Fall 2009
Arts & Humanities
Architecture and Urban Design 19, Seminar 1
Mapping Movement in Ancient Rome: Digital Geo-Temporal Analysis
Diane Favro
Asian 19, Seminar 1
Crime and Punishment in China
Natasha Heller
Design | Media Arts 19, Seminar 1
What Is Interactive Media?
Erkki Huhtamo
English 19, Seminar 1
Meeting Acclaimed Writers and Studying their Work
Mona Simpson
English 19, Seminar 2
Cartoons, Folklore, and Myth
Joseph Nagy
English 19, Seminar 3
The Birth of the Comic Strip
Charles Batten
English 19, Seminar 4
Origins of Identity: History and Memory in Women's Poetry
Karen Rowe
English 19, Seminar 5
What a Poem Says
Jascha Kessler
English 19, Seminar 6
Great American Movies, 1967-74
Robert Watson
French 19, Seminar 1
CANCELLED
Voyage from Voltaire to Céline
Stephen Werner
French 19, Seminar 2
Africa in Global Contexts
Dominic Thomas
German 19, Seminar 1
Science Fiction and Religion
Robert Kirsner
Islamic 19, Seminar 1
Islam and West: Making of an Image
Ismail Poonawala
Korean 19, Seminar 1
Beyond Axis of Evil: Changing Images of North Korea in South Korean Popular Culture
Namhee Lee
Music 19, Seminar 1
Creators & Recreators: Great Partnerships of Vocal Music
Juliana Gondek
World Arts and Cultures 19, Seminar 1
Aliens, Ghosts and their Religions
David Shorter
World Arts and Cultures 19, Seminar 2
Dancing in Proximity: Contact Improvisation
Lionel Popkin
Culture & Society
Anthropology 19, Seminar 1
Animals in Translation: Evolutionary Approaches to Animal Thinking and Autism
Daniel Fessler
Anthropology 19, Seminar 2
Language Myths: Beliefs About Languages(s) that are Harmfully Wrong
Paul Kroskrity
Anthropology 19, Seminar 3
Racism
Peter B. Hammond
Anthropology 19, Seminar 4
Clothing, Culture, and Controversy
Monica L. Smith
Communication Studies 19, Seminar 1
Power Cinema/Cinema Power
Dee Bridgewater
Community Health Sciences 19, Seminar 3
Boots to Bruins: From Combat to Campus Life
Pam Viele
Economics 19, Seminar 1
The Tragedy of the Commons: Economic Behavior and Environment
Matthew Kahn
Economics 19, Seminar 2
Bargaining, Haggling, and Fairness Across Cultures
Naomi Lamoreaux
Education 19, Seminar 1
Student Activism from the Sixties to the Present
Robert Rhoads
Education 19, Seminar 2
Gender Gap in College: How and Why Does College Differ for the Two Sexes?
Linda Sax
Geography 19, Seminar1
Land and Society in Latin America
Stephen Bell
Geography 19, Seminar3
Food and Its Future
Judith Carney
History 19, Seminar 1
The Question of Hereditary Madness
Theodore Porter
History 19, Seminar 2
Al-Qaeda and Jihadi Islam
James Gelvin
History 19, Seminar 3
Los Angeles: Architecture and Ethnicity
Teofilo Ruiz
History 19, Seminar 4
Diversity and Difference in Los Angeles Fiction
Edward Alpers
History 19, Seminar 5
Political Documentaries and American Society
Vinay Lal
History 19, Seminar 6
Africa in the Media: Old Images, New Clichés
Ghislaine Lydon
Honors 19, Seminar 1 & 6
Lincoln in His Own Words
Daniel Lowenstein
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 3
LGBT is Not a Sandwich: Straight Talk on the Effects of Silence on Sexual and Gender Minorities in Los Angeles
Ronni Sanlo and Suzanne Seplow
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 4
Social Justice in Film
Ronni Sanlo
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 5
Will It Burn? Yes, It Will: A Geographic Analysis of Wildfire in California
Larry Loeher
Human Complex Systems 19, Seminar 1
Urban Dynamics: Cities as Self-Organizing Complex Systems
John Bragin & Dwight Read
Information Studies 19, Seminar 1
Type History: Hands On!
Johanna Drucker
Information Studies 19, Seminar 2
Just Google It: What It Is and When It’s Appropriate
John Richardson
Law 19, Seminar 1
CANCELLED
Ending Welfare As We Know It: Causes and Consequences
Joel Handler
Public Policy 19, Seminar 1
Future of Nuclear Weapons
Albert Carnesale
Sociology 19, Seminar 1
Making Societies: The Historical Construction of our World
William Roy
Sociology 19, Seminar 2
Sociology of Cinema: Hit Movies, 1920 to 2009
David Halle
Urban Planning 19, Seminar 1
Sprawl: American Dream or Nightmare?
Randall Crane
Urban Planning 19, Seminar 2
Then and Now: Neighborhood Change through Photos
Paul M. Ong
Women's Studies 19, Seminar 1
Sexual Harassment Law and Policy
Christine Littleton
Women's Studies 19, Seminar 2
Women and the Nobel Prize in Literature
Lucia Re
Science & Technology
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 19, Seminar 1
Space Weather: Impact of Solar Activity on Earth
Richard Thorne
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 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
Intellectual Property
Kathryn Atchison and Michael Shockro
Earth and Space Sciences 19, Seminar 1
Signs of Glaciers Past: Eastern Sierra & Yosemite
Jonathan Aurnou
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 1
Conservation Science in Era of Global Climate Change
Philip Rundel
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 2
Mosquitoes: Their Biology and Diseases They Carry
Charles Taylor
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 2
The Rise and Fall of a Blockbuster Drug
Mike Gresser
Management 19, Seminar 1
Electronic Entrepreneurship: From Craigslist to e-Bay
Richard Saouma
Medicine 19, Seminar 1
Hot Topics in Medicine: Disease, Politics, and Bottom Dollar
Olag Melamed
Medicine 19, Seminar 2
Politically Incorrect Introduction to Current Topics in Science and Medicine
David Teplow
Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics 19, Seminar 1
Recent Viral Outbreaks: Real versus Perceived Threats
Benhur Lee
Neurobiology 19, Seminar 1
Links between Nervous and Immune Systems
Edwin Cooper
Neurobiology 19, Seminar 2
Integrative Medicine: Current Topics in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Edwin Cooper
Pathology 19, Seminar 1
Thinking Scientifically: How to Evaluate Science in the News
Linda Baum
Physics 19, Seminar 1
Arrow(s) of Time
Michael Gutperle
Physiology 19, Seminar 1
The Biology of Birth Control
Nancy Wayne
Psychology 19, Seminar 1
Thinking Like a Psychologist
Jane Pizzolato
Psychology 19, Seminar 2
Social Support: How Can We Effectively “Help” Others Improve their Health & Our Own in the Process
Christine Dunkel Schetter
Psychology 19, Seminar 3
Where the !*@% Am I?: Development of Spatial Cognition
Catherine Sandhofer
Psychology 19, Seminar 4
The Psychology of Personal Control
Richard S. Marken
Psychology 19, Seminar 5
Psychology of Conflict and Cooperation
Yuen Huo
Statistics 19, Seminar 1
Hold 'em or Fold 'em: Poker and Probability
Frederic Paik Schoenberg
Statistics 19, Seminar 2
The City of Los Angeles Through the Eyes of Statistics
Nicolas Christou
