Fall 2008
Arts & Humanities
Ancient Near East Languages and Cultures 19, Seminar 1
The Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project: Researching a Forgotten Mediterranean Port
Aaron Burke
Applied Linguistics and TESL 19, Seminar 1
Election Media Language and Gender
Olga Yokoyama
Architecture and Urban Design 19, Seminar 1
Mapping Ancient Rome in the 21st Century
Diane Favro
Design | Media Arts 19, Seminar 1
What Is Interactive Media?
Erkki Huhtamo
English 19, Seminar 1
Meeting Your Favorite Contemporary American Writers
Mona Simpson
English 19, Seminar 2
Douglass, Stowe, and Ideas About Race
Barbara Packer
English 19, Seminar 3
What a Poem Says
Jascha Kessler
English 19, Seminar 4
Great American Movies, 1967-74: The "New Hollywood" in Context
Robert Watson
English 19, Seminar 5
Birth of the Comic Strip
Charles Batten
French 19, Seminar 1
Africa in Global Contexts
Dominic Thomas
German 19, Seminar 1
Is A Non-Violent World Possible?
Robert Kirsner
German 19, Seminar 2
What is Language and Where Does It Come From?
Christopher Stevens
Honors 19, Seminar 3
Artists' Books in the UCLA Library and Beyond
Robert Gore
Linguistics 19, Seminar 1
Research on Linguistic Voice Quality
Patricia Keating
Music 19, Seminar 1
Politics in the American Musical
Raymond Knapp
Scandinavian 19, Seminar 1
Strange Things: Folklore, Film, and the Politics of Fear
Timothy Tangherlini
South Asian 19, Seminar 1
Don't Think About the Elections!
Gyanam Mahajan and Stephanie Jamison
Theater 19, Seminar 1
Medicine in Arts and Humanities
Shelley Salamensky
Culture & Society
Anthropology 19, Seminar 1
Language Myths: Beliefs about Language That Are Harmfully Wrong
Paul Kroskrity
Anthropology 19, Seminar 2
Racism: The Anthropology of "Race" Relations in South Africa, Brazil, and the U.S
Peter B. Hammond
Anthropology 19, Seminar 3
Animals in Translation: Evolutionary Approach to Animal Thinking and Autism
Daniel Fessler
Anthropology 19, Seminar 4
Food, Culture and Identity
Monica L. Smith
Anthropology 19, Seminar 5
Hip-Hop as Universal Language
H. Samy Alim
Chicano Studies 19, Seminar 1
How Mass Media Immigrant Portrayals Affect Presidential Politics
Otto Santa Ana
Chicano Studies 19, Seminar 2
Bad Girls in History: A Research Workshop
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Economics 19, Seminar 1
Bargaining, Haggling, and Fairness Across Cultures
Naomi Lamoreaux
Economics 19, Seminar 2
The Tragedy of the Commons: Economic Behavior and Environment
Matthew Kahn
Economics 19, Seminar 3
Was Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) the "Father of Economics"?
George Murphy
Education 19, Seminar 1
Student Activism from the Sixties to the Present
Robert Rhoads
Geography 19, Seminar1
Mapping the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Michael Shin
History 19, Seminar 1
Pride and Prejudice: The World of Jane Austen and English Society
Teofilo Ruiz
History 19, Seminar 2
Crisis in Darfur: Five Years After
Ned Alpers
History 19, Seminar 3
Terrorists and Door Kickers: Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Past and Present
Patrick Geary
History 19, Seminar 4
Historical Facts and Fictions: The Rights of Women in Islam
Ghislaine Lydon
History 19, Seminar 5
Nahua (Aztec) Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico
Kevin Terraciano
Honors Collegium, Seminar 1
Civic Engagement in Los Angeles
Laura C. Romero
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 4
Careers in Student Affairs
Ronni Sanlo and Dayna Baker
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 5
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
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 6
Will It Burn? Yes, It Will. Fire in California
Larry Loeher
Information Studies 19, Seminar 2
"Just Google It": What It Is and When It's Appropriate
John Richardson
Information Studies, Seminar 3
The Numbers Game: Baseball, Statistics, and Seeing the Invisible
Gregory Leazer
Law 19, Seminar 1
Peace, Nonviolence, and the Law
Kenneth Graham
Law 19, Seminar 3
Elections and Democracy: How Authoritarian Regimes Take Power in Democracies
Frances Olsen
Physiological Science 19, Seminar 1
The University: What Is It and Why Are We Here?
James Tidball
Political Science 19, Seminar 1
New Cold War? Russia, Georgia, and NATO
Richard Anderson
Public Policy 19, Seminar 1
Controlling Nuclear Weapons
Albert Carnesale
Public Policy 19, Seminar 2
The Essays of David Hume
Andrew Sabl
Sociology 19, Seminar 1
Zen and the Art of Mindfulness: Meditation and Attention in Everyday Life
Peter Kollock
Sociology 19, Seminar 2
Reggaeton Breaks Into Mainstream
Gabriel Rossman
Sociology 19, Seminar 3
How We Count: Censuses in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
Rebecca Jean Emigh
Sociology 19, Seminar 4
Contemporary Chinese Immigration: Community, Family, and the New Second Generation
Min Zhou
Urban Planning 19, Seminar 1
Sprawl: American Dream or Nightmare?
Randall Crane
Women's Studies 19, Seminar 1
Sexual Harassment Law and Policy
Christine Littleton
Science & Technology
Bioengineering 19, Seminar 1
Truth and Questions in Orthopaedics
Howard Winet
Chemistry 19, Seminar 1
Chemistry and Art
David Scott
Chemistry 19, Seminar 2
Serendipity in Science
Herbert D. Kaesz
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 Rena Orenstein
Dentistry 19, Seminar 1
Novel Topics and Discoveries in Oral Biology, Medicine, and Dentistry
Anahid Jewett
Dentistry 19, Seminar 2
Intellectual Property
Kathryn Atchison and Michael Shockro
Earth and Space Sciences 19, Seminar 1
The End of Modern Civilization: Problems and Solutions
Mark Moldwin
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 2
The Rise and Fall of a Blockbuster Drug
Mike Gresser
Human Genetics 19, Seminar 1
Dinner with Geneticist/Genetic Counselor X
Christina Palmer and Michelle Fox
Management 19, Seminar 1
Electronic Entrepreneurship: From e-Bay to craigslist
Richard Saouma
Medicine 19, Seminar 1
Hot Topics in Medicine: Disease, Politics, and the Bottom Dollar
Olag Melamed
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology 19, Seminar 1
Read The New York Times Science section and Discuss It over Coffee
John Merriam
Pathology 19, Seminar 1
Thinking Scientifically: How to Evaluate Science in the News
Linda Baum
Physiology 19, Seminar 1
The Biology of Birth Control
Nancy Wayne
Psychology 19, Seminar 1
The Psychology of Personal Control
Richard S. Marken
Psychology 19, Seminar 2
Stress! Causes, Symptoms, and Remedies
Carlos Grijalva
Statistics 19, Seminar 1
Hold 'em or Fold 'em: Poker and Probability
Frederic Paik Schoenberg
