethnicity

Teofilo Ruiz

This seminar is an introduction to the complex ethnic and architectural history of Los Angeles. It combines the history of the development of the city with actual visits to some of its most interesting neighborhoods and architectural sights.

Teofilo Ruiz is a Professor of History at UCLA. His area of research is medieval and early modern Spain. He is the author of ten books and numerous articles. He often leads tours of LA and has a similar program in Paris every summer.

History 19, Seminar 7

Honor and Shame in the Clash of

Civilizations and 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 misunderstandings of world events and mistakes in US foreign policies, which have been based most often on the western individualistic values of achievement and guilt. This seminar involves reflection on values with which students were raised as well as achievement of deeper understanding of ways in which honor/shame values continue to influence self-perception, gender roles, and group practices of more than five billion people.

Professor Scott Bartchy specializes in the comparison of the great religious traditions, their histories, and their effects on culture and human behavior. He teaches courses in the history of religion and directs UCLA's Center for the Study of Religion and the undergraduate major in the Study of Religion. In his research, he uses insights from cultural anthropology to understand the religions of the Roman Empire, especially Christianity and Judaism.

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 1

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

Ronni Sanlo and Suzanne Seplow

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

Ronni Sanlo is the director of the UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center and a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education. Her three books - Working with LGBT College Students: A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators; Unheard Voices: The Effects of Silence on Lesbian and Gay Educators; and Our Place on Campus are published by Greenwood Press. She is the originator of the award-winning Lavender Graduation, an event that celebrates the lives and achievements of LGBT students. She lives on the campus of UCLA as a member of the Faculty-in-Residence program.

Suzanne L. Seplow, Ed.D., is a graduate of the GSEIS Educational Leadership program at UCLA. Her focus is on maintaining living/learning communities that foster positive impacts on student learning. She specializes in learning communities, environmental influences, and student development theory.

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 2

The Black Student Experience at UCLA

Kelly Lytle-Hernandez and La'Tonya Rease-Miles

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

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

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

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 3

Perceptions of Americans Abroad: Discussions

with Visiting Fulbright Scholars

Ann Kerr

In the post 9/11 world, there is a greater than ever need for Americans to know more about the rest of the world and to understand how we are perceived abroad. This seminar affords students the opportunity to see ourselves as others see us by hearing visiting Fulbright scholars from around the world speak about their countries and the perceptions of America there, and have a chance to ask them questions. The scholars will speak informally for 10-15 minutes and the remainder of the time will be 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.

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 4

Jigga Who? The Cultural Impact of Jay-Z

La'Tonya Miles

This seminar is an examination of the dynamic career of rapper and hip-hop mogul Jay-Z. The discussions focus on the state of hip-hop culture from 1995 through the present, focusing particularly on the artist Jay-Z. (NOTE: This seminar is for Transfer students only, a PTE is required to enroll.)

Dr. La'Tonya Rease Miles is the Director of the AAP Mentoring Program and is a Faculty-in-Residence.

Law 19, Seminar 1

Financing War

Steven Bank

Significant changes in the U.S. tax system over our history have emerged from the crucible of war. Financial exigencies of fighting war combine with a sense of need for shared sacrifice to produce momentum for reform focused on increasing progressivity of a tax system and spreading the burden of wartime expenses across populations. Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay made a stunning declaration: "Nothing is more important in the face of war than cutting taxes." Exploration of history of wartime finance in the U.S., examining the major innovations in taxation and bond finance that occurred during Civil War, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Korea, Gulf War, and recent conflict in Iraq. Discussion of how war has influenced government finance. This seminar considers the extent to which recent tax cuts may or may not be unprecedented and their possible causes.

Professor Bank teaches tax and business law courses and is Faculty Director of the UCLA Program in Business Law & Policy. Much of his research focuses on the history of taxation in the United States between the Civil War and World War II. He is the co-organizer of the UCLA/Cambridge Tax History Conference.

Law 19, Seminar 2

Changes in Social Welfare and What Has Happened to Poor Single-Mother Families

Joel Handler

This seminar will discuss the history of aid to poor single mothers and their children (formerly “AFDC”) now known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (“TANF”) The welfare reform of 1996, “Ending welfare as we know it,” leading to a decline in the welfare rolls. We will discuss what has happened with poverty and inequality since then, with an emphasis on working mothers and their children in low-wage labor markets.

Joel Handler is a Professor in the School of Law. He has been a teacher and scholar in social welfare policy and law for almost 40 years.

Law 19, Seminar 3

Political Trials of Visionaries, Reformers,

and Revolutionaries

Frances Olsen

This seminar examines the various roles of law in promoting or impeding social change through the lens of political trials. We will learn about the origin and potential of jury nullification, the uses of courtroom by revolutionaries as political platform, and recent government efforts to suppress these traditional outlets of political expression.

While working as an attorney, Frances Olsen represented a number of political activists, including the Native Americans who staged the last major uprising against the federal government at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1973. She has been a professor of law at UCLA since 1984. For the past several years she has been teaching a course on civil disobedience to law students at UCLA. She has lectured on civil disobedience and related topics throughout the world (on every continent except Antarctica) and recently taught a full course on civil disobedience at the University of

Tel Aviv, Israel.

Law 19, Seminar 4

Inequality, Tax Policy and Distributive Justice

Kirk Stark

This seminar will examine the growing inequality of income and wealth in the United States and ask what,
if anything, tax policy should (and can) do about it. Topics to be discussed include the progressivity of the income tax, taxing inheritances, the flat tax, progressive consumption taxes, how the tax system should treat
low-income households, and redistributive school finance reform.

Professor Kirk Stark teaches Federal Income Tax, Taxation & Distributive Justice, Multi-state Taxation,
and Property. His research focuses on broad issues
of tax policy relating to fiscal federalism, state and
local taxation, and school finance reform. Professor Stark was elected "Professor of the Year" in 1999
and 2002, and received the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003.

Management 19, Seminar 1

Where Are We Going with IT?

E. Burton Swanson

We will read and discuss two recent books addressing the future of information technology (“IT”) in organizations; a subject that should concern any student preparing for a working career. This seminar will also identify our own collective expectations and concerns about working with IT.

E. Burton Swanson is a Professor of Information Systems at UCLA's Anderson School, where he also presently serves as Academic Unit Chair, Co-Director of the Information Systems Research Program, and Faculty Director for the Center on Management in the Information Economy. He is also presently Associate Dean and Director of the Anderson School's Doctoral Program. Professor Swanson's research examines how and why organizations succeed (or fail) as they attempt to innovate with new information technology.

Management 19, Seminar 2

Complexity Science: An Overview of

Order-Creation Science

Bill McKelvey

Complexity is a curious mix of complication and organization that we find through the natural and human worlds. Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann says it is about finding simplicity beneath surface complexity. Science as we know it studies forces and trends toward equilibrium. Complexity science is “order-creation science.” If there is no Intelligent Designer, how do new order, new structure, and new processes appear in the physical, biological, and social worlds? Complexity science is about the "0th" Law of Thermodynamics- how order appears out of randomness. It is about normal science done backwards, often called New Science. This seminar will introduce you to this new science and it will be a conversion experience!

Bill McKelvey received his BA (physics, business economics, mathematics, music) from Monmouth College, IL and PhD from MIT (management). He is Professor of Strategic Organizing and Complexity Science at the UCLA Anderson School. His books include: Organizational Systematics; Variations in Organization Science; Complexity Dynamics in Organizations ; and 21st Century Leadership: Getting Ahead of Complexity Dynamics.

Management 19, Seminar 3

The Entrepreneurial Process

Hans Schollhammer

This seminar examines the important aspects of starting a new business venture and directing its early development. It will familiarize students with the crucial stages or milestones in the entrepreneurial process, especially identification and evaluation of new venture opportunities, legal structure and organization of new business, development of business concept and business plan, approaches to venture financing, teambuilding, staffing, and marketing considerations in new venture context. Attention will be paid to the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and to analytic tools or techniques to establish the feasibility of a venture.

Hans Schollhammer is a Professor in the Anderson School of Management with research and teaching interests in two interdisciplinary areas: entrepreneurial studies (including corporate entrepreneurship and the management of innovation) and decision-making in the context of multinational firms.

Political Science 19, Section 1

Can't We Make Moral Judgments?

Susanne Lohmann

In this seminar, we shall explore normative ethics (how we should reason about right and wrong), empirical ethics (how we actually reason), and meta-ethics (how we can ground moral reasoning). Normative ethics includes standard ethical principles of utilitarianism, rights, and justice-fairness. Empirical ethics relies on evolutionary psychology (just-so stories), social psychology (experiments), anthropology (cross-cultural differences), and history (cultural change over time). Meta-ethics splits into two camps, realist (there are objective values) and anti-realist (there are no objective values). The latter includes moral, or cultural, relativism. Special emphasis is placed on the relationship between religion and ethics (e.g., if God is dead, is everything permitted?).

Susanne Lohmann is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Director of the Center for Governance, and the founding faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Degree Program on Human Complex Systems at UCLA.

Professor Lohmann received her Ph.D. in economics and political economy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. She was John M. Olin Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in 1986-89; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in 1989/90, also at Carnegie Mellon University; James and Doris McNamara Fellow at Stanford University in 1991/92; John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Southern California in 1996; Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1998/99; and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2000/01. She has published extensively on collective action and central banking.

Sociology 19, Seminar 1

Contemporary Chinese Immigration

Min Zhou

Designed as an introduction to contemporary Chinese immigration, this seminar will examine how historical events and cultures in the homeland and American society, patterns of social relations, and ethnic and host social structures, have interacted to affect the process of adaptation and life chances of Chinese immigrants and their offspring. In this seminar, students will become more aware of the social forces that bind Chinese immigrants and their families together, the dynamics of social institutions in ethnic community and in larger society which mediate between individuals and their increasingly complex physical environment, and determinants of status attainment. Through the study of a particular immigrant group, students will understand better the various structural and cultural factors that affect the process of immigrant adaptation. Students will also see more clearly the invisible threads which connect Chinese immigrants with other immigrants.

Min Zhou is a Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her main areas of research are international migration; ethnic and racial relations; education and the new second generation; immigrant youth; Asia and Asian America; and the community and urban sociology. She has done extensive work on the educational experiences of immigrant children and children of immigrant parentage, the employment and earnings patterns of immigrants and native-born minorities, immigrant communities, ethnic language media, ethnic organizations (including ethnic language schools), ethnic economies, and residential mobility. She has also done work in housing reform and internal migration (including schooling of migrant children) in China and intra-Asian migration. She has also done work in housing reform and internal migration (including schooling of migrant children) in China and intra-Asian migration. She is the author of Chinatown, co-author of Growing up American, and co-editor of Contemporary Asian America and Asian American Youth.

Sociology 19, Seminar 3

Migration as Business: The Migration Industry

in Global Perspective

Ruben Hernandez-Leon

The burgeoning global migration industry is a complex of profit motivated services that foster, facilitate and sustain international migration. Migration industry includes services of smugglers (“coyotes”), labor contractors, transportation companies, travel agencies, communication and remittance businesses, mail-order bride services, false and valid documentation procurement, and legal and paralegal consulting, among others. This seminar looks at the role of the migration industry in a variety of international migratory flows, in the context of Mexico-U.S. stream and, specifically, Los Angeles.

Professor Hernandez-Leon’s current areas of research are the new destinations of Mexican immigration in the United States, urban and metropolitan origins of Mexico-US migration, and the social and political management and construction of the US-Mexico border. He has also conducted research on youth issues and urban poverty in Mexico. The results of this research have been published in Work and Occupations, Social Science Quarterly, International Migration Review, Southern Rural Sociology, Ciudades, and in several edited books.

Southeast Asian 19, Seminar 1

The War in Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

George Dutton

This seminar examines the wars in Iraq and Vietnam and considers the parallels between them and how the lessons learned from the war in Vietnam might apply to Iraq. Topics will include issues of political contexts, the justifications for war, legal and moral ramifications, public response, and the manner in which wars were fought. In-class discussions also consider these wars within their geopolitical contexts, including the Cold War and the War on Terror. The seminar will center on student discussion, based on readings and current events.

George Dutton is an Assistant Professor in the Asian Languages and Cultures Department and is Chair of the Southeast Asian IDP. He is both a generalist teaching on Southeast Asian history and culture, and a specialist in Vietnamese history. His has written on Vietnamese history, including topics ranging from 18th-century poetry to 1930s political satire. He recently published a book on an 18th-century Vietnamese peasant uprising. He is also strongly interested in the American war in Iraq, which he believes is linked to the war in Vietnam in a number of significant ways.

Urban Planning 19, Seminar 1

Sprawl: The American Dream, or Nightmare?

Randall Crane

What is sprawl, is it good or bad, and what should be done about it? Many urban areas, in the U.S. and elsewhere, are growing rapidly at their peripheries, with new residential, commercial, and industrial developments gobbling up undeveloped land, or smaller towns, often at a startling pace. Even some cities losing population are expanding physically as families shrink in size, generating more households per capita, and the demand for space continues to rise with income. Some evidence indicates that this pattern of development is problematic for a host of reasons. Land consumption for urban development is particularly a concern when converted from potentially more valuable land uses, including land devoted to scenic, recreational, and habitat purposes. More city traffic jeopardizes our health, our sanity, and our pocketbook, as well as the environment. There is much to learn about- first, how to think about how communities form and spread and, second, what to do about it.

Randall Crane is a Professor of Urban Planning and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the School of Public Policy & Social Research. His research interests include urban environmental and development problems in the U.S. and abroad, with a focus on behavior/built environment interactions. Among his current projects, he is studying the causes and impacts of "sprawl" and

co-authoring Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel."

Women's Studies 19, Seminar 1

Law and Nature: What Ecofeminism Contributes

to the Debate

Taimie Bryant

As a branch of feminism, ecofeminism examines the connections between the degradation of nature and the oppression of women. Yet ecofeminism itself contains different perspectives and types of analysis. For example, some ecofeminists argue that since traditional women's work brings women (more so than men) into contact with nature, human destruction of nature has a particularly negative impact on women. Some ecofeminists work more from a perspective that the degradation of nature is fundamentally about degrading women because women are seen as “natural.” Since ecofeminism contains highly theoretical perspectives as well as pragmatic concerns about humans' treatment of nature and the environment, this course will examine differences among ecofeminists and applications of their ideas. Whenever possible, those theoretical and pragmatic concerns will be reviewed through a lens of legal reform that takes into account ecofeminist concerns. The course will also compare ecofeminist thought to liberal and radical feminist thought.

Taimie Bryant holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from UCLA and a J.D. from Harvard. She has been a member of the UCLA Law School faculty since 1988 where she teaches an introductory course on animal rights law and an additional course about animal shelters. Dr. Bryant has been active in legislation such as California's shelter reform legislation of 1998 and the West Hollywood ban on the de-clawing of cats. Her scholarly work integrates social science and law, as well as perspectives from feminism and social justice activism. Her article "Trauma, Law, and Advocacy for Animals" examines the interplay between society's denial of institutionalized violence against animals, legal activism, and public activism. Two other forthcoming publications are "Similarity or Difference as a Basis for Justice: Must Animals be like Humans to be Legally Protected from Humans?," and "Animals Unmodified: Defining Animals/Defining Human Obligations to Animals." Both of those articles make use of feminist theory.

Astronomy 19, Seminar 1

The Invisible Universal and Life in the Solar System:

From Alpha to Omega

David Cline

This seminar is a non-mathematical discussion of the current understanding of the dark universe that is mostly made up of invisible dark energy, dark matter, and neutrinos. Normal matter (of which humans are made) makes up less than four percent of the universe; stars, less than half of a percent. How invisible dark matter leads to the formation of galaxies and stars. Some stars explode, producing neutrinos and heavy elements that constitute materials from which life originates and complex molecular systems were likely formed. We trace the distribution of heavy elements to the period five billion years ago. They also were incorporated into organic materials that eventually led to the origin of life on earth. This seminar is also a discussion of the search for life elsewhere in the solar system that may involve the very same organic molecules.

Professor David B Cline received his Bachelor of Science in Physics (cum laude) from Kansas State University and his Ph.D in Experimental Elementary Particle Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965. He became an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1967 and Professor of Physics in 1968. He was an A. Sloan Fellow between 1967 and 1969 and he helped start the FNAL and CERN collider projects with C. Rubbia and others in 1976 through1980. Dr. Cline joined the faculty at UCLA in 1986, holding a Professorship in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He initiated the UCLA Center for Advanced Accelerators in 1987 and currently serves as its director.

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 19, Seminar 1

Cosmic Evolution: How Everything is Connected

By the Arrow of Time

Richard Turco

A discussion of how matter has evolved over the course of time, since the beginning of the universe to the present. This seminar will emphasize the processes by which complexity and organization arise and grow in natural and manmade systems. Will explore the empirical evidence for inevitable and irreversible transformation of matter, leading toward life and beyond, along the arrow of time.

Richard Turco is a faculty member of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and the Institute of the Environment, where he was its founding director. His interests include the causes of global climate change, the impacts of technology on the environment, and issues regarding how technology might be used to geoengineer the environment to benefit society. He led the research team that discovered the "nuclear winter" effect, and has written a book on this subject with the late Carl Sagan.

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 19, Seminar 2

The Environmental Transformation of the Arctic

Alex Hall

Though signs of global climate change can be seen all over the earth, the arctic and surrounding land areas are currently experiencing a particularly dramatic change, including the loss of sea ice and snow cover, the disappearance of permafrost, and the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. This seminar examines the reasons the arctic is warming so much more rapidly than the rest of the world and the consequences of arctic change for the northern regions and the global environment. Since climate change is comparable to what’s already occurring in the arctic and is anticipated for the rest of planet in the coming century, focus on the Arctic gives a glimpse into the rest of the earth's future.

Professor Hall studies climate change from global and regional perspectives, and is the author of several publications on the topic. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. When he arrived at UCLA, he created a general education course called Climate Change (AOS1), which now regularly enrolls over 170 students.

Biomedical Engineering 19, Seminar 1

Truth and Questions in Orthopedics

Howard Winet

The demand for solutions to fracture healing problems has spawned a variety of orthopedic devices, but the rush to application has outrun the scientific evidence for effectiveness. Using a class reader, lectures including a guest surgeon and an engineer, and discussion, this seminar explores how the needs for scientific rigor and clinical demands have conflicted historically, beginning with Bacon's separation of religion from science, through the entrance of science into medicine in the late 1700s. This seminar examines current FDA requirements for safety and efficacy of orthopaedic implants. The development of orthopaedic fixation devices serves as a focus and example of how this transformation is now underway.

Dr. Winet has held an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCLA since 1998 and has collaborated with many faculty in the Biomedical Engineering IDP. He has been involved in developing and teaching core courses in biomechanics and biomaterials for the graduate biomedical engineering program. In addition, Dr. Winet has been serving as advisor and co-chairing Ph.D. committees for biomedical engineering students. He has published over 10 book chapters, 40 peer reviewed, 90 presentations, and has taught over 15 courses and given numerous lectures on topics in neurophysiology, biophysics, orthopaedics, biomechanics, and biomaterials at CalTech, Southern Illinois University, USC, and UCLA.

Chemistry 19, Seminar 1

Chemistry and Art

David Scott

This seminar will discuss the interactions between chemistry and art, including how chemical knowledge over the thousands of years in which art has been produced has been a critical factor in art and how it is made. Chemistry is also very important in the conservation of art for the future, and helps in the design of new materials and methods for conservation of our heritage. This seminar will explore some of these interactions.

Professor David A. Scott is Chair of the IDP in Archaeological Conservation and is a full professor in Art History. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry and is interested in the deterioration of ancient metals, corrosion, pigments, and coatings.

Community Health Sciences 19, Seminars 1 and 2

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

Jill De Jager and Pamela Viele

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

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

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

Dentistry 19, Seminar 1

Research Management for Young Scientists

and Creative Minds

Ichiro Nishimura

This seminar will enhance the understanding of the challenges of managing scientific research in the industrial, academic, and government laboratory settings. Three representative laboratories- Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), MIT's Media lab, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, are discussed in-depth. Students will investigate the factors influencing design and initial establishment of research centers. We will discuss organizational structures and recruitment issues. Students will also investigate various managerial considerations with unique aspects on discovery in research centers. Discussions include personnel and funding management. We will examine methods evaluating performance, outcome, research strategy, and direction-setting of research centers.

Professor Nishimura received his dental training at the Tokyo Dental College (DDS, 1981) and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (DMD, 1993.) His advanced research training at Harvard resulted in a Doctor of Medical Sciences (DMSc) degree in 1986. After a postdoctoral fellowship in cellular and molecular biology, Dr. Nishimura started tissue regeneration and biotechnology research at Harvard in 1989. He joined UCLA in 1997 and established the Jane and Jerry Weintraub Center for Reconstructive Biotechnology, which is supported by the National Center for Research Resources and philanthropic contributions from the film and entertainment industry. He is a Professor in the Division of Advanced Prosthodontics, Biomaterials, and Hospital Dentistry, and the section of Oral Biology in the UCLA School of Dentistry.

Dentistry 19, Seminar 2

Current Issues in Evidence-Based Research in Dentistry

Francesco Chiapelli

This seminar will introduce the emerging domain of evidence-based research (“EBR”) in the health sciences of medicine, pharmacy, and nursing, with an emphasis in clinical dentistry. We will look at concepts such as systematic review, meta-analysis, number needed to treat, intention to treat, acceptable sampling, etc. Students are presented with web links and research literature in EBR as it pertains to clinical decision-making in the dental office. Current issues about implementations of evidence-based dental practice are perused.

Dr. Chiappelli obtained a master's degree from UCLA in research methods and statistics. After completing his PhD and post-doctoral fellowships at UCLA, he joined the School of Dentistry in order to teach the research curriculum. He has been teaching the courses on evidence-based dentistry to pre-dental, dental, graduate, and post-graduate students in the school for nearly a decade. He is finishing a textbook in evidence-based research in the health sciences.

Earth & Space Sciences 19, Seminar 1

Evolution: How It Works and Why It Matters

Bruce Runnegar

A review of the mechanisms of evolutionary change, ranging in scale from biomolecules to populations and discussions of the importance of evolution to human activities. Topics include the origin of life, fossil records, viral evolution, drug resistance, human origins, the possibilities for life beyond Earth, and artificial life.

Bruce Runnegar is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Spaces Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and is a member of the Molecular Biology Institute. He is a palaeontologist who diversifies into using whatever is necessary - palaeobiology, molecular biology, isotope geochemistry - to answer questions about the nature and evolution of life on the ancient Earth. This approach is also needed for astrobiology, the search for life beyond Earth, because even simple astrobiological questions require a multidisciplinary approach. He is currently working with others on morphological and geochemical evidence for microbial activities in the oldest well-preserved sedimentary rocks, such as those found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 1

Parasites: Eating us Alive

Don Buth

This seminar will introduce students to the parasitological half of the animal kingdom by way of popular text that emphasizes historical aspects of this biological phenomenon. Humans as hosts are emphasized. Topics include how parasites have influenced human evolution and human history.

Donald G. Buth, PhD University of Illinois 1978. His research includes studies of population structure and phylogenetic relationships of North American freshwater fishes, and distributional patterns of helminth parasites of marine fishes. His courses include vertebrate biology (EEB 111), ichthyology (112), systematics (EEB 130), field biology of marine fishes (EEB 164), and parasitology (EEB 181).His current research involves the distributional patterns of helminth parasites in marine fishes that live in the rocky intertidal zone.

Human Genetics 19, Seminar 1

Genetic Counseling: Making Genetics Real

Christina Palmer and Michelle Fox

This course focuses on the fascinating field of Genetic counseling. Genetic counseling combines psychology and science to explain the role of genetic information in the lives of individuals and society. By ‘making genetics real,’ genetic counselors help individuals to understand genetic information and to make decisions about its use, for example, through genetic testing for conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and cystic fibrosis. Through the exploration of case histories in each of the areas of genetic counseling specialization, we will discuss the ethical dilemmas facing individuals in approaching their genetic future.

Christina Palmer, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences. She is a trained genetic counselor and provides genetic counseling for neuropsychiatric conditions at UCLA. She conducts research in psychiatric genetics and the genetics of hearing loss.

Michelle Fox, M.S., is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is a trained genetic counselor and coordinates the Pediatrics/Adult Genetics Clinic at UCLA and coordinates the UCLA Predictive Huntington Disease Program.

Material Science and Engineering 19,

Seminar 1 (Canceled)

Introduction to Ancient Technologies and Nanostructured Materials

Loanna Kakouli

In this seminar, we will explore the technological achievements in antiquity and ancient nanostructured materials that find parallels in modern manufactured materials. How could ancients produce materials without having the infrastructure and scientific knowledge that we have today? Students will be introduced to archaeometric research- the interface between materials science and archaeology. Representative readings and site visits to museums and archaeomaterials analysis laboratories explore the similarities and differences between modern and ancient methods of materials manufacture. The study of ancient technologies and materials can stimulate scientific curiosity and new ideas, and can assist development of problem-solving skills.

Assistant Professor Ioanna Kakoulli, with a joint appointment at Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA and the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program, is a specialist in diagnostic technologies for the study and conservation of archaeological materials. Her current research interests focus on the technology of the manufacture and alteration processes of ancient pigments, the study of artifacts using non-invasive methods of examination, and the exploration of the potential of spectral imaging technologies. In addition to researching ancient materials and technologies, she has also conducted research in the conservation science of porous materials.

Material Science and Engineering 19,

Seminar 2 (Canceled)

High Technology: Its Role in Shaping Society

and the Future

Ya-Hone Xie

The high-tech industry has unique attributes compared to other, more traditional industries. This seminar is an exploration of the past, present, and future of the high-tech industry, its characteristics, its impact on our daily lives, our society, and the world as a whole. Subjects of discussion are led by students' literature searches. Some students will be designated as discussion leaders for each class. Each is assigned a general topic area for literature search. Each discussion leader makes a short presentation summarizing findings, followed by a class discussion. This seminar includes a tour of the UCLA nano-fabrication facility.

Born in Beijing China during the era of the Cultural Revolution, Ya-Hong Xie came to the U.S. in pursuit of higher education in 1979. He obtained his BS in physics from Purdue University, and both his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. After graduating from UCLA, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of the technical staff in 1986. He joined the UCLA faculty of the department of Materials Science and Engineering in 1999 as a professor and is currently the vice chair for graduate studies. His research interests are mainly in semiconductor materials and devices.

Nursing 19, Seminar 1

When You Snooze, You Lose: Sleep Disorders

and Cardiovascular Risk

Mary Woo

This seminar, will give an overview of sleep disorders and their link to cardiovascular disease in all age ranges, from children to older adults. It includes a brief introduction to normal sleep, symptoms of abnormal sleep, and ways to improve sleep. Current and potential treatments for sleep disorders are also reviewed.

Dr. Woo's research emphasizes brain-heart interactions, using sleep studies and brain imaging techniques. Her publications are in the areas of obstructive sleep apnea, sudden infant death syndrome, heart failure, and congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.

Pediatrics 19, Seminar 1

Being a Doctor to Children with Heart Problems: Diagnoses, Treatment, and Physiology

Daniel Levi

This will be an introduction to the world of pediatric cardiology. This seminar will include the nature of children’s heart problems, the technology used to diagnose and treat disease, and what children go through in the process. It will provide a first-hand look at the technology and procedures in echocardiography and catheterization labs. It will also introduce the profession of pediatric cardiology and the process of medical education through medical school, residency, and fellowship.

Dr Levi is a Pediatric Cardiologist at the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA. The majority of his time is spent in the hospital caring for children with congenital heart disease. Within pediatric cardiology, Dr Levi has focused on using catheters rather than surgery to correct heart problems in children. In collaboration with the UCLA Department of Material and Aerospace Engineering, he is developing a novel thin-film nitinol heart valve for non-surgical, percutaneous insertion in children. He completed a Pediatrics residency at UCSF and a Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at UCLA.

Pediatrics 19, Seminar 2

Genetic Market Place: A Citizen’s Guide

Edward McCabe and Linda McCabe

This seminar will involve discussions and readings on the barriers to access genetic testing. Students have to attend the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics Annual Symposium and participate by asking questions of the speakers. Students prepare a five-page paper citing five references on a topic approved by the instructors, involving access to genetic testing.

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.

Physiological Science 19, Seminar 1

On Human Nature: Evolution and the Future

of the Human Animal

Alan Grinnell

A reading and discussion of seminal books by two of the most profound thinkers in human evolution and behavior: E.O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. This seminar examines the evolution of humans from just another large mammal to his unique status in the animal kingdom. We will discuss the evolutionary forces that led to the "great leap forward" to modern man, and evolutionary explanations for our bizarre (by animal standards) physical and behavioral characteristics. A consideration of why civilizations developed at different rates on different continents, and why they tend to collapse.

Dr. Alan Grinnell, Professor of Physiology and Physiological Science, is a neurobiologist with an interest in the neurobiological bases of behavior and the mechanisms of evolution.

Psychology 19, Seminar 1

The Psychology of Personal Control

Richard S. Marken

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

Richard S. Marken, Ph.D., is a research psychologist and human factors engineer. Dr. Marken was Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and consulted at Honeywell on statistical, methodological, and human factors issues related to workspace design and human-computer interface technology. He is currently a lecturer in psychology at UCLA and the author of three books, Methods in Experimental Psychology, Mind Readings: Experimental Studies of Purpose, and More Mind Readings: Methods and Models in the Study of Purpose, as well as over 50 papers on control theory and psychology.

Statistics 19, Seminar 1

Statistics and Who You Are

Mahtash Esfandiari

Undergraduate students spend a majority of their time acquiring knowledge that prepares them for entering the job market, though they rarely have the opportunity to learn more about who they are. This seminar presents the use of statistics and testing theory to help students assess themselves in terms of attributes that are key factors for leading happy and successful lives. It will introduce a series of surveys in areas such as self-concept, career aspiration, achievement motivation, leadership skills, teamwork, stress management, etc. How to use knowledge of testing and statistics to interpret survey results. Students take surveys of their choice, use knowledge acquired to do self-assessment, and gain some awareness that may help them work toward happier and more successful lives.

Professor Esfandiari has had many years of experience teaching and conducting research in the areas of testing, measurement, statistics, evaluation, education, and cross-cultural education. During the last decade, he has evaluated numerous educational, social, entrepreneurial, civic, and law-related programs involving thousands of students all over the United States.

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