Spring 2009

Arts & Humanities

Ancient Near East 19, Seminar 1
Investigating Forgotten Port: Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project
Aaron Burke

AP & TESL 19, Seminar 1
Cavemen Walking
John Schumann

Asian 19, Seminar 1
Global Koreans/Korean Diaspora through Documentaries and Films
Namhee Lee

Asian 19, Seminar 2
Bruce Lee: Way More Than Kung Fu
Robert Chi

Asian 19, Seminar 3
History Wars in Northeast Asia: Politics of Past
John Duncan

Classics 19, Seminar 1
Rediscovering Pompeii
Robert Gurval

Comparative Literature 19, Seminar 1
Googlization of Everything
Todd Presner

English 19, Seminar 1
Thoreau’s Walden: Individual and American Society
Robert Maniquis

Ethnomusicology 19, Seminar 1
Cognitive Psychology of Music in Science-Fiction Film
Roger Kendall

Film & Television 19, Seminar 1
Documentary and Society
Marina Goldovskaya

German 19, Seminar 1
Writing about Love in High Middle Ages
James Schultz

Jewish 19, Seminar 1
Pirkei Avot: Foundation of Jewish Ethics
Jonathan Zasloff & Chain Seidler-Feller

Music History 19, Seminar 1
This is Your Brain on Music
Robert Walser

Near Eastern Languages 19, Seminar 1
Creating Digital Map of Sakkara Pyramid Field
Willemina Wendrich

Spanish 19, Seminar 1
¡Leamos el Quijote en voz alta! Let's read Quijote aloud!
Elisabeth Le Guin

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Culture & Society

Economics 19, Seminar 1
Winner’s Curse in Common Value Auctions
Simon Board

Economics 19, Seminar 2
The Current Financial Crisis
Aaron Tornell

Education 19, Seminar 1
This is Your Life: a Course about Students at UCLA
Blake Allmendinger

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

History 19, Seminar 1
Spectacle of Flight: How Aviation Transformed Western Culture
Robert Wohl

History 19, Seminar 2
Dangerous Thoughts: European Socialism, 18th to 20th Centuries
Stephen Frank

History 19, Seminar 3
Violence and Nonviolence in Modern World
Vinay Lal

History 19, Seminar 4
Al-Qaeda and Jihadi Islam
James Gelvin

History 19, Seminar 5
The U.S.-Mexico Border
Kelly Lytle-Hernandez

History 19, Seminar 6
Dystopias of the 20th Century
Teofilo Ruiz

History 19, Seminar 7
Devil from Europe to Africa and Latin America
Lauren Derby

Honors 19, Seminar 2
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 19, Seminar 4
Muslim Student Experience at UCLA
Susan Plann

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

Information Studies 19, Seminar 2
Copycats: Celebrity Plagiarists and the Psychology of Fraud
Jonathan Furner

Information Studies 19, Seminar 3
Homo Academicis: The University Professor and Its Critics
Jean-Francoise Blanchette

Islamic 19, Seminar 1
Islam and the West: The Making of an Image
Ismail Poonawala

Law Undergraduate 19, Seminar 1
Tax Policy in Obama Era
Kirk Stark

Law Undergraduate 19, Seminar 2
Business Taxation in Economic Crisis: Lessons from the Last Great Depression
Steven Bank

Management 19, Seminar 2
Modern Project Management
Bennet Lientz

Management 19, Seminar 3
Where Are We Going with IT?
E. Burton Swanson

Management 19, Seminar 4
Microfinance: Enabling Poor to Escape Poverty and Manage Risks
Bhagwan Chowdhry

Management 19, Seminar 5
Entrepreneurial Process: Starting and Managing a New Business Venture
Hans Schollhammer

Military Science 19, Seminar 1 & 2
What is Leadership? A Perspective from Student to Executive
Casey Miner

Political Science 19, Seminar 1
Can’t We Make Moral Judgments?
Susanne Lohmann

Social Welfare 19, Seminar 1
Youth at Risk in Challenging Time? Reforming Law, Policy and Public Perception
Duncan Lindsey & Miriam Krinsky

Sociology 19, Seminar 1
Sociology of Cinema: Hit Movies, 1920 to 2009
David Halle

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Science & Technology

Civil & Environmental Engineering 19, Seminar 1
Learning from our Mistakes: Catastrophic Failure of Structures through Ages
Ertugrul Taciroglu

Community Health Sciences 19, Seminars 1 & 2
Cosmo Says You're Fat? I Ain't Down with That: Nutrition & Body Image LifeSkills
Jill DeJager & Rena Orenstein

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 1
Parasites: Eating Us Alive
Donald Buth

Honors 19, Seminar 3
How Drugs are Made
Michael Gresser

Human Genetics 19, Seminar 1
Genetic Enhancement and Quest for Perfection
Chiara Sabatti

Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics 19, Seminar 1
Bird Flu: What Is It? Is It Dangerous?
Lawrence Feldman

Neurobiology 19, Seminar 1
Thinking and Feeling: Introduction to Your Brain
Arnold B. Scheibel

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

Physics 19, Seminar 1
Energy in Modern Economy
Michael Jura

Physics 19, Seminar 2
Everyday Physics: How Things Work
Steven Furlanetto

Physiological Science 19, Seminar 1
A Bug’s Brain: What We Can Learn from Insects about Our World and Ourselves
Mark Frye

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

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