Spring 2008

Arts & Humanities

Applied Linguistics and TESL 19, Seminar 1
Cavemen Walking
John Schumann

Art History 19, Seminar 1
The World of Mami Wata
Steven Nelson

Classics 19, Seminar 1
The Affairs of Caesar: Sex and Politics in Ancient Rome
Robert Gurvall

Comparative Literature 19, Seminar 1
Poets and Desire
Ross Shideler

English 19, Seminar 1
The Public Huck Finn: Why We Misread Mark Twain
Thomas Wortham

English 19, Seminar 2
The Birth of the Comic Strip
Charles Batten

English 19, Seminar 3
National Poetry Month- and Beyond!
Reed Wilson

Film and Television 19, Seminar 1
Writing Exercises for the Fit Screenwriter
Harold Ackerman

Film and Television 19, Seminar 2
Introduction to Film Making: So You Want to Make Movies?
Barbara Boyle

Film and Television 19, Seminar 3
Introduction to Documentary Film
Marina Goldovskaya

German 19, Seminar 1
Science Fiction and Religion
Robert Kirsner

Music History 19, Seminar 1
Music in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Mitchell Morris

Scandivavian 19, Seminar 1
Runes
Kendra Willson

South Asian Languages 19, Seminar 1
The Languages of India
Gregory Schopen and Gyanam Mahajan

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Culture & Society

Anthropology 19, Seminar 1
Language Myths: Beliefs about Language That Are Harmfully Wrong
Paul Kroskrity

Anthropology 19, Seminar 2
The Ecology of Crime
Paul Brantingham

Anthropology 19, Seminar 3
National Boundaries: Lines of Identity, Lines of Conflict
Monica L. Smith

Asian American Studies 19, Seminar 1
Performance, Popular Culture, and the "Vote"
Lucy Burns

Chicano Studies 19, Seminar 1
How Mass Media Immigrant Portrayals Affect Presidential Politics
Otto Santa Ana

Economics 19, Seminar 1
Bargaining, Haggling, and Fairness Across Cultures
Naomi Lamoreaux

Economics 19, Seminar 2
Winner's Curse in Common Value Auctions
Hugh Hopenhayn

Education 19, Seminar 1
The Gender Gap in College: How and Why Does College Differ for the Two Sexes?
Linda Sax

Education 19, Seminar 2
Transfer Talk: Understanding the Transfer Experience
Kristen McKinney

History 19, Seminar 1
Arabs, Berbers, and Africans or Politics of Race across the Great Divide
Ghislaine Lydon

History 19, Seminar 2
Plato’s Republic: Property, Equality, and Knowledge
Teofilo Ruiz

History 19, Seminar 3
The Spectacle of Flight: How Aviation Transformed Western Culture
Robert Wohl

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

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 2
Civic Engagement in Los Angeles
Laura C. Romero

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 3
How to Stop Just 'Googling' and Find the Really Good Stuff!
Esther Grassian

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 5
The Black Student Experience at UCLA
La'Tonya Rease-Miles

Information Studies 19, Seminar 1
Writing Women's Lives
Mary Niles Maack

Information Studies 19, Section 2
Records, Redress, and Reconciliation
Anne Gilliland

Information Studies 19, Seminar 3
Voices of Color in Children's Literature
Virginia Walter

Information Studies 19, Seminar 4
"Just Google It": What It Is and When It's Appropriate
John Richardson

Management 19, Seminar 1
Modern Project Management
Bennet Lientz

Management 19, Seminar 2
The Entrepreneurial Process
Hans Schollhammer

Management 19, Seminar 3
History of the Future of Technology
Martin Greenberger

Sociology 19, Seminar 2
The Sociology of Cinema: Hit Movies, 1920 to 2007
David Halle

Sociology 19, Seminar 3
Chinese Immigration and the New Second Generation
Min Zhou

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Science & Technology

Astronomy 19, Seminar 1
The Final Frontier: Is the Promise of Space Worth the Cost?
Jean Turner

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

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 1
Anachronisms, Adaptive Lag, and the Future of Evolution
Robert Wayne

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 2
The Future of Life on Earth
Ken Nagy

Geography 19, Seminar 1
Space Imaging of the Earth’s Environment
Lawrence Smith

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 4
How Drugs are Made
Mike Gresser

Medicine 19, Seminar 1
The Magic of Medicine
Neil Parker

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology 19, Seminar 1
Read The New York Times Science section and Discuss It over Coffee
John Merriam

Nursing 19, Seminar 1
Who Wants to Live to 100? Aging in the 21st Century
Janet Mentes

Pediatrics 19, Seminar 1
Being a Doctor to Children with Heart Problems: Diagnoses, Treatment, and Physiology
Gregory Perens

Physiological Science 19, Seminar 1
Shall We Dance? How the Brain Controls Movement in Health and Disease
Scott Chandler

Physiological Science 19, Seminar 2
Biological Chronometry
Gene Block

Psychology 19, Seminar 1
The Psychology of Personal Control
Richard S. Marken

Statistics 19, Seminar 1
Hold 'em or Fold 'em: Poker and Probability
Frederic Paik Schoenberg

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